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Dr. Jan Herndon is senior editor and technical writer for a large, US Government defense contractor.

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She has over 34 years’ experience writing, editing and translating technical papers, proposals, defense contract specifications, test procedures, and weapon system operator manuals. She also specializes in editing academic theses for non-native speakers of English in the American educational curriculum and preparing job-targeted resumes.


Daughter of a WWII Link Simulator training instructor and aerospace engineer, Jan grew up in the defense and space exploration environments of Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio and Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. In Huntsville, most of her classmates were children of engineers and scientists, including those of Dr. Wernher von Braun, the acclaimed Father of the US Space Program.
Majoring in French and Spanish language instruction at the University of Alabama with plans for a teaching career, Jan turned to psycholinguistics and the science of second language acquisition at Texas A&M University where she attained a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in 1973. After several years as an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor at the Florida Institute of Technology on Florida’s Space Coast.

Jan chose to emulate her father with a career in the defense industry as a technical writer and editor for companies such as Harris Corporation, L-3 Communications, Siemens, Honeywell and Northrop Grumman.

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Dr. JAN H. HERNDON

JAN HERNDON                                                                                     Editor/Technican Qualifications

Over thirty years of technical writing/editing/technical translation and documentation management for universities and commercial and government enterprises. Managed documentation groups; provided on-site technical data support from US and overseas installations and document translation services in English, Spanish and French. Twenty years’ proposal writing and editing for US defense contractors. Positions held under commercial and military contracts include: Publications Supervisor, Training Supervisor, Data Manager, Senior Technical Writer/Editor, Technical Translator, and Senior Specifications Engineer. Current Florida Executive Technical Editor of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis published at the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL. Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, Adobe and other publishing software.

PROFESSIONAL Experience

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION, Melbourne, FL                                 2002 – Present
Proposal Editor/Configuration Analyst

  • Produces site and corporate proposal documentation. Assists graphics production teams with draft and final proposal layouts; prepares tabular material, including program-specific acronym lists.
  • Reviews site/corporate marketing products for format and grammar. Products include white papers, reports, technical papers, operating instructions, brochures, bulletins, and task-related material from functional departments.

 HONEYWELL AEROSPACE SERVICES, Titusville, FL                                        2001 – 2002
Technical Writer

  • Developed installation, operation and maintenance manuals for four International Seismic Array sites supporting the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Used Adobe Frame Maker with embedded graphics from Sun Solaris 7 and CAD programs.

 SIEMENS CORPORATION, Boca Raton, FL                                                     2000 – 2001
Technical Writer

  • Developed 400-page operator manual for the Tel-Link point-to-multipoint digital broadband, fixed, wireless communications system using advanced Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) wireless technology to supply Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) capability, combined with 64-QAM modulation, to private communications (PCS) and cellular systems.

 NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION, Melbourne, FL                                   1991 – 2000
Technical Writer/Senior Specifications Engineer

  • Maintained over 150 functional, bench, and installation test procedures in support of the Northrop Grumman and Military Aircraft Systems Division Joint STARS aircraft production programs.
  • Supported engineering management with production, review and approval of Technical Operations policies and procedures for four departments.
  • Served as Technical Compliance Editor for 200 Joint STARS E-8C Technical Orders (MIL-M-83495B) for the Integrated Logistics Support/Readiness Directorate.

 DBA SYSTEMS, INC., Melbourne, FL (now L-3 Communications)                      1984 –1991
Supervisor of Technical Documentation and Training

  • Edited Corporate and Melbourne Division proposals. Coordinated and maintained hardware and software operator and training manuals for international and US military defense systems.
  • Served as Curriculum Advisor for customer training courses; supervised specially designed courses for the U.S. Army Special Forces and XVIII Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg, NC and Zweibrucken AB, Germany.

 HARRIS CORPORATION, Palm Bay, FL                                                         1981 – 1984
Supervisor of Publication Services/Data Manager

  • Provided technical editing and supervision of a 13-person word processing and technical illustration group for Integrated Logistics Support Group operations.
  • Developed internal publications as well as training and operation and maintenance manuals for US military satellite communications equipment.
  • Maintained contract data for six US Government contracts.

 Employment prior to 1981

  • Pan American World Services, Inc., Cape Canaveral, FL – Senior Technical Writer/Editor
  • Harris Corporation, Palm Bay, FL – Technical Translator/Director of French Language Training
  • Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL – English as a Second Language (ESL) Instructor
  • Texas A&M University, College Station, TX – Editor, College of Business publications

EDUCATION

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, College Station, TX
Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction, 1973

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, Tuscaloosa, AL
Master of Arts in Romance Languages, 1968
Bachelor of Arts in French and Spanish, 1966

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