Business Analyst/event Specialist Resume
Round Rock, TX
SUMMARY:
- Veteran technical writer/analyst with IT background across multiple industries
- Experienced as software and hardware development team member - seeks technical writing
- Content provider, or information developer role where excellence in writing and verbal skills contribute to superior technical communications.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- C programmer on Solaris with X-Windows and Motif (Bell Atlantic, 1990s)
- MS Visual Basic, LISP, FRAMEMAKER
- Solaris and MS Windows, HTML
- JavaScript, EPUBLISHER Pro
- Web Works, Microsoft Word
- Visio, Excel, PowerPoint
- Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop
- Snag-It, Red Hat and UBUNTU Linux
- UNIX, HPUX, Agile and Waterfall Software Development Life Cycles
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Business Analyst/Event Specialist
Confidential - Round Rock, TX
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate merchandise, market, and promote sales to prequalified club members.
- Perform business analysis and write detailed analyses of marketing scope and efficacy.
Technical Trainer/Analyst (Volunteer)
Confidential - Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Train veterans in the use of the Web and Internet, personal productivity software, word-processing software, email and other programs to assist them with job-hunting and personal organization.
Senior Analyst (Avanade)
Confidential - Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Research, plan, write, and develop a Wiki knowledge management system documenting IT architecture of the Texas Medicaid and healthcare information systems. Used SharePoint to source Wiki development
- Interfaced with developers, engineers, SMEs, and management to acquire and manage knowledge of the architecture and functionality of this state-run medical network; used Kronos for project timekeeping
- Team Lead/Senior Analyst for Information development team writing and constructing this large Wiki project; go-to team member on the MediaWiki language
- Experience migrating documents from Adobe 2009 to later versions
Technical Writer (ConnectTel)
Confidential - Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all user experience (UX) documentation, including user guides and quick starts, at this desktop virtualization IBM partner
- Developed end-user manuals and guides
- Integral member of support team testing and documenting software development
- Sole technical writer responsible for all writing, editing, reviews, tools, and production
- Built content iteratively by attending SDL Agile sprints and writing user stories
Senior Technology Writer
Confidential - Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Technical writing covering operations of IBM enterprise-wide IT solutions worldwide
- Collaborated with international teams investigating optimal communications approaches
Business Analyst
Confidential - Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and documented Dell corporate-wide lease and loan IT accounting system
- Developed Oracle database documentation and user guides, including a database dictionary, for end users
- Developed Visio graphs of database dictionary; input by SMEs, project managers, and engineers
- Wrote technical specifications and requirements for ongoing system development
Technical Publications Developer
Confidential - Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Created user manuals, quick-starts, and app-notes for CodeWarrior IC software developer tool
- Coordinated international inputs to print and online documentation with FrameMaker and WebWorks
- Unit tested microprocessors attached to hardware running Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Windows
Technical Writer/Editor
Confidential - Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Wrote and edited hardware/software manuals for the Department of Defense
- Utilized FrameMaker, MS Office, WebWorks and ePublisher Pro to develop information
- Created online software help and integrated help components into software builds
- Authored security documentation for on-site DOD Information
- Developed in-house document knowledge management system utilizing CVS version control software
- Built content iteratively by rapid SDL Agile sprints and writing user stories
Business Analyst (Adea)
Confidential - Irving, TX
Responsibilities:
- Researched, wrote conversion requirements for new telephone-number UNIX-to-Web provisioning system
- Managed gathering of requirements with SMEs, engineers, project managers, and executives
- Conducted team reviews of drafted requirements prior to developer implementation
Information Developer
Confidential- Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Led team of writers and graphic artists documenting Dell laptop and desktop PCs and writing user guides, quick starts, and software and hardware guides
- Wrote extensive hardware/software information deploying FrameMaker and WebWorks
- As a member of single-source implementation team helped to develop an in-house system for document storage and retrieval
- Society for Technical Communications Print, May 2002
Technical Trainer
Confidential, Princeton, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Trained students at the college level in computer applications and languages
Technical Trainer
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- Course developer and trainer for corporate clients in office productivity software