Resume

Address and phone furnished on request
DeeFairbanks@me.com

Career Focus
To educate, engage and inform the public on wildlife and environmental issues and topics about which I am knowledgeable and feel passionately. With my technical communication experience, creativity and environmental involvement, I would contribute excellence and passion to a environmental outreach position.

Skills

Software Adobe Design collection including InDesign and PhotoShop Camtasia DreamWeaver and other HTML editors Mac iMovie and iDVD Oracle User Productivity Kit (software used to create animated demonstration) Qarbon ViewletBuilder

Writing Skills On-line training, including creating animated demonstrations HTML Information Mapping On-line help Other Skills Guiding and nature interpretation Presentation skills include speaking and performing live demonstrations Experienced on both Mac and Windows platforms

Volunteer Work Experience

Birding With David Simpson - 2009-Present
Design and produce printed promotional items including business cards, brochures and t-shirts. Also write and produce educational information to promote the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas.


DeeMotivation.net - 2009-Present
Lead walking tours of wilderness areas and maintain blog. Using my photography, humor, and writing skills, I use this blog to encourage people to get outdoors and to be active. (www.deemotivation.net)

Environmental Learning Center - 2008-Present
Create puppets, models, and other items that are used to teach children about the Florida environment and the wildlife that makes it special.

Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, 2007-Present
Design and present classes, as well as lead field trips. Classes include Nest Box Building and Profoundly Non-Scientific Bird Identification. Create all course materials including nest box kits, a song book, puppets and other props which I use to ensure my classes are both entertaining and informative.

Space Coast Audubon Society, 2001-Present
Responsibilities include:

• Editor of the Space Coast Audubon Society (SCAS) newsletter, The Limpkin, a monthly publication that was distributed to over 1000 members. Performed all editorial, layout, and production duties for the newsletter.
• Design, layout and publication of the SCAS brochures and miscellaneous printed matter such as bookmarks and handouts
• Maintenance of the SCAS web site and blog (www.spacecoastaudubon.org)
• Represent SCAS at wildlife festivals and other conservation events
• As former Vice President and Program Director, was responsible for hiring all speakers for our monthly programs from 2002-2004, and from 2010-2013.
  

St. John’s Water Management District, 2005
With funds donated to SCAS, I organized the building and donation of 21 owl boxes which were successfully installed (and immediately inhabited) at the Lake Apopka restoration area.

Marine Resource Council, 2002
Projects included:

• Participated in “pepper busts”, which involved identifying and destroying invasive exotic Brazilian pepper trees
• Photographed mangroves and helped to assemble mangrove-related educational information on the MRC web site
  

Work Experience

March 1996-Present - Oracle Corporation

2007-Present - Oracle Corporation, Principal Technical Writer, Fusion Applications Documentation Team
Current work includes:

• Designing and writing Oracle University courses for Financial Applications including Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Procurement Contracts
• Designing and writing documentation, online help, and Oracle University courses for the Oracle Governance Risk, and Compliance Manager application
• Participating in workgroups to determine courseware and online demonstration standards
• Designing, creating, and recording online and live demonstrations and virtual classes
  

April 2003 to 2007 - Oracle Corporation, Senior Technical Writer
Responsible for all documentation and training for the Oracle Global Product Support (GPS) Applications Engineering team. Work includes:

• Designing, writing, implementing and maintaining the entire context-sensitive online help system for Cerberus, a multi-application suite used for customer support
• Creating and maintaining design and business requirement documents for all new projects
• Creating and maintaining all end user documentation for the Maintenance Wizard application, including user and install guides
• Designing, creating and maintaining training for all GPS Tools projects, including Qarbon viewlets, which are animated, annotated online demonstrations
• Providing input into the layout and design of all GPS Tools projects
• Creating graphics for and maintaining Portal-based intranet sites
• Performing user testing and providing feed back to engineering for all Cerberus applications
• Training coworkers in tools and procedures, including Oracle Portal web page creating and maintenance
• Creating presentations for management, including animated, musical slide shows for business meetings
  

January 1997 to April 2003 - Oracle Corporation, Senior Technical Writer
Responsible for creating and maintaining OLAP and Data Warehousing technical libraries on the MetaLink customer support web site. Products supported include Oracle Financial Analyzer, Oracle Sales Analyzer, Oracle Express Objects, Oracle Applications Data Warehouse, and Oracle Data Mart Suite. Work included:

• Creating graphics for and maintaining the Knowledge Management group home page
• Writing and editing problem/solution articles and technical notes
• Training coworkers in tools and procedures, including Primus knowledge management software and Oracle knowledge management tools
• Direct customer contact monitoring and occasionally fielding technical issues in customer support on-line forums

