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The Nominations Committee is pleased to present our slate of candidates for the STC Phoenix Chapter election.  Elected officers will serve from January 1 through December 31, 2012.  A link to the online ballot will be emailed to all current chapter members, except student members, by November 1.  You can vote in the election from November 1 through November 8, 2012.

Jan Kruse – Candidate for President

Jan Kruse joined the Phoenix Chapter in 1998 and has been an active member since 2009 when she became Program Manager. Prior to that, she served as STC Exhibit Manager and as a judge at the Arizona Science and Engineering Fair

For the past 25 years, Jan has developed user’s guides, user assistance, and training guides primarily for the financial software industry. Jan has also volunteered her time to create training/user guides for Ronald McDonald House and ABCD (After Breast Cancer Diagnosis), Inc. She is currently working as a contractor at Rockwell Automation, Inc

Jan was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and began her technical writing career there after a few years working as a speech pathologist. She is interested in how collaboration and technology are changing the field of Technical Communication and how to successfully influence and adapt to those changes.

Miachelle DePiano – Candidate for Vice President

Miachelle DePiano, our membership manager who will continue to manage the membership committee if she is elected vice president, has been an active member of STC since 2007.  She has been active with the AzSEF committee for the last four years, co-chairing in 2010 with Gloria McConnell and chairing in 2011. For the 2011 AzSEF competition, Miachelle orchestrated online judging for the initial round of papers, making it easier for judges to determine who the finalists would be

Miachelle is a technical writer with Intel, and a freelance photographer and journalist for Go Gilbert! magazine.  She is a military veteran of the U.S. Army, and her military career was the foundation for her becoming a technical writer.  She graduated from ASU in May 2008 with a B.S. in Multimedia Writing and Technical Communication. As a technical writer, she is interested in how social media are changing the industry, as well as how technological advances will change documentation creation and use. She is married and has two children and three dogs.

David Goldberg – Candidate for Secretary

David Goldberg has been a member of the Phoenix chapter for several years and the Dallas chapter before that. He is a technical writer/analyst for JDA Software in Scottsdale and produces online help, installation guides, administrator guides, release notes, and other release materials for a variety of enterprise supply-chain optimization products. He worked for Sabre Technology Solutions in Dallas in a similar writer capacity

David has an interest in collaboration tools and approaches for globally dispersed product teams and SMEs, as well as technological trends that will change the ways we create and communicate information. He is originally from Boston, one of triplets, and enjoys sports, tennis, theatre, and his two wonderful dogs.

Kim Rosenlof – Candidate for Treasurer

Greetings, fellow Phoenix Chapter STC members! My name is Kim Rosenlof and I am running for Chapter Treasurer. A Senior Member of STC, I have been a member of the Phoenix Chapter continuously since 1997. I have presented at two chapter meetings, participated as a CARSEF and Publication, Art and Online competition judge, and spoken at the Southwest Region STC conference. I also served as Membership Chair of the Instructional Design and Learning SIG

Although I am currently self-employed as an instructional designer and marketing communications professional, my work experience includes technical writing/instructional design positions at Data Dimensions, Honeywell, and TraCorp. Often I’m able to split my time between technical and creative writing projects and have published more than 300 articles in about 25 different magazines.

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