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Work Experience > 1992-1994: Calspan-Arvin Industries, NASA, Houston
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1992-1994: Calspan - Arvin Industries, NASA - Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Permanent staff position with the safety engineers group supporting the Space Shuttle Payload Safety Review Panel (PSRP)
Summary
Technical Writer for space shuttle payload safety review board
Major Assignments
- Attend NASA Space Shuttle (and Space Station) Payload Safety Review Panel meetings, and construct meeting minutes and real-time action items as formal documentation of the discussions, conclusions, and mandates that occurred during those meetings
- Maintain graphic metrics of time-to-publish all PSRP minutes documents
Significant Accomplishments
- Produced formal minutes of meetings documents, with action items, that identified binding agreements between organizations who represented multinational government agencies, corporations, and research groups
- Tracked and graphically charted the times required to publish all minutes documents
- Developed new skills in developing a database application with Borland Paradox 3 for recording meeting dates, minutes publication dates, and providing an export file to feed a Harvard Graphics chart file
- Developed new skills in capturing the essence of conversational debates, discussions, and conclusions that occurred during meetings which lasted 1 hour to 1 week, with 5 to 50 attendees
- Developed new skills in cross-referencing technical, government, and military standards documentation
- Acquired new knowledge of the terminology and processes relevant to space flight operations and NASA agencies
- Acquired new knowledge of failure tolerant systems, and other principles and concepts relevant to safety engineering
- Increased knowledge of electronic, computer, and mechanical systems that comprised the various payloads of Space Shuttle experiments
- Improved skills in Harvard Graphics use
- Improved skills in WordPerfect 5 use and macros development
Skills and Software Tools
Commonly used software:
- WordPerfect 5 by WordPerfect Corporation
- Harvard Graphics by Software Publishing Corporation
- Paradox 3 by Borland
Commonly practiced skills:
- Collaboration with safety engineering team members for drafting, revising, and approval of documentation content
- Editing
Additional software and skills:
- WordPerfect macro development
- Paradox database application development
Training
Classroom courses:
- Advanced English Grammar for Writers (University of Houston-Downtown), Spring semester 1994
- Editing, Rewriting, and Copyreading (University of Houston-Downtown), Spring semester 1994
- Advanced Business and Technical Report Writing (University of Houston-Downtown), Fall semester 1993
- Business and Technical Report Writing (University of Houston-Downtown), Spring semester 1993
Self-study:
- PAL Made Easy by C. Jensen and L. Anderson, copyright 1991, Osborne McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0-078-81709-9
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