Susan Neuhart
Technical Writer & Information Designer
(my detailed resume' with LIVE DOCS is also available for client and employer inspection)

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  Math & Science Education, Experience and the very latest software technologies !  
B. S. University of Wisconsin - Environmental Science and Communications (UWGB)  
 
  XML-based Publications Development Single-source, eBooks, PDF, websites, Wikis, etc.  
Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs) U. S. DOD Complex Technical Manuals - interactive digital format  
DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture: design for content re-use  
Adobe FrameMaker (version 9) XML Structured & UNstructured document development  
  Adobe RoboHELP (version 8) deploy HELP systems with your products  
  Adobe Illustrator (version 14, CS4) custom digital (VECTOR) graphics, full charting capability (from data)  
  Adobe Captivate (version 4) Show ME HOW -- movies and demos of "how to" (lockUP your PowerPoints & add audio)  
  Adobe Acrobat (version 9 Professional) the full range of Portable Document functionality  
  Adobe DreamWeaver (version 9, CS4) full-scale web-SITE development (see my eCommerce site)  
  Adobe FLASH (version 9, CS4) interactive websites with custom graphics and animations  
  ACTION SCRIPT 3.0

object-oriented programming language - ideal for the FLASH Player or AIR

  
eCommerce Templates customize eCOMM "shopping cart" software to accept VISA & PayPAL  
  Adobe Technical Communications Suite 2.0 the industry standard for HELP systems, knowledgebases, and training (ROBOhelp)  
Microsoft WORD word processing, etc.  
Microsoft PowerPoint the industry standard for Presentations (see HOW Adobe Captivate complements PPT)  
Microsoft EXcel the industry standard spreadsheet application  
       
  Search Engine Optimation (SEO) and ADwords Certification ( in progress! )  
CSS/HTML, XML technologies (xHTML, XML docs, XML schemas, DTDs, XML processors & XML applications)
 
     
  Samples and Examples  
 
   
 
       
  www.ArtForPublishers.com ~ This was my totally automated eCommerce site. The website featured a mySQL database and xHTML, PHP and Javascript technologies. Clients selected items from a searchable art database and placed them into a "shopping cart" that interfaced to VISA, MasterCard, PayPAL or Discover retail transaction services. I designed and built this eCommerce site myself. It was maintained using DreamWeaver and was hosted on EarthLink servers.

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Laboratory Procedures manual


~ a college-level laboratory manual example.

I worked with a Publishing House and an Author/Professor to create this document.

The digital artwork of Hans Neuhart (www.EiG.net) appears throughout the example.


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  Getting Started USER's GUIDE

~ the End User's Guide for a hand-held wireless communications device. Basic care and use of the device are covered, as well as basic HOW TO ~ a "Quick Start" guide is included.


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Programmable ASIC User's Manual

~ an abbreviated version of a document for an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). This is an example of my skill using FrameMaker™ when preparing a very complex document for a technically complex product. Please note the extensive use of cross-referenced hyperlinks to track pin-signal names. The pin signal names are subject to change ~ the "Xref" capability of FrameMaker facilitates a single-source design paradigm; for example, we could enter the pin label once and the changes necessary (throughout the document) were automatically updated.

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Installation

~ a product installation and license
maintenance document that I produced for a client.



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EDA Software User's Guide
(Signal Integrity software)

Soup-to-Nuts HOW TO for Sigrity's SPEED EDA software.
A tremendous "hand-on" experience
and I was THE "defacto" Quality Control Process
for many releases of the software.

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(contact )		 Physics For Scientists and Engineers
~ Specifically, my business provided digital art services (vector graphics) to America's finest textbook publishers for over 8-years. We specialized in Biology, Chemistry, Genetics and Physics titles. This is an example of the over 400+ title ART Programs that we prepared. We prepared the entire art program for the FIRST edition of this (now famous) textbook, from Author "roughs". Now in its 3rd edition, "Fishbane" is still available on the Prentice Hall/Pearson Education website:

http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_fishbane_physics_3		  
 
 
 

Bio-Chemistry (ANIMATION)

We worked with the client and their Medical Author
to create a custom animation to complement the educational product video lecture series presentation.
After an explanation of the science involved, this animation launches from the PPT slide page. My major role was to understand the science and create a storyboard (step-by-step) for the Author sign-off; then, Hans (my animator) created the foundation graphics (in iLLustrator) and imported them to FLASH. I am proficient in FLASH (also) and I directed and refined the artwork (objects) and timeline (action) sequences and added ActionScript code to provide "interactivity".


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  Susan Neuhart
Technical Writer & Information Designer
(my detailed resume' is also available for client and employer inspection)

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