[net.jobs] Writer Looking for Freelance or Full-Time

kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman) (01/18/85)

              K E N N E T H   T .   W O L M A N ,   P h . D.
                             4 Oakwood Drive
                         Wayne, New Jersey 07470
                              (201) 694-4254




                          QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

          +o Design,  development,and  instruction   of   management
            skills   and   software   applications   and  marketing
            workshops based on analyses of population and needs.

          +o Development  of  industrial  and   training   videotape
            scripts.

          +o Development and editing of documentation for micro- and
            mainframe  software,  and  specifications  manuals  and
            references.

          +o Writing and editing of corporate newsletters, including
            research, photography and vendor supervision.

          +o Goal and strategy negotiation with  managers,  trainers
            and workshop participants.

          +o Working knowledge of hardware includes Burroughs  B-22,
            Apple  Lisa,  Hewlett-Packard  2621, Fortune 32:16, and
            Victor 9000 (MS-DOS, CP/M-86). Software includes  UNIX,
            Fortune:Word,  LisaWrite, Burroughs WRITEOne, WordStar,
            Benchmark, Select, dBase II,  LisaDraw,  SuperCalc  and
            Multiplan.

                  EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

       TECHNICAL EDITOR                        May 1984 - Present
       Bell Communications Research
       Information Documentation Division
       Livingston, New Jersey

          - Writing and editing of Technical References,  Technical
            Advisories,  and  Bellcore  Practices  and  Reports for
            Engineering,  Network  Planning  and  Market   Research
            groups  contracted to develop information documentation
            for vendors to Bell Operating Companies.

          - Preparation of typeset specifications and illustrations
            in collaboration with external vendors.

       CONSULTANT/EDITOR                       Oct. 1983 - April 1984
       AT & T Information Systems
       Services Division System Support
       Morris Plains, New Jersey

          - Wrote  and  edited  Business  Maintenance   Information
            System (BMIS) newsletter for Information Systems users.

          - Responsible for interviewing, writing, photography  and
            vendor interface.

          - Developed documentation and flowchart graphics for BMIS
            components.

       DISTRICT TRAINING WRITER/TRAINER        April - October 1983
       Victor Technologies, New York District
       Parsippany, New Jersey

          - Developed market-support programs to train Victor  9000
            microcomputer  dealers  in  uses  and marketing of word
            processing,  data  base   management   and   electronic
            spreadsheet software.

          - Instructed dealers in  Dealer  Orientation  program  on
            hardware,  operating  systems,  applications  software,
            vertical and comparative marketing strategies.

          - Redesigned Dealer Orientation to  emphasize  sales  and
            vertical marketing.

          - Edited New York District Newsletter.

          - Developed Electronic Mail  User  Manual  with  District
            Technical Support staff.

       PROGRAM DEVELOPER                       1978 - 1983
       Wendell & Stockel Associates
       West Orange, New Jersey

          - Collaborated in  design  of  objectives,  agendas,  and
            strategies  for  management  development  programs  for
            Fortune 50 client of  Human  Resource  Development  and
            training  consultants, including Managerial Counseling,
            Consultive     Selling,     Consultive     Negotiation,
            Interviewing   and   Selection,  and  Outplacement  for
            Corporate and Divisional use.

          - Wrote  all  programs,  including:  exercises,   trainer
            scripts, videotape scripts for professional actors, and
            subject overviews.

          - Participated   in   initial   presentation   of   group
            Outplacement Workshop for salaried and hourly employees
            terminated following Division shutdown.

          - Developed  complex  business  cases   for   participant
            analysis and solution.

          - Facilitated  individual  and  group  learning   through
            consultation  with  and coaching of client participants
            and trainers.

          - Developed  supporting   documentation   to   facilitate
            implementation    of    organizational    effectiveness
            strategies in client company.

       Additional  experience  developing  consumer  product   user
       manuals,   as  college  teacher  and  administrator,  public
       relations  copywriter,  magazine  journalist  and  political
       speechwriter.

                                EDUCATION

                Ph.D., 1976 (English)
                State University of New York at Binghamton
                Binghamton, New York

                M.A., 1969; B.A., 1966 (English)
                Hunter College/City University of New York
                New York, New York

                                 PERSONAL

       Will  travel.   Will  relocate  (major  metropolitan   areas
       preferred).

                                REFERENCES

       Available on request.
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CONTACT:

Ken Wolman
Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, NJ
lcuxc!kenw
(201) 740-4565

("My doctorate's in Literature, but that feels like a
pretty good pulse to me. . . .")