Writer - anywhere, anytime!
Melbourne Area, Australia
- Current
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- Web design, Flash Development and copywriting at Tall Poppy Digital
- Past
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- Technical Writer/Wiki Developer at InsuranceLine
- Process Writer at Telstra
- Technical Writer at DST International
- Technical Writer at Open Wave Systems
- Technical Writer - Disaster Recovery Project at Sensis
- Technical Writer at MYOB Australia Pty Ltd
- Technical Writer at Quest Software
- Education
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- Taylors College
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Lisa Sinclair’s Summary
Lisa is a professional web designer, with skills in CSS and HTML which she uses to great effect with the Wordpress Content Management System to create great sites, and is proficient in the use of Adobe Photoshop, MS Office and other applications for Mac and PC.
Her skills in Copywriting have been put to great use with ongoing work for several clients.
She's been working for her own company, Tall Poppy Digital, with help from graphic designer Dominique Rada, and programmers Monika Hocks and Daniel Parnell now for nearly two years, and loving every minute. Except the annoying bits that involve Internet Explorer 6. She can most-often be found behind her white MacBook computer working on client websites and copywriting, surrounded by empty teacups.
But it didn't start there...
Lisa worked in the Technical Writing sphere for around 10 years prior to starting Tall Poppy Digital and as a result knows the ins and outs of writing instructions to help people work with various types of software, the most recent being the BlogThing help system. She's worked and created brochures and posters for a number of clients including Melody Street and The Fruit Pedallers to name but two, even creating the invitations for a friends wedding back in 2004.
Lisa has used a variety of software to create print materials, including Apple's Pages, Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop and Quark Express. She's also created online help and user guides using Smultron, TWiki and MediaWiki, Adobe Robohelp and Adobe Framemaker, right down to Microsoft Word.
Past roles include a 9 month stint at Telstra during 2007 for the Transformation Project, 3 months at Sensis in 2006 for the disaster recovery project, and shorter-term contracts at DST International in 2006 and at MYOB in 2005.
She worked at Quest Software, as Systems Tester and then Technical Writer on various projects from 1999 to 2004 and before that for several other companies which are, sadly, no-longer with us.
Lisa Sinclair’s Specialties:
HTML, CSS web design
Wordpress CMS
Graphic Design
Copywriting
Copy Editing
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
SEM (Search Engine Marketing)
Lisa Sinclair’s Experience
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Web design, Flash Development and copywriting
Tall Poppy Digital
(Online Media industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years )
Enjoying working for myself -- and people who need web, copy and technical services.
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Technical Writer/Wiki Developer
InsuranceLine
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — May 2008 (8 months)
- WIKI development and customisation
- Conversion of user documents from FrameMaker to Wiki
- Creation of new documentation
- Revision and redesign of existing documentation -
Process Writer
Telstra
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TLS; Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)
- Process writing of existing processes
- Creation of CaseWise models to support process documents
- Interviewing Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to create process documents -
Technical Writer
DST International
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)
November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)
Position entailed reverse-engineering Framemaker documentation for inclusion in online help projects.
After some analysis, it became evident that the project could not progress due to a rewrite of source material being required.
Proposed new system using MadCap Flare for reusable snippets of information which would have streamlined the system and substantially improved the delivery mechanism to the end user. -
Technical Writer
Open Wave Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — October 2006 (1 month)
- Create print documentation for Heidi product administration module
- Create system interrelationships between the modules of the Heidi system and subsystems -
Technical Writer - Disaster Recovery Project
Sensis
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TLS; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)
- Technical Writing
- Version Control Analyst
- Information gathering and design of version control system structure -
Technical Writer
MYOB Australia Pty Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
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Technical Writer
Quest Software
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2004 (5 years )
Lisa Sinclair’s Education
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Taylors College
1989 — 1989
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Lisa Sinclair’s Interests:
Wiki development, Web design and CSS, Copywriting Bike riding, Movies, Bikram Yoga
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