Sheila Hegeman

Background

About Sheila Hegeman

Summary of Experience Over 30 years of writing, editing, and publishing experience – technical writing and illustrating (user guides, operations manuals, installation guides, online help systems, flowcharts, and procedures/processes); Marketing writing (press releases, newsletters, cut sheets, brochures, proposals, white papers, sales presentations, newsletters, and marketing ideas); editor and proofreader, 4 years, Night Sites and Sounds 3M (2 years) – Human Resources; worked on HR eHelp system solutions (PeopleSoft); ESS and MSS answers to employee/manager questions iNews in Madison, WI (7 years) – a high-tech newsroom software applications company; wrote and designed Intranet pages, online help systems, including context-sensitive help and full-blown help systems, and all technical manuals Astronautics Technology Center (4 years) – worked with scientists and engineers; technical writer for ZS mini-supercomputer project, U.S. Government proposal and Marketing writer Great Lakes in Madison, WI (2 years) – financial company; designed Web site for Corporate Communications; wrote training material; editor for two company newsletters Sarbanes Oxley writing and flowcharting experience: o Dresser, Inc.(Waukesha Engine IT) – SOX procedures, policies, and flowcharts o Medtronic, Inc. – SOX flowcharts, test scripts, and processes o Rockwell Automation – wrote, edited, and illustrated SOX processes for IT and Finance Medical writing experience: o Vital Images, Inc. in Minnetonka, MN (medical imaging software) o Medtronic, Inc. o Agfa HealthCare Informatics o GE Medical Systems (proposal writing) o Guidant (Boston Scientific) Web site design and writing experience: o Northwestern Mutual – wrote and hand-coded (HTML) entire Office XP Web site o Great Lakes – designed Corporate Communications Web site; Internet Content Specialist o Dresser, Inc. – Intranet Web page design and coding BA in English – UW-Eau Claire, WI Specialties: FrameMaker, Word, RoboHELP, Quark Xpress, PageMaker, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Project and Access (set up databases), Ventura Publisher, Island (on a Sun workstation), Adobe Acrobat Professional, Documentum, Visual SourceSafe, SharePoint Dreamweaver, PageMill, FrontPage, HomeSite, Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop, Visio, ABC Flow Charter, CorelDraw; FullShot and SnagIt, OnDemand Developer PeopleSoft, SAP, Kintana Enterprise User Administration COSO, CobiT, Sarbanes-Oxley