James Anderson Merritt Santa Cruz CA USA 95060-4672 Full address, telephone, and references available via Email: ursid@pacbell.net
General	Making sense of it all: My track record shows me at my best when learning new things or making sense of confusing circumstances and communicating the knowledge gained to others. This theme has been dominant in my work to date, and I always look for some aspect of it in considering any new project. Over the years, I have been fortunate to work with and learn from some of my industries' best, and to serve as key or lead contributor on important and successful projects, at industry-leading companies. Wearing many hats has given me a thorough understanding of the complete high-tech product lifecycle, and skills to create new products, as well as maintain, enhance, and support existing products. I strive for quality, consistency, and sustainability in results. I understand that achieving those goals typically requires persistence, vision, and persistence of vision, measured not in weeks or months, but sometimes years.
Computer Industry Work History	12/2003-Present IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. (Kristie Amobi, Director of Lifecycle Services, acting Media Services Manager) 100 Mathilda Place, Fifth Floor, Sunnyvale CA 94086 (IMPAC acquired Tamtron Corporation assets and employees during Impath bankruptcy) Telephone: 408 830-8000 Media Specialist (assigned to Pathology R&D) A continuation of work begun at Impath/Tamtron, also including the occasional additional responsibility of editing of defect reports to improve descriptions of problems and their solutions, as well as creation and maintenance of user guides for the Pathology Operations Group. 1/1998-12/2003 Impath, Inc. (Ken Fallon, VP of Tamtron Research & Development) 6203 San Ignacio Avenue, Suite #110, San Jose CA 95119 (formerly Tamtron Corporation, acquired by Impath 2002Q1) Telephone: 408 972-9600 Sr. Technical Writer, R&D (6/2001-Present); Technical Publications Lead (5/1998-6/2001); Technical Support Representative (1/1998-5/1998). Microsoft Word97 and Office2000, Microsoft Windows 95, NT 4.0, 2000 & XP, Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 and Acrobat 4.0/5.0, RoboHelp 2002, Camtasia, CoolEdit, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5-2000, Borland Delphi, VersaForm v6.0-7.0, Tamtron PowerPath 6.0, 7.0 & 8.0. Editor/writer for company Technical Notes series and product manuals including PowerPath2000 Distribution Server Reference Manual, PowerPath New User Training Manual; also responsible for online HTML-help system providing detailed technical information about company's products for employees; product release guides; company style book; several intranet knowledge repositories; and miscellaneous technical specifications and use cases; producer and narrator of several "screenshot"-animation video training sequences. 2/1993-6/1997 Aladdin Systems, Inc. (Darryl Lovato, Vice-President & Chief Technology Officer) 165 Westridge Drive, Watsonville CA 95076 Telephone: 408 761-6200 Director of Engineering (5/1995-6/1997); Director of Product Validation, Information Services, and Technical Assistance (11/1994-5/1995); Acting Manager of Technical Support & Online Sysop/Postmaster for Aladdin's America Online and eWorld presences (9/1993-11/1994); Developer Technical Support Consultant & Technical Writer (2/1993-9/1993). Pascal, C, AppleScript, MPW/Projector, CodeWarrior/CodeManager, FileMaker Pro, ClarisWorks, MicroSoft Word, America Online, FrameMaker, SourceSafe; Author, StuffIt InstallerMaker User Guide (1st-3rd ed., 1993-1995); Co-ordinating lead engineer for StuffIt Deluxe 4.0 (1995-1996); Acting Buildmeister/SCM engineer for Aladdin products (1995-1997); as Director of Engineering, nearly tripled the size of the software engineering team, changing the orientation of the team from primarily Macintosh to a more even mix of Macintosh, Windows and Network/Java expertise. Author of company's first online Engineering Department handbook, and first standard for Engineering documentation. Responsible for departmental budget, and policy coordination between Engineering and other departments. 1/1993-11/2000 America Online, Inc. (Kate Tipul, News Channel Management) PO Box 10810, Hernden VA 22070 Remote staff, Politics Forum (volunteer position); managed featured focus area, including article collections, message board traffic, file library maintenance, direct website links, and weekly live chats. Instructor, AOL Programmer University (volunteer position), responsible for development and presentation of a 1-semester, platform-neutral course: Introduction to Programming using Pascal. Rainman/Rainman Plus and other AOL proprietary tools. 3/1980-5/1992 Apple Computer, Inc. (Tim Swihart, Apple II Product Manager) 3515 Monroe Street, Santa Clara CA 95051 Telephone: 408 996-1010 SW Engineering Mgmt., SW Engineering (Applications, System Components, and Development Tools), Technical Support, Technical Support Mgmt.; Special Projects in Apple II Advanced Technology Research; Pascal, C, and assembler; Apple II & IIGS (65816) and Macintosh (68xxx); Archimedes assembler for Acorn RISC Machine (ARM). Apple Pascal runtime system 1.0, Apple IIGS Finder 1.3, Apple IIGS Audio Compression (ADPCM) Tool, MPW IIGS Pascal Compiler 1.1; Prototype 65816 emulator for ARM processor. Editor for Apple II Technical Note series (1986-87). During 1987, was editor for Apple II-series Technical Notes (including Apple IIGS notes) while serving as manager for Apple II Developer Technical Support. Lead Engineer for Apple IIGS Finder in 1988. Manager for Apple IIGS Applications and Utilities Group, 1989-1991. 