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Jim Chambless

Louellen Coker

Jackie Damrau

Douglas Dow

Jennifer Grant

Kristy Nolan

Linda Oestreich

Kathryn Poe

Lauren Womack

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Ann Balaban

A former LSC president (1996-97), Ann has produced award-winning documentation at Texas Instruments for many years. Recently, high-quality documentation was cited as a significant factor in obtaining new business.

Jim Chambless

Jim Chambless currently manages communications for Beal Bank in Plano. He is a Past President (2000/2001) of the Lone Star Community.

Louellen Coker

With her Master's degree in Technical Writing from the University of North Texas now complete, Louellen Coker has more than 10 years of experience in technical writing from instructional design to newsletters, forms, and company papers. She has taught writing classes at Collin County Community College, and she conducts writing seminars for area English teachers. She is currently on the Communications Committee for the Dallas Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development.

Jackie Damrau

Jackie Damrau works at Perot Systems. She has more than 20 years of technical writing experience, and 6 years in creating training materials and delivering soft skills training courses. When not spending the majority of her time working for Perot Systems or assisting with the local STC chapter, Jackie enjoys going to the movies, reading classic literature authors or Irish/Scottish/English historical romance novels or time-travel romance novels.

Douglas Dow

Doug has been a member of the Lone Star Chapter since 1990, when he transferred from the Boston chapter. He has served in various capacities, including competition judge, chair of the Community Service Committee, and is now in his third year as newsletter Managing Editor. Doug works for Kronos in Cleburne, Texas. His interests outside of the cubicle include T'ai Ch'i, swing dancing, and honking one of his many saxophones.

Jennifer Grant

An aspiring technical writer, Jennifer graduated in 2003 from the University of North Texas' well-known technical communication program. A book lover, she currently works part time in Denton's public library system, and would like eventually to be an acquisitions editor for a book publishing company.

Kristy Nolan

Kristy Nolan is a Training/Publications Developer for Southwest Airlines. Her Masters Degree is in Education from John Carroll University in Cleveland, and her undergraduate degree is in Biology from Hiram College. She moved to Dallas from Cleveland, Ohio when Southwest Airlines promoted her to a developer position in Ground Operations Training.

Linda Oestreich

Linda has been a member of STC since 1979 when she joined the San Diego Chapter. Linda transferred to the Houston Chapter in 1990. She is now the Director-Sponsor for Region 5. Her most cherished STC award is that of Fellow, which she received in 1996. Linda has been an ongoing presence at STC Annual Conferences, where she has worked behind the scenes and in front of audiences every year since 1984.

Kathryn Poe

Senior Member and former chapter president Kathryn Poe is the "Volunteer Wrangler" for the Lone Star Community. A self-proclaimed Knowledge Wrangler, she is currently enlightening minds in the financial sector.

Lauren Womack

Currently a technical writer for Perot Systems' Healthcare Communications Group, Lauren has worked for Nokia Networks as a technical writer, documentation group leader, and as Manager of Customer Information Design. A Senior Member of STC, she is the PR chair of the Lone Star Community and can be reached at PublicRelations@stc-dfw.org. With this, her first position on the community council, she hopes to expand her skills while she serves the Lone Star Community. She looks forward to meeting YOU at a meeting in the near future.