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Technical Editing – Standards Development – Product Design

Protocols and Formats – Music & Sound Technology

Musical Instruments & Accessories

Current Focus:

Contracting with MIPI Alliance as Technical Editing and Specifications Director
Book in development:
Technical Editing for Standards Development
Serving on the MIDI Association's Technical Standards Board, helping provide oversight of new MIDI specifications including MIDI 2.0
Developing MIDI 2.0-based products and services
Blogging on technical editing for standards developing organizations
Available for consulting projects

About

Career-long focus on creating and managing high-quality, high-visibility technical publications, 25 years of that in a global standards development context
Oriented toward industry relations & global technical standards bodies
Experienced speaker/lecturer
Extensive consulting experience
Practical experience as Product Manager, applying musical and user experience to successful iOS music apps & HW accessories
Heavy technical background in computer-based music and audio products and technology, including MIDI and interactive/games, with a long concentration in audio firmware for mobile terminals
Experienced media creator in music, film, print, and games
Extremely long attention span

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From the Blog

The Element of Styles

The whole idea of document templates assumes that technical authors will use the template styles instead of directly applying formatting...

Standards Quality Specification Templates

Save yourself a boatload of trouble later by starting your new standards document from the right template. What's right for your project...

Group Editing, Revisited

Editing a document in the cloud is great when you want the whole group contributing. Learn to recognize those situations where you don't....

Always interested in new projects.

Located in the greater Portland, Oregon area, United States.

Have clarity, will travel.

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