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Employment
Solutions By Text: Technical Writer
Dallas, TX (remote position)
March 2022 – Present
- Document customer-facing APIs on the Redoc platform. Primary responsibility is for descriptive text and images; secondary is for issues with schema components. Requires collaboration with engineering teams in India and the United States.
- Create HubSpot Knowledge Base articles for customers. Requires collaboration with product managers and engineers for UI/UX and other platform areas and elements.
- Record, edit, and narrate feature videos for HubSpot Knowledge Base.
- Maintain Product Team SharePoint pages for information and document sharing with other company teams.
- Create and automate SharePoint Forms and Lists for product enhancements and messaging templates.
- Edit and rewrite root cause analysis (RCA) reports for platform incidents.
Hempel (USA), Inc.: Technical Writing Associate
Dallas, TX
November 2014 – March 2022
- Wrote, edited, designed, and managed process for creation and updates of technical documents for Neogard Construction Coatings division. Includes product application manuals, product data sheets, CSI-formatted guide specifications, reference charts, and others as required.
- Developed processes for creation, updates, and version tracking of the documents listed above. Required interfacing with Technical, Sales, Marketing, R&D, and Regulatory subject matter experts, and satisfying their requirements.
- Managed product data sheets within InRiver Enrich Product Information Manager for Hempel North America.
- Developed taxonomy for Neogard technical documents. Goals included standardization of language, fewer errors, and eventual transition to a database-driven platform.
- Wrote and edited marketing materials for Hempel and Neogard campaigns, including web blogs, case studies, and social media posts.
- Managed content and design of internal SharePoint websites, including document repositories and lists/databases.
- Managed content and design elements on the customer-facing Neogard website.
- Created Neogard construction detail drawings in Illustrator.
- Coordinated product complaint process (former secondary role).
Sabre: Intern, Technical Writer
Southlake, TX
May 2014 – August 2014
- Created an instructional PowerPoint presentation on airline codeshare operations and software; presentation used by Airline Solutions customers and employees.
- Edited documents used by the codeshare automation team used to acquire settings from airlines to set up codeshare operations.
- Won the business case competition for interns as a member of a four-person team
- Created promotional materials for an intern community service project.
Cedar Valley College: PC Support Specialist
Lancaster, TX
February 2004 – May 2014
- Documented department processes and procedures.
- Wrote end user documents for training and education.
- Evaluated and deployed new software.
- Configured and maintained desktop systems, servers, and networks.
Education
University of North Texas: Denton, Texas
Master of Arts with a Major in Professional and Technical Communication
December 2018
Iowa State University: Ames, Iowa
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication
May 1997
University of Wyoming: Laramie, Wyoming
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
May 1993
Software
- MS Office
- Adobe Creative Suite
- MadCap Flare
- Redoc/Redocly and Markdown, edited in VS Code
- Camtasia
- SharePoint
- CMS including DNN, WordPress, and Sitecore
- Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, Mac OS X.
Background
- Big Brothers Big Sisters, 2016 – 2023.
- Hempel Foundation: Visited school improvement projects in Vietnam, April 2016.
- Hobbies: Computers, travel, astronomy, aviation, movies and video.
- Spent first three years of college in Army ROTC, half that time on scholarship.