Technical Editors – 224599UWTC
Volt Technical and Creative Communications
Location: Eastside

This Software Manufacturer is seeking Technical Editors to:

Write and edit a variety of IT Marcom communications including e-mails, alerts, notifications, newsletters, web content and product and service announcements.

Provide Service Marketing Managers (SMMs) and Managers in IT the support to develop clear and effective communications that will improve client satisfaction.

Ensure all content is relevant and compelling with client-oriented messaging and clear calls to action.

Proactively recommend and implement content strategies and best practices mapped to our client’s IT mission and commitments and branding / visual identity.
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Product Interaction Model Designer, FILTER
Location: Eastside

Job Description:
From paper planes to paper prototyping.

Are you a real ideas kind of guy or gal? Someone who can take a concept and improve it exponentially (even when it’s already pretty darn good)? FILTER is looking for a Product Interaction Model Designer for a 3 month (plus) contract position in Redmond. In this position, you’ll leverage user research, marketing focus groups, and 1:1 usability sessions to create appropriate interaction models for the next version of a widely used and universal software program. You’ll work with both static Photoshop illustrations and dynamic Flash prototypes to deliver the prototypes and mockups used to drive research and testing. You’ll also be responsible for communicating requirements and proposed functionality to the engineering teams.

Feeling like this job would be over your head? We’re not necessarily looking for someone in a senior position provided that you’re full of ideas, have a fresh and innovative outlook and a willingness to tackle the job. Candidates straight out of HCI grad school or within 3 years of college graduation will be considered if they demonstrate exceptional skills and attitude. If you’ve got prototyping nailed (from paper to high-fidelity) and a strong conceptual mind, then don’t be shy. We’d love to hear from you.
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SENIOR COMPUTER SPECIALIST – HCI USABILITY EXPERT

Req #: 46698
Department: DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
Job Location: Downtown Seattle
Posting Date: 07/30/2008
Closing Info: Closes On 08/13/2008
Salary: Salary is commensurate with education and experience.

Notes: This is a full-time temporary position.

The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoys outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

Our Development Office has an outstanding opportunity for a temporary Senior Computer Specialist – HCI Usability Expert.

The HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) Usability Expert will be the client advocate and evangelist of user-centered design principles and their application in the software-development lifecycle. By helping UW Advancement Information group push the boundaries of what is capable on the web, this position will help the success in delivering to our clients the most efficient, cost-effective, robust and usable applications/reports/tools available. Focusing on, but not limited to, the position will have four key areas of responsibility:
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Matthew Tevenan will be in the orchestra for Godspell. Go support the arts and support our alum.

For more information on the show and company, visit UPAC Theatre Group. You can also learn more about it here. Tickets are available here. Thursday, July 31 is a “pay what you can” performance, and then it open on Friday, playing Thursday, Friday, and Saturday through August 16 at 7:30 PM at 1420 NW 80th St, Seattle, WA 98117.

Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, is hiring User Experience designers and researchers into our Seattle office. We’re hosting an open house this Wednesday, 7/30, at our office in Pioneer Square (see attached flier for details).

For more info on the UX design role please see:
http://lindenlab.hrmdirect.com/employment/view.php?req=20392

More info on the Seattle open house, from our recruiting folks:

We are having an open house on July 30th in our office and you’re invited to join us for food and refreshments between 5-8pm. For an invite to the Open House please select “Seattle Open House July 30th”
from the following:
“http://www.lindenlab.com/employment”: Please attach a copy of your resume, indicate the job that you are interested in, and we will send you an invite.

Second Life is the future of the internet: an amazing online 3D world where you can create, become, or experience almost anything you can imagine. It’s rapidly growing virtual landscape that covers nearly 1 Billion square meters. If your passion is software development, join Linden Lab on the greatest technology adventure ever: designing and developing this online world that is changing the real world. Our unique approach to creating distributed teams means everyone at Linden Lab works together on the main development projects that power Second Life. With over 15,000 simulators, a million dollars a day being spent in the virtual economy and users from almost every country in the world, Second Life is a big idea with big dreams and big challenges for you to help us solve.

