Resume

Resume

First Prize Winner of 1998 Australian Society for Technical Communicators (Victoria) Technical Writing Competition

Study

Currently doing a Masters in Multimedia by Research at RMIT.

1986 Post Graduate Diploma in Computing, Macquarie University (Sydney)

1981 Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Queen’s University (Canada)

Present Work

Component Assessment and Documentation Manager, Distributed Learning Systems, IT Alignment Program, RMIT University

Have been involved in a variety of projects at RMIT University since October 1998 including:

Designed and wrote the user documentation for the Online Multimedia Project. This documentation written for the Internet and using animation. It won the 1998 Technical Writing Competition award.
Managed the beta test program to test 4 online education modules from the Online Multimedia Project.
Managed the professional development program for staff members to learn to teach online on the Internet.
Managed the development of documentation for the Distributed Learning Systems program.
Analysing university wide requirements to track and record all students formative assessment results for the purpose of progressively diagnosing students at risk.
Managing the development of the online multimedia documentation for Online @ RMIT.

Past Work

Worked in computing since 1981 engaged in a variety of roles, including technical writing, application design and development, software implementation, support, training and application development management. In 1992 created a company called Weiss Consulting Pty Ltd to focus on technical writing projects.