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 much software, including a computer-run telephone system and a system of interrelated programs used to track and report highway accidents. - 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. - Wrote a variety of articles, humorous fiction, and light verse. - Worked together with a local author to comprehensively edit her book. - Transcribed and edited legislative debates for Hansard. - 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. Communication Skills - Determined user requirements for software designs. - 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. - Participated in a team to review designs of telephone switching software. - Collaborated with others to develop computer programs. - Discovered unsuspected bugs in several modules written by other developers before the software reached the formal testing stage. Graphics Skills - Created graphic displays to illustrate the results of numerical analysis programs. These displays showed: þ The wake of a hovercraft over ice-covered water; þ Varying shape of water droplets of different sizes on different angles of walls; þ Periodic water flows in the Sooke Basin; þ Tide movements in the Fraser River. - Developed a library of utility routines that simulated IGL graphics routines in order to produce CALCOMP hardcopy. - Drew diagrams to explain and illustrate program documentation. Software Programming and Design Skills - 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. - Created a variety of software, including: þ Several different simulations of water flow; þ Interactive software to teach computer languages; þ An inventory system for a computer centre; þ Various functions of a multi-processor telephone switching system. WORK HISTORY Transeditor 4 months Hansard Office, Legislative Assembly Parliament Buildings Victoria, BC Editor Contract Beach Holme Publishers Ltd. Victoria, BC Consultant 5 years Ministry of Transportation and Highways Victoria, BC Research Assistant 5 years Royal Roads Military College Colwood, BC Educational Software Designer 1 year Prestige Design Corporation Vancouver, BC Software Engineer 5 years Microtel Pacific Research Burnaby, BC Programmer-Analyst Short-term contracts Dobrocky Seatech Ltd. Victoria, BC Ministry of Agriculture Victoria, BC University of Victoria Computing Centre Victoria, BC EDUCATION BSc (Computing Science) with distinction University of Victoria, Victoria, BC SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE Languages Application Packages APL Calcomp Assembler (IBM & 8086) Cansim Basic Excel C IGL Cobol NROFF & TROFF Fortran Script Lisp TeX Pascal VI PL/1 Windows 3.1 & NT Toolbook II Word for Windows Visual Basic 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 VMS Windows 3.1 PERSONAL QUALITIES I am original, thorough and a quick learner. 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