Gary D. Robson, Technical/Marketing Writer P.O. Box 9 Belfry, MT 59008 Email: gr (at) robson.org Web: www.robson.org/gary/ Résumé last updated March 10, 2005 I am a writer available for freelance writing assignments. More details and copies of this résumé in other formats are available at www.robson.org/gary/resume. === RESUME SUMMARY === My extensive writing experience includes 13 books, 7 technical manuals, contributions to 2 encyclopedias (including the World Book), an ASIC design guide, over 200 published nonfiction magazine articles, and many specifications, hypertext help systems, white papers, Web pages, brochures, ads, and other tech writing and copywriting jobs. My writing skills are backed by over 20 years of software and hardware engineering experience and a teaching credential in computer technologies. I know dozens of programming languages and dialects, and can pick up new tools and technologies quickly. I am an accomplished HTML/CSS designer. === PUBLICATIONS === Children?s Picture Books: - Who Pooped in the Park? Sequoia/Kings Canyon 'Parks - 2006-Farcountry Press - Who Pooped in the Park? Red Rock Canyon NCA - 2005-Farcountry Press - Who Pooped in the Park? Grand Canyon National Park - 2005-Farcountry Press - Who Pooped in the Park? Rocky Mountain National Park - 2005-Farcountry Press - Who Pooped in the Park? Yosemite National Park - 2005-Farcountry Press - Who Pooped in the Park? Yellowstone National Park - 2004-Farcountry Press - Who Pooped in the Park? Glacier National Park - 2004-Farcountry Press - Who Pooped in the Park? Grand Teton National Park - 2004-Farcountry Press General Nonfiction Books: - The Closed Captioning Handbook (400pp) - 2004-Focal Press - The Darkest Hour (40pp) - 2003-Carbon County Historical Society - Alternative Realtime Careers (300pp) - 2000-NCRA Press - Inside Captioning (250pp) - 1997-CyberDawg Publishing - The Court Reporter?s Guide to Cyberspace (375pp) - 1996-CyberDawg Technical Manuals and Guides: - TurboCAT User?s Guide for Cheetah Systems (managed through six revisions) - Total Access User?s Guide for Cheetah (managed through two revs) - CAPtivator Online User?s Guide for Cheetah (managed through three revs) - CAPtivator Offline User?s Guide for Cheetah (managed through two revs) - PostCAP User?s Guide for Cheetah Systems (managed through two revs) - Hard disk owner?s manual for Peripheral Land - 1987 - Gate Array Designer?s Guide for Array Technology - 1983 Contributions: - Story in ?Growing Up On Memory Lane? - 2004 - World Book Encyclopedia (one entry) - 2001 - Encyclopedia of Computers & Computer History (five entries) - 2000/2001 Editorial: - Contributing Editor/Columnist, Journal of Court Reporting (1999-Present) - Editor-in-Chief/Webmaster, ReporterCentral (2000) - Columnist, Newswaves for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (1997-99) - Member of Editorial Board, Silicon Systems Design (1984) - Contributing Editor, VLSI Design (1983-1984) - Book Reviewer for two magazines & one newspaper at various times Articles: I have written over 200 articles, columns, and book reviews on a variety of subjects for the following publications (all print publications except those with ".com" in the name). This list does not include articles I've ghostwritten. - Journal of Court Reporting (1991-2005) - 37 feature articles, 12 columns - Blacklisted! 411 (2004) ? 3 feature articles - Carbon County News (2001-2004) - 26 book reviews - Red Lodge Local Rag (2001-2004) - 27 articles (monthly feature) - Physician?s Computing Journal (2004) ? guest column - Beartooth Times (2004) - 2 book reviews - WritersWeekly.com (2003-2004) ? 2 feature articles - NCRAonline.com (2001) - 12 feature articles - ReporterCentral.com (2000) - 52 articles, 4 book reviews - Newswaves for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People (1997-99) - 17 columns, 2 feature articles - National Law Journal (1997) - feature article - NAD Broadcaster (2001) - feature article - Nuts & Volts (2000) - feature article - Law Technology News (2000) - guest column - IT Solutions (1996) - 3 book reviews - VLSI Design (1983-1984) - 5 feature articles - Caligrams (1989-1992) - 3 feature articles - The Circuit Rider (1995) - feature article - The Stenomask Reporter (1995) - feature article plus recent reprints - MS-Strokes (1997) - feature article - Short Strokes (1990) - feature article === BUSINESS EXPERIENCE === 2001-present: Red Lodge Books Owner - Hands-on management of independent bookstore - Designed Web site, including shopping cart and catalog - Wrote all marketing materials and ad copy, plus book reviews 2000-2001: Cisco Systems Education Specialist - Designed and presented training course on router architecture - Developed internal router software "What's New" Web site 1998-2000: WordWave/VITAC Director, Internet Technologies (WordWave Corporate) - Designed & built recruiting/PR Web site covering all 