WHY JOIN LINDEN LAB AND BECOME A PART OF ALL THIS?
-The product is cool: Second Life is so cutting-edge it defies genre classification. It’s a game, a tool, a playground, a nation, and nearly everything in it is built by its residents.
-The work is cool: Second Life is at the forefront of many disciplines. We push the limits of 3D rendering, network streaming, animation, online communities . . . the list goes on.
-The people are cool: We’re rock stars! The environment is intellectually rich, dynamic, and creative. Passion and SMARTS rule!
-The company is cool: Our executives strive to make sure Linden Lab is one of the best-run companies in the world. We have an open working environment, progressive management style, and solid business ethics.
-The locations are cool: We have a growing network of offices around the world. Join the Seattle lab in its new location in Pioneer Square!

Regards,
Ben Glenn
Director, User Experience
Linden Lab | Second Life

The UPA Chapter of Puget Sound will be holding it’s official chapter formation event on Monday, August 4th.  To celebrate, we’ve invited Microsoft’s Arnie Lund to speak on his experiences in transforming a development culture towards user-centered practices.

WHAT: UPA Puget Sound Chapter Formation Event w/Microsoft’s Arnie Lund
WHEN: Monday, August 4th, 2008
6-7pm – Chapter Formation Event (UPA Members Only)
7-9pm – Guest Speaker Arnie Lund
WHERE: The Google offices in downtown Fremont (501 N 34th St, Seattle, WA).
REGISTRATION:  http://upapugetsound.eventbrite.com/

MORE INFORMATION:
Arnie Lund is currently Director of User Experience and UX Community Lead for Microsoft IT. He has spent more than 20 years working in the area of human factors, managing user research and design for a variety of emerging technologies.

The Usability Professionals Association (http://www.upassoc.org/) is in the process of forming a local chapter in the greater Puget Sound area.

The UPA is a international, non-profit association (501(c)(6)), supporting professionals from a broad family of disciplines which structure and design the user experience in product development.

Hope to see you there!
Yours,
Robert Skrobe
UPA Puget Sound

Position Type: Internship, Stipend
Employer: Emurasoft, Inc.
Title: Technical Writing/web design for popular text editor EmEditor

Description: Like TextPad, UltraEdit and EditPlus, like vi and Emacs, EmEditor is an award-winning text editor that supports Unicode and very large files developed by Emurasoft (see www.emeditor.com). You will write EmEditor features and FAQs mainly for its website in plain English. You will also write and proof-read the help and manuals. We use a CMS (Content Management System) for our website, which is very easy to use. This is a great place to work, and you will learn many things directly from the chief developer of EmEditor! The candidate must be a native-level English speaker for the sake of English writing and proof-reading.

Location: Redmond, WA

Application instructions here: http://www.emurasoft.com/job/index.htm

Production Coordinator – 224034
Volt Technical and Creative Communications
Positions Available: 1
Location: Puget Sound

Job Description: Assist with production, working with staff, management and vendors to ensure the timely delivery of product, ensuring accurate information regarding projects are provided to all parties in a timely manner. Communicate the company’s Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others. The following principles guide and identify colleagues and representatives of this organization:

Trustworthy
Diligent
Collaborators
Innovators
Enriched by diversity

Responsibilities:

Coordinate the production of print runs with a total cost of up to $25,000.

Ensure the accuracy of product; schedules are created and tracked, deadlines are met and projects are delivered to clients on time resulting in a smooth, efficient and well-run process.

Maintain vendor relationships and ensure adherence to all contract agreements.
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Purpose/Summary

Prepares and publishes engineering technical documentation; develops localization specifications and individual project requirements

Essential Duties

Publishes technical documentation primarily to support Nintendo licensees and developers

Researches and formulates technical information for publication

Drafts and edits documentation

Establishes and maintains published material quality standards

Initiates new publishing and localization procedures that improve current methodologies

Maintains software version control updates and documentation revision history

Supports other technical writing and localization projects as required

Requirements

Strong writing skills

In-depth knowledge of English language, grammar, spelling, and punctuation

Ability to ascertain and formulate information needed to complete localization of technical publications and content required to support English/Japanese and Japanese/English translations

Good understanding of programming concepts

Ability to produce technical documents in printed and web-ready document formats

Excellent organizational and project management skills

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Experience using various document publishing software (Microsoft Word, Adobe Framemaker, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator)

Familiarity with Agile and translation memory tools such as Trados

Experience writing technical publications in an electronics or software development environment

Minimum five years of technical writing or editing experience

Education

Undergraduate degree in English/Journalism, Technical Communication, or a related field or equivalent

Decision Making

Makes decisions impacting the quality of technical documentation, localization projects, timeliness and standards.

Human Relations

Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills.

Contact

John Zimet
John.Zimet@noa.nintendo.com