FICO is looking for a contractor to restructure and edit technical content in DITA topics. Prevous experience with authoring and editing in DITA is preferred.

To apply for the opening, please email your resume along with writing samples that were created from DITA topics.

www.fico.com

We are looking for a marketing writer consultant who can author concise, compelling case studies about our online advertising services. This freelancer should be familiar with concepts such as web analytics, conversions, click-though rates, lift, impressions, etc. The objective of these case studies is to demonstrate exactly how clients used our services to produce more focused, effective campaigns. The writer will work with sales and marketing staff to develop the narrative and key messages for each article.

This writer would work on projects as needed on an ongoing basis. Please be ready to provide relevant writing samples.

www.quantcast.com

CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) formerly known as Computer Associates, is one of the world’s leading IT management software and solution companies with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and physical to virtual and cloud. Our software manages and secures IT environments, enabling our customers to deliver more flexible IT services and our solutions help our customers gain a level of deep insight into and gain control over complex and mixed information technology (IT) environments.

We are currently looking for a qualified Sr. Technical Writer to join our Development team at our South San Francisco, CA office.

This position is responsible for designing, creating, and modifying deliverables. Author deliverable design documents, communicate with technical staff, and use the products they document. Deliverables must be appropriate for the intended audience and follow Technical Information standards. Typically work closely with other writers and managers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze deliverable needs for multiple projects and recommend staffing and schedules
• Create and update planning documents
• Adapt to and implement new procedures, processes, and corporate directives
• Manage multiple project assignments simultaneously, such as working on a major release and a service pack
• Mentor other writers
• Monitor, update, and manage PRIME tasks
• Master one or more products or components
• Write technically accurate, grammatically correct information
• Meet project deadlines
• Review, assign, and resolve STAR issues
• Provide feedback on product design, features, and functionality to the project team
• Report project status

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or global equivalent in Technical Writing or English.
• Master’s Degree or global equivalent in Technical Writing or English desired.
• Typically 5 or more years of experience in Technical Information.
• Business travel of approximately 10 or less percent yearly is expected for this position.

Skills:

• Ability to author and edit deliverables for online and printed distribution.
• Ability to restructure an existing documentation set to improve usability.
• Ability to perform independent research to understand the product.
• Ability to set priorities and escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to communicate with the project team.
• Mastery of documentation tools used by CA including Microsoft Office, FrameMaker, Madcap Flare or Author-it, and Adobe Acrobat, and experience with multiple operating systems, programming concepts, and source control.

www.ca.com

At VMware, our engineers continue to learn and grow by working with top professionals from around the world and recent graduates of top universities and by taking advantage of our extensive internal training opportunities and generous external education assistance program. R&D team members work on the latest computing equipment and have access to the ACM and IEEE libraries.

The Senior Technical Writer we are looking for is someone to create and update SDK documentation for a developer audience, someone who has experience with programming guides and API references, working with programming tasks (use cases), and developing sample code.

The SDK/API work here is not your “typical” API documentation. With VMware APIs, you are dealing with an entire operating system and managing an entire Virtual Infrastructure, down to the hardware level. The SDKs are powerful and challenging, and the documentation is of strategic importance to the company because of its key role in enabling partners and customers. It’s a high priority for the company, and the right candidate will be joining at a critical time when they can actively contribute to documentation design and processes.

To give you an idea of the types of SDK Documentation we do, visit: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/

The SDK publications team provides information to third-party developers (ISVs, HSVs). The documents produced by this team describe how to extend, support, or integrate with VMware Products.

We look for great communicators who have the analytical skills to inspire a diverse team to make a difference, and move our company forward. Our Tech Pubs groups houses more than 70 full-time writers, editors, production personnel and tools specialists. The people we look for must be able to work closely with developers and have the ability to develop sample code and determine use cases to help us maintain the high standards of documentation that we cultivate here at VMware.

To see the types of docs we write, visit: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/.

Our meeting topic is When Your Ship Comes In with Jack Molisani. Do you feel like you are the captain of your career, or more like a galley slave chained to a job that you don’t like, or perhaps one that pays slave wages? In this session professional recruiter and returning favorite Jack Molisani will discuss short-tem tactics and long-term strategies for increasing your standard of living—and your emotional sanity.

“My career has had its highs, its lows, and everything in between. I learned from each win and each challenge, and I’ll share my life- and career-changing realizations with you in this entertaining and informative session. As a mentor once told me: ‘Learn from the success and failures of others—it’s faster than making them yourself!’”

Speaker Bio: Jack Molisani started his career as Project Officer in the Space Division of the USAF where he negotiated $100M contracts with leading defense contractors. Jack then went on to start ProSpring, an outsource writing company with a staffing division specializing in perm and contract technical writers.

Jack also produces The LavaCon Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies to be held in September 29th, 2010 in San Diego, CA.

Jack will be raffling off a free entrance to LavaCon, so be sure to bring a business card for the drawing!

Future Meetings

October – Networking or Team Building (TBD) with Jeff Richardson
November – Simple English with Nathaniel Lim
December – Holiday Schmooze
January – Development Techniques for User Assistance in SmartPhone Applications with Joe Welinske