Lead Technical Writer
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Lead Technical Writer
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Technical writer experienced in producing concise, accurate information for technical and non-technical audiences including guides for administrators, trainers, and end-users.
Led documentation effort for third consecutive release of access control software.
Supported fellow writers in team-wide structured authoring initiative, automated help builds, and researched new tools. Scripted and recorded training videos to help writing teams learn to use content management system.
Currently contributing to forthcoming release of Citrix XenApp.
Structured authoring, XML, DITA, HTML, CSS, Microsoft Office, Framemaker, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, Robohelp, WebWorks, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Visual SourceSafe, Perforce, CVS
(Public Company; CTXS; Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
During recent migration to structured authoring, provided technical support to writers working with recently-acquired content management system. Restructured legacy docs to streamline content and increase localization efficiency.
Acted as Publications Build contact for XenApp 5. Worked closely with developers and testers to ensure documentation deliverables were incorporated in the product and appeared and behaved as expected. Implemented and maintained automated help build service using scripts to generate help deliverables.
Led documentation effort for third release of Access Gateway Advanced Edition product. Finalized new terminology and branding with marketing and development groups. Migrated doc set to DITA as a pilot project for structured authoring, reducing overall wordcount by 40% and increasing localization efficiency by 25%.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Real Estate industry)
September 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Worked with IT Director and technical personnel to create a variety of business documents including IT policies and procedures for disaster recovery and annual technology budget review.
Developed and published quick-start, training, administrator, and end-user guides for Lotus Domino applications developed in-house and customized implementations of third-party software.
Created support documents to aid end-users and technical support personnel when new technologies were deployed. Mentored newly hired technical writers.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)
Developed and published application user manuals, installation guides, and system configuration guides for flagship restaurant management application.
Tested software functionality to verify documentation, and improve product usability and security.
Developed knowledge base articles to improve customers’ product experience.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — July 2001 (9 months)
Created online help system for Web-based human resource management application.
Created workflows, business requirements, and use cases in cooperation with developers and CTO.
Revised existing documentation for new application versions and wrote how-to articles to improve customers' application experience.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DRTN; Internet industry)
November 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Developed clustering and server migration documents that increased new employee productivity by 50% and enabled Application Engineers to quickly implement large-scale managed Web hosting solutions.
Developed administrative guides, customer care documents, and hardware configuration guides.
BA , French, English , September 1989 — December 1994