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Job Announcements • For STC Members Only padlock icon indicating WDC Members Only • Talent Pool
Employment / Career Resources • Documentation Consultants & Contractors • Satisfied Employers & New Hires

Katherine D. Fisher, LLC Last revised 03 July 2008

[Senior Member, Chapters: Unafilliated;
SIGs: Consulting & Independent Contracting, Lone Writer, Policies & Procedures, Single Sourcing]

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Speciality

  • Award-winning professional emphasizing first-time quality and customer satisfaction, with a strong dedication and commitment to excellence. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines or complete projects ahead of schedule.
  • Twenty years total professional writing experience. Eight years experience writing and editing corporate policies, procedures, manuals, and related technical documentation for a large Department of Defense aerospace contractor, supporting engineering, manufacturing, production, quality, inspection, facilities, hazardous operations, and laboratory test management. Four-and-a-half years experience developing and writing corporate processes, procedures, manuals, proposals, software/hardware documentation, and websites for Department of Energy (DOE) contractors, supporting financial, business, and quality systems; research programs; probabilistic risk assessment; technology transfer objectives; and computer support operations and development. Fifteen months experience writing and editing policies, processes, procedures, manuals, and software/hardware documentation for a Department of Energy (DOI) contractor, supporting information resources management, trust and per capita fund management, social services systems, emergency preparedness, and configuration management for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • Several additional years experience writing, editing, and consulting for a variety of other government and private-sector clients in the preparation of reports for U.S. Congress; corporate policies, processes, and procedures; manuals; proposals; software/hardware documentation; websites; environmental impact statements; articles; and theses/dissertations; supporting engineering, information systems/management, satellite telecommunications, high-tech education, avionics, environmental management, Native American health care, business journalism, and graduate-level interdisciplinary study.
  • Twenty-eight years experience with a wide variety of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics, and financial reporting applications.
  • Ten years experience using America Online, Internet Explorer, and Netscape with all Windows platforms.
  • Exceptional skills in technical/business writing, editing, analysis, document/Web design, and communications.
  • Extensive knowledge of documentation theory, preparation, and management.
  • Experienced in Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance requirements. Also specialize in total quality management (TQM), process definition/improvement using Malcolm Baldrige Award criteria, and management directive systems for large organizations, particularly government contractors.
  • Secret Clearance issued by the DOI (inactive). "L" Clearance issued by the DOE (inactive).

STC Categories of Expertise

  • Business Analysis
  • Computer Science, Program Development, Software Engineering
  • Internet Technology: Webmaster, Web Developer, Web Designer, Content Controller, Content Manager
  • Management: Communications Departments & Projects
  • Policy & Research Communication
  • Proposal Writing
  • Technical Communication, Editing, & Writing
 

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