Download
Skills
EDITING
Microsoft Manual of Style, The Chicago Manual of Style, HTML, XHTML, DITA/XML, WDCML (MS XML standard), CSS, XMetaL, oXygen, FrameMaker, MS Word.
PUBLISHING
Doxygen, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, RoboHelp, FrameMaker.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT / REVISION CONTROL / BUG TRACKING
Perforce, SDL Publication Manager, Git/GitHub, JIRA, MS (Source Depot, Team Foundation Server, Product Studio, Visual Studio Online, GenDox, SharePoint).
GRAPHICS / GAME ENGINE
Visio, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Inkscape, Cinema 4D, Unity.
PROGRAMMING / DEVELOPER TOOLS
C++, C#, Java; Android API, MFC, REST API; Android Studio, Visual Studio, Postman, Fiddler, Microsoft Message Analyzer.
TECHNICAL TRANSLATION
English, Chinese (simplified and traditional).
Experience
Oracle Cloud — Oracle Content Management
Principal Technical Writer Full-time 2022 – 2023
- Designed, developed, and maintained developer documentation for Oracle Cloud’s Oracle Content
Management on the topics such as integration and extensibility, headless CMS, and embed UI API.
- Collaborated with multiple internal stakeholders to improve content flow through content design.
- Created and maintained product documentation following user content development processes, templates, and standards using oXygen and SDL Publication Manager.
- Contributed individually and as a team member while working with technical leads and PMs.
Microsoft — Azure IoT Research and Development
Content Developer Contract 2018 – 2019
- Lead writer and project manager on the IoT School content migration project to accelerate customer adoption of Azure IoT technology.
- Created Industrial IoT documentation for GA launch, as well as created and maintained Azure IoT Central documentation.
- Created training module for Azure IoT Central for MS Learn.
- Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to create online content in the form of docs and tutorials.
- Provided graphics assets using Photoshop and Visio as appropriate for various published content.
Microsoft — Office Customer Success, Customer Promise
Programmer Writer Contract 2015 – 2017
- Created the curriculum in English and Chinese on the end-to-end development and publishing of Office Add-ins to improve developer engagement with the Office platform.
- Provided content strategy for the Interop event website in areas such as content layout and design, localization, and usability.
- Translated all marketing content and technical documents.
- Owned the Open XML SDK content set for the 2.7 release; edited and revised API documentation and developer guides.
- Overhauled and improved documentation for Exchange and SharePoint Protocol Test Suite on GitHub through research, writing, editing, and conversion of legacy Word doc to Markdown.
Microsoft — Universal Store and Partner Center
Technical Writer Contract 2014 – 2015
- Drove the development of SDK documentation that included API reference, Getting Started guide, and tutorials of sample code for the (CSP) REST API.
- Facilitated developer relations between e-commerce engineering teams and partners by providing concepts and examples in the documentation.
- Worked closely with feature teams, product managers, and senior engineers to improve the documentation in an iterative environment.
- Updated help forum queries and FAQs and revised the documentation based on feedback.
- Wrote and edited content using XML editor XMetaL and applied WDCML (MS XML standard), and published the documentation.
Amazon — Global Content Systems & Tools, Seller Experience
Technical Editor Contract 2014
- Converted Seller Support Help content to DITA in structured XML-based authoring environment.
- Edited DITA/XML code and complex content sets using XMetaL/SDL Trisoft.
- Conditionally processed multiple language layers and their output destinations.
- Compared, edited, translated, and ported Chinese/English Seller Support content to achieve single- source publishing in English.
480nm — 3D modeling and animation software suite for content creation
Technical Writer Contract 2012 – 2013
- Wrote the UI library SDK documentation that included API reference guide, tutorials, and sample code.
- Performed basic code testing.
- Launched the website responsible for product promotion and deployment.
Amazon — Kindle Paperwhite
Kindle Content QA Specialist Contract 2011 – 2012
- Designed the testing method for the first Kindle English & Chinese dictionaries.
- Tested digital dictionaries on Kindle devices and Kindle Cross Platform application on Windows PC and Android tablet; reduced failure rate from
7% to 1% for inflection test, 40% to 1% for In-Book test.
- Resolved content issues in relation to HTML, CSS, XML and identified solutions that enable delivery of a high-quality product.
- Maintained reporting and tracking of software defects and presented findings to internal and external stakeholders.
- Worked cross-functionally to communicate errors, perceived errors, and product improvements in various types of Kindle products.
Credentials
Education
Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology
University of California, Davis. 2002
Bachelor of Art, English
University of California, Davis. 2002
Technical Communication and Copyediting Certificates
University of California, San Diego Extension. 2010
Continuing Education
Introduction to Virtual Reality
Coursera. Mar 2020
UI & UX Design Specialization
Coursera. Dec 2019
Graphic Design Specialization
Coursera. Nov 2019