
Lead Technical Editor with 8 Years of experience in the IT industry
Delhi Area, India

Lead Technical Editor with 8 Years of experience in the IT industry
Delhi Area, India
Tools: Flare 3.0, RoboHelp X5, FrameMaker 7.2 (with basic understanding of Structured FrameMaker), Captivate, Snag It 7.0, HTML, MS Visio, MS Office, Visual Source Safe and SourceOffsite
Other Skills: Team leadership, proofreading and editing skills, style sheet and template designing, reviewing and mentoring, estimation and scheduling, process implementation, client interaction and competency development
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FISV; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
As a Sr. Technical Writer in Fiserv primarily handled technical writing and initial setup of technical writing guidelines and style guide for software project-based documentation.
Responsibilities include creating User Guides and Installation Guides for COP suite of products. Peer reviewing and editing assignments across various domains in FGS. Developing standardizing writing guidelines, style guides and templates and estimation guidelines, all aligned with the organization’s software development processes. Mentoring new technical writers. Estimating and scheduling assignments and creating project plans and proposals for technical writing assignments. Interviewing candidates and contributing to organizational documentation needs and activities.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — July 2007 (3 years 4 months)
As a Sr. Technical Writer in Module Lead role in the P&C division of CSC’s Financial Services Group (FSG), handled technical writing, software quality assurance, and process implementation for RISKMASTER and its suite of products for the American self-insurance domain.
Was solely responsible for handling documentation for two other products – Advanced Claims and PABBLO – that are now midrange insurance products for the US market. Single-handedly created online help and training workbooks for RISKMASTER’s Business Intelligence and EDI tools.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Responsibilities included creating User Manuals, Application Support documents and Deployment Manuals, Test Plans and Test Cases, working on Process Documentation. Finalizing templates and maintaining Infogain’s comprehensive repository of Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management processes for all projects and departments. Web content development, design and site enhancement proposals for the corporate website, internal sales portal and knowledge management portal. Writing case studies and quality assurance proposals and documents.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — March 2003 (7 months)
Commercial and Technical Documentation: Pre-sales documentation, including visual documentation, presentations and technical and commercial proposals to facilitate sales related activities.
Process Implementation: Suggested improvement and standardization of templates and guidelines to provide uniformity and quality to documentation prepared for various Veritas products.
Analysis and Research: Sales analysis and reporting, budgeting, maintenance of regional sales activity reports at all-India sales level; Web based research for marketing and business development related queries and maintenance of an effective and up-to-date database of required sales and product information.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Content Developer: Herosoft was developing ERP based add-on software and targeting clientele in the automobile and manufacturing domain in US. Was involved in technical documentation for the new software and in managing content for the Hero Group company websites.
Technical Writing: Design documents and user manuals for add-on software.
Competency and Process Development: Responsible for finalizing templates and standards before initiating technical writing assignments.
Web Content Management: Worked closely with a team of web-designers to develop websites and customize content, for Herosoft group websites.
Business Proposal Writing: Information mapping and content compilation; Writing and editing of collaterals, white papers and case studies. Assisted the business development team in responding to bid documents, requests for proposals (RFP) and information.
Client Interaction: Interacted with SAP implementation team at Munjal Showa to understand the ERP workflow.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — May 2001 (1 year)
Content development and management for Spirituality Community on Indiatimes portal.
Responsibilities included:
Portal Content Management: Content development, e-CRM, client liaison, editing, database management; Assisting in conceptualizing, planning and co-ordination of overall site management; Sustained new idea generation, creative and alliances for furthering eCommunity-based development. Was instrumental in conceptualizing and creating sections like e-version of The Speaking Tree, God and I, and Inspirations. Coordinated with experts to contribute on a timely basis for the Ask the Expert section.
cPGDBA, Marketing, 2004 — 2006
Post Graduate, Modern World History, 1999 — 2001
Diploma, Advertising, Public Relations and Business Studies, 1998 — 1999
High School, 1989 — 1993
reading, writing, editing, sight-seeing