jeannehaskett.com

Education and Training

I have been working in the field of business communication for two decades, initially as an intermediate writer for the technical writing consulting firm Technology Transfer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I then began working as a freelance consultant, specializing in the writing of business documentation, including training and instructional materials, technical software manuals and reference guides, and the editing, proofreading, and desktop-publishing of a wide variety of documents. Over the last several years, I have added website design, including content development, to my list of skills and services, as well as online help and embedded or context-sensitive help.

Formal Education

Honours Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Ontario (UWO), Brescia College Canada
Area of Concentration: English Language and Literature

Training Courses and Certificates

Web Programming Certificate, The International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild, 2009
Advanced Macromedia Flash MX 2004, The International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild, 2005
Web Graphics and Multimedia (Graphic Artist) Certificate, The International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild, 2004
RoboHelp Basic/Intermediate HTML-based Help, Macromedia (now Adobe), London, England 2004
Web Technologies Certificate, The International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild, 2003-4
Web Design, St. Lawrence College, Kingston Campus, Canada 2001
Copy Editing, Editors' Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada 1990-91
Proofreading, Editors' Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada 1990-91
Technical Writing, George Brown College, Toronto, Canada 1990

Software Knowledge

I am familiar with the following:

Applications such as MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, and Outlook), as well as Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Quadralay's WebWorks ePublisher, OpenOffice Writer, and Corel's Ventura Publisher
Web design languages such as XHTML, HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, and CSS 1.0 and CSS 2.1, as well as Web design applications such as Dreamweaver and FrontPage
Web development frameworks such as Microsoft Visual Web Developer and Visual C#
Graphics applications such as PhotoShop (including ImageReady), Illustrator, Flash, and SnagIt
Help authoring tools such as RoboHelp and MadCap Flare
Version control and software change management applications such as IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest

Professional Memberships

I am a current member of the following professional associations:

I am a former member of the following professional associations:

Editors' Association of Canada

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