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Copyright(c) 1995 - 2001 Chuck Hastings and Software Contractors' Guild, Post Office Box 257,Nottingham, NH USA 03290-0257 2 April 2006 RESUME CHUCK HASTINGS TECHNICAL WRITING, MARKETING, AND APPLICATIONS 36135 - 22nd Place South Federal Way, WA 98003-9150 cwh2@earthlink.net 206/354-8701 (cellphone) 253/874-2640 (landline/voicemail) 253/838-1279 (landline/voicemail) 206/383-3622 (message) http://www.geocities.com/minsq/chuckwriting.html PROFILE Have worked as a technical writer, a high-tech marketing manager, a computer hardware designer and project manager, a machine-level programmer, and a semiconductor applications engineer. Strong creativity, versatile technical background, and good presentation skills. Three degrees Quick learner. Proven ability at explaining complex devices and systems in a down-to-earth way; at innovative new-product definition, strategic forecasts, and market research; and at computer hardware development and R&D. Two U.S. Patents as sole inventor. WRITING SKILLS A writer, from childhood on. Writing has been a major part of many work assignments, regardless of job title and other responsibilities. Have written marketing collaterals and letters, white papers, press releases, semiconductor specifications and datasheets, programming manuals, strategic business plans and prospectuses, proposals, patent applications, technical and market research articles and reports, seminar-companion and training handbooks, recruitment advertising copy, and a web-based manual for an enterprise security- software system. And, after hours, three novels; two now are published, and another one is completed and being revised for publication. A careful and sharp-eyed proofreader and editor. Have used Adobe FrameMaker, Acrobat, and PageMaker; also Visio, RoboHELP, several generations of Microsoft Word, and other word processors. Have run seven generations of Windows; some exposure to UNIX. Always interested in developing new skills, and in learning to use new tools. HIGH-TECH EXPERIENCE Have worked with and/or written about microprocessors, fixed logic, VLSI FPGAs, PLDs, ASICs, FIFOs, other semiconductor memories, nonvolatile analog MOSFET circuits, bipolar circuit-design methodology, automated layout-shrink methodology, and bus-interface circuits. Also large-scale computers and peripherals, enterprise software, GHz Automatic Test Equipment (ATE), and electro-optic technology. Seasoned in semiconductor, computer systems, telecommunications, and aerospace businesses. Have worked both as a permanent company employee and as a short-term contractor; most recently in Washington State and Oregon, and around Silicon Valley. Proficient logic designer, computer/VLSI architect, and microcoder. Study of C, Verilog, VLSI design, EDA, test engineering, verification, video engineering, computer security, and semiconductor processing. MARKETING, MANAGEMENT, AND TRAINING Have achieved major increases in product- line market share. Have been effective at recruiting, managing, and developing professionals. Composed and taught a one-semester digital-logic EE graduate course at California State U at San Jose. EDUCATION MBA in Marketing, Santa Clara U; MA in Math, UCLA; and BA in Physics/Math, Grinnell College. Certificate in VLSI Design Engineering, EDA emphasis, UC Santa Cruz. Many other EE graduate courses, U of Minnesota. Professional courses in EE and creative writing, UC Santa Cruz Extension. Also, seminars and conferences. Language background in Spanish, German, and Japanese. Real- estate license (inactive) in Washington State. SUPPLEMENTARY SUPPORTING FILES o Work History Resume attached. o Track Record of Accomplishments available upon request. o Details of Recent Contract Work available upon request. o Writing Samples available upon request. WORK HISTORY RESUME dba Vintage Silicon Logic Silicon Valley, CA; Federal Way, WA; metro Portland, OR. Proprietor/Consultant: 1970s, 1989-91, 1993-2000, 2002-present. Vintage Silicon Logic has been my own business name. Found and carried out contract assignments in between regular jobs. Consulting services: technical writing, digital architecture, applications engineering, and technical/strategic marketing . Technical writer, high-tech industry. Recent clients have been a Stanford EE Ph.D. Candidate, QuickSilver Technology, LitePoint, Guide Technology, TreeLogic Software Engineering, Impinj, MobileWise, and Lindener Associates. Marketing consultant, integrated-circuit industry. Full-time contractor at Actel for twenty months, developing two FPGA architectural specs/tutorials; since