January 30th, 2011
The professional Linda Oestreich is an STC Fellow and was the 2007-2008 President of STC (Society for Technical Communication). She has been a member of STC since 1979 and has held admin council jobs in both the San Diego and Houston chapters. In addition to many years on the STC Board of Directors, she held varied STC positions, including Program Manager of the STC Annual Conference in 1995, co-manager of Programs for the 2001 Region 5 Conference, and three years as Director-Sponsor for Region 5 (including Texas and six other southwestern states). Linda belongs to the Technical Editing, International, and Management SIGs. In October 2009, through a collaboration of STC with People to People Ambassador Programs, Linda led a delegation of technical communicators to China for a professional exchange of information. Linda has spent her 30-year career in technical communication as a technical communicator–mostly as a technical editor, instructor, and manager. She is currently a strategic planner/analyst for OMNITEC Solutions, Inc., a defense contractor, where she supports the San Diego-based Space and Naval Weapons Center. She also teaches an online course in Copyediting for Technical Communicators for the UCSD Extensio program. Linda holds a BA in English from UC San Diego, has a teaching credential from San Diego Community College District, and has a certificate in project management from Rice University.
The personal Linda has had a wealth of life and, in retrospect, has appreciated every minute of it–even the times that weren’t pleasant when they were happening! She was the child of a military man and so moved around a lot in her youth. She thinks she attended more than a dozen grammar schools! Luckily, though, her dad’s last duty station was San Diego, and that’s where Linda still calls home (although she did live in Sugar Land, Texas for almost 15 years–but that story will come in another blog at another time). She loves to travel and had a lot of opportunity to do so through her jobs and her STC work.
Linda enjoys reading and gardening and hanging out with her wonderful friends. She tends to be the person who gathers folks together for an occasional party or arranges for groups of people to get together who might not do so if she didn’t make it happen. She is crazy about her daughter, Connie, and she loves her critters. You can be sure that the Oestreich house will always have one or more dogs and cats in it to be complete. Linda has learned that life is what you make it and she works hard to make it pretty darned wonderful. She hopes to make this page something that will offer value to those who come here…but it has a long way to go until she gets there! Thanks for hanging around. And, remember this quote from a dear friend of hers, ”What you think about, you bring about!”
