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Last Page Update: Wednesday, February 27, 2008

List of independent contractors

The following is list of Rocky Mountain Chapter members who are independent contractors. If you are interested in working with any of these individuals, please contact them directly.   

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NOTE: The STC Rocky Mountain Chapter neither endorses nor disparages these individuals or businesses. Please see disclaimer

Julie Landen
Jewel Communications
julie@jewelcommunications.com
720.985.8188
www.jewelcommunications.com

Jewel Communications provides the professional expertise you require for your technical communication needs. From software documentation to editing your existing manuals, presentations to proofreading, Jewel Communications can help you say what you want to say, the right way.

Gail S. Bernstein
Usable Words Technical Writing
303.596.6102
gbernstein@usablewords.com

Gail Bernstein founded Usable Words to provide solutions to technical and business communication problems. Gail has been writing professionally for over twenty-five years and has a unique combination of writing, usability and people skills. She uses her training in statistics, research design and mathematics to understand and write clearly about technical material, and she uses her psychological training to work effectively with people.

Usable Words offers technical writing, usability assessment, and editing services. These include user guides, style guides, white papers, proposals, web content, procedures and heuristic evaluation, as well as development, copy, literary and production edits.

Usable Words can make your life easier by creating the documentation you need to satisfy customers, improve productivity and communicate clearly.

Brian Berry
Berry Technical Documentation
1.800.858.8513
brian@berrytd.com
www.berrytd.com

Providing complete documentation services; on time and on budget. 
Hardware, firmware, software, and programming experience. 
Providing user guides, service manuals, installation guides, 
quick reference guides, Windows help files, HTML Help files, and 
Web Help files. Experience with Word, Excel, Access, Visual Basic & VBA, 
FrameMaker, Ventura Publisher, Adobe Acrobat, and Photoshop. 
Internet and intranet web sites, HTML, and JavaScript experience. 

Jennifer Bircher
Creative Authoring
3604 Kenyon Lane
Longmont, CO 80503
303-485-8735
jenbircher@earthlink.net

Over 18 years of experience writing and programming e-Learning, Computer Based Training, and Web Based Training courseware.

Custom training courseware developed for:
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Bank of America
  • Whirlpool Corporation
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Hunter Douglas
  • Jones NCTI
  • Plus numerous small and mid-sized companies
Academic training courseware developed for:
  • Richard D. Irwin Publishing
  • The Dryden Press
  • Harcourt, Inc.
Recent commercial training courseware titles include:
  • Professor Teaches Windows Vista, Office 2007 (Individual Software, Inc.)
  • Professor Teaches QuickBooks 2008 (Individual Software, Inc.)
  • Professor Teaches Dreamweaver CS3 (Individual Software, Inc.)
  • Plus… 30 more commercial titles available upon request.
Harold Bluder
Write-Tech, Inc.
4685 West Princeton Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80236-3212
Phone: 303.794.8003
Fax: 303.794.8803
Email: hbluder@write-tech.net
Web: http://www.write-tech.net

Harold established Write-Tech to provide technical writers for client projects.  Harold has thirty-four years of industry experience with twenty-seven of those years as a technical writer.  His experience includes: environmental remediation, domestic and foreign engineering support, and work with the U. S. Department of Energy.  Harold uses his experience, Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, and Master’s degree in Environmental Policy Management to produce documents that are accurate, delivered on time and within budget.

Write-Tech also provides other support services such as: editing, proofreading, and document history file completion; proposal preparation; document format development; document review, revision, and comment incorporation; technical writer mentoring; personnel supervision; and project management. 

At Write-Tech we take pride in being a small company that will give you individual attention and be responsive to your needs.  We are positively good.

Kevin Bradley
675 S. University Blvd.
Denver, CO 80209
Phone: 303.842.4443
Email: kbradley29@comcast.net

* Technical writing, editing, instructional design, and training
* Over twenty-five years experience
* Solid technical background includes hands-on experience in IT and MIS, including data center operations, software development, systems analysis, technical support, training and management
* Familiar with all standard writing, editing, and training tools; certified MS Word Expert

Recent clients include:

* Cingular
* Hewlett-Packard
* The Home Depot
* McKesson
* IBM
* NCR
* Prentice-Hall
* Scientific-Atlanta
* The State of Colorado
* UPS

Amy Casey
PO Box 19963, Boulder, CO 80308
Phone: 303.665.8915
Email: acasey@privatei.com
Web: http://www.textclarity.com

Let me help you develop professional technical communications that you will be proud to distribute to your users. I design and write usable documentation for manuals, online help, and the Internet. My experience includes conceptual and procedural writing for software, hardware, and scientific applications. I am comfortable with a variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows and NT, UNIX, and Mac OS.

