Technical Writer Resume Herndon, VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Accomplished technical and business writer, editor and published author with deep background in information technology; noted for making scientific and technical material understandable to laymen.
Many years’ experience in RFP development; proposal writing and evaluation; and development of course material; launching
CMMI and PMBOK initiatives; management consulting in the public sector and Fortune 500 corporations; program and project management; development of application and operating system software. Educated in science, engineering and business.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Member of an elite team of technical writers whose mission was to rewrite all technical documentation drafted by the software engineers, standardizing terminology and improving spelling, grammar and syntax.
Our mission was to ensure that the content was clear, complete, accurate and unambiguous, and satisfied the quality standards of the public sector clients.

Confidential

Technical and Business Writer

Responsibilities:

Wrote all documentation for a mission - critical federal online software redevelopment project with a 13-member team in a CMMI-certified environment. This included end-user documentation such as the user guide, agency documentation such as test plans, and internal documentation such as status reports.
Continued with the same duties, including regular documentation updates, after the system went into production in 2011.
It is used by the client organization to disburse one-half of one percent of the federal budget. Also scribed minutes at meetings and wrote various sections of the (successful) proposal for renewal of the contract.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Editor and Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Wrote the thousand-page project plan for a data warehouse project for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Edited input from the project team but wrote more than half of the content personally. Also created the user guide, operations guide, materials, and RoboHelp screens. Established standards for style, typography, organization, tables and charts.
Revised, expanded and edited white papers on data warehousing for Guident.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Editor and Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

Created an IT project management handbook for the Comptroller of the Currency, integrating PMBOK knowledge areas with existing best practices and personal experience. Was brought in to salvage the project when the incumbent proved incapable.
Covered communication, quality, resource, risk and schedule management. Established standards for style, typography and organization. Edited input from colleagues and client staff, but wrote most of the content personally.

Confidential

Manager, Editor, Trainer

Responsibilities:

Launched a process improvement program to support development of new internet marketing systems. Edited a system development methodology and wrote much of the content.
Developed and delivered courses in software measurement and project estimating using Function Points.