40
Otterson Road
Londonderry, NH 03053
h: 603.432.8513 c: 603.867.1712
Melanie.Swiderek@gmail.com
Versatile,
articulate professional with a focus on strategic communications, particularly
for high-tech companies. Expertise in creating communications for employees,
partners, and prospective clients to describe new technologies and to address
the business drivers behind those technologies. Broad experience with
organizations from startups to established companies, writing, editing, and producing
graphics for white papers, technical manuals, web pages, and other materials to
communicate the technical and marketing strategy of a company to a diverse
audience. Excellent communication skills and a reputation for learning
difficult technical material quickly and producing the highest quality work.
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deepblack,
Londonderry, NH |
2001-present |
Principal
Consultant / Freelance Technical Writer / Graphics Professional
Design
and create content for internal and external communications for high-tech
companies, including:
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VOLTREE POWER, Canton, MA
Create
white papers for patent filings and marketing support materials.
·
SHARED PERFORMANCE, Scottsdale, AZ
Create
white papers for patent filings, technical manuals for company’s software, and
other materials.
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STUDYMAKER, Charlotte, NC
Produce
proposals, including proposal for virtualization of best practices algorithm
for treatment of Type 2 diabetes.
·
ISA, Research Triangle Park, NC
Assist
in production of graphics and papers for ISA100.11a technical standards group.
·
SENSICAST SYSTEMS, Needham, MA
Created
white papers for patent filings, technical manuals for company’s software and
hardware, presentation graphics, datasheets, columns for industry publications,
and other materials. Assisted in production of papers for technical standards
groups such as ZigBee and ISA100.
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FOX ELIPSUS…, independent touring musician,
Buffalo, NY
Designed
CD booklet for second CD. Redesigned booklet for first CD. Assist in
promotional and organizational work.
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AIRSPRITE, Marlborough, MA
Create
white papers for patent filings, technical documentation, and other materials.
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UPTODATE, Waltham, MA
Created
white papers for patent filings and first-step documents for website redesign.
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RF TECHNOLOGIES,
Produced
white paper for patent filing of company’s invention.
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WHERENET,
Created
solutions marketing white paper to market system to a large shipping company
considering the technology for use in its shipping terminals, resulting in
contract for installation.
·
ZFRAME.COM,
Conducted
research on prior art in patent databases to establish validity of company’s
invention.
Also, provide pro bono work to
local non-profit groups, including website design and maintenance.
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ENTERASYS
NETWORKS, Rochester, NH |
2001 |
Strategic
Communications Manager
Created
internal and external communications content for global enterprise network
solutions company. Maintained corporate messaging documents. Selected projects
include:
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Produced
white paper for launch of 10-gigabit Ethernet product line to describe the
technology and its value for the enterprise, resulting in award from the Office
of the Chief Technical Officer.
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Appointed
editor for biweekly newsletter for solutions marketing group, distributed to
all employees to increase awareness of business unit objectives, activities,
and accomplishments.
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PINPOINT
CORPORATION, |
2000-2001 |
Strategic Writer
Reporting directly to the Chief
Technical Officer of this manufacturer of local positioning systems, created
documents for corporate strategic use, including technical white papers and
wireless technology patent disclosures. Selected projects include:
·
Collaborated
with sales and marketing personnel to create external marketing documents,
including a brochure for the Frontline Solutions 2000 product exposition.
·
Working
with systems engineers and project managers, participated in quality review of
on-site pilot installation. Increased the accuracy of the Access database
required for system operation while completing the review process in less than
the expected time.
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Ph.D. in Cognitive Development, Minor in
Statistics, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY
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B.A. in Psychology, WELLESLEY COLLEGE,
Wellesley, MA
Operating
Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/ME, Linux.
Software: Microsoft
Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Visio, FrontPage; OpenOffice;
Macromedia Dreamweaver; Minitab; Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator; Corel
Painter Classic; QuarkXpress.
Programming: HTML; some
familiarity with C++.
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US
Patent US6456239. Method and apparatus for locating mobile tags. (Co-inventors
J. Werb, E. Martinian, S. Levy, & P. Stein.)
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Extreme
beliefs do respond to evidence. Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society. (Co-author B. Koslowski.)
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Disconfirming
evidence and beliefs about capital punishment. Nineteenth Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society. (Co-authors B. Koslowski & D. Bem.)
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Beliefs
can change in response to disconfirming evidence and can do so in complicated
ways, but only if collateral beliefs are disconfirmed. (Unpublished doctoral
dissertation.)
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Cornell
University, Graduate Research Summer Fellowship; Human Ecology Research Grant.
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Wellesley
College, Sigma Xi Research Science Honor Society.