Joshua Israelsohn

Selected Accomplishments:

• Set strategic direction and goals for JAS's technical-communication and training services.
• Created novel services for technical-marketing collateral-development, training, and analysis.
• Trained team members and managed service delivery.
• Managed workflow to ensure compliance to schedules and budgets.
• Trained clients' technical, marketing, and marcom staffs to improve companies' technical-communication practices.
• Edited technical manuscripts for English-language distribution and for foreign-language translation.
• Designed and built JAS's digital-media production suite.
• Consulted for clients to improve programmatically internal writing standards and conformance to technical-communication best practices.
• Ghost wrote trade-press articles for senior engineering, marketing, management, and executive staffs.
• Moderated and presented at conference events.
• Generated original editorial for trade-press publishers in North America, Asia, and Europe including EDN (North America, Asia, Japan, Europe, and web editions), ECN (Asia and China editions), EPN (Europe), PowerPulse.net, and and TechBites.com.
• See column samples and case studies for specific sample projects.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Directed global Contributed Editorial Program,increasing worldwide trade-press captured page rate by 23% while available page inventories fell 18%.
• Managed editorial-support services, mentored authors, and drove projects to meet publishing schedules.
• Developed technical-communication strategies for key products in advance of their announcement.
• Worked with product-line staff to create multimedia customer-training programs.
• Wrote and presented training workshops for global marcom staffs to enhance understanding of technical topics and improve technical content of press releases and briefing materials.
• Moderated and presented at conference events.
• Developed style guide for manuscripts and narratives as part of a technical-communication best-practices initiative.
• Created templates for application notes, trade-press articles, and professional-journal papers to reduce manuscript formatting workload and maintain consistent document appearance.
• Ghost wrote articles and presentations for CoB, CEO, division VPs, and several marketing and engineering staff.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Generated editorial content covering all analog, mixed-signal, photonic, and energy-management ICs, technologies, and applications operating from DC to 80 GHz. Responsible for editorial relationships with companies operating in the corresponding sectors including seven of the magazine's top-ten advertisers.
• Shifted analog, mixed-signal, photonic, and energy-management editorial focus from new-product review to tutorial, roughly quadrupling click-throughs and substantially increasing useful lifetimes of resulting content.
• Covered a market base of 249 technology companies and 31 industry trade associations and standards organizations.
• Built and operated EDN's Bench-Press Lab for hands-on lab-based articles.
• Developed and presented a short training program to teach technical marketers to engage more effectively with the trade press. Presented, by invitation, to Analog Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor, Maxim Integrated Products, National Semiconductor, On Semiconductor, Silicon Laboratories, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments. Served as guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering.
• Moderated and presented at conference events and webcasts.
• See article samples

Selected Accomplishments:

• Led a troubleshooting and yield-enhancement team during the commissioning of a new MEMS (microelectromechanical system) semiconductor fab.
• Mentored test-and-trim engineers in circuit design, software development, IC and circuit-board layout, and error budgeting to meet Test-and-Trim Best Practices, ISO9000 and QS9000 requirements.
• Consulted for MEMS Product Development Teams in areas of design/trim interactions, DFM (Design for Manufacture), and DFT (Design for Test).
• Designed isolated signal conditioners for industrial measurements. First modular conditioners to break the $100/channel price barrier. Improved ESD (Electro-Static Discharge) protection to 4x over best competitors.
• Represented product-line at trade shows and collected new application and competitive intelligence.
• Served as technical lead for a VOC (Voice of the Customer) Europe on-site survey team for Industrial Products group.

• Studio and on-location video and audio recording (producer, director, technical director, camera operator, recording- and audio-engineer roles)
• Media production and post production
• voice overs
• script writing

Minor in Technical Writing