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Vicki Brown

vlb@cfcl.com
P.O. Box 1269, San Bruno, CA 94066
http://www.philtres.com/vlb http://www.cfcl.com/vlb
 

I am an accomplished information technologist, documentation specialist, web weaver, and data flow programmer. I am passionate about improving Communication, Documentation, Process, Quality, and the potential of the Internet.

I apply my experience in software engineering and web technology with my skills at problem solving and technical writing to enhance productivity through improvements in communication. My hobbies include social computing, blogging, tinkering with web browsers, making great looking web sites, and keeping up with cool open-source toolkits.

I am a frequent user of HTML, CSS, Perl, and PHP in day-to-day activities. I have written Perl scripts to drive the selection of words (or quotes) for two web-based weekly writing prompts; created the CGI scripts that drive alumni registration for the Taligent alumni pages and X-Porters alumni group.

I act as system administrator for our FreeBSD 4.7 and Mac OS X network. I have built, installed, and configured Apache, procmail, qpopper, Spam Assassin, MySQL, Moveable Type (weblog engine), TWiki (wiki system), and numerous Perl modules. I am the creator and maintainer of several web sites and the author of multiple weblogs.

My job skills and preferences, links to sample code, published articles and the Perl book I co-authored, as well as links to my weblogs and endorsements from former clients, are available online from my professional pages at http://www.philtres.com/vlb.

Specialties and Interests

Organization and Strategy: Ideas for what can (and should) be documented and how to present it.   Information Organization and Coordination: finding, gathering, and coalescing scattered bits of data.
Document Creation, Review and Proofreading; Editing and Re-write.   Development of reproducible processes. Process review and improvement.
Data analysis and data flow processing   Testing and quality assurance; bug triage
Web site development; Web content; Intranet applications.   Internal tools: development, implementation, and maintenance.
Creation of FAQs, responding to user email, front-line tech support.   Providing a conduit between the user community and the engineers.

Publications

Books: Inside Mac OS X: I/O Kit Fundamentals (co-author) Apple Developer Connection, 2001; Inside Mac OS X: Kernel Environment (author) Apple Developer Connection, 2000; MacPerl: Power and Ease (co-author) Prime Time Freeware, 1998.

Articles: numerous technical articles published in trade journals (in print and online).

Employment History (full time)

  • Current Position (6/2006 - present) - Technical Writer: Internal Technical Documentation
  • IronPort (5/2004 - 10/2005) - Technical Writer: Internal Technical Documentation
  • EBay (10/2003 - 11/2003; contract) - Programmer (Perl, VBScript)
  • Genentech (7/2002 - 9/2002; contract) - Open Source build and test
  • Vantage Technologies (5/2001 - 5/2002; contract) - Web Programmer (Perl, Javascript), tester
  • Barclay's Global Investors (BGI) (11/2000 - 5/2001; contract) - Programmer (Perl, XML), Documentation
  • Apple (9/1999 - 11/2000) - Technical Writer: Mac OS X Core OS Developer Pubs
  • Deltagen (11/1998 - 9/1999) - Scientific Programmer (Perl), Unix/Mac system administration
  • Incyte (11/1997 - 11/1998) - Scientific Programmer (Perl)
  • Apple (4/1995 - 11/1997) - Quality Lead (Perl); MkLinux Project Coordinator; Unix utilities engineer
  • Taligent (2/1993 - 4/1995) - Quality Lead
  • Apple (9/1986 - 11/1992) - Unix programmer (awk, ksh, C)
  • Genentech (9/1984 - 9/1986) - Unix specialist (awk, sed, sh)

Keywords

Web site analysis, design, and implementation. Content creation and management. Weblogs and wikis. Discovery, installation, and enhancement of add-on tools.

BSD, Linux, and Mac OS X. C. Perl, PHP, and JavaScript. Systems analysis, problem solving, prototyping, troubleshooting, testing, debugging, and maintenance.

Acrobat, BBEdit, FrameMaker, Word, and troff. HTML, XML, and CSS. PDF, GIF, and JPEG. Bugzilla. CVS and RCS.



Detailed Work History and Education