then at Intel SWCD, Flextronics/ Dii/Orbit, Broadcom, Intel Fab15, and DynaChip. Other clients have included Advanced Hardware Architectures, AMD, Aptos Semiconductor, Atmel, iCube, IDT, Philips (Signetics), Sagantec, and Sharp. Wrote/critiqued engineering specs, datasheets, technical application notes, marketing collateral documents, training manuals, and strategic and business plans. Performed field market research and technical-literature research. =========================================== QuickSilver Technology Seattle, WA and San Jose, CA. Member of the Technical Staff: 2/2002 to 4/2002. Single-chip multicomputer systems. Prepared documentation on the architecture of the on-chip communications network, comprising one very large datasheet and including a separate major section for each distinct type of microprocessor or other active entity. (Some of this was during a second assignment as a contractor to QuickSilver.) =========================================== Transmeta Corporation Santa Clara, CA. Member of the Technical Staff: 4/2001 to 10/2001. Microprocessors which emulate the Intel x86 microprocessor series, but require far less power and dissipate far less heat. Prepared internal reference material describing complex features of Transmeta's `Crusoe' microprocessors, for the use of software engineers preparing the `code-morphing software. This material comprised five chapters. Also put together the outline for this microprogramming manual, and negotiated its acceptance by Transmetas development engineers. =========================================== inSilicon Corporation San Jose, CA. Documentation Engineer: 12/2000 to 3/2001. Semiconductor intellectual property cores' written in the Verilog hardware design language. Prepared documentation on test procedures for an inSilicon JAVA- accelerator core. Put together a set of references for industry- standard bus specifications. =========================================== TriStrata Inc. Redwood Shores, CA. Technical Writer: 7/2000 to 12/2000. Computer-security hardware-software systems. Prepared tutorial and collateral documentation on TriStrata's complex software, including webhelp. Tested new features, and obtained screenshots to go along with the text describing them. =========================================== Sharp Microelectronics Technology, Inc. Camas, WA. Marketing Manager, FIFO and Specialty Memory: 1991-93. Broad-line supplier of integrated circuits, selling in North America, Europe, and Japan. Defined marketing strategy and new products, and handled applications engineering, for First-In, First-Out (FIFO) specialty- memory product line. Market research. Wrote technical articles; presented them as conference papers. At Sharp for almost five years; was a contractor both before and after being an employee. =========================================== Computer Circuit Laboratories, Inc. Spokane, WA. Marketing and Applications Manager: 1988. Technology development and licensing, of unique bipolar-integrated- circuit design approach. Handled all marketing; also, technical recruiting. Wrote technical and marcom material promoting company's licensable technology. Implemented multipronged direct-mail advertising campaign to attract customers. Presented seminars. Found the company an engineering director and a CAD manager. =========================================== Fairchild Semiconductor Puyallup, WA. Senior Staff Applications Engineer: 1985-87. New startup division of major worldwide integrated-circuit supplier. New-product planning, applications engineering, and technical support for medium- and large-scale-integration emitter-coupled- logic products and proposed CMOS specialty-memory products. Supervised applications laboratory. =========================================== Monolithic Memories Inc. Santa Clara, CA. Product Planning and Applications Manager for Logic: 1980-85. Major broad-line worldwide integrated-circuit supplier. Managed group performing new-product planning, applications engineering, and technical support for arithmetic, interface, FIFO, and memory-related products. Established and supervised applications laboratory. EDUCATION AND OTHER EXPERIENCE o MBA, Marketing, Santa Clara University. o MA, Math/Engineering, UCLA. o BA, Physics/Math, Grinnell College. o EE/Computer Science graduate study, University of Minnesota. o Technical Staff Engineer (many years). o On-site courses, Honeywell and Control Data Corporation. o Certificate in VLSI Design Engineering, EDA emphasis, University of California at Santa Cruz Extension. o Extensive seminars and self-study on creative