SciTech Writing Samples

Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is a leading manufacturer of high-end routers for wide-area networks. Susan is a contract writer for Juniper, specializing in engineering papers about the JUNOS™ Network Operating System.

Selected Juniper white papers:

Merit Network, Inc.
Based at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Merit is America's longest-running regional research and education network, and Michigan's largest ISP. Susan was Senior Science Writer at Merit from 1991 to 1998. As Senior Science Writer, she submitted successful proposals for research project funding, documented a wide variety of computer platforms and a broad spectrum of software, wrote summaries of scientific and technical concepts, and developed informative case studies of technical applications. Previously, Susan edited U-M Computing News on behalf of the University of Michigan Information Technology Division (circulation 10,000) for eight years.

Selected Merit web pages:

Routing engineering:

Selected end-user documentation:

Journal articles:

Selected reports to the National Science Foundation:

Selected newsletter articles:

Marketing collateral:

Graphical displays:

North American Network Operators' Group
NANOG is the foremost international forum for information exchange among backbone network operators. From 1999 to 2006, Susan was Coordinator, chaired the Program Committee, moderated meetings, oversaw the 10,000-member email list, maintained the web site, and represented NANOG to other international networking organizations. Susan also helped sustain NANOG's educational focus on inter-ISP cooperation, routing, operations/management, performance metrics, traffic engineering, and regional routing registries and databases. NANOG conferences are convened by Merit Network, and attract 400-500 attendees to three annual meetings.

Selected NANOG documentation:

Selected NANOG web pages:



Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large, open, international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. Susan has been active in IETF since 1993 as a participant in several Working Groups, the author of several RFCs, and an independent consultant.

Requests for Comments (RFCs):

Consulting:

  • Administrative Report to the IETF Internet Engineering Steering Group, 2006.



Susan R. Harris, Ph.D.
SciTech Writing and Editing
srhtech@comcast.net
+1 734.668.7864 (voice/fax)
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Resume (PDF)
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