Susana Maria Rosende holds a BA in English/Technical Communication from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and has over 19 years experience in written and visual communication, mostly as a technical writer in IT. Susana is currently attending the Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business 19-month Saturday MBA program (starting January 2009) in Winter Park, Florida. She also has nine years experience managing a Technical Publications (Documentation) Department and over a decade managing a freelance communications company offering creative, technical, and editorial services at Write Way Designs, Inc. (http://www.writewaydesigns.com)
Additionally, Susana has taken Web programming and Digital Design courses at local community colleges, as part of an ongoing challenge, in her copious spare time, toward earning an A.S. in Programming, one semester, and one class at a time, including Introduction to: Web Programming, ASP.net, C#, XML, Visual Basic.net, and FLASH.
In her 20-year-plan on her road to retirement, her lofty goals include earning both an MBA and a Masters in Creative Writing, as well as growing her part-time/freelance company into a full-time venture that will sustain her in the current economy and through her retirement years. "It is good," she says, "to have goals."
Her eldest son Brian attends Florida State University for Music Composition, her future daughter-in-law, Jue Zou, attends the Florida State University Graduate School for Communications and Advertising, and her youngest son Joey started high school with dreams of becoming a software engineer. Her other "children" include "Angel," a White German Shepherd dog, "Brandy," a Shih Tzu, "Romeo," a Yorkie, "Snoopy" and "Einstein," two Jack Shitz (Jack Russell/Shih Tzu crossbreeds), "Tinkerbell" a tortoiseshell cat, and "Sylvester," a black and white "tuxedo" kitten.
In addition to The Content Wrangler Community, Susana is a member of both the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and the IEEE Professional Communications Society (PCS).
A first-generation Cuban American, Susana also has English/Spanish technical translation experience at several companies, such as Fiserv, an international banking software firm, and has written and translated website content, articles, and technical documentation for several start-up software companies and e-commerce sites.
Susana is also a visual artist who owns an online t-shirt business at cafepress.com/writewaydesigns, (also found at The Online Mall of Florida at writewaydesignsmall.com). She has also illustrated newsletters and painted murals for various events.
At her communications company, Write Way Designs, Inc. (writewaydesigns.com), Susana offers technical writing, copy writing, ghost writing, editing, proofreading, illustration, cartooning, website authoring and design, photography, tutoring in English as a second language, tutoring in Spanish, and English/Spanish translation...for your communication needs.
Susana is also available full-time as a Communications Director or Manager/Art Director/Copy Director/Technical Publications Manager or Senior Technical Writer/Copy Writer in the Greater Orlando, Florida area or as a telecommuter from Orlando, Florida.
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