Resume of David Schwartz

Kirkland, Washington

acudmj@r.postjobfree.com

425-***-**** (home)

425-***-**** (cell)

Technical writer with a record of productivity and accomplishment. Successful in carrying out a variety of assignments both as an employee and freelance. Highly analytical and effective in developing documentation by product testing, by reading specifications, and by monitoring documentation requirements through contact with worldwide staff and customers.

Knowledge, Skills, Ability

Create and maintain technical documentation (a large amount being developer documentation), including UI text, on various operating systems and authoring tools.

Add code samples to documentation.

Diff source code files to discover new and modified features.

Work with feature team members to develop tools that improve documentation quality.

Document new features by reading functional specs, test specs, and by product testing.

Coordinate documentation reviews.

Write and edit UI text.

Function as a member of a product development team.

Act as documentation project lead.

Listen to customer feedback and take appropriate action.

Always willing to take on new responsibilities.

While I’ve Been Looking for Work …

I’ve been learning HTML and CSS, as well as doing some programming with C++ and Java.

Recent Work Experience

Deloitte Digital

November 2014 – March 2015

Editor. TCG, an agency, has placed me in a Seattle company, Deloitte Digital, to help Deloitte update thousands of content assets for their client (Zebra). Zebra recently purchased the Motorola Solutions part of Motorola’s business and Motorola Solutions’ marketing and product documentation must be updated to reflect the new owner.

Microsoft

January 29, 1996 - May 1, 2014

Microsoft Visual C++ 1996 – 2005

Owned documentation for:

compiler front end

compiler back end

linker

C Runtime Library

Standard C++ Library

parts of the development environment (IDE)

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – 2014

Owned documentation for programming interfaces:

ODBC

OLE DB

PHP

JDBC

SqlClient (in ADO.NET)

Owned documentation for In-Memory OLTP, a server feature in SQL Server 2014.

Education

Master's degree in technical communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, SUNY Plattsburgh.

Bachelor's degree in English, SUNY Plattsburgh.

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