Resume of Clayton Emery
Technical/Business Writer

27 Rogers Street
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 03801
603 431-0908
www.claytonemery.com

Resume of Clayton Emery
Technical/Business Writer

27 Rogers Street
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 03801
603 431-0908
claytonemery at claytonemery dot com
www.claytonemery.com

Position Sought
Associate Applications Systems Analyst Programmer

Work Experience

2/08 - Present
File Clerk, National Visa Center, Portsmouth, NH. Pulled files, opened mail, completed first pass of Visa Processing. Security clearance level: Government Trust.

Ongoing
- Webmaster. Created and maintained three web sites: www.claytonemery.com, www.challengersoftheunknown.com, www.tygertygerfilm.com. Worked with HTML, FTP, SeaMonkey, Mac OS X, Adobe PhotoShop, Google hacks, other web tools.
- Business Writer. Wrote articles for NH Gazette, Employment Times.

3/06 - 5/07
Contract Principal Technical Writer, Goodrich Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems (SRS), Chelmsford, MA. Researched and wrote US Government DOD (Department of Defense) / Air Force Technical Orders to Mil Specs for next generation flyover surveillance camera and computer support system. Redesigned and maintained department portal, created logos. Used MS SharePoint, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator. Security clearance level: Government Trust.

12/05 - 1/06
Contract Technical Writer, Superior Controls at Wyeth BioPharma, Andover, MA. Edited PCS/PLC Overview for QA/Validation, pilot reactor specs, generic bioreactor functional specs, company newsletters and website.

7/04 - 11/05
Contract Webcopy Writer, Part-Time, (Company Name Confidential). Rewrote webcopy for internal sites and B2B customers. Wrote Flash demo scripts. Worked with Windows 98, Macromedia Flash, IE 5.0.

4/02 - 6/04
Contract Tech Editor / Expediter, Lonza Biologics, Portsmouth, NH. Tracked and revised biotech SOPs to meet cGMP FDA regulations. Prepared slide presentations. Chased 200+ deviation (error) reports and 600+ change controls to completion for FDA inspection. Created and maintained MS Access tracking database, developed SQL-type queries to generate reports and match company specs. Acted as MS-Word guru and troubleshooter. Worked with MS Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Object, Visual Basic.

9/99 - 3/00
Contract Technical/Business Writer, Flywire (formerly VisuaLink), Portsmouth, NH. Wrote proposals, business plans, and project specifications for web design. Extracted client research from Internet. Created office Document Library with MS-Word style sheets. Wrote internal procedures. Worked with MS-Office 2000, Visio, SourceSafe, Framemaker.

1/99 - 4/99
Contract Communications Specialist, North Atlantic Communications, Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, NH. Wrote and photographed daily newsletter, press releases, newspaper articles. Worked with Adobe Pagemaker and Photoshop, MS-Office 98, digital cameras, Lotus Notes.

8/94 - 12/94
Contract Copywriter/Multimedia Expert, Convergent Media Inc., Littleton, MA. Wrote on-line catalog copy for DECdirect Plus Catalog for print, Internet, CD-ROM. Worked with MS-Office 95.

1/89 - 8/94
Senior Technical Writer, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Milford, OH. Wrote I-DEAS Finite Element Modeling User's Guide, Supplement, Getting Started for mechanical engineering software for military aviation equipment, commercial airplanes, cars, and buses, laminate materials, civil engineering. Worked with Unix, Interleaf.

8/87 - 12/88
Freelance Business Writer, Cincinnati, OH. Wrote mil-spec Part 64 Accounting Methodology and generated graphics for NY Telephone; advertising copy for newspaper, radio, brochures, and trade journals; CAI scripts for U.S. Government DOD WP training; others.

For samples, www.claytonemery.com and click Tech Writing.