Technical Editor Resume

SUMMARY:

10+ years of technical writing experience.
Faculty for writing technical documents in simple terms that make sense to the lay reader.
Capacity for collecting, analyzing, and presenting information.
Skilled editing technical documents for accuracy, consistency, grammar, and conformity to the Associated Press and U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) style manuals.
Significant experience developing help systems.
Adept at designing and delivering customized curriculum focusing on relevant business knowledge, interpersonal communications, and computer skills.
Capable of accepting constructive user feedback and incorporating it into a polished final product.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Proficient with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Editor

Responsibilities:

Work with instructional designers and technical writers to develop online documents through subsequent drafts.
Improve online documents by:
Identifying and solving problems of overall clarity or accuracy by reorganizing paragraphs, sections, or chapters to improve the order in which the text is presented.
Writing or rewriting segments of text to improve readability and flow of information.
Revising any or all aspects of the text to improve its presentation.
Edit instructional material for spelling, grammar, style, content, format, consistency, organization, punctuation, syntax, word usage, and instructional efficacy while preserving the meaning and voice of the original text.
Check for or impose a consistent style and format.
Read for overall clarity and sense on behalf of the prospective audience.
Query the appropriate party about apparent errors or inconsistencies.
Cross - check the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and State Operations Manual (SOM) for consistency with their mentions in the text.
Query or correct errors or inconsistencies that may have escaped a technical writer or instructional designer.

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Authored over 70 user manuals, manuals, standard operating procedures, and other documentation in online knowledge base.
Created tutorials and p resented instructor-led to help end-users use a multiplicity of applications, including a voice over Internet protocol communications and group chat.
Wrote standard operating procedures for systems administration, help desk, onboarding, and offboarding processes.

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Authored and edited technical documents that provided end-users with comprehensive knowledge of software applications.

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Wrote, proofread, and edited technical documents and contract deliverables for internal and external facing projects.

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Authored technical documentation that provided end-users with in-depth knowledge of the interface, terminology, and functions of software applications.
Created, edited, posted, and updated content for Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant management wiki pages. HRSA staff and grant applicants used the wiki to understand how to use the Electronic Handbooks ( Confidential ) system, which supported the grant management processes across HRSA.

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Created standard operating procedures (SOPs) and product/service descriptions for the Military Health Service (MHS).

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Wrote a software operation manual for a document-scanning application that U.S. Army personnel used to store medical records.