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We have over 25 years of hands-on experience editing, indexing, and standardizing documents for leading companies in science and industry around the world.
Defense
HUGHES AIRCRAFT
Developed technical publications for the Radar Systems Division in California
Developed print and online documentation for assembly and timecard systems
Developed an automated indexing system for an SGML-based mainframe publishing platform
Hardware
XEROX
Provided editorial support to the Printing Systems Division in California
Edited, rewrote, and indexed end-user documentation for print-on-demand products
Developed and maintained style guides, master glossaries, and master indexes
Maintained a terminology database and style guidelines for machine translation
Software
HEwlett-Packard
Provided editorial support to the Software Division in the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
Edited, indexed, and formatted end-user documentation for network software products
Developed and maintained style guides, production guides, and conversion templates for single-source documentation
Symantec
Provided editorial support to the Peter Norton Group in California
Edited, rewrote, and indexed end-user documentation for desktop software products
Developed and maintained style guides, master glossaries, and intranet sites for writing teams
Designed the user interface of a secure portal for software beta testers
Science
European XFEL
Provided editorial support to over 400 physicists, engineers, technicians from over 50 countries at an x-ray free-electron laser facility in Northern Germany
Edited and formatted administrative, technical, and scientific reports as well as articles for peer-reviewed scientific journals
Developed a consensual corporate style guide, document templates, and electronic forms
Designed, tested, and maintained an Alfresco-based company-wide intranet
Designed, tested, and maintained an Invenio-based publication database
Developed automated publication lists for reuse on the company website and user portal
Coordinated the site license and LaTeX templates for Overleaf, a web-based scientific publishing platform
“Kurt is one of the best editors in the technical publications industry. Managing writing teams at Xerox, Symantec, and Hewlett-Packard, I extensively engaged Kurt for editing and indexing services. My writing teams highly valued his edits, which not only helped them take their individual documents to the next level but were used to establish consensual writing guidelines for collaborative documentation projects. He also built document conversion templates for single-source documentation and taught the teams how to systematically develop master indexes for documentation sets. Kurt is more than a top-notch editor, he is an innovator and efficiency driver.”
“During the construction phase of the European XFEL, I watched Kurt build the entire publication infrastructure for the company—style guide, document templates, document management system, and publication database—from the ground up, all the while editing a wide variety of administrative, technical, and scientific documents. In each of these company-wide infrastructure projects, he guided diverse stakeholders through the conceptual, development, testing, and maintenance phases with a remarkable calm and sense of vision that overcame differences and kept everyone focused on the big picture.”
“For our technical writing team at Harris Stratex, Kurt Ament did some skilful custom development. He optimised our Adobe FrameMaker templates to connect an online help output. Kurt’s knowledge of good online help structure was essential to creating our user-friendly deliverable. Kurt also provided timely support to keep up with FrameMaker updates. We appreciate his up-to-the-minute product knowledge and his fast, friendly responses.”