Charlie Kyle - Summary of Experience

This site covers my experience and background and shows samples of my work.

1980 - 1995

I started my career in 1980 as a technical writer in Spokane, Washington at American Sign & Indicator (AS&I). AS&I was a leading developer of electronic displays for sports arenas and advertising venues in locations such as New York's Times Square and London’s Piccadilly Circus. Their four-side animating scoreboard is shown here.

As part of a large engineering department, I was responsible for software and hardware manuals for sign controllers, animating displays, scoreboards, and flight information display systems. I also provided customer support and training for relational database system installed at several major international airports.

After eleven years with AS&I, I became a contract technical writer and worked for EDS, Itronics, Pfizer, and several small software companies.

AS&I four-sided animating scoreboard

1995 - Present

I moved to Connecticut in 1995 and developed online help for Hyperion Solutions and EIS International. From 1999 to 2003 I worked for Motorola producing online help, user guides, and technical reference documentation.

In 2003 I worked for Pfizer in New York City developing style and policy guidelines for web development teams. In 2004, I returned to Motorola as a contract writer, moved to Seattle in 2005, and continued to work for Motorola until 2008. From March to December 2008, I worked as a contract technical writer at Attachmate in Seattle.

At the end of 2008, I started work at Tyler Technologies in Renton, Washington, where I currently develop online help and user interface text for Dynamics AX, Microsoft’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.