March 1996 to January 1997 - Oracle Corporation, Technical Writer
Responsible for writing user documentation and on-line help. Work included:

• Writing the Oracle Financial Analyzer User’s Guide, Online help, Administrator’s Guide and related technical notes
• Using and testing Oracle Financial Analyzer
• Maintaining the internal Documentation group web page
• Researching online documentation tools and writing methodologies and making recommendations to management
• Reviewing other writer’s documents for technical accuracy and clarity
• As a member of a tools task force, was instrumental in introducing Information Mapping methodologies to the OLAP division and obtaining Information Mapping training for the OLAP documentation
• Using interviews, product specifications, and hands-on testing, researched and wrote the Release 6 version of the Oracle Financial Analyzer online and printed documentation. The printed and HTML manuals were written using Information Mapping techniques.
  

June 1995 to March 1996 - Ziff-Davis Publishing, PC Week News
Freelance Production Assistant
Responsibilities included assisting with the design of the PC Week Online home page, and formatting and posting news stories and articles to on-line services including CompuServe and Interchange.

December 1995 to January 1996 - Information Mapping Inc.
Freelance Technical Writer
Was responsible for creating end-user documentation from highly technical source materials under tight deadlines, for a variety of customers including insurance and computer software companies.

1994 to June 1995 - Virtuoso Software
Managing Partner, Technical Writer
Responsibilities included managing day to day operations, assisting lead programmer in all phases of product development and maintaining all company documentation.

1988 to 1994 - Digital Equipment Corporation
Technical Writer
Was responsible for writing user documentation, courses and on-line help.

Education
Franklin Pierce College, Nashua NH
Received Bachelor of Science degree in General Studies with a minor in Marketing.

University of Florida IFAS Extension - Florida Master Naturalist Program
Completed all required modules for Master Naturalist designation.

Publications
Co-authored a chapter of the book Internet Secrets, published in 1995 by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.

Other
Hobbies include volunteering for conservation organizations, bird watching, nature photography, and drawing.

References and Writing Samples
Available on request.

Dee Fairbanks Simpson's Portfolio

The following are videos I have created:

• Training video for Oracle corporation:
  
• Training video for Oracle corporation:
  
• This video describes how to determine the correct codes to use when recording Florida Breeding Bird Atlas data.
  
• This is a promotional video I created for the Hands Across the Lagoon event.
  

The following are writing samples:

• Short editorial regarding my stance on pishing and calling for birds. I now use this piece as the basis for a field trip that I lead at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.
• Silly piece written for the Space Coast Audubon newsletter.
• This is a humor piece that I wrote which became the basis for a lecture I give called "Profoundly Unscientific Birding Identification"
• Another humor piece, also written for the Space Coast Audubon newsletter. 
• My fitness and nature blog in which I encourage people to get outside. My motto is "Disguising fitness as nature walks since 2009"

The following photos show puppets and other educational items I have created

Osprey puppet, created for the Environmental Learning Center.

Blue crab, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about crab adaptations.

Fiddler crab, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about crab adaptations.

Relief map of Florida, created for the Environmental Learning Center. The map can be filled with water to demonstrate changing water levels. .

Hermit crab, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about crab adaptations.

Smew duck, created for the Vero Beach Theatre Guild's production of Beauty and the Beast, now being used in beginning birding lectures to demonstrate wing placement on ducks.

Barn owl, created for the Vero Beach Theatre Guild's production of Oklaholma, now being used in beginning birding lectures to demonstrate owl adaptation to human presence. This prop also demonstrates the concept of recycling objects, in this case it was made out paper mache (stale flour and newspaper) over a soda bottle, a piece of a cardboard box, and a butter container.

Red-bellied woodpecker puppet. Created for my beginning birding presentation, used to show the distinct flight pattern of woodpeckers.

Palm warbler puppet. Created for my beginning birding presentation, used to show the tail-pumping behavior that helps identify the species.

I try to use humor to make keep my presentations interesting and effective. This is a prop that I created to demonstrate how doves often can be identified by the fact that their heads strongly resemble a turkey baster. This prop also demonstrates the concept of recycling objects, in this case an actual turkey baster.

 Spotted sea trout. Originally used for an interpretive dance prop, and later donated to the Environmental Learning Center.

Wood duck puppet, created for the Environmental Learning Center to teach kids about bird beaks. This puppet also demonstrates the concept of recycling objects, in this case it was made out of recycled clothing.