Senior Technical Writer & Editor Resume
Longwood, FloridA
SUMMARY:
Motivated and disciplined Army veteran with leadership abilities. Highly persuasive and detail oriented with proven writing, editing, oral communication and presentation skills. Possess strong personal initiative, discretion and insight. Excellent analytical and tactical problem solver. Able to work independently or as part of a team to meet deadlines and achieve results.
EXPERTISE IN:
Leadership
Guides
Relationship Building
Box & SharePoint
Adobe Office Suite
Confidentiality
Technical Writing & Editing
MS Office Suite
Content & Resource Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior Technical Writer & Editor
Confidential, Longwood, Florida
Responsibilities:
- Created and maintained the information and content architecture for fluid management systems.
- Wrote easy - to-understand user interface text with experience in technical writing of software documentation.
- Created user guides, functional support manuals, guides and manuals.
- Assisted with publishing and support documentation with the ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures.
- Excellent writing skills in English and proper grammar.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Adobe Office and Frame-Maker. Used multiple authoring and publishing tools, including MS Word, Confluence.
Senior Technical Writer & Editor
Confidential, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Responsibilities:
- Created and maintained the information and content architecture.
- Wrote easy-to-understand user interface text with experience in technical writing of software documentation.
- Created user guides, functional support manuals, guides and manuals.
- Assisted with publishing and support documentation created by the Directors.
- Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures.
- Excellent writing skills in English and proper grammar.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Adobe Office and Frame-Maker.
- Used multiple authoring and publishing tools, including MS Word, BOX and SharePoint.
Senior Technical Writer & Editor
Confidential, Orlando, Florida
Responsibilities:
- Worked with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of the documentation requirements.
- Created and maintained the information and content architecture.
- Produce high-quality documentation that met applicable Confidential standards and was appropriate for its intended audience. Wrote easy-to-understand user interface text with experience in technical writing of software documentation.
- Peer edited documentation created by other writers and delivered high quality documentation paying attention to detail.
- Created user guides, functional support manuals, online guides and configuration manuals.
- Assisted with publishing data dictionaries (glossaries) and support documentation created by Directors.
- Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures.
- Excellent writing skills in English and proper grammar.
- Worked with the department directors in scrubbing project content and assisted in archiving project documentation.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Adobe Office and Frame-Maker.
- Used multiple authoring and publishing tools, including MS Word, BOX and SharePoint.
Technical Writer/Project Manager
Confidential, Orlando, Florida
Responsibilities:
- Participated in project kick-off meetings to appropriately identify needed documentation.
- Reviewed and edited documentation and adhered to client technical publications standards.
- Interviewed appropriate subject matter experts (SME) to understand the intended audience and create appropriate documents for that audience.
- Tracked and fixed documentation defects while assisting in the development and implementation of the end user documentation strategy.
- Met financial objectives by forecasting requirements, scheduled expenditures and analyzed variances and initiated corrective actions.
- Developed a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities and reviewed the project schedule with management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revised the schedule as required.
- Provided time and resource estimates for project documentation.