Skills

After learning about my motley