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At Precision Content, I provide consulting to our clients to help their companies run smarter, work faster, and prepare for a world of accelerating content technologies.Responsibilities and outcomes include* working across a nimble, agile team of content and training experts* helping Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies transform their content practices, providing in-depth content analyses, writing conversion scripts, and training on best practices* working with multiple tools vendors for the benefit of our clients* providing training and support to clients using a variety of Content Mangement System and content publishing tools, and* developing publishing templates and outputs for clients, both utilizing complex content models and simplifying publishing pipelines* presenting and training at multiple industry conferences on the latest trends and topics of the day

Iowa, United States

At JANA I served as a senior consultant to provide content strategy and training to a diverse group of clients. My experience included:* Working with clients to assess, define, and build content strategies for product content to support business goals* Delivering best practices and training to content teams on content management and intelligent content practices* Developing cost-benefit analyses and data-driven project estimates* Working with tools vendors to communicate and advocate for the needs of our clients* Designing automated formatting and layout pipelines, using XSLT, CSS, and DITA Open Toolkit

United States

At Danfoss Power Solutions, I managed the global technical documentation team responsible for creating clear and accurate customer-facing technical documentation for internal and external customers.Achievements in this role:* Leading a team of technical writers with additional dotted-line reports, including performance reviews and objective setting* Supporting our content management tool stack, communicating and managing our vendors to ensure tools met the needs of our business processes* Training and onboarding team members, as well as cross-functional, internal stakeholders on tools and processes* Leading a process change that resulted in a 23% increase in team output and two-week reduction in cycle time* Leading content migration and rebranding of over 500 documents from multiple mergers & acquisitions* Developing metrics for workload, performance, content reuse, and website search improvement* Developing successful business cases that demonstrated and achieved cost and time savings* Delivering multiple presentations and participating on multiple panels at industry conferences* Managing a six-figure budget for personnel, tools, training, and travel* Achieving above average rating (company-wide) on performance management* Championing technical documentation in a customer experience improvement project that resulted in an 88% improvement in the organization's CX* Researching and developing requirements, in addition to testing and troubleshooting, for the organization's Component Content Management System and Digital Asset Management system* Leading cross-functional process improvement initiatives related to information development, including process automation and technical training of internal customers* Mentoring team members through company innovation competitions to where they reached the finals* Authoring multiple best practice articles for industry newsletters

United States

As a marketing systems specialist I was responsible for the day-to-day administration of a DITA XML content management system and content strategy for producing customer-facing documentation.In this role I delivered the following results.* Greater than 30% content reuse and savings in content creation* 40% increase in tool performance with estimated $10,000+ savings per year* Process standardization and optimization* Cohesive training materials for on-boarding and continual development* Coordinated reviews between cross-functional teams* Implementation of translation and localization processes* Continuous improvement of tools through upgrades and work with 3rd-party vendors

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

At TI, I served as first point-of-contact with engineering clients to develop product documentation. From first contact, I set and maintained the standards to develop documents that were carried through the full product life cycle.I also worked with and supported our leadership team to analyze business processes and develop improved solutions that enabled our team to work in a more meaningful, effective manner.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

I managed technical content for multiple product groups at TI. Basically, I connected the engineer's heads to our customers who needed data sheets and user's guides for devices such as TI's AM335x and TMS320C5535.I also helped lead and consult with our leadership team on projects to analyze business processes, integrate content from business purchases, benchmark competitors, and update an internal wiki.Tasks: *Set up documents in xml for reuse and translation*Collaborate with engineers to write, edit, and publish final documents for external and internal customers*Lead collaboration on and contribute to internal wiki*Use, test, contribute programming to improve automated tools*Listen to and help customers on internal and external forums

Ankeny, Ia

I created and edited installation instructions and operator's manuals for John Deere agricultural equipment using single-source xml authoring, Adobe Photoshop, and modeling programs.Highlights:*Discovered faster, easier way to create exploded views of products using in-house modeling program to help team members more clearly illustrate breakdown of equipment.*Documented build of John Deere’s brand-new Load Command system to create installation instructions. I'm still proud of the polo shirt I received for contributing to the project!*Interviewed subject matter experts to produce accurate content and worked with the marketing team to meet tight, quarterly deadlines.

Nevada, Ia

Highlights:*Tested and developed a new research template for a local youth- and family-health workshop.*Led young teenagers through activities and information sessions on healthy nutrition and exercise.*Worked with other facilitators to conduct family-building activities and information sessions.

Ames, Ia

Highlights:*Wrote and revised news articles for the Technology News newsletter.*Edited transportation reports using Microsoft Word and the Chicago Manual of Style.*Coordinated with and interviewed subject matter experts on transportation reports.

Highlights:*Prepared, wrote, and taught curricula on Microsoft Office, C++, Java, HTML, and game design.*Created and led daily activities for campers of age 9-17, including an outdoor activity class that earned the highest camper rating in camp history.

Ames, Ia

Highlights:*Designed page layouts using Adobe InDesign for the opinion section while writing a regular column and editorial.*Led weekly meetings and copyedited columns for all opinion columnists.