Bernard Aschwanden
For the office of Director
Director Questions & Candidate Answers | Member Questions & Candidate Answers
Bernard Aschwanden
- Name: Bernard Aschwanden
- Member Status: Senior Member
- Current Community: STC Toronto
- Current Professional Title: President
- Company: Publishing Smarter
- Company Location (City, State, or Country): Canada
- Member since: 1997
STC Service
- Presented at STC Summit Leadership 2009/10 on efforts to Reorg, Revamp, Revitalize our community
- Webinars on Zero Based Budgeting with guidance for smaller communities
- STC Summit presenter/panel member in areas of management, publishing, and chapter leadership
- STC member presentations in Canada, USA and globally
- Led several Certificate Courses
- Articles for STC Communities in newsletters, blogs, and other communications
- Reduced Toronto’s financial dependencies; kept STC relationships for support and planning.
Community Activities
- Past President
- President: 2007-09
- VP: 2005-07
- Competitions Manager
- Webmaster
- Newsletter Editor
Awards
- Led Toronto to STC Pacesetter Award in 2010
- Competitions awards for books and articles
Education and other (non-STC) Professional affiliations, honors, awards
- Seneca @ York: Professor and course developer for technical communications courses, lecture on training and documentation theories and best practices
- Humber College: Instructor, course developer
- George Brown College: Instructor, course developer
Received Certificate of Excellence for evaluations in the top 10% for knowledge, presentation, course content, and overall helpfulness to students - Boston University Corporate Education Center: Lectures on technical communications
- University of Toronto: Lectures on technical communications
Professional Experience
I am a professional consultant in technical communications and management. I build best practices to develop and manage content through project management, needs analysis, materials development, deployment, and review cycles. I have managed teams and projects across organizations from startups to Fortune 500 corporations.
Since 1992 I have worked in technical communications as a trainer, courseware developer, team lead, manager, and business owner. In this time I have travelled extensively and worked with thousands of people at hundreds of clients. In working with this range of people I learned a great deal about technical communications and pass that information to my clients and students.
As a professional presenter, I am recognized as a top-rated speaker (top 10%) at events such as DocTrain, LavaCon, STC Summit, TICAD, tekom, and more. In my role as a professor at two schools I teach technical communications, sit on advisory boards, and help to drive curriculum development work.
Comments on this entry are closed.