Traci Eyer
2616 W. 134th Cir., Broomfield, CO 80020
Phone: 303.410.9101
Email: t_writer@privatei.com

I have worked for more than eight years in technical communication, mostly in computer, engineering and scientific fields. I write and edit technical manuals, documents and help systems, both in print and online. I also publish newsletters and produce technical illustration. I work closely with engineers and developers to ensure accurate, complete, clear and timely documentation. I have a BA in Technical Communication from Colorado State University. I know PC, Mac and UNIX and all major DTP programs.

Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus
12675 Kalamath Ct. , Westminster, CO 80234-1770
Phone: 303.450.9076
Fax: 303.450.9077
Email: Lindag@techcomplus.com
Web: www.techcomplus.com

More than 14 years of experience working with computer users and understanding their needs. Experience creating user guides for both print and online (Window help and HTML). Certified Doc-To-Help Trainer. Provide valuable input to developers on ease of use, test results, and user interface design. Also develop training materials for computer, management, and sales personnel. Experience in legal, telecommunications, management, and software development environments. All writing focuses on creating information that the user can understand and use. All information presented concisely and in a format that is easy to access and read.

Jeff Gregory
Partner, WorkingKnowledge, Inc.

1025 Oak Valley Rd. Sedalia, CO 80135
Phone: 303.
663.4186
Fax: 303.
663.4187
Email: jeffgregory@wkconsultants.com
Web: www.wkconsultants.com
"Custom Instruction that works!"

Jeff Gregory, a founding partner of WorkingKnowledge, Inc.,  has worked in technical communications since the mid 1980s. He started out as a science writer, but for the last several years has focused on course development and technical writing for a range of industries and government agencies. As a contractor, since 1994 he has produced training materials, on-line help systems, and manuals for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Every client has given him repeat business. 

WorkingKnowledge, Inc. gives you access to a pool of experienced instructional designers, web designers, technical writers, graphic artists, and other creative disciplines with none of the markup you get from job shops. We build the team you need, when you need it. When you meet with us, you meet the people who do the work. And while we are distance-learning experts, we also spend a lot of time in the classroom. No project too big, no project too small!

 

Mary Headley
Information Engineering Company
7214 Gold Nugget Dr., Longmont, CO 80503
Phone: 303.652.1752
Email:
mheadley@inform-engine.com

Web: http://www.inform-engine.com

Over 20 years experience in designing, writing, editing, and managing technical and business communications: web pages, intranet online help, software user manuals, installation guides, tutorials, indexes, newsletters, brochures, functional specs, project plans, technical reports. I am a winner of four excellence in writing awards from STC and a leader in local professional groups.

Al Kemp

Impact Technical Publications
7090 Routt Street
Arvada, CO 80004
303.431.8259

http://www.ImpactOnTheNet.com

Al Kemp is Impact Technical Publications' owner, project manager, and chief consultant. A technical and marketing communication consultant since 1987, he has written three free publications: White Paper Writing Guide, Business Case Primer, and Usability Testing on a Shoestring Budget.

Impact's consulting teams are experts at communicating the knowledge required to develop, market, install, and support technical products and services.

Impact researches and writes white papers, technical overviews, and business cases that have helped secure 40 million dollars of funding.

Impact also develops clear, concise, well-illustrated, and well-tested user's guides, quick start guides, reference manuals, and help systems that explain how to use everything from advanced technologies to general business hardware and software. Audiences range from business analysts and senior software engineers to sales people and novice computer users. Impact's installation guides for DSL service

Laurie Lamar

Lamar Online Design
637 South Broadway, Suite B-209, Boulder, CO 80305
Phone: 303.499.3974
Fax: 303.499.3975
Email: lamar@lamar-online.com
Web: http://www.laurielamar.com

As an information architect and interaction designer, Laurie designs user interfaces for complex web sites and web applications. Serving as a user advocate during website design and development, she helps businesses increase customer engagement, while increasing website revenue and/or decreasing costs. She also tunes website search engines to make content more "findable." To do all this, Laurie works with executives, marketers, programmers, graphic designers, and the people who actually use the site.

