SUMMARY:

An educated IT professional that has been working in the Washington DC metropolitan area since 1985 in Technical Writing, and Configuration Management within the civil and military government software information technology field. Possess extensive experience performing technical writing within a development environment. Have utilized Visio 2000 to make and create flow charts and then place these flow charts into MS Word. I have also utilized MS Excel to keep a statistical analysis of pass and failure rate for the SCI’s that were going through the various software baseline changes. Have held prior clearances, which includes a Secret clearance (granted by DISCO in 2003), and DOJ INS 1C (granted by INS in 1998).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Writer

Confidential, Fairfax VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities as a Technical Writer while on this contract assisted in the writing and reviewing of Requirement, Specification, and Field Announcement documentation using MS Word, then place these documents back into SharePoint.

Confidential, McLean VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities as a Technical Writer while on this contract was to lay the framework for a Data Dictionary document, by using a template that I had already created from another project. On yet on another project for Confidential cleaned up requirement, and specification document, in order for the client to give the cleaned up documents to the customer.

Confidential, Columbia MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities as a Technical Writer on this one month contract assisted in the writing and reviewing of Requirement and Specification documentation using MS Word on already existing project documentation.

Confidential, McLean VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities as a Technical Writer on this two month contract assisted in the writing and reviewing of Requirement and Specification documentation using MS Word on already existing project documentation.

Confidential, Laurel MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a Technical Writer include writing and editing process flow documentation using MS Word; created a User Documentation Manual utilizing Snipit and Microsoft Paintbrush. Also utilized Visio 2000 to create flowcharts and then place these flowcharts into MS Word documents. Created a very large spreadsheet to keep track of documents within the system, and then used this spreadsheet to find and track those documents that people needed.

Confidential, Hanover MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a Technical Writer for writing, editing and using MS Word to make the necessary red line changes to a document. Implemented and created redline changes using drawings from another application to help implement those changes throughout the documentation process. Utilized MS Visio 2000 to make and create flow charts and then place these flow charts into a MS Word document.

Confidential, Falls Church VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a Technical Writer included assisting in the Writing of DITSCAP technical security documentation and Contract Management for a Military Health security System (MHS) in MS Word format. Later on I also worked within Project Management Support, assisting the Military Project Management staff in various aspects of project management support for the MHS project.

Confidential, Reston VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a Technical Writer was on a six month contract to Correct and develop MIL STD Discap Technical Manuals in MS Word, for a federal funded project that was behind on its documentation schedule.

Confidential, Sykesville MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a Technical Writer was on a three month contract to correct a conversion format of System Requirement and design documents that was in Global View format, and needed to be put into Interleaf format (also had to learn Interleaf as I was making the necessary corrections). I also assisted in implementing redline changes for User Manuals that needed to be shipped to the customer by the end of the 1999 calendar year.

Confidential, Herndon VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a Software Configuration Manager include the planning of Internal Review and Configuration Control Boards, ensuring that all software configuration management documents meet the requirements for identification and update, implementing the change control process for the Software Configuration Items (SCI), compiling the SCI into a test baseline, working closely with the Test and Evaluation group to verify that the test results to the test baseline have been done, assisting in the shipment of the approved software baseline releases to the customer sites. Responsibilities as a technical writer include preparing Version Control Documents.

Confidential, Springfield, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible within Software Configuration Management (SCM) include maintaining (MIL) - STD 973 for status of Work in Process within the project programming effort for delivery of software configuration items that can be found within Incremental Development Package Level 3, and 4. Additional responsibilities included delivery and tracking of software configuration items to the customer. Assist the System Administrators by archiving the daily and weekly backups of software configuration items. As a Technical writer my responsibilities included the preparing of a Version Control Documents. As a Configuration Management Coordinator my responsibilities included the creation and maintenance of white belt procedures and checklists within the configuration management department.