De has over 25 years experience in technical writing, project management, and functional management. During those years, she has planned, managed, and implemented a number of conversions of authoring tools, operating processes, and computer systems. Her talk is drawn from these experiences and highlights the costs of converting any system.

De works as a consultant and assists clients in developing technical information about their products and services.

A member of STC since 1983 and an STC fellow, De has served in many community leadership roles, including chapter president of both Houston Chapter and San Fernando Valley Chapter and manager of the Management SIG. Additionally, she has served at the international level in many roles, including ITPC manager, assistant secretary to the Board, Nominating committee member, and conference stem manager. She received the 2006 President’s Award for assisting in hiring STC's Executive Director. De is a member of the 2009-10 Associate Fellows Nominating Committee.

Klemmer's Banquet Center
10401 W. Oklahoma Ave.
West Allis, WI 53227
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Your boss comes in and tells you that the company is making a strategic business decision and part of that decision affects the way that you are delivering the company’s technical information. It is going to require that you change the way that you produce documentation. You have a pretty good idea that you are going to have change software tools. You suspect that you will have some process changes. But where do you start!

De Murr will talk about some of the issues you will need to address as you plan your conversion. She will also talk about how you determine those tasks that are required and those that are optional. And most importantly, she will give you guidelines on how to calculate the cost of your conversion.

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