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Society for Technical Communication
(Australia Chapter) Incorporated


Committee

Like most STC Chapters, our managing committee is made up entirely of volunteers committed to promoting the technical communication profession in Australia. Elections for the STC Australia Chapter committee are held each year.

July 2007-June 2008 Committee:

 

President:
Marcia Bascombe
president@stc-aus.org.au

Marcia Bascombe

 

Vice-President: vacant

Secretary:
April Weiss
secretary@stc-aus.org.au

April Weiss

 

April has been involved in IT and technical communication for 25 years and is a senior member of the STC. For the last 10 years she has worked at RMIT. She was a founding member and ultimately the manager of the group which provided 47,000+ students and 3,500+ staff with online learning systems. She is currently the Acting Associate Director - Applications Services. Prior to RMIT she ran a business (Weiss Consulting P/L) which focused on technical communication projects. April recently completed a PhD in Visual Communications which can be found here http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20060825.153207/

Treasurer:
Myra Gurney
treasurer@stc-aus.org.au

Myra Gurney

Meetings:
Monica Allen
meetings@stc-aus.org.au

Competitions:
Jill Nicholson
competitions@stc-aus.org.au

Newsletter:
Allan Charlton
newsletter@stc-aus.org.au

Allan Charlton

From a background in mechanical and chemical process engineering, Allan has been a writer and illustrator of technical documentation since 1986. His experience includes business processes, software coding, encryption, spectrometry, and a large arc furnace. For most of the last ten years he has been a sole writer producing online manuals, Help and hard copy manuals for ERP and business systems. He has a long association with the profession and has been a speaker at conferences, seminars and meetings of technical writers. He holds a master’s degree in communication and is a part-time tutor at the University of Western Sydney.

Past President and Webmaster:
Ray Archee
pastpres@stc-aus.org.au
webmaster@stc-aus.org.au

Ray Archee

Ray Archee was President 2005-2007 and is the current past president and webmaster of the site. He has a background mainly in Technical Writing education which he has taught at the University of Western Sydney since 1990. Ray has also written a column for Intercom magazine for the past eight years focusing on computer mediated communication and its relationship to technical and professional writers. Ray's research encompasses e-learning, new technology, and culture.

Membership
Steve Salter
membership@stc-aus.org.au

Steve Salter

Steve Salter has a background in training as a volunteer with the Country Fire Service, business administration and in programming in his current position as documenter/trainer with Local Government System Inc, which produces software for local government. Steve is a current Madcap Software MVP, an avid reader (as most technical communicators are), and has been known to return flyers with spelling and grammar corrected - particularly those from Secretarial Services and Land Agents.

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