Meryle Sachs

Experience

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  Digital Research, Inc. (DRI)

  Jan 1981 - Jan 1986

  Staff Technical Writer

  Coming from a CBASIC programming background, wrote operating system manuals, quick guides and help systems for CP/M-86 for the IBM PC, MP/M, Concurrent DOS, DEC Rainbow, DR DOS, GEM Programming Enviroment, GEM Graph, Artline, and more. Digital Research was eventually bought by Novell, Inc. You had to be there. It was one of those times.

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  Sole Proprietorship

  Jan 1987 - Jan 2009

  Senior Technical Writer, Information Architect, Consultant

  Created over 100 user, reference, programming, operating system, installation and quick reference guides for a wide variety of software running on varied platforms. Developed Web tutorials, browser-based training, and context-sensitive help systems. Created user interface and design specifications for complex applications. Provided consulting expertise to a variety of software and Fortune 500 companies including Hewlett-Packard, McGraw-Hill Companies, Apple, Microsoft Consulting Services, Applied Materials, Oracle, Sony, Symantec, Novell, NetObjects, Akimbo, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Content Wheel, Borland, Slate, Delta Point, Poqet, Digital Research and more. Show less

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  NetObjects, Inc.

  Feb 1996 - Jun 2001

  Senior Technical Writer

  From concept to completion, produced award-winning tutorials, user and reference manuals, online help, Web tutorials and more for NetObjects Fusion, a WYSIWYG Web site generating application that is still in use today. Developed role-based tutorials, Web tutorials and administrator guides for the enterprise applications, NetObjects TeamFusion Client, NetObjects Authoring Server, and NetObjects Collage for Java. Designed, developed and tested all Web tutorials and functions using many Web application servers including IBM WebSphere. Show less

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  CTB/McGraw-Hill, LLC

  Feb 2003 - Nov 2005

  Senior Technical Writer

  Designed and wrote tutorials for software engineers, created hands-on self-paced training for customized browser-based content management systems, and developed HTML help systems for Web-based customer-facing applications.Improved business requirements documents and facilitated an initiative to improve business processes across several departments, resulting in reduced processing time and new departmental procedures.

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  Hewlett-Packard

  Apr 2009 - Oct 2014

  Senior Technical Writer

  Participate in Web application design, provide user guides and HTML help systems for customer-facing Web applications, and work with various teams to provide training and other documentation.

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  GCE - Global Connections to Employment

  Oct 2014 - Dec 2020

  Lead Senior Technical Writer