Armed with a journalism degree and a lifelong geek aptitude, I was a natural at technical writing! I consider it a special crusade to translate “geek speak” into plain English.
I have over ten years experience as a technical writer/editor in the software industry, authoring and editing task-based user guides, reference manuals, training guides, “how-to” shortcut sheets.
Software User Guide Samples
The following are user guides I wrote from scratch for Java-based website monitoring software. I was the sole tech writer/editor for this product for five years, during which time I wrote and maintained three main product guides and twelve plug-in guides.