Guest post by the Community Affairs Committee.
If you’ve paid any attention the last few years, you’ve heard about the Community Affairs Committee (CAC) through the Summit Leadership Program, Leaders’ Resource Webinar Series, Community Outreach Programs for both professional and student communities, as well as myriad other communications.
Since the Chicago Summit, the 2012-2013 Community Affairs Committee has been busy compiling data from the last year, gaining new volunteers, and planning for this year. Hopefully, you’ve already been working with at least one of us or our team members.
Each one of the CAC members firmly believes that strong communities = strong STC. Please give them your support. This graphic shows all the CAC members and the team initiatives that they lead (in no particular order):
I hope you get to know each one of us a little better. Meet some the CAC members:
Richard Mateosian is an STC Fellow and served STC in several capacities at the Society level, but the chapters he belongs to and participates in are the main face of STC to him. He is a chapter leader and a leader in his local technical communication competition, Touchstone. He hopes his 20+ years of local experience can serve as institutional memory that other local leaders can draw on to help solve the problems they face.
Rick Lippincott is a technical writer at American Science & Engineering in Billerica, MA. He is currently serving as Immediate Past President of the STC New England chapter, and has been working in technical communication since 1984. His documentation specialty leans towards, as he calls it, “really heavy hardware” including such items as the USAF C-130 Hercules transport and the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter. He is currently occupied documenting an 80,000 lb, 6.5 million volt x-ray system. In his spare time, he authored the Squadron/Signal publication “C-5 Galaxy in Action.”
Dan Voss is a member of the STC Orlando-Central Florida chapter, the Academic and AccessAbility SIGs, and an STC Fellow. Dan is a 34-year veteran proposal writer and technical marketing/media communicator with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (LMMFC) in Orlando Florida and a 19-year adjunct instructor for Webster University. He has presented at more than 20 STC international conferences, coauthored 4 articles for Technical Communication, and coauthored the textbook Ethics in Technical Communication: Shades of Gray (John Wiley and Sons, 1997). He has received numerous awards at local and national levels, both within STC and within Lockheed Martin, and is the only non-engineer ever to receive LMMFC’s coveted Author-of-the-Year award.
Cindy Pao is a technical documentation specialist at Key Energy Services. She earned her BA in English from the University of Minnesota and has been a technical communicator for approximately 17 years. Cindy is a career volunteer for STC, holding the positions of Director, Secretary, Vice President, and President for STC Houston; Treasurer and Co-Assistant Manager of the Instructional Design & Learning SIG; and member of the budget review committee (2011), Community Affairs Committee (2012), and Body of Knowledge Task Force (2012) at the Society level. Cindy hopes that, by serving on the Community Affairs Committee, she can help other leaders stay enthusiastic about STC and how it helps technical communicators around the world.
Tune in again next week to meet more of the 2012-2013 CAC members.
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