Tech Writer

Work Experience

Information Management Consultants, Inc., Rockville, MD

Technical Writer, October 2003 – Present

Duties include the following:

• Working on company's contract with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

• Preparing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documents for the team’s seven systems.

• Preparing the following SDLC documents: Business Case, Scope Document, Use Case document, System Architecture diagrams, User Guide, Release Notes, and Quick Cards.

• Guiding the team's systems through the government's Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process.

• Preparing documents required for the C&A process for five additional systems.

• Preparing the following documents for the C&A process: FIPS199 System Categorization, Annual Assessment, System Security Plan, Privacy Impact Assessment, System Recovery Plan, and Risk Assessment.

• Preparing test plans and testing scripts for new software releases.

• Performing Quality Assurance testing of new software releases.

Journal of International Affairs – Towson University, Towson, MD

Editor in Chief, January 2005 – December 2005

Duties included the following:

• Supervised staff of eight undergraduate students to prepare and publish two journal issues.

• Produced staff manual to document responsibilities within the Journal.

• Implemented desktop publishing in the Journal using Adobe InDesign.

• Created subscriptions database using Microsoft Access.

Education

Masters of Science (MS) in Professional Writing, Towson University

Graduated May 2006

• Final GPA: 3.92.

Bachelors of Science (BS) in English, Towson University

Graduated May 2003

• Graduated Cum Laude with 3.40 GPA.

• Minor in Political Science.

Certification

• Earned the Certification and Accreditation Professional (CAP) certificate from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2.

Security Clearance

• Public Trust clearance – moderate low risk level.

Software Proficiency

• Knowledgeable user of MS Word – used to create document styles and templates.

• Knowledgeable user of MS Visio – used to create diagrams, such as process flow, system architecture, etc.

• Basic user of MS SharePoint – used to create team's collaboration site.

• Novice user of Visual Studio.NET – utilized tool to learn basic software development with Visual Basic.NET.

Associations

• Member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).

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