Simon Rumble

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Date of Birth: 21st July 1975

Nationality: Australian

Languages: English (native), French (fluent), Spanish (basic)

Email: Use the contact form

Key skills

Web

Software

Employment history

AAPT, Sydney (October 2006-Present)

Content manager implementing new public and internal web sites to accompany major business transformation project. Copy writing through multi-stage approval process while keeping the message consistent. Testing and business analysis for changes and improvements. Javascript and template development.

Searchspace, London (June 2005-April 2006)

Senior Technical Author for financial compliance and fraud detection software products. Documentation for print and online help systems. Automated document production using WebWorks Publisher.

Translation preparation and management.

Pilat Media, Stonebridge Park, London (August 2001-June 2005)

Starting as Senior Technical Author, promoted to Documentation Team Leader managing a small team documenting a rapidly-developing television broadcast management system. Planned and implemented conversion from Microsoft Word to AuthorIT to facilitate both printed and online outputs.

The position also involved quality assurance, document production automation, implementation support at client sites and business analysis.

Avco, Shoreditch, London (June 2001-December 2002)

Consulting and programming of back-end for BBC Web education game. Linux setup and configuration.

Mute Publishing, Shoreditch, London (May 2001-December 2002)

Setup and maintenance of Web forum and email list system. Content management consulting.

Digital Science Limited, Mile End, London (March 2001-September 2001)

GNU/Linux Consultant, specialising in "dot-com" and ISP type companies with network support, management, , scripting, maintenance and technical authoring.

Consulting clients while at Digital Science:

Planet Three Publishing, Clerkenwell, London (February 2001-March 2001)

Technical author as a freelance writing for At Home With the Internet series of consumer publications.

Australian Consolidated Press Pocketbooks, Sydney (March 2001)

Writing Installing and Running Debian GNU/Linux chapter for third edition of the Linux Pocketbook publication in Australia.

Torrington Interactive, Bethnal Green, London (February 2001-March 2001)

Internal development and documentation of Perl in a mod_perl environment, HTML::Template, Oracle PL/SQL driven web fleet management application running on GNU/Linux servers. Documentation done on GNU/Linux system in Perldoc and SDF format.

Australian Consolidated Press Pocketbooks, Sydney (August 2000-October 2000)

Writing and editing of Webmasters Pocketbook, a guide to building a web site for absolute beginners. Distributed through newsagents in Australia and fattening Kerry Packer's wallet.

Spike Networks, Tokyo (March 2000-July 2000)

Consulting work for Spike Tokyo designing information architecture of a fashion database/online museum.

Australian Consolidated Press Pocketbooks, Sydney (March 2000)

Writing X Windows and Free Software chapters for second edition of the Linux Pocketbook publication.

The Executive Network, Sydney (November 1999-September 2000)

Strategic consulting as content and community producer. Development and implementation of online content and community strategy and technology selection for vertical portal site. GNU/Linux server setup and administration including scripting and configuration. XML news feed processing.

Spike Networks, Double Bay, Sydney (July 1999-March 2000)

Strategy and pre-sales producer. Involving web strategy development, pre-sales documentation, technical documentation and training for large-scale web products. Internal network documentation for global web hosting network. Client training in Tokyo on large intranet project.

Aurema (formerly Softway), Chippendale, Sydney (September 1998-July 1999)

Technical Writer. Documentation, FAQs, online help training and marketing materials for Unix resource management tools. Framemaker+SGML, troff, HTML and other tools used within the Unix and GNU/Linux environment. Also a short sting of business research, travelling around asking our clients what they did with our software. Systems used: GNU/Linux, Irix, Solaris, ReliantUnix, Tru64 Unix. Customer interviews and training. Unix and Perl scripting work.

Corporate Express, Rosebery, Sydney (May 1997-September 1998)

Further development of NetXpress including documentation, training design and coordination and customer training; Business analysis and internal application documentation; network documentation and planning; project management of international deployment of web application running on GNU/Linux, Solaris and DG/Unix systems.

Corporate Express, Rosebery, Sydney (April 1997-May 1997)

Contract to develop the online help system, paper training manual and internal procedures for NetXpress ordering system.

Wide West Media, Ultimo, Sydney (May 1996-April 1997)

Online and print editorial for a variety of publications including the discontinued Webmaster. Development, design and editor of Online World.

Freelance Work (November 1995-September 2000)

Freelance writing for Internet.au, Australian NetGuide, The Australian, Webmaster, Network World and Macworld magazines including reviews, tutorials and general articles. Designing web site for Your Computer magazine.

Whiteway House, Rockdale, Sydney (January 1996-May 1996)

Video production including editing with Media 100 based online suite. Design, implementation and maintenance of online ordering Web site.

Wide West Media, Marrickville, Sydney (August 1995-November 1995)

Writing for Online World magazine; World Wide Web authoring.

August House Media Services, St Leonards, Sydney (February 1994-August 1995)

Maintenance of mail-order database; Design, typesetting and booking of advertising; Management of data-entry staff; Resolving customer problems.

Formal education

London College of Printing, 2005

2-day copy editing and proofreading course

PDA Solutions

Introduction to AuthorIT

Sydney University Further Education

Certificate of Attainment, Introduction to Pagemaker.

Corporate Express Training 1997-1998

Management Certificate

Train the Trainer Certificate

International Grammar School, Sydney 1992-1993

NSW Higher School Certificate TER score 72.15.

College St Louis, Le Mans, France 1991-1992

Exchange student with Southern Cross Cultural Exchange.

St Patricks College, Goulburn 1988-1991

NSW School Certificate.