About Janet Alexander
![]() Janet is an accomplished instructor, instructional author, and technical writer.
She has many years of experience documenting business process flows, creating software user guides, writing training documents, and filming and editing videos. While rolling out an internal messaging system across the USA, she helped train employees at Greyhound Lines and she wrote the training guide and user manuals for the new software. At Cash America, she was on the team developing a point of sale software. There she provided quality control analyses on the business review documentation from business analysts before sending it to development. Finding discrepancies in analyst’s documents before development saved production costs and time. Additionally Janet created user guides, training material, and on-line help guide in RoboHelp. Recently she has published metalsmithing tutorials in books, magazines, YouTube and commercially promoted websites. Until recently, she traveled to conferences teaching adults the techniques of metalsmithing. Janet has over 20 years of experience in adult education. Education and Training
Publications
Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist Magazine
![]() March/April 2018
This tutorial written by Janet was published in the Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine. Description: A beautiful bracelet with decorative pin hinges that intertwines in the design leaves people wanting to know how it works. https://www.interweave.com/store/lapidary-journal-jewelry-artist-march-april-2018-digital-edition Kalmbach Publisher
![]() August 2015
Metal Clay & Color Inventive techniques from 20 jewelry designers Compiled by Mary Wohlgemuth Janet co-authored this book See Janet's chapter in the table of contents: Here ![]() Lapidary Journal's
The Gremmys 2015 book. Janet created this bracelet, shown on the cover, as a statement showing how the community of Ruidoso New Mexico comes together supporting NEST, a battered women's shelter. The bracelet was auctioned off and the proceeds benefited NEST. |
Making a Pendant VideoOther Training Videos by Janet
Janet's YouTube Channel
Computer Skills
HGTV Filmed Janet in her studio
![]() While appearing on HGTV's Crafters Coast to Coast and Thats Clever, she demonstrated the art of lost wax casting.
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