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Wolf
Davidson email: wolf.davidson@nemasys.com |
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I started my career as a mainframe computer operator and found myself deeply fascinated by the hardware and software. I soon discovered that what I enjoyed most was learning and applying the technology—operations and systems procedures, standards, processes, applications, and tools—and documenting each according to the needs of the data centers as well as serving as an instructor using the documentation I created.
The skills I learned and applied enabled me to move into operations analysis, programming, systems analysis, and data center management; all while learning, applying, documenting, and teaching the skills to my peers and company staff.
This ultimately lead to technical writing, where I continue to enjoy learning, using, and writing about new technology; not only enabling readers to use the various computers, hardware, and software effectively, but also to understand the how, what, and why.
Contents:
HTML, PDF, MS Word, and text
- Samples
Documentation, illustration, graphics, powerpoint, online help, and HTML samples, by employer:
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Clarent Corporation - Voice over IP hardware and software for voice, real-time fax, and data traffic
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Persistence Software - J2EE application server and dynamic web page caching software
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Oracle - Relational Database Management Systems
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Sun Microsystems - Enterprise servers, workstations, and software
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- Career History
An informal and tongue-in-cheek overview of my career.
Resume:
Return to topSamples:
Some of the following samples are for products that no longer exist; others are from manuals released publicly to customers. All samples, including beta documents, are posted with permission from previous employers. Note: The PDFs are extracts of larger documents; thus many of the links within each PDF will not work as they are references to chapters not included in this online portfolio. |
Clarent Corporation:
Voice over IP hardware and software for voice, real-time fax, and data trafficReturn to top
- Clarent 1200 Hardware Installation Guide - Connecting the Telephony Interface Cards (PDF format)
Illustrates the connections and pin-outs of analog and digital gateway cards, and describes how to connect the cards to a PBX or PSTN. The second section, Board Sequencing, provides diagrams showing the placement (sequencing) of the DSP, analog, and digital boards.
- Clarent Connect User Guide - Call Signaling and Data Paths (PDF format)
Provides diagrams and descriptions of the process of a call through four separate networks using Clarent Connect™ single-proxy and multiple-proxy systems.
- Clarent Gateway Release Bulletin Version 3.1.2 Service Pack 1 - Configure MPSS Interface (PDF format)
Procedure for configuring a Clarent Gateway to communicate with a Clarent SS7/C7 Multi-Point Signaling Server.
Persistence Software:
J2EE application server and dynamic web page caching softwareReturn to top
- Tools Guide: Introduction: PowerTier Add-Ins for Rose™ (PDF format)
Introduces the PowerTier Add-Ins for Rational Rose 2000™ (Rose). Rose is a UML-based visual modeling tool that provides object-oriented analysis, modeling, design, and construction. The PowerTier Add-Ins for Rose extend Rose, combining the graphical modeling and analysis abilities of Rose with the mapping, validation, code-generation, and build capabilities of PowerTier.
- Tools Guide: Getting Started with the PowerTier Add-Ins for Rose (PDF)
The first 18 pages of the Add-Ins tutorial, which steps the reader through using Rose and the PowerTier Add-Ins for Rose to model, generate code, build, and run a simple banking application.
- Dynamai ™ (PowerPoint slide show PPS format, zipped)
Dynamai is a caching proxy server that improves the performance of web sites by caching dynamically-generated HTML as well as static content. This PPS file is an extract of one of the Dynamai PowerPoint presentations for which I created both the static and animated graphics.
- Dynamai Monitoring (PDF)
The Dynamai online help was designed and written by myself and two other writers as reusable, single-source files using text insets and conditionalized text to produce hardcopy (from FrameMaker), and online help (using WebWorks Professional). This is the monitoring section for the Dynamai online help, which I wrote as part of the team.
Graphics - representative samples
Oracle:
Relational Database Management SystemsNote: Most Oracle documentation is proprietary and marked accordingly; the following samples are posted with permission of my former managers at Oracle.
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- Business Intelligence System (BIS) Website Prototype (HTML)
I was part of the website team responsible for designing this prototype navigation system for the 3.2 gigabyte internal BIS corporate website. The team members were responsible for identifying and categorizing the original website contents, and a coworker and I were responsible for the website design and templates.
- Converting cross-references to hypertext (PDF)
Shortly before I left Oracle, a decision was made at the corporate level to transition from Interleaf to FrameMaker. The proprietary aspect of the Oracle 11i iHelp system required that all cross-references be converted to hypertext links. I wrote this procedure to assist my peers in the CPG and BIS division after speaking with several of them and determining that the majority of writers were completely unfamiliar with FrameMaker.
- Oracle Business Intelligence System Installation Guide (PDF)
This is the installation guide for the maintenance pack release for BIS.
Sun Microsystems:
Enterprise servers, workstations, and softwareReturn to topThe Internet WorkShop is an integrated suite of tools enabling development of 3-tier client/server systems with Java-based thin clients, and includes Solaris NEO and NEOworks, two products I had previously written the installation manuals for, and which were later merged into the IWS.
I was loaned to the Internet WorkShop (IWS) group after their production release had been cut to CD and their installation process failed QA. I was given a week to create this from scratch, keep it under 25 pages so it would fit in the production kit, submit it to QA, and fix any problems noted by QA. I succeeded.