Communications professional · Londonderry, NH
Brian Mills
Seven years turning specialist knowledge into plain language, today in product marketing at JEOL USA. Every case study here ends with what happened.
subscribers receive JEOLink every two months. I write it and hand-build the HTML, so it holds up in Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail.
Rebuilding JEOL's technical newsletter 13,478subscribers in a campaign JEOL had paid for and nobody had used. I split them into three segments and all three emails ran.
Putting an unused campaign to work 4 yearsrunning HTS New England's marketing as a department of one, a function I built from nothing. More than 50 of my process guides are still in use.
Building a marketing department from nothingRange
The same facts, written for four readers.
One scanning electron microscope, described four times. The facts never change. The words do. Choosing them for each reader is my daily work.
A scanning electron microscope takes pictures of things far too small for any ordinary microscope to see. It can show details thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair.
An SEM forms images with electrons instead of light. The reason is resolution: visible light's wavelength stops an optical microscope near 200 nanometers. An electron beam's wavelength is far shorter.
An SEM covers magnifications from about 10x to well past 100,000x with a depth of field no optical instrument approaches, which is why fracture surfaces and powders read so clearly.
A field-emission source gives the probe its brightness and stability; the condensers set probe current, the objective sets the final spot, and the scan coils raster it over the field.
Hiring for a communications role?
I am looking for a role where I own how a message reaches its audience. I built that function once, alone, and the fifty-plus guides I wrote there are still in daily use two years after I left. I want to do that again.