活动日期：2014-09-09
活动时间：15:20
活动地点：外语楼105教室
内容：
Speaker: ZHENG Jie
Schedule: 3:20 pm-5：30 pm, September 9th and 10th
Vanue：Room 105, SFL Building（讲座地点：外语楼105教室）
Topics:
• What is technical writing? Its role in corporate America: past, present, and future.
• What are the major forms of technical writing?
• Technical writer job requirements (language skills, technical skills, etc.)
• What makes good technical writing?
• What tools (technical writing software) do technical writers use?
• The technical writing process
• The importance of language skills in technical writing
• How do we become a technical writer?
• Career path for technical writers in America
• Professional organizations for technical writers in America
• China’s rising economic status and globalization: what does it mean for technical writing?
Brief CV of the speaker (Detailed CV is attached below)
I. Employment History
09/2010—Present Senior Technical Writer
Sungard Availability Services LP, San Ramon, CA, USA
Principal technical writer for recovery automation deployment system
Principal technical writer for system backup and recovery procedures
Lead technical writer for recover-to-cloud (R2C) server replication
Lead technical writer for enterprise cloud services
10/2009—06/2010 Senior Technical Writer
Schooner Information Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Developed and maintained technical documentation for Schooner’s Memcached/NoSQL and MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB appliances(web servers) for Web 2.0 and cloud computing
Collaborated with senior management to develop technology whitepapers
to promote Schooner’s products and services
02/2004—10/2009 Senior Technical Writer and Technical Publications Manager
AirMagnet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Led product documentation development efforts
Provided language quality assurance in software UI text and screen
messages
Provided documentation support for marketing, sales, and customer
support
II. Education
09/1996—05/1998 Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
09/1993—05/1998 Master of Arts (MA)
in Teaching English as a Second Language
(completed)
College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii,
Honolulu, HI, USA
09/1985—07/1987 MA-level Diploma
in English for Science & Technology and Applied Linguistics
Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, P.R.China
外国语学院
2014年9月4日
