See Also: Parwathy S. Mirlay, Membership News

Lizy S. Jacob

lizy@aztec.soft.net

Whether it is editing a marketing proposal, artistically designing a web page or documenting the nuances of maintaining a complex administration module, Lizy has done it all. 

A science graduate and a postgraduate diploma in Computers, Lizy has been in this profession for more than six years and a member of the STC for over four years now. She has seen the technical writing profession grow by leaps and bounds.

Lizy began her career by developing software for commercial applications such as Financial accounting, payroll and a library management system using Cobol and Clipper. Technical writing by chance unveiled to her at a pharmaceutical software company, Pharma systems. 

Writing User manuals and online help was the first step into this arena. During this period she felt that this was the field she wanted to stay and yearned to learn more. After a year, she moved to Verifone where she nurtured from a newbie to a seasoned writer. Verifone sponsored her trip to attend the STC conference at Orlando, 2000 and meet some of the customers using Verifone products. According to her, it was an exciting trip and a great learning experience. 

Currently employed at Aztec Software for over two years now, Lizy is in charge of all the documentation and in short anything connected with writing, user interface design and usability. Very often, a phone call interrupts her mouse clicks and clacks on the keyboard. You can hear her patiently telling the caller, "Why don't you rephrase it to read like this....." From a patient mentor, to a determined tech writer, insisting error messages, proposals and white papers read better this way rather than the other way.

 Lizy is currently involved with  designing the user interface for an Aztec project. Her time at home, she spends nurturing two lively young sons Rahul and Reuben. Reuben is her latest blessing from God and is just ten months old. Of course, in her true style, she excels at this mothering job too! Ask her husband and sons, they root for her! 

Parwathy S. Mirlay

psmirlay@satyam.net.in

Parwathy Mirlay, a veteran technical writer, developed a love for technical writing both by virtue of chance and forced by requirements. In the late eighties, while working as a designer and multimedia programmer, and pursuing a masters degree, Parwathy took up freelance technical writing assignments. As luck would have it, Parwathy soon realized that she had begun to enjoy her profession. 

Returning to India in 1990, the IT industry here was still cutting its teeth, and although there was lot of excitement around, and technical writing was just breaking in. 

Parwathy conducted technical writing training for top management and engineers and designed a technical training curriculum for them. After meeting many potential clients and employers, Parwathy decided to break out on her own in January 2002. She set up a technical communications firm, which she named XPRESSION. Over time, she had an impressive client list including i-flex Solutions, WIPRO, Analog Devices, Intel, Philips Software, Texas Instruments, Sun Microsystems, Verifone, and Deutsche Software. 

Parwathy.s biggest challenge has been finding the right people who enjoy English and are thrilled by technology. Her biggest strength has been the ability to add creativity and multimedia design into regular technical writing assignments. She has a creative and strong design team that enjoys both the artistic and the technical joys in regular work. 

Over the years, Parwathy has realized the virtues of specialization in a core area,  and continual diversification and skill-set mapping as a team. Being in a service-based industry, quality and people- and process-friendliness are assets that she knows she can't ever afford to ignore. 

Parwathy has been an active member of the STC since 1999 and has shared her learnings with Bangaloreans in technical writing knowledge sharing sessions.  

When free, Parwathy paints in oils - mostly nature.  A passion for nature photography takes her all over  India, and when at home she likes to cook and bake! As a hobby, she collects old and new handmade rural Indian games and toys. 

Membership News

10 Years with STC

Layla Matthew, our senior-most member, has completed 10 years as an STC member this month. 

Membership transfer

Tom Whitlam, a very senior technical communicator and long-time STC member, has transferred to the India chapter from another STC chapter.  Tom is currently working  with Hexaware Technologies, Chennai. 

Back with STC

Michelle Cherian joins us once again on the India chapter ship after a brief gap. Michelle is currently working for Softbrands Research, Bangalore. 

Newest Member

Raj Ekanatheeswaran is our newest member. Raj is currently working for Selectica, Chennai.

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