Mary Ellis

Technical Writer / Analyst / Trainer

Online Portfolio http://www.tubbellis.com
email: maryel@mac.com
513-898-1476 Home
707-628-7387 Cell

Professional Summary:

  • Creates documentation for software, hardware, and web products,
  • Produces training materials,
  • Analyzes and audits Databases,
  • Manages large projects with multiple products,
  • Prepares total seminar packages,
  • Maintains expert level in software applications with ability to learn new applications within days, and
  • Builds teams to solve problems.

Experience:

Company: Patni Americas at Proctor & Gamble HQ, Cincinnati, Ohio
Title: Contract Technical Writer
Dates: 3/2011 to 6/2011
  • Industry: Global Consumer Products
  • Documented processes and procedures for SAP based Software Application,
  • Created Internal Documentation Style Guides using Brand Identity Standards, and
  • Worked as part of an international team.

Company: Repower USA
Title: Technical Writer, SAP Trainer, SAP Key User, Site Coordinator
Dates: 1/2009 to 3/2011
Industry: Wind Power
  • Documented processes and procedures for Wind Energy Site Operations,
  • Created training materials,
  • Trained personnel from numerous departments, and
  • Certified as SAP Trainer [CS, HR, MM, PP, PS, SD, DV, BC, and CATS].

Company: Placer County Department of Health and Human Services
Title: Technical Writer, Data Analyst – Trainer
Dates: 9/2007 to 12/2008
Industry: Government
  • Documented work processes for Emergency Medical Payments,
  • Created Training Materials, and
  • Automated procedures to eliminate errors.

Company: Barruman, LLC
Title: Marketing Manager
Dates: 8/2005 to 9/2007
Industry: Marketing
  • Published 42 books and created on line distribution channels,
  • Developed Seminar concepts and prepared all related materials,
  • Turned 1 million dollars in Real Estate Properties owned, and
  • Negotiated 10 million dollar Condo Conversion.

Company: Thomson Multimedia
Title: Technical Writer III
Dates: 5/1996 to 8/2005
Industry: Broadcast Equipment and Services
  • Managed entire audio/video router product line documentation. 
  • Introduced, tested, and implemented new software, methods, and
  • Reduced yearly production costs by $300,000.

Company: Grass Valley Group
Title: Contract Technical Writer
Dates: 6/1994 to 4/1995 and 2/1996 to 5/1996
Industry: Broadcast Equipment and Services
  • Designed online and hardcopy materials for Distance Learning Product,
  • Indexed existing manuals, and
  • Aligned materials from several components into a cohesive package.

Company: HP [Hewlett-Packard]
Title: Contract Technical Writer
Dates: 8/1995 to 2/1996
Industry: Information Technology
  • Learned HPTag,
  • Completed time sensitive project, and
  • Trained new personnel.

Company: Intel
Title: Contract Technical Writer
Dates: 4/1995 to 8/1995
Industry: Information Technology
  • Established standards for Lotus Notes Data Base Help Desk,
  • Designed template for material submission, and
  • Audited existing data base entries.

Company: MCI World Com
Title: Contract Technical Writer
Dates: 4/1994 to 6/1994
Industry: Telecommunications
  • Created electronic materials for Call Center processes.

Company: Discovery Products, Inc.
Title: Contract Technical Writer
Dates: 10/1993 to 4/1994
Industry: Technology - Legal Software
  • Created FrameMaker Templates to reflect PageMaker style guide and format,
  • Prepared materials for Trade Show, and
  • Obtained a company discount with printing vendor.

Company: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Contract Technical Writer
Dates: 5/1993 to 10/1993
Industry: Scientific Research Laboratory
  • Created Quick Start materials for online Mail and Library data base.

Tools:

Adobe CS3: [PhotoShop v10, Illustrator v13, InDesign v5, Acrobat Professional v8, Flash Video Encoder, Flash v9, DreamWeaver v9, and Bridge v2], MS Office: [Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook], Visio, Quicktime, Paint, CorelDraw, SuperPaint, FreeHand, Camtasia Studio, Snagit, Snapzpro, PaintShop Pro, Screen Capture, MSProject, SQL Server 2007, SAP, Oracle PAS [Performance Accounting System], DB3, DB4, Lotus Notes, Lotus 123, KeyNote, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Word Perfect, BenchMark, iPhoto, iDvd, iLife, iWork, iMovie, Windows, Linux, Unix, Macintosh, DOS, and HTML, XML, HPTag, Composer, Information Architecture, CSS [Cascading Style Sheets], Web Accessibility, and Web Content.

Skills:

  • Acute understanding of how systems integrate to form large entities,
  • Professional success across diverse fields,
  • Rapid achievement of expert standing,
  • Voracious appetite for knowledge,
  • Consistent team builder,
  • Sees what is needed, and does it.

Education:

B.S. Organizational Behavior, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
A.S. Accounting. Modesto Junior College