Fine Artist/Illustrator Resume Chantilly VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Adaptable to learning complex software & system concepts
10 years of agile SDLC & documentation life - cycle development
Requirements, design & use case analysis
Process improvement analysis
Mapping business process flow to design
Packaged applications working with templates and style guidelines for branding
Product merge, tracking, version control
GUI & documentation validation
Web & document-based CMSs & data library
7 years of web enterprise documentation development
Format and edit review in support of SDK, API reference material
Authoring content via gathering, hands-on review, SME review
Maintain full product evolution
10+ years of technical writing/documentation standards & desktop publishing with single-source tools/strategies, visual aids, tutorials, QRGs

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Fine Artist/Illustrator

Confidential, Chantilly VA

Responsibilities:

Create still-life, landscape and representational pieces in figurative and portrait art with an affinity for subject matter pertaining. All work and commissions painted from live study, photographic reference, or both - working with acrylics, oils, gouache and graphite as mixed media.

Senior Technical Writer III, Lead

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Responsibilities:

Effectively managed documentation projects, resources, progress and completion timeframes in ongoing maintenance and back-to-back point releases of a geospatial product line.
Delivered integrated technical artifacts for four of six product-line extensions, including validating GUI enhancement workflow for re-engineered algorithms, metadata querying via RDBMS, motion imagery exploitation, and data sources - maintaining full product evolution.
Supported the repository for reference documentation to integrators, site administrators and power users; regularly revised and validated support files to include licensing, site customization, command-line arguments and release notes for code freeze, version control and distribution.
Supported RFP/RFI/RFQ edit review for business units delivering SaaS/ITMaaS/COTS for advanced information solutions to the U.S. government, national, local and international agencies.

Technical Writer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

Successfully facilitated project, progress and documentation deadlines for the modules contained in a web-portal platform with tracking and reporting of data-entry, report administration, financial summaries and site administration; qualified GUI functionality in production, logging defects from UAT and regression testing of financials and reporting modules, generating test-case reports for discrepancies found in modules that track data and return calculations for regression testing, re-engineering of algorithms and configuration.

Technical Writer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

Implemented enhancement content for a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) data-mining enterprise solution, editing existing content and writing overviews, and new and updated procedures for user guide, tutorials and quick start guide (QRG); played key role as principal in the review, edit, and testing of server installation and application configuration for validation and documentation, delivering process-intensive server installation/configuration guide and administrator configuration guide for server-side integration and implementation.