writing, and on the use of authoring and illustrating tools. ========================================= 22 September 2004 RESUME CHUCK HASTINGS TECHNICAL WRITING, MARKETING, AND APPLICATIONS 36135 - 22nd Place South Federal Way, WA 98003-9150 cwh2@earthlink.net 206/354-8701 (cellphone) 253/874-2640 (landline/voicemail) 253/838-1279 (landline/voicemail) 206/383-3622 (message) http://www.geocities.com/minsq/chuckwriting.html PROFILE Have worked as a technical writer, a high-tech marketing manager, a computer hardware designer and project manager, a machine-level programmer, and a semiconductor applications engineer. Strong creativity, versatile technical background, and good presentation skills. Three degrees Quick learner. Proven ability at explaining complex devices and systems in a down-to-earth way; at innovative new-product definition, strategic forecasts, and market research; and at computer hardware development and R&D. Two U.S. Patents as sole inventor. WRITING SKILLS A writer, from childhood on. Writing has been a major part of many work assignments, regardless of job title and other responsibilities. Have written marketing collaterals and letters, white papers, press releases, semiconductor specifications and datasheets, programming manuals, strategic business plans and prospectuses, proposals, patent applications, technical and market research articles and reports, seminar-companion and training handbooks, recruitment advertising copy, and a web-based manual for an enterprise security- software system. And, after hours, three novels; two now are published, and another one is completed and being revised for publication. A careful and sharp-eyed proofreader and editor. Have used Adobe FrameMaker, Acrobat, and PageMaker; also Visio, RoboHELP, several generations of Microsoft Word, and other word processors. Have run seven generations of Windows; some exposure to UNIX. Always interested in developing new skills, and in learning to use new tools. HIGH-TECH EXPERIENCE Have worked with and/or written about microprocessors, fixed logic, VLSI FPGAs, PLDs, ASICs, FIFOs, other semiconductor memories, nonvolatile analog MOSFET circuits, bipolar circuit-design methodology, automated layout-shrink methodology, and bus-interface circuits. Also large-scale computers and peripherals, enterprise software, GHz Automatic Test Equipment (ATE), and electro-optic technology. Seasoned in semiconductor, computer systems, telecommunications, and aerospace businesses. Have worked both as a permanent company employee and as a short-term contractor; most recently in Washington State and Oregon, and around Silicon Valley. Proficient logic designer, computer/VLSI architect, and microcoder. Study of C, Verilog, VLSI design, EDA, test engineering, verification, video engineering, computer security, and semiconductor processing. MARKETING, MANAGEMENT, AND TRAINING Have achieved major increases in product- line market share. Have been effective at recruiting, managing, and developing professionals. Composed and taught a one-semester digital-logic EE graduate course at California State U at San Jose. EDUCATION MBA in Marketing, Santa Clara U; MA in Math, UCLA; and BA in Physics/Math, Grinnell College. Certificate in VLSI Design Engineering, EDA emphasis, UC Santa Cruz. Many other EE graduate courses, U of Minnesota. Professional courses in EE and creative writing, UC Santa Cruz Extension. Also, seminars and conferences. Language background in Spanish, German, and Japanese. Real- estate license (inactive) in Washington State. SUPPLEMENTARY SUPPORTING FILES o Work History Resume attached. o Track Record of Accomplishments available upon request. o Details of Recent Contract Work available upon request. o Writing Samples available upon request. WORK HISTORY RESUME dba Vintage Silicon Logic Silicon Valley, CA; Federal Way, WA; metro Portland, OR. Proprietor/Consultant: 1970s, 1989-91, 1993-2000, 2002-present. Vintage Silicon Logic has been my own business name. Found and carried out contract assignments in between regular jobs. Consulting services: technical writing, digital architecture, applications engineering, and technical/strategic marketing . Technical writer, high-tech industry. Recent clients have been a Stanford EE Ph.D. Candidate, QuickSilver Technology, LitePoint, Guide Technology, TreeLogic Software Engineering, Impinj, MobileWise, and Lindener Associates. Marketing consultant, integrated-circuit industry. Full-time contractor at Actel for twenty months, developing two FPGA architectural specs/tutorials; since then at Intel SWCD, Flextronics/ Dii/Orbit, Broadcom, Intel