MIA SHINBROT 609 Mary Street Victoria, BC V9A 3W4 Telephone: 381-6366 OBJECTIVE To combine my technical background with my writing abilities to produce manuals and software that will be beneficial to a wide variety of people. SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE - Over 15 years experience designing and developing easy-to-use computer programs for both the public and private sectors. - Wrote and collaborated on numerous clear, readable user's guides and manuals. - Created graphic displays and explanatory diagrams. - Participated in effective group problem-solving sessions. - Editor, technical writer, software developer. DEMONSTRATED SKILLS AND ABILITIES Writing and Editing Skills - Revised and expanded documentation for software. - Wrote or collaborated on clear, complete, detailed user's guides for a variety of computer programs. - Organized and presented written material in a clear, understandable form, with explanatory illustrations wherever needed. - Edited text. - Wrote a variety of articles, humorous fiction, and light verse. Software Programming and Design Skills - Determined user requirements for software designs. - Created a wide variety of software. - Collaborated with others to develop computer programs. - Created graphic displays to illustrate the results of numerical analysis programs. WORK HISTORY CBT Developer Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks 4 months Victoria, BC 1998 - Wrote and expanded Computer Based Training tutorials to teach the use of two Oracle-based programs: the Environmental Monitoring System and the Water Information Management System. - Primary tools used: Toolbook II Instructor, Windows NT. - Secondary tools used: Arcview, Paint, Oracle Forms Transeditor Hansard Office, Legislative Assembly 4 months Parliament Buildings, Victoria, BC 1997 - Transcribed and edited legislative debates. - Tool used: WordPerfect 6.0. Editor Beach Holme Publishers Ltd. Contract Victoria, BC 1994 - Worked together with a local author to comprehensively edit her book. - Tools used: WordPerfect 5.1, Paintbrush. Consultant Ministry of Transportation and Highways 5 years Victoria, BC 1991-1995 - Designed, implemented and enhanced many interrelated programs as part of a system to track and report highway accidents. - Designed and wrote a series of programs to translate one system of highway location codes into another, entirely different, system. - Supervised a co-op student and two contractors in extracting and modifying large amounts of data on highway locations. - Demonstrated software written by myself and another programmer to the future users of the programs. - Revised and expanded documentation. - Wrote and collaborated on clear, complete, detailed user's guides and manuals. - Primary tools used: PL/1, Turbo Pascal, WordPerfect 5.1, TSO, Wylbur, JCL, VMS, DOS, Windows 3.1. - Secondary tools used: SAS, REXX. Research Assistant Royal Roads Military College 5 years Colwood, BC 1986-1990 - Wrote and ran numerical analysis programs to do several different simulations of water flow. - Created graphic displays to illustrate the results of the above programs, showing: The wake of a hovercraft over ice-covered water; Varying shape of water droplets of different sizes on different angles of walls; Periodic water flows in the Sooke Basin. - Developed a library of utility routines that simulated IGL graphics routines in order to produce CALCOMP hardcopy. - Combined, improved, and tested a set of programs to analyse data accumulated by Aanderaa underwater sensors. - Wrote a user's manual for the above Aanderaa sensor program. - Tools used: FORTRAN, Calcomp, IGL, TeX, Honeywell CP6. - Secondary tool used: UNIX. Educational Software Prestige Design Corporation 1 year Designer Vancouver, BC 1985 - Developed interactive software to teach computer languages. - Tools used: Basic, Commodore 64. Software Engineer Microtel Pacific Research 5 years Burnaby, BC 1980-1984 - Designed, implemented, and tested various modules of a multi-processor telephone switching system. - Participated in a team to review designs of telephone switching software. - Discovered unsuspected bugs in several modules written by other developers before the software reached the formal testing stage. - Wrote and updated documentation. - Primary tools used: Pascal, UNIX, VI, NROFF & TROFF, PDP 11/70, VAX 11/780. - Secondary tools used: C, 8086 Assembler, RSX-11M-Plus. Programmer-Analyst Short-term positions prior to 1980 Dobrocky Seatech Ltd., Victoria, BC - Wrote a program to simulate tide movements in the Fraser River. - Tools used: FORTRAN, Calcomp, UNIVAC 1106. Ministry of Agriculture, Victoria, BC - Wrote a program to determine whether farms met statutory odour requirements. - Extracted agricultural data from the Cansim database. - Tools used: FORTRAN, JCL, Cansim. University of Victoria Computing Centre, Victoria, BC - Analysed, improved, and tested an undocumented APL database program intended to assist professors in maintaining class grades. - Wrote an inventory system to track equipment owned by the computing centre. - Documented the above programs. - Tools used: APL, FORTRAN, CMS, JCL. EDUCATION BSc (Computing Science) with distinction University of Victoria, Victoria, BC PERSONAL QUALITIES I am original, thorough, and a quick learner. RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENT Teaching myself Visual Basic. SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE Languages Application Packages APL Calcomp Assembler (IBM & 8086) Cansim Basic Excel C IGL Cobol NROFF & TROFF Fortran Paint Lisp Script Pascal TeX PL/1 Toolbook II Instructor Toolbook II OpenScript VI Visual Basic Word for Windows WordPerfect Hardware Operating Systems Amiga CMS Commodore 64 CP6 Honeywell CP6 PC DOS IBM Mainframes IBM JCL IBM PCs RSX-11M-Plus PDP 11/70 TSO/SPF UNIVAC 1106 Unix VAX 11/780 MVS Windows 3.1 and NT Wylbur REFERENCES Mathew Nicoll Guy Chadsey Proprietor Managing Editor Cypher Consulting Beach Holme Publishers Ltd. R.R.4, Site 430, Comp. 15 4252 Commerce Circle Courtenay, BC V9N 7J3 Victoria, BC V8Z 4M2 Telephone: (250) 337-8441 Telephone: (250) 592-4703