James River Technical Communications

Greetings from The Sunny South. I have traded under the name of James River Technical Communications since 2004. Prior, I was either an employee of one company or another or an independent contractor associated with other companies.

Services

I provide these primary services for my clients:

• System documents (requirements analyses, design specifications, pre-builts, as-builts, and test plans)
• User documents (administrator and user guides, quick-start guides, handbooks, programming guides)
• Marketing communication (brochures, fliers, press releases)
• Web sites and Web content
• Other business communications, such as résumés

Skills

My career in the US Navy provided me with a superb set of marketable skills, including:

• Systems Analysis
• Research
• Writing

I developed, over the years, the ability to gauge and understand audiences as I prepared and presented information to my peers and subordinates, signals intelligence technicians, and officers and government leaders. Almost without realizing it, I became a…technical writer and editor.

Subcontracting

I have been, as most of us are, very fortunate by my associations with many highly skilled professionals in my field, technical communication. When I need to bring in someone on a project, I know who to contact. I trust them, and they trust me.

Summary

I am a contractor; I understand the needs of small businesses. Their need for good, effective communication products is no different from large corporations, but their resources are much more limited. Since I have that experience and enjoy a solid reputation for delivering on time at reasonable rates, people trust me to work with them. Small and medium sized firms especially appreciate that I offer professional services for a fixed rate based on their requirements, not my ego.