My Journey
When Word for Windows first came out, I was the Office Automation Manager at the Law Firm of Paul Hastings Santa Monica Branch. One of my responsibilities was to start training the Word Processing Department and secretaries in the use of the Mouse which I enjoyed given them card games to play as their training exercises.
I decided to really learn Word for Windows and thus quit my job with PHJW and went on the conversion tour to join the conversion teams going through Los Angeles converting all of the law firms from Word Perfect to Word.
I was helping a lot of firms migrate to Word 6 under very trying times and ended up doing training and macro writing until I accepted the challenge of being the Project Manager for the Cox Castle conversion whereby I was responsible for teaching and coordinating over 30 plus temps during the major part of the conversion which lasted for over six months.
After that stretch in time I took a position at Burke Williams as a Trainer and Software Specialists and was hired to find and implement a Legal Word system for their 5 offices.
To Make a long story short, they could not afford to pay the costs of the high end systems and so I told them about mine and they decided to take it.
I spent a year training and installing the system as my position dictated. I tried to keep the two separate and it was going good until the firm added another office, and then decided not to pay according to the terms of the agreement and so I told them to pay what they thought was fair and if it was zero, then, so be it. I then left the firm.
I decided to take a helpdesk position at another law firm.
I have been focused for the last couple of years on writing my new systems which just concentrates on formatting.
I am now in the position to train only the areas I love the most and can share my experiences and concepts with users who want to learn what I am training with no worry about costs. (Just for the love of the game)
- Formatting
- Document Conversions/Repair
- Form Design
