Texas Instruments Incorporated

When I started at Texas Instruments, the web didn't exist.

In the beginning, I was a technical writer. I wrote online and hard copy documentation for products and services that TI's Information Technology (IT) group provided for the rest of TI's then 68,000 employees worldwide. I documented the mainframe-based applications that ran the company, everything from financial systems to HR applications to systems that tracked the semi-conductor manufacturing process.

And then distributed email came along--an email system that ran on servers, that relied on client-based email readers. It was a whole new world, and we needed to tell people how to use it. So I had to learn HTML in a big hurry. The rest is, as you have by-now guessed, history--or at least my history.

This section details some highlights of the web-based work I did for TI.