2011 STC Puget Sound Election

The Puget Sound Chapter election is now open!

Ballots will be accepted until April 14th this year.

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 Lync 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 received the STC Fellow Award at the STC Technical Communications Summit '10 in May 2010 for her many contributions to the field of Technical Communications.

Secretary
Barbara Alban has 15 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 13 years and for the Puget Sound Chapter for 5 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.

IMPORTANT: About the Treasurer Position

We have not had any candidates volunteer for the Treasurer position. If you are interested in learning more about the position or volunteering, please contact Diane Forsyth at diane.forsyth@gmail.com. The job is pretty straightforward and in addition to preparing an income and expense report for the Board, you would work with the Board to create an annual budget, and complete an annual financial report to send to the STC headquarters. Attendance at the monthly board meeting is the first Tuesday of the month and can be done via Skype or in person.

For the Treasurer\0x2019s position, we will appoint any qualifying person on an interim basis, and then send out another ballot for this position only.

If you have any overall election process questions, please contact Diane Forsyth at diane.forsyth@gmail.com or 425-705-6190.