18 subsidiaries - As Editor-in-Chief of ReporterCentral, built one of the largest collections of reporting/captioning articles on the Web, which included writing 52 articles and 4 book reviews myself - Designed & developed site generator in Perl for article-based Web sites Chief Technology Strategist (VITAC Division) - Responsible for closed-captioning related technology assessment, development, and acquisition for the largest captioning company in the United States - Designed & managed development of groundbreaking nonlinear captioning software, which increased productivity dramatically - Designed & managed development of a TCP/IP-based realtime caption delivery system - Designed & wrote specifications for a generalized realtime caption delivery system - Wrote all software specifications and needs documents - Redesigned VITAC?s corporate Web site - Represented VITAC on national standards committees and chaired CEMA/EIA R4.3 WG1, which produced the EIA-708 DTV captioning standard 1987-1998: Cheetah Systems, Inc. Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Chief Technology Officer, Internet Broadcasting Division (1995-98) - Actively oversaw and participated in all development projects for niche market software company. - Built company from #11 in the court reporting software market to #3 - Built closed captioning products to over 60% market share - Designed and prototyped user interfaces for all products - Wrote all software specifications and needs documents - Wrote critical code when required (mostly C/C++ with some Delphi and VB) - Created and maintained online presence (Web site, BBS, CompuServe...) - Gave over 100 training seminars for customers, associations & employees - Produced training videos and Macromedia presentations. Won ?best short video? advertising award - Managed writing/publishing of five software manuals, including doing much of the writing - Developed and/or managed development of all marketing and advertising materials and press releases, including virtually all copywriting - Managed public relations and trade shows - Created and managed Internet-based live event broadcasting system, including code in Java, JavaScript, Delphi, Perl, HTML, and CSS - Managed Web site development with four Java programmers and designers - Designed, set up, and managed mixed Unix/Windows/Macintosh network - Wrote Perl code for server-side applications - Presented concepts to investors 1982-1987: Array Technology, Inc. Founder & Vice President - Helped build custom microelectronics company from ground up to $20M in sales in four years with no venture capital - Designed seven integrated circuits (disk drive and video control) - Co-developed gate array family, and designed many macro circuits - Wrote gate array design manual - Specified, purchased, configured, and managed $1 million network of CAD/CAE workstations - Created numerous development tools, including automatic test program generation and chip layout planning tools (most written in Pascal) - Created behavioral modeling system for mixed digita l/analog circuits - Managed high-volume robotic surface mount circuit board assembly facility with 65 employees - Co-designed court reporting industry?s first ergonomic stenotype machine === TEACHING/SPEAKING === Teaching - Teaching credential in Computer & Related Technologies (California, 1987) - Taught numerous product training classes (over 100 at last count) - Taught formal college classes at three colleges Rocky Mountain College - Billings, MT - 2002 IT-442 Network Security Management - 2002 IT-380 Developing Portfolios Using HTML - 2002 IT-415 Enterprise Programming I - 2002 IT-477 Systems Analysis and Design West Valley College - Saratoga, CA - 1988-90 Advanced Computer-Aided Transcription - 1987-89 History and Theory of Computer-Aided Transcription De Anza College - Cupertino, CA - 1978-80 Advanced Programming in BASIC for the HP-2000 Access Seminars - Over 30 seminars for organizations in a variety of fields, ranging from 25 to over 600 attendees (many more with fewer attendees) - University of California, Berkeley (1999) - Technology and Accessibility - National Court Reporters Association (1993-2004) - 9 technology seminars - Other Court Reporting Associations (1997-2004) - 17 seminars (16 groups) - ICCE (1998) - Digital Television Data Transmission - Users Groups (1997-1998) - 3 seminars relating to CAT software - California Association for the Deaf (1993) - Future of closed captioning - International Television Association (1992) - Captioning technology - U.S. Department of Education (1991) - 2 closed captioning seminars - Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. (1990) - Future of captioning - NEPCON (1986) - Automating Surface Mount PCB Design - MICAD/Paris (1985) - CAD/CAE Workstations - ADEE (1985) - CAD for Surface Mount PCB Design - ICCAD (1983-1984) - 2 workshops relating to CAD/CAE Workstations