Laura Bellamy

Francis DeRespinis, Peter Hayward, Jana Jenkins, Amy Laird, Leslie McDonald, and Eric Radzinski are members of the IBM Style and Word Usage Council, a workgroup of senior editors who represent key product brands in IBM. Laura Bellamy, Information Architect at VMware, Inc., and technical communications instructor at UC Santa Cruz Extension, worked at IBM during its pioneering DITA adoption. Michelle Carey, IBM technical editor and UC Santa Cruz Extension technical communications instructor, has taught best practices for content development and DITA authoring to teams throughout IBM. Jenifer Schlotfeldt,IBMtechnical writer and UC Santa Cruz Extension technical communications instructor, has authored, tested, and taught DITA at IBM since 2003, and also contributed to new DITA specializations. Gretchen Hargis (1944-2005) was a member of the STL Editing Council at IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory in San Jose, CA, an IBM organization dedicated to excellence in technical information. Ann Kilty Hernandez has been an IBM technical writer, manager, and marketing specialist, and coauthored An Introduction to DB2 for OS/390. Polly Hughes, now retired from IBM, worked as a visual designer for technical information and software interfaces, and as a technical writer. Deirdre Longo, IBM technical editor and writer, edits product interfaces and writes customer information, primarily for content management products. Shannon Rouiller, IBM technical editor, has written and edited topic-based information systems, contextual help, wizards, and product interfaces. She coauthored Designing Effective Wizards. Elizabeth Wilde,IBM technical editor, is a leader in developing quality metrics and processes for technical documentation, and educating writers throughout IBM on developing user-centered information.

Michelle Carey

Francis DeRespinis, Peter Hayward, Jana Jenkins, Amy Laird, Leslie McDonald, and Eric Radzinski are members of the IBM Style and Word Usage Council, a workgroup of senior editors who represent key product brands in IBM. Laura Bellamy, Information Architect at VMware, Inc., and technical communications instructor at UC Santa Cruz Extension, worked at IBM during its pioneering DITA adoption. Michelle Carey, IBM technical editor and UC Santa Cruz Extension technical communications instructor, has taught best practices for content development and DITA authoring to teams throughout IBM. Jenifer Schlotfeldt,IBMtechnical writer and UC Santa Cruz Extension technical communications instructor, has authored, tested, and taught DITA at IBM since 2003, and also contributed to new DITA specializations. Gretchen Hargis (1944-2005) was a member of the STL Editing Council at IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory in San Jose, CA, an IBM organization dedicated to excellence in technical information. Ann Kilty Hernandez has been an IBM technical writer, manager, and marketing specialist, and coauthored An Introduction to DB2 for OS/390. Polly Hughes, now retired from IBM, worked as a visual designer for technical information and software interfaces, and as a technical writer. Deirdre Longo, IBM technical editor and writer, edits product interfaces and writes customer information, primarily for content management products. Shannon Rouiller, IBM technical editor, has written and edited topic-based information systems, contextual help, wizards, and product interfaces. She coauthored Designing Effective Wizards. Elizabeth Wilde,IBM technical editor, is a leader in developing quality metrics and processes for technical documentation, and educating writers throughout IBM on developing user-centered information.

Jenifer Schlotfeldt


Laura Bellamy is an Information Architect at VMware, Inc. and a technical communications instructor at University of California Santa Cruz Extension. Laura has been a long-time DITA champion, working at IBM during the adoption and proliferation of DITA. Throughout her career, she has worked on many facets of DITA implementation and now dreams in XML.


Michelle Carey is a technical editor at IBM and a technical communications instructor at University of California Santa Cruz Extension. Michelle has taught IBM teams and users’ groups about best practices for authoring in DITA, topic-based writing, writing for translation, editing user interfaces, and writing effective error messages. She is also a coauthor of the book Developing Quality Technical Information. Michelle loves to ride motorcycles and mountain bikes, herd cats, and diagram sentences.

 

Jenifer Schlotfeldt is a project leader, information developer, and technical leader at IBM and a technical communications instructor at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension. She has been authoring, testing, and teaching DITA since 2003. She has converted documentation to DITA, authored new content in DITA, contributed to new DITA specializations, and created many training materials for different facets of DITA authoring.