Betsy Malone

Betsy is a senior OCSTC member, and has served on the OCSTC council for the past several years. She’s the communications and training director for an SAS software company, and holds a Master’s degree in technical and professional communication from Northeastern University in Boston.

As technical communicators, we see change every day. We author these changes whether they’re procedures, web content, white papers, online help, or user guides. Thank goodness for software and hardware updates, social media, and entrepreneurial geeks developing new gadgets because they drive the need for technical communicators.
So, how do you keep up with these and other changes? Do you subscribe to user forums, blogs, or help sites? Would you like OCSTC to keep its members up-to-date about industry trends and pertinent career issues? Would you like to share your experiences by mentoring newbies in the field?

If elected, Betsy would like to drive the changes that appeal to all technical communicators, regardless of their knowledge and experience, to achieve the benefits that meet expectations and opportunities.

Roger Hunnicutt

Roger has been a member of OCSTC since 2008. His background is in software, but his primary interest has been in documentation. He was a software developer at Microsoft in the MSN division and currently has two new jobs: he works in Adobe’s TCS marketing group, where his duties include writing technical marketing documents, as well as working for a small nonprofit company named CBR, writing procedures and performing as IT staff.

Roger would like to continue to be the first vice-president of programs to provide members with high-quality presentation topics and continue to survey the members and community to find out which topics are of the most interest.

Jennifer Lares

Jennifer earned her bachelor’s degree at San Diego State University in comparative literature. After college, she returned to Orange County to work at Target as an executive team lead. Since leaving Target, she’s worked for an online university as an academic advisor and was recently appointed to a position as academic evaluator. Jennifer will complete a certificate in technical communication in fall 2012 and is working on a master’s degree in education at CSULB, specializing in educational technology.

Jennifer has been attending OCSTC meetings for a year and looks forward to attending this year’s conference in Chicago to gain a better understanding of the technical writing and communication field. Her interests include: higher education, social networking, instructional design, e-learning, writing, and the links between technology and writing in communities.

Jennifer would like to be a part of the OCSTC council to offer her leadership from a student perspective.

Rebecca Feinstein

Rebecca has a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from California State University, Long Beach, and a certificate in technical writing from the University of California, Riverside. She has written policies and procedures, operational guides, programming guides and functional specifications for the health care, automotive, software development and utility industries. Rebecca is certified to teach Microsoft Office products. Technical writing satisfies her desire to learn new things and to inform other people about the things they should know. Rebecca has been a member of OCSTC since 1999.

Miriam Whitman

Miriam Whitman has recently joined our STC chapter and promises to be a very enthusiastic member of our merry band. She is a technical writer and artist who designed and art directed for a variety of clients following graduation from ArtCenter College of Design. Later she produced proposals and marketing collateral for an award-winning construction management firm. Miriam is currently studying web design and development at Cypress, Fullerton, and Saddleback colleges. She is glad to join us and wants to support STC’s excellent goals. As she has long preferred wearing many hats, Miriam brings to the position of assistant treasurer several years experience in budget management support for multimillion dollar municipal bond programs.

Four positions available.

Carrie Chambers

Carrie has a master’s degree in technical and scientific communication from Miami University in Ohio. She has been a technical writer for over nine years, is currently the director of documentation at Eyefinity in Irvine, and a lecturer at CSULB for an English 317, Technical Communication, class. Carrie is a senior STC member and has been a member of OCSTC for nine years. In the past, Carrie has held the position of TechniScribe managing editor and nominating committee member. Carrie is currently the OCSTC scholarship chairperson and the public relations manager for the Spotlight Awards. Carrie has won two STC Awards of Excellence for her work on the TechniScribe and multiple awards in the Southern California Technical Documentation Competition.

If elected, Carrie will assist or lead the nominating committee in identifying and presenting candidates for yearly OCSTC elections. Carrie believes that because of her previous involvement in OCSTC, she will be able to network with members and actively recruit candidates to promote the mission of OCSTC while serving the needs of the chapter and its members.

Bruce Giddens

Bruce is a technical writer, instructional designer, and help author with over 20 years’ experience. Bruce’s professional experience includes creating and delivering classroom training materials; and creating and maintaining software user manuals, online help, software requirements, design documents, testing plans and procedures, manufacturing instructions, operating instructions, policies, processes, and procedures.

Bruce is a senior STC member and served as chapter president in 2007–2008. Bruce likes STC, and since he has benefitted through being a member, he is glad to return the favor by to helping out with chapter functions and responsibilities. A successful chapter needs a lot of help, so as a member of the nominating committee, Bruce may be asking you for yours! Please don’t turn him down!

Jim Marchant

Jim is a senior STC member with experience in introducing help-authoring and content management systems and using them to build help packages and ISO documentation at medical, engineering, software, and legal services companies.
Jim has been a member of OCSTC since 2005 and has been TechniScribe’s managing editor, council secretary, and treasurer. Having a seat at the council lets you contribute to the organization in many ways above and beyond the duties of your position, and he hopes to help with OCSTC’s growth and improvement by recruiting talented and engaged members to run the chapter.

Jennifer Myers

Jennifer Myers believes it would be quite wonderful to be a small part of the process that keeps OCSTC going.
While her degree is in computer science, Jennifer has worked in the area of writing and training in one way or another since 1999. Last year, her interest was piqued when a friend recommended OCSTC. She was elated when she attended one of our meetings and found out how welcoming and friendly the members were, and by the high quality of presentations each month.

Jennifer’s “free” time is filled working with teachers and parents of kids with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. She also has hopes that 2012 will be the year she finally gets to Donald E. Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, a weighty work in more ways than one. More importantly, she intends to remain an active member of OCSTC and hopes that as a member of the new nominating committee she can make a small contribution to keeping our group amazing!

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Although the TechniScribe managing editor is not an elected position, it is a vital position within the chapter. The managing editor is an appointed position with a vote on the chapter council. We would like the managing editor to transition the chapter's award-winning newsletter from a paper/PDF-based publication to a blog format. The managing editor is a very visible position and rewarding position within the chapter and is afforded a large measure of latitude in the management of the newsletter. If you would like to take over as managing editor, please contact Jennifer Gardelle at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .