The Puget Sound Chapter election will take place from April
7th to
April 13th this year. Currently, four candidates are on the ballot.
Candidates
President
Diane Forsyth has been a tech pubs manager, instructor,
writer, and technical editor for several years. She is an Associate
Fellow of the STC and is an active member of the Puget Sound Chapter.
Before moving to Seattle, she was a founding member of the Canada West
Coast Chapter in Vancouver, BC. She is currently the PSC Scholarship
Manager and has also worked on the competitions committee. Diane
received an English degree from the University of British Columbia and
an Extended Studies Diploma (Interdisciplinary Studies) from Simon
Fraser University. She is currently a senior editor in the Office
Communications Server UA team at Microsoft.
Vice President
Kristine Haugseth has worked in the Technical Communications field for over 20 years. She has been an editing manager for five groups at Microsoft and has contributed as a technical editor to several more. She has held several other positions at Microsoft as well, including documentation manager, project manager, and release manager.
Kristine has been involved heavily in the Puget Sound Chapter since 1996, serving as committee chair for scholarships, education, and employment. She has served nearly every year as a judge for the Puget Sound Technical Publications Competition and has contributed in other ways as well, such as running auctions in the 1990s that provided supplemental funding for the Souther and White Scholarship Fund. Kristine has a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. She is receiving the STC Fellow Award at the STC Technical Communications Summit '10 in May 2010 for her many contributions to the field of Technical Communications.
Treasurer
Debra Clark has been involved in technical communication for twelve years. She served on the STC-PSC Board of Directors for the past two years, first as Secretary and then as Treasurer. Debra has been on a lot of non-profit boards, but managed to avoid the Treasurer position until this year. Imagine her surprise to find that safeguarding chapter finances can be very rewarding.
Debra earned a Technical Writing and Editing certificate from the University of Washington and a Professional and Technical Editing certificate from Bellevue College. She also has a BA degree from the University of Washington and served in the US Army as a Russian language translator. Debra has leveraged her experience in managing non-profit organizations to bring best practices to STC-PSC board business. She would be honored to continue this service for the 2010-2011 term.
Secretary
Barbara Alban has 14 years of experience in technical communication plus another 10 years in instructional design. The owner of Northwest Creative Works, LLC, she provides technical editing and documentation development and management services in high tech environments, including information systems, telecommunications, and the software industry. She also volunteers as an English language tutor for Hopelink.
Barbara has been a member of STC for 12 years and for the Puget Sound Chapter for 4 years. She served as the Chapter Secretary this past year and previously served as the Chapter's Membership Chair. Barbara has earned Certificates in both Technical Documentation and Technical Editing from Bellevue College, and has a double BA in Speech Communication Studies and Psychology and an MA in Social Psychology (Conflict Theory & Management) from San Francisco State University.
Nominating Candidates
If you are a member in good standing, you can nominate
yourself or another member for any of these positions until noon PST,
April 6th. To nominate a member for a position, send their name and a candidate
description to the Puget Sound STC Nominating and Tellers Committee.
The Election Process
The election will be held by electronic ballot. Members will
receive a ballot by email on April 7th.
