Cb Loeb Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, California, United States

Once again working as a "sole" writer, this time for a products org. Enjoying creative collaboration with the rest of our fantastic UX team.UX writing is not marketing. It's user assistance, procedural writing, microcopy, information architecture, behavioral economics, and research analysis all rolled into one. Having a blast doing what I do.

Cambridge, Ma

▪ Transformed initial role as BU’s sole technical writer to founder and manager of Akamai’s only integrated team of technical writers and user-experience practitioners embedded in a revenue-generating BU.▪ Developed, maintained, and publicized team’s mission, roadmaps, roles, responsibilities, and processes.▪ Collaborated with leaders in BU’s product management and engineering teams to integrate writers and UX designers into the complete software development lifecycle (SDLC). Assigned and assessed work by balancing business needs with the strengths, goals, and domain-specific knowledge of direct reports.▪ Introduced industry-standard user-research methods as part of experience design, usability assessment, and documentation evaluations; made our BU the only one to incorporate UX research as a standard practice.▪ Constructed a complete hiring toolkit unique to the needs of our Documentation and User Experience (DUX) team. This included evaluative criteria for resumes and portfolios, take-home exercises, and role-specific guidelines for interviews to ensure candidates could work with colleagues from disparate groups.▪ Provided individual-contributor technical documentation and UX artifacts including user guides, online help, sitemaps, workflows, interaction designs, low and medium-fidelity wireframes, and prototypes.

WordTechie was my adventure in self-employment. I had some great projects with some super clients, but ultimately decided to return to a more conventional (and predictable) employment situation.

▪ Designed and delivered software courses, including one-of-a-kind workshops such as Word for Writers and Untangling the Ribbon: Transitioning from Word 2003 to 2007.▪ Created custom course materials, including high-level conceptual documentation, task-specific procedural instructions, diagrams, and data visualizations.▪ Built student fan base, garnering repeat enrollment and recurring revenue for the school.

Cambridge, Ma

▪ Developed and implemented UI and functionality tests for web applications, improving usability and dependability of customer tools and support pages.▪ Established coding standards for test scripts; trained colleagues on the scripting language and its implementation, eliminating the need for manual testers.

Ensured the accuracy, quality, and professionalism of written content on client-facing portal.

Wellesly, Ma

▪Sole technical writer providing soup-to-nuts documentation: developed, wrote, edited, and designed all technical communications including user guides, online help, and command-line reference materials.▪Designed and maintained company's first web site

M.S., Human Factors In Information Design, Honors

Activities and Societies: VP of Communications, Human Factors in Information Design Organization

Certificate In Applied Science (C.A.S.), Technical Writing & Multimedia

Coursework included programming in C++, web site design & development with HTML and Perl, introduction to databases, and multimedia design.

B.A., Majors: Writing & Philosophy, Highest Honors

Activities and Societies: Computer helpdesk staff, writing tutor, newspaper copy editor, admissions tour guide