President, Christine Larsen

 Chris Larsen is a technical writer at Banner Engineering. Chris has been a writer/editor in some capacity for more than 35 years, and a technical writer for the past 12 years. Her past experience also includes copywriting and layout. She joined STC approximately 8 years ago, has been a judge in the annual competition for several years, a competition entrant, and competition award winner.

Vice President, Eileen Potter

For the past 12 years Eileen has been writing software documentation and marketing communication pieces. Currently, as a Senior Technical Writer at Kroll Ontrack, she enjoys mentoring other writers and developing her SharePoint skills.

As a member of STC-Twin Cities, Eileen has been a judge in the annual competition.

Eileen is interested in technical communication because she believes that good information development helps people, period. She likes the profession because it requires a blend of creative and analytical skills and it is continuously changing. She has enjoyed exploring a number of areas as her expertise or interests have changed (for example, information design, usability, visual information, HTML, XML, DITA). Eileen believes that everyone makes his or her career what they want it to be. Eileen is looking forward to working with the leadership team and community members to promote the profession and continue developing an interactive chapter environment (both physical and virtual) that supports each member's desire to share their skills and learn new ones.

Treasurer, Stuart Edeal

Stuart Edeal has been passionate about understanding, analyzing, and documenting business and system needs pertaining to digital software applications.  He currently serves as Business Systems Analyst at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio, where he is responsible for defining technical solutions and partnering with users to solve significant technology-related business problems.

Stuart was first introduced to STC-Twin Cities by a former coworkder. He likes to share ideas and concerns about communication methods. He especially appreciates topics that deal with displaying technical concepts and data in a graphical way.

Secretary, Sara Lulloff

Sara is a technical writer for Graco, Inc. in the Applied Fluid Technologies division. She joined the Twin Cities Community of STC when she was new to the field and working as a lone writer, hoping to find others she could discuss her work and bounce around ideas with. When she joined, the mentorship program was in full swing, so Sara benefitted as a protege of a senior member, who helped her through the difficulties of being a new and solitary writer.

Since joining STC, Sara has been volunteering in a variety of roles and has learned various new skills, like event planning and financial reporting. She has enjoyed meeting a variety of people in the technical communication field from whom she has learned a great deal. Being part of STC-TC even led to her current position at Graco, Inc.!

Immediate Past President, Linda Mikkelsen

Linda Mikkelsen is a technical writer at Cray, Inc. In STC-Twin Cities, she has served as secretary and treasurer as well as president. She has also been active at the regional and Society level, including service as an international technical publication competition judge.

Linda describes her job as "interpreting jargon to make it good, understandable English." She has worked in the Technical Communication field for over twenty-five years, writing computer documentation. Linda holds a Bachelor's degree from St. Cloud State University. She is a Senior Member of STC.

Linda has been recently elected to serve on the STC Nominating Committee!  Congratulations Linda!