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Technical Writing

For whatever it may be worth, I have included my technical writing resume below :

  • Experienced Technical Writer skilled in creating content for IT, engineering, publishing, and finance industries.
  • Organized and efficient in deadline-driven and rapidly changing environment, delivering top-notch, well-organised documents on schedule and within budget.
  • Excels at working with subject-matter experts to gather information, identify relevant data and audiences, and write documents that are clear and user friendly.
  • Excellent quality-driven project manager  with proven success prioritizing and delegating work, creating and maintaining project plans and supervising writers, web developers, software consultants and  illustrators .
  • Strong team player valuable as a knowledgeable point-of-contact for documentation projects.
  • Superior communication and presentation abilities.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • 12 years of experience writing and editing technical documents, including user manuals, white papers, annual reports, presentations, tutorials, and web content.
  • 15 years of experience creating web applications including CMS and Ecommerce platforms.
  • 10 years of experience writing user manuals for web applications software.
  • 10 years experience creating content for corporate marketing and training projects.
  • Thorough knowledge of Chicago Manual of Style and AP Stylebook.
  • Adept with formatting wide range content types, open source programs and content management systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PUBLISHING

  • Authored four 250+ page software user guides for Drupal and Joomla CMS programmers.
  • Authored SME-oriented monographs for IBM Knowledge Center and several other client organisations.
  • Authored content for online learning LMS  in IT, and  commercial educational projects.

IT

  • Planned, authored, and coded HTML-based help systems supporting web applications for software publishers.
  • Created document repositories using open source software.
  • Planned, wrote, and edited operational and instructional manuals, for paper- and web-based publications.
  • Documented engineering processes and specifications for software development lifecycle, product delivery, and product and patch releases.
  • Designed and developed a wide range of web and intranet applications for several client projects, using open source software.

B2B

  • Wrote, edited, and formatted corporate annual reports and white papers.
  • Collaborated with clients’ marketing and operations department to strengthen content in technical proposals, company manuals, employee forms, and contract deliverables.
  • Helped to develop user manuals, program documentation, training manuals, and operational procedures.
  • Assisted in maintenance and updates of documents to support changes in  application and business.
  • Contributed to clients’ website marketing content, customer service, and external customer training.
  • Wrote concept notes, feasibilities and financing proposals for charity projects.
  • Wrote work specifications, contract documents and schedules for construction and manufacturing projects.

NOTABLE CLIENTS

  • PACKT Publishing
  • Taylor and Francis
  • UNDP
  • IBM Knowledge Base / StudioB
  • ADOBE / Studio B
  • CHEVRON
  • SHELL Petroleum
  • ARQIVA
  • PZ Cussons Industries Plc

HIRE ME

Do you have a great idea for a new technical publication and you are looking for a writer to put it together?

I am a freelance Technical Writer, with huge capacity for research, fantastic writing skill and the ability to create SME-oriented content across a wide range of technical topics.

I am available on work for hire, project target cost, royalty and whatever other basis you may propose in between.

My contact details : timi@xceedia.co.uk  |  +234-808-500-7469

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