Deliverables include wireframes (clickable mockups of site flow), interaction diagrams (flowchart-like maps of user choices and variable data), site maps, competitive usability analyses, specs, controlled vocabularies, and metadata recommendations. Clients range from Fortune 100 companies to non-profits and governmental agencies. 

Marc Lee Multimedia
email - MLMultimedia@cs.com
303 460 8391

Marc Lee Multimedia, and its principal, Dr. Marc F. Lee, have seven years
experience providing multimedia projects to clients in industry and
government.  Our recent clients include:
 

US Army - Redstone Arsenal

Guardian Life Insurance
Agilent Technologies (formerly H-P)
LDS Church
Nevada State Department of Transportation
SoprisWest (educational publishers)
 
We are experts in the creation and delivery of custom e-learning and content
management applications on CD or internet.  Our specialization areas:
 
-Simulation of complex systems - our multimedia developers can provide 
virtual environments to explain or teach your technology in a fun and
realistic manner.
 
-'Enterprise Multimedia' - our term for the linking of media-rich content on
CD with the a web server to provide both engaging environments for users and
central control. Content can be updated on the fly.  Two-way messaging. Ideal
for media rich e-commerce CDs.
 
-Database linkage to multimedia content (locally and networked).
 
Our technical platforms:
Macromedia Authorware for media rich, CD-quality content, ASP for server-side
application development and MSAccess/SQLServer for data-driven applications. 
We have our own Windows-centric lab for developing and testing your
client-server application to simulate your network environment. We can
develop for Mac also. We have tools and experience for exploiting the
following media assets: QuickTime for digital movies; Acrobat for text-based
documents; and PSD, JPG,  BMP, GIF, PNG digital graphic files.
 
Visit our website for more details. Please contact us to discuss your
business need or project. 

Jo C. Levy

Write_by_Design
583 20 Road
Grand Junction, CO 81503
(970) 241-0276
Email: joclevy@home.com

Do customers complain that your documentation “doesn’t have enough information”  or “has the wrong information” when you know the information is there?  Is documentation the gating item in your product development process?  Let me help you identify, create, and deliver customer information that is more effective, less expensive, and easier to write and maintain.  I have over 25 years of experience writing, editing, and indexing software documentation for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Aspect Telecommunications, Kana Communications, Novell, and Documentum, Inc.  I’ve delivered information in print, on line, and over the Web.  I’ve also taught technical writing and documentation development at the University of California.  I focus on rigorous audience and task analysis to help you deliver the right documentation with your products—documentation designed to satisfy your customers and improve your bottom line.

John Martin
Word of Mouth
18121 E. Weaver Ave.
Aurora, CO  80016
Phone: 303.627.8788
Email: jma2493716@aol.com

I am a veteran technical writer with twenty years experience in the field of technical documentation, starting with a masters degree in technical communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  While the majority of my writing experience has been concentrated in software development, my experience spans a great many industries and disciplines that include accounting, budgeting, government contracts/defense, CAD/CAE, service provisioning, and telecommunications.  I am adept with most documentation applications, including MS Word and FrameMaker.  In addition, my years in documentation management give me a distinct edge when it comes to estimation, tracking, and delivery - even under the most adverse of circumstances, I am still able to get the job done, and deliver a quality product.

My specialties include software application user guides, reference guides, tutorials, technical proposals, system administrator guides, business plans, and test plans.  Even if you're just thinking of hiring a writer, give me a call.  In the end, I know you'll be satisfied.  

Carol Van Natta
Fort Collins, CO
Voice: 970.407.1953
Fax: (call voice phone first)
Email: cvannatta@earthlink.net

* Technical writer and editor with a master's degree and 17 years of experience in technical communication.

* Fast, clear, accurate, ethical, and sensitive to technical nuance and both author’s and reader’s goals. Broadly experienced in researching, writing, and editing technical, scientific, and business documents, e.g., reports, proposals, software/hardware documentation (DOS, Windows, UNIX), training materials, instructions, and marketing and news materials.

* Experienced in training personnel, including developing and teaching classes and seminars, in communications subjects.

* Have home computer, modem, software (word processing, graphics, desktop publishing), and laser and color printers.

* Available to work after 3:30 p.m. and weekends, but not during the day.

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