Linda Mitchell
Quality Assurance and Technical Documentation, BatchBlue Software, LLC
Linda provides Quality Assurance and Technical Documentation support for BatchBlue Software. She has been drawn to technology for decades, ever since the olden days, when she wrote computer games in BASIC on the family's TRS-80.
Professionally, Linda got her start in the geek world in 1998, at Amazon.com, where she met fellow BatchBluers Michelle, Sean, and Keri, and helped Michelle and Keri start the company's first telecommuting customer service group.
From there, it was systems management, technical writing, and tech support in the nonprofit sector: first Richard Hugo House and then The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gradually, she settled into less hardware and more communications writing, editing and performing QA for a variety of technical and advertising clients.
Before all of that, she ran the warehouse for a book distributor that specialized in books about angels and aliens. And before that, she was a baker. Cookies, muffins, and pies, mostly. A wedding cake or two. All of these occupations have been well served by her degree in English, though some more abstractly than others.
Linda lives in Seattle and works from home with her beloved dogs by her side.
A Little More About Linda
- Favorite tech gadget:
- Vox battery-powered mini-amp that plugs into the pickup on my electric guitar and allows me to walk around my house, rocking straight into my headphones. I can also plug my other favorite gadget, my iPhone, into the mini-amp and play guitar along with my favorite songs, in my headphones. While still walking around the house, naturally.
- What are some of your favorite small businesses?:
- Full Throttle Bottles, 9Lb Hammer, Flying Squirrel Pizza Company, Jive Time Records, Hi-Spot, George & Dragon Pub, Hard Times Distillery, Ninkasi Brewing
- What tab or feature would you be on Batchbook and why?:
- The Procrastinate feature for To-Dos, because it feels simultaneously indulgent and responsible.
- The website you’re most likely to be on when you’re not on Batchbook:
- kexp.org
- Most surprising fact about yourself:
- I was a Mathlete.
- If not a computer geek, I would have been a:
- Lounge singer
