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Subject:Job: Tech Writer, Washington, DC Metro Area, USA From:Cheryl Dwyer <dwyerc -at- VISUAL -dot- MCTEC -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 8 Jul 1997 07:31:00 EDT
Visual Networks is poised to be the world s leading supplier of network
support and management systems for rapidly emerging networks based on
Frame Relay, ATM, and Internet technologies. In just over one year,
Visual Networks has established a whole new market -- managed access
solutions. It has become the preferred network management offering for
carriers such as Sprint as well as the technology basis for
Hewlett-Packard s NetMetrix WANProbe. The comprehensive WAN monitoring
and analysis capability of Visual s UpTime product has won wide
recognition Data Communications Magazine s Hot Product of the Year Award,
Telecommunications Magazine Best Product Award, and the Best New Product
Achievement Award at ComNet 96 (a premier industry trade show). Over
100 Fortune 1000 companies have deployed the system throughout their
WANs. Our elegant engineering and aggressive marketing savvy yielded
growth of over 3000% in the last year alone.
Visual Networks has its headquarters just 15 minutes from Washington,
D.C. in one of the fastest-growing high-tech areas of the country.
Visual Networks is an equal-opportunity employer, with an attractive
benefits package, 401K program, stock options, and highly competitive
salaries. For more detailed business and product data, as well as some
of our recent press, please visit our web site at http://www.visualnetworks.com.
Benefits
Stock Options
100% company-paid Medical/Dental/Life/AD&D (Insured by Emphesys
Financial)
401k plan (Fidelity Investments)
15 days paid leave (vacation & sick), 10 paid holidays
additional 4 week sabbatical after each 4 years of service
Technical Writing Positions
Write and maintain software documentation and help files for
award-winning Wide Area Network management and monitoring system.
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Experience writing about engineering or scientific applications (datacomm
or telecomm preferred).
Expertise with a desktop publishing tool such as FrameMaker (preferred),
PageMaker, Interleaf, or Ventura.
Familiarity with a Windows help authoring tool, such as RoboHelp
(preferred), Doc-to-Help, HelpBreeze, or ForeHelp.
At least two years experience documenting software applications
Excellent proofreading/editing skills
Additionally, familarity with one or more of the following is a plus:
UNIX
SNMP
Client/Server Applications
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