Summary Statement
Technical Writer and Content Designer with 15+ years of experience who’s excited about simplifying the complex, and using content to solve customer problems.
Work Experience
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- Gathered, analyzed, and documented requirements, use cases, and user workflows for DevOps support.
- Collaborated with engineering teams to address technical debt and suggested process enhancements.
- Partnered with internal teams to ensure cohesive Confluence design and efficient day-to-day operations with templates, add-ons, and content organization.
- Managed a distributed team of writers as shared resources in an Agile product development environment across multiple projects.
- Established Menlo’s first Documentation & Content Design Department, analyzing content needs, creating workflows, and scaling the team’s impact.
- Proposed and executed migration to a new documentation publishing infrastructure, creating developer documentation portal prototypes and API documentation standards.
- Worked with engineers to develop, edit, and manage content for pre-sales engineers and consultants.
- Planned and conducted usability testing for effectiveness, producing various content types such as technical best practices, demo/sales guides, and training materials.
- Managed content strategy, end-user documentation, UX writing, UI copy, and contributed to improving user interfaces and documentation solutions.
- Served as JIRA, Confluence, and FishEye+Crucible administrator, designing information architecture and administering tool rollout.
- Designed and executed training on Scrum and Agile methodologies, providing support and guidance to new Scrum Masters.
- Planned, researched, and wrote technical documentation for Engineering and Product Management departments.
- Staff Technical Writer for Pentaho Data Integration (PDI/Kettle) and Big Data (Hadoop) projects.
- Contributed to and maintained multiple internal and public wiki sites, managed multiple projects, and worked on Big Data and Data Integration projects.
- Converted existing military manuals into digital documents using XML.
- Developed documentation for new development tools and supervised team members on large publications.
- Researched, wrote, and delivered documents across multiple projects.
- Acted as team lead for electronic classroom documentation.
- Researched, wrote, formatted, and published technical manuals.
- Documented military aviation training simulators and ensured compliance with military specifications.
- Supported lead technical writer with research, formatting, editing, and publishing.
- Managed documentation for military communications simulators and ensured compliance with specifications.
- Created a wiki of the game development lifecycle for internal end users.
- Developed structure and content for the internal wiki with over 250 cross-referencing pages of material.
- Maintained content within the database for EIS help desk analysts.
- Collaborated virtually with team members nationwide.
- Edited and submitted engineering reports, collaborated with SMEs to ensure compliance and technical accuracy.
Certifications
Strengths & Competencies
Analytical Skills, Change Management, Competitive Intelligence, Content Strategy, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Content Architecture, Customer Advocacy, Developer Documentation, Editing, Empathy, Generative AI, Governance, Humor, Innovation, Layout, Localization, Machine Learning, Mentorship, NLP, Onboarding Development, Policy Development, Problem Solving, Process Automation, Project Management, Release Documentation, Strategic Planning, Technical Understanding, Thought Leadership, Troubleshooting, Usability Testing, and UX Copy
Skills & Proficiency
Jira & Confluence
HTML5 & CSS
Git
Developer Docs
APIs
Python
Javascript
Additional Tools - ClickHelp, Docker, Figma, JavaScript, JSON, OpenAPI, Redocly, Regex, SQL, Sublime Text, VSCode, Zapier, Whatever you’ve got!