Christine Wesley has been preparing technical documentation since 1974, when she worked in the Engineering Publications Department at Motorola, Inc. After eight years, she moved on to Stargraphix, Inc., where for four years, she typeset a wide variety of products for local area printers: legal contracts, menus, forms, flyers, yellow page ads, business cards, etc. After that, she worked for 24 years at Summit Technical Associates, Inc./SummitTech Communications, Inc. preparing technical manuals, standards, user guides, and textbooks for clients such as The Instrument Society of America (ISA), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Electrical Generation Systems Association (EGSA), The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC), Motorola, Inc., and The American Welding Society (AWS). In 2008, she started her own company, Christine Wesley, Inc.

She continues to offer a wide variety of technical documentation services.

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All your publications needs, from concept to print. Providing high-quality typesetting services since 1974.

I worked with Chris Wesley for over a decade. Together we produced over 50 publications that continue to serve technical professionals as educational materials, reference works, and spiral bound everyday work tools. Not once did we go over budget or miss a deadline. There were three mistakes in all this production—and they weren't ours, but technical errors missed by the reviewers.

Notice the use of "we"? Chris was a true partner in the development of these projects, a role she effortlessly undertook as she used all her experience, talent, and professionalism in each and every product. To have an outsource who continuously looks for ways to improve the product—who actually thinks on your behalf—is an incredibly rare experience.

I welcome the opportunity to share more of my experience working with Chris. Don't hesitate to email me at january11@att.net.

Debrah Weir
Corporate Director of New Product Development (Ret.)
American Welding Society
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It was a joy to work with Chris Wesley. Together we completed draft standards by taking the technical committee's manuscript and turning it into the published voice of the committee. The manuscript was the product of many meetings and a completed work in the eyes of the committee. Typesetting improved upon this work as the raw manuscript was edited for style and formatted to convey the information. This process and its many small changes preserved the author’s intent while preparing a work that was precise, informative and readable for the public. The process worked every time.

 

Chris works well when applying editorial guidelines. The proprietary style guide we used was an often dense set of instructions developed over years to give our books the same look and feel. Within this guide Chris was able to edit for consistency and ensure a clear presentation of the committee's intended message.

 

These documents were formatted in a two-column layout and heavy with tables. Chris laid out the textual and graphical elements of the documents with a good eye for page design and a feel for the audience. The result was a publication that matched our guidelines, conveyed the technical committee's information and met the needs of the reader. It was great to see the results in print.

 

Chris was the right choice for typesetting our documents. Her combination of typesetting knowledge, editing style and empathy for the reader improved our documents every time. I think you'll enjoy working with her too.

 

Christopher Pollock

Former Director of Education

American Welding Society