High-Tech Technical Writing by
Robert Plamondon

An Engineer Who Writes

News

January, 2006. After ten years as an independent consultant, I've become a full-time employee of Orbital Data Corporation, maker of the spiffiest network acceleration products ever. So please don't call to ask if I'm available. I'm not.

August, 2006. Orbital Data has been purchased by Citrix, Alas, I didn't have enough Orbital Data stock to become a gentleman of liesure. Citrix is doing wonderful things with the Orbital Data technology: don't be surprised if a Citrix network acceleration product makes your life a whole lot better in the near future.

I Am Not Available for Contract Work for the Foreseeable Future

I've kept the site intact because some people find it interesting.

The format of the site is starting to look dated to me, but a lot of it goes back to 1997, so that's not surprising!

Documentation From the Ground Up

As an electrical engineer with many years of high-tech experience, I can write your technical and marketing documents from scratch, with a minimum of support.

I specialize in documentation for fabless semiconductor start-ups.

I can figure out your product and explain it lucidly to other people, either at a high level (product brochures, white papers, press releases, overviews) or in detail (reference manuals, user's guides, tutorials, benchmark reports). See my resume.

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Interleaf/QuickSilver Writing, Admin, and Conversion

Expert attention to your Interleaf/QuickSilver needs, whether it's writing a new document, updating an older one, or converting it into a new format such as FrameMaker.

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While I Do a Lot of Semiconductor Writing,

(Chip data sheets, board application notes, instruction set reference manuals, development software user's guides, and such), I have experience with a wide variety of topics. I am much more than a hardware technical writer -- I write marketing collateral, white papers, and software documentation. When I'm between clients, I keeps writing anyway, usually about my hobbies. I wrote a book while in college about role-playing games and have recently published one about raising baby chicks.

I Can Do Whole Projects by Phone and Email!

The people who need my services generally don't have time for hand-holding, and the presence of technical writers on-site five days a week can be a nuisance to them. I am on-site only when necessary. Writing requires great concentration and is much easier to do in private, anyway.
 

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