Fab15, and DynaChip. Other clients have included Advanced Hardware Architectures, AMD, Aptos Semiconductor, Atmel, iCube, IDT, Philips (Signetics), Sagantec, and Sharp. Wrote/critiqued engineering specs, datasheets, technical application notes, marketing collateral documents, training manuals, and strategic and business plans. Performed field market research and technical-literature research. =========================================== QuickSilver Technology Seattle, WA and San Jose, CA. Member of the Technical Staff: 2/2002 to 4/2002. Single-chip multicomputer systems. Prepared documentation on the architecture of the on-chip communications network, comprising one very large datasheet and including a separate major section for each distinct type of microprocessor or other active entity. (Some of this was during a second assignment as a contractor to QuickSilver.) =========================================== Transmeta Corporation Santa Clara, CA. Member of the Technical Staff: 4/2001 to 10/2001. Microprocessors which emulate the Intel x86 microprocessor series, but require far less power and dissipate far less heat. Prepared internal reference material describing complex features of Transmeta's `Crusoe' microprocessors, for the use of software engineers preparing the `code-morphing software. This material comprised five chapters. Also put together the outline for this microprogramming manual, and negotiated its acceptance by Transmetas development engineers. =========================================== inSilicon Corporation San Jose, CA. Documentation Engineer: 12/2000 to 3/2001. Semiconductor intellectual property cores' written in the Verilog hardware design language. Prepared documentation on test procedures for an inSilicon JAVA- accelerator core. Put together a set of references for industry- standard bus specifications. =========================================== TriStrata Inc. Redwood Shores, CA. Technical Writer: 7/2000 to 12/2000. Computer-security hardware-software systems. Prepared tutorial and collateral documentation on TriStrata's complex software, including webhelp. Tested new features, and obtained screenshots to go along with the text describing them. =========================================== Sharp Microelectronics Technology, Inc. Camas, WA. Marketing Manager, FIFO and Specialty Memory: 1991-93. Broad-line supplier of integrated circuits, selling in North America, Europe, and Japan. Defined marketing strategy and new products, and handled applications engineering, for First-In, First-Out (FIFO) specialty- memory product line. Market research. Wrote technical articles; presented them as conference papers. At Sharp for almost five years; was a contractor both before and after being an employee. =========================================== Computer Circuit Laboratories, Inc. Spokane, WA. Marketing and Applications Manager: 1988. Technology development and licensing, of unique bipolar-integrated- circuit design approach. Handled all marketing; also, technical recruiting. Wrote technical and marcom material promoting company's licensable technology. Implemented multipronged direct-mail advertising campaign to attract customers. Presented seminars. Found the company an engineering director and a CAD manager. =========================================== Fairchild Semiconductor Puyallup, WA. Senior Staff Applications Engineer: 1985-87. New startup division of major worldwide integrated-circuit supplier. New-product planning, applications engineering, and technical support for medium- and large-scale-integration emitter-coupled- logic products and proposed CMOS specialty-memory products. Supervised applications laboratory. =========================================== Monolithic Memories Inc. Santa Clara, CA. Product Planning and Applications Manager for Logic: 1980-85. Major broad-line worldwide integrated-circuit supplier. Managed group performing new-product planning, applications engineering, and technical support for arithmetic, interface, FIFO, and memory-related products. Established and supervised applications laboratory. EDUCATION AND OTHER EXPERIENCE o MBA, Marketing, Santa Clara University. o MA, Math/Engineering, UCLA. o BA, Physics/Math, Grinnell College. o EE/Computer Science graduate study, University of Minnesota. o Technical Staff Engineer (many years). o On-site courses, Honeywell and Control Data Corporation. o Certificate in VLSI Design Engineering, EDA emphasis, University of California at Santa Cruz Extension. o Extensive seminars and self-study on creative writing, and on the use of authoring and illustrating tools.