Senior Technical Proposal Writer

Bruce Curley

Senior Technical and Proposal Writer

Clearance: Public Trust

*********@**********.*** 301-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucecurley/ https://poetslife.substack.com/

Core Competencies

25 Years of Experience using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint,

and Excel

Cybersecurity Documentation Specialist Writing Cybersecurity and AI Documents

Senior Technical and Proposal Writer and Document Manager

Cyber, Proposal, Blog, Web Content, Instruction, Policies Writer

Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts, including Software, Hardware, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence Engineers

Author Quick Start Guides, Continuity of Operations and First Article Testing Documents

Expert-Level at Editing, Style, Formatting

Author White Papers

and Run Books

Deep Experience with Software Development Life Cycle

Write Plain English Software and Hardware User Manuals

Write Clear Manufacturing Instructions for Native Speaking

and Foreign Speaking Workers

Author Writing, Style, and Formatting Guidelines Books

Professional Summary - Senior technical and proposal writer with over two decades of experience crafting clear, high-impact technical documentation, proposals, and user-focused content for cybersecurity, software, hardware, and artificial intelligence applications. Adept at collaborating with hardware engineers to deliver user manuals, training guides, standard operating procedures and other written products that meet stringent deadlines and drive organizational success. Proven ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences, including native and non-native English speakers, while maintaining quality. Create documentation in a fast, elegant, useful, high-quality manner.

Senior Technical and Proposal Writer, Red Cedar Solutions, 05/2023 — 03/2024, (Bernard, Hall, Manager, 301-***-****, *****@*******.***)

For the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), with cybersecurity and strategy experts, wrote BSEE Cybersecurity Strategy, BSEE Recommended Cyber Risk Mitigation Strategy and Practices for Gulf of America oil and gas platform safety.

Edited BSEE/BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Management) Preamble Plan of Action.

With proposal team, created, wrote, and edited technical proposals and SOW’s for FRP’s.

Senior Technical Writer, Sealing Technologies Inc., 6750 Alexander Bell Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, MD 21046, 10/2021 — 01/2023

Partnered with cybersecurity, mechanical, and software engineers to produce user manuals, quick start guides, and AI/ML documentation for special forces cybersecurity fly-away kits.

Authored 12 milestone documents in 7 weeks, securing a $3M payment milestone.

Developed the company’s Style, Formatting, and Writing Guidelines book, standardizing documentation practices.

Conducted quality control for the Solar Winds Service Desk Solutions dashboard documentation, improving usability for internal and external stakeholders.

Senior Technical Writer, Alpha Omega Integration, 8150 Leesburg Pike, Suite 1010 Vienna, VA 22182 (Contactor, IHS), 2/2021 — 10/2021

Wrote templates and content for Planview Capability Technology Management Knowledge Transfer for the Indian Health Service and metamodel data dictionary, glossaries, and other artificial intelligence client deliverables.

Senior Technical Writer, STULZ USA, 1572 Tilco Drive, Frederick, MD 21704, 5/2018 — 2/2021

Worked with engineering teams to write and edit installation, operation, and maintenance manuals for cooling, humidifiers for AI data center rack temperature solutions.

Co-authored sales policies and product support handbooks, distributing PDFs to marketing, sales, and engineering teams.

During a corporate merger, I updated 189 manuals to match STULZ USA format and style.

Improved document accessibility and consistency across departments.

Senior Technical Writer, Allegis Group, 301 Parkway Dr Hanover, MD, 21076-1159, 9/2016 — 5/2018

Created format and style templates and wrote content for security, procedure, policy, server build standards and other enterprise operations documents.

Wrote and updated the disaster recovery plan, disaster recovery run book, standards, policies, data sheets and other work products to meet current and future needs.

Migrated and rewrote legacy documents to current standards, style, formatting and organization rules and regulations and uploaded them to the SharePoint website.

Senior Technical Writer, Transamerica, 1201 Wills St, Baltimore, MD 21231, 4/2016 — 9/2016

With contributions from Manager, Risk Systems, Global Hedging Services and SMEs, re-wrote multiple store-of-knowledge artifacts into Plain English.

Created 38 forms and templates to meet corporate, regulatory, and financial standards.

Reviewed over 40 corporate continuity of operations and disaster recovery plans to write integrate them into one model business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

Rewrote Service Level Agreements (SLA's) in Plain English for bank customers.

Education

University of Pennsylvania, BA, Cum Laude 3.56 GPA; Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies, graduate courses in Canadian Studies and economics, American University in Paris semester abroad, Society for Technical Communication seminars for 18 years.

Professional Affiliations

Volunteer Vice President, The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG), https://tacda.org/about/#board). Provide family-friendly manmade and natural disaster education, vision, and direction for over 7,000 members. I have written 18 civil defense articles over 16 years of leadership. Write policy articles for TACDA’s Journal of Civil Defense, such as: Cybersecurity is Everyone’s Business: Protect Your Family, Vol. 60, Issue 1, 2025; Farmers Markets: Solution to American Food Shortages, Vol. 58, Issue 1, 2023; Children and Civil Defense, Vol 52, Issue 1, 2018.

Write and publish the American Tactical Civil Defense Substack to help American families prepare for and recover from disasters: https://poetslife.substack.com

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