9/1985-12/1985 KFRC Radio 500 Washington, San Francisco CA 94108 Contract programmer, game show contestant qualification system. Wrote custom B+Tree Engine in Modula-2; IBM PC-XT. 3/1985-3/1986 David Paradies 909 Santa Ysabel, Los Osos CA 93402 Telephone: 805 528-0221 SW Development Subcontractor, color printer driver code optimization; Apple Pascal system; TLA 6502 assembler; Apple IIc. 1/1985-12/1985 RESLOC Publishing (David Eisenzimmer, Publisher) 2840 North Main, Morro Bay CA 93442 SW Consultant, real-estate DB and Multiple Listing Guide generation system; AlphaBASIC; Alpha Micro 1000. 11/1985-12/1985 Volition Systems (Roger Sumner, Pres., Carolyn Chase, Corp. Secretary) SW Configuration Auditor and SW consultant, validating company's software capital prior to acquisition by Pecan Software. Modula-2 and assembler. Apple II, Apple III, Macintosh, some IBM-PC. 2/1981-5/1984 Softalk Magazine (Al Tommervik, Publisher; Margot C. Tommervik, Editor) Contributing Editor for Pascal & Structured Programming, wrote monthly column "The Pascal Path." 3/1978-3/1980 North Star Computers, Inc. (Charles Grant, President) SW Engineer (Applications, Utilities and Development Tools); SW Product Management & Technical Support; Technical Writer/Editor (Editor/Lead Writer for North Star System Software Manual and author of entire BASIC language section.) Product Manager and Lead Engineer for North Star Pascal (implementation of UCSD Pascal). Editor for North Star corporate newsletter. North Star BASIC, UCSD Pascal; North Star HORIZON (Z80). 12/1976-11/1977 ComputerLand of Hayward (Dick Van Leer, proprietor) 22634 Foothill Boulevard, Hayward CA 94541 Telephone: 415 538-8080 Floor manager of retail computer sales facility, programming instructor. BASIC; IMSAI 8080, Apple II, SOL-20, Polymorphic-88, Cromemco, etc.
Broadcast Industry Work History	11/1985-3/1986 KSLY "Sly 96 FM" 51 Zaca Lane #110 San Luis Obispo CA Weekend/relief air personality, CHR format; newsreader and station operator for automated-AM sister station. 6/1984-2/1985 KZOZ "Z93" 4115 Broad Street, Suite B-4 San Luis Obispo CA 93401 Telephone: (805) 781-2750 Weekend/relief air personality, top-rated CHR station in market; airname "Gary Seven." 9/1981-10/1985 KCPR 91.3FM Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo CA Air personality, alternative music, oldies; DJ Trainer: designed/taught station's official class for announcers/DJs, wrote training guide; Newsreader; Assistant production director; developer of station's album-labeling software; airname "Jack Stone." 9/1980-5/1981 KLOK "11.7 AM" San Jose CA Weekend/relief air personality, AC/oldies. 11/1979-9/1980 KWUN 1480 Concord CA Weekend/relief air personality, AC/oldies; spot production; remote broadcasts; airname "Andy Stone." 11/1974-9/1975 KYOS 1480 Merced CA Air personality (AM Drive, PM Drive, Weekends), Top-40; spot production; remote broadcasts. 6/1974-9/1974 Cablecom-General Modesto CA Creator and host, "Music On," a cable TV "Local O" precursor to modern video music shows. 6/1971-9/1971 TelePrompTer Cable TV Santa Maria CA "Local O" summer intern, set design and construction, camerawork, technical directing, scripting, "remote" crew.
Publications   Software Published by Third-Parties	"Fight Inflation, Save the Penny!" First Person Singular, KUSP Radio, Santa Cruz CA, 9/2006. "Parallel Development: Earn While You Learn," Apple Direct (in-house newsletter to developers), Apple Computer, 7/1990. "In the Soft Light" (monthly SW column), OnModem, an experimental Hearst magazine on CompuServe, 8/1984-12/1984. "Modula-2 Language is Worth It" (product review), Popular Mechanics, 4/1984, p. 52. "The Pascal Path" (column), Softalk magazine (Apple edition), 2/1981-5/1984. "Pascal Is Here To Stay," Interface Age magazine, 5/1979, pp. 52-54. "Pascal From BEGINning to END," Creative Computing magazine, 9/1978, pp. 149-156. The Moonshadow Text Formatter, Merrimack Systems, Redwood City CA, 1980.
Education           Certificates and Licenses	DeAnza College, Cupertino CA (1986); One quarter of scriptwriting for television. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA (1981-85, Computer Science); Taught radio broadcasting in 1984-85 year as volunteer lecturer and "DJ Trainer" at campus radio station; Wrote radio station training guide. Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA (1984-86); Two semesters of French language and TV production. Ohlone College, Fremont CA (1977-78); Individualized study in radio management. University of California, Berkeley (1975-77, L&S Computer Science); National Merit scholarship. General Class FCC Commercial Radiotelephone Operator License ("grandfathered" from First Class) Since 1974. Technician Class FCC Amateur Radiotelephone Operator License (KE6AEC) since 1993.