I am a Technical Writer who marries interests in understanding how things work with communicating ideas, concepts, and process in clear, easy to follow ways. My extensive experience reveals a proven track record of writing succinct, technically accurate documentation for the semiconductor industry within development schedules. I enjoy the creativity and challenges of mastering and capturing highly technical concepts and distilling them into process flows, tutorials, user guides, references, or applications notes to meet the needs of the target audience. By creating synergy with technical subject matter experts in local and global, cross-functional teams that include development engineers, application engineers, and marketing strategists, researching specifications, and reviewing existing labs, code, examples, and project plans, I autonomously learn new technologies, explore ideas, identify the target audience, and lay the foundation for successful customer-required documentation. My career roles range from individual contributor to hiring and developing writing teams. I enjoy the challenge of new domains, whether writing for a new technical domain, such as functional safety, or expanding my management and leadership skills to travel to India to establish the first writing team in India. Stimulated by learning new technology and development environments, I acquire technical knowledge quickly. Working with engineering and marketing, considering the target audience and strategic product plan often create challenges when developing technically accurate documentation within scheduled releases. Creative approaches and flexibility mitigate most challenges resulting in successfully publishing required customer documents. I easily overcome any learning curves with new or proprietary tools that define topics, track issues, and publish documents. With proven technical acuity, I often autonomously research relevant specifications for particular domains such as ISO 26262, IEC 62380, IEC 61709, SN 29500 for functional safety, and use development tracking tools such as Perforce, Jira, and Confluence as well as more traditional tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, FrameMaker, Snagit, and Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop.My Bachelor of Science degree from Suffolk University in Journalism focused on Technical Communications. This writing-centric degree combined with working with a series of excellent editors early in my career, laid a strong foundation for honing my interviewing and writing skills throughout my career.
Listed skills include Customer Service, Management, Microsoft Word, Software Development, and 5 others.