Ctein
42 Skyline Drive
Daly City, CA 94015
(650) 756-5557
ctein@pobox.com
Twenty five years experience writing (popular and technical) on photography, display and printer technologies, electro-optics, web publishing, computer languages and hardware platforms. Currently, Contributing Editor - PHOTO Techniques magazine and Contributor - Rangefinder magazine
Experienced with FrameMaker (WinNT, MacOS), Photoshop (WinNT), Illustrator (WinNT, OS/2), Visio (WinNT), Acrobat (MacOS), Word 6 and 2000 (Mac, WinNT,OS/2), WordPerfect (DOS), Nisus (MacOS), TurboCAD (DOS, MacOS), Lotus (DOS, MacOS), Quattro Pro (DOS, Win), Arachnophilia (WinNT), PageMill (WinNT)
WRITING EXPERIENCE
Communities.com -- 40 pages.
Wrote and illustrated 40-page technical white paper on
Communities.com's web technologies, based on existing
outlines and notes and interviews with engineers.
Produced with Nisus, Microsoft Word 2000, and Visio.
Online documentation for Yahoo Anywhere
Wrote and built HTML-based online documentation for
scripting language. Ongoing. Produced with IBM VoiceType,
Microsoft Word (Windows/OS2), Arachnophilia (HTML ed-
itor).
Online documentation for HP
Documented specifications for HP's Web initiative. Doc-
umented and built HTML FAQ page for same. Produced with
IBM VoiceType,Microsoft Word (Windows/OS2), Arachnophilia
(HTML editor).
Book for Focal Press -- 200 pages
Wrote, illustrated, and designed and executed the
layout for POST-EXPOSURE, a 75,000 word, 110 illustration
book on advanced photographic printing techniques. Pub-
lished in November, 1997. Produced with IBM VoiceType,
Microsoft Word (Windows/OS2), Adobe Illustrator (Win NT)
and Adobe FrameMaker (Mac).
Commercial web page -- 20,000 words, 100 illustrations, several hundred links
(http://www.plaidworks.com/ctein/).
Designed, wrote and illustrated a profit-making
commercial web site. Produced with Microsoft Word (Win-
dows/OS2), WordPerfect (DOS), HTML Wizard (OS/2) and
Adobe Photoshop (Windows NT/OS2).
Computer language programmers' manual for Electric Communities -- 60+ pages
Documented the philosophy, instruction set and de-
sign principles for programming in E, a secure, deferred-
transaction language created by Electric Communities as
an extension to Java. Produced in WordPerfect (DOS),
Nisus (Mac) and FrameMaker (Mac).
Computer hardware technical manual for Be Labs-- 200+ pages, including several dozen illustrations
Wrote machine architecture description from designers'
conversations and created timing diagrams for instruction
execution. Used schematics and data sheets to define signal
outputs and register results from signal inputs and commands
to registers. Documented peripheral chips, instruction,
memory mappings. Produced in WordPerfect, TurboCAD (DOS).
"Feasibility Study of Small Space Probes to Photograph the Moon"
(w/Paula J. Butler), Deep Space Missions for Small Satellites, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on
Small Satellites: Utah State University, 20 pages)
The paper analyzed mission requirements, mass budgets,
and costs. Produced in EMACS, Lotus 123 (DOS).
Twenty years self-employed experience
(over 500,000 words
published) writing and illustrating magazine articles on
scientific, photographic and computer topics for Infoworld,
High Technology, Photo>Electronic Imaging, Camera & Darkroom,
PhotoPro, and other magazines.
EDUCATION
Double B.S. in Physics and English, California Institute of Technology, 1971.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Contract The Carl Group Feb 1999 - ongoing
Technical Writer Cupertino, CA
Self-employed HP Feb 1999 - Apr 1999
Technical Writer Palo Alto, CA
Self-employed Electric Communities Dec 1995 - Feb 1996
Technical Writer Cupertino, CA
Self-employed Be Labs, Inc. Dec 1991 - Feb 1994
Technical Writer San Jose, CA
Self-employed 1974 - present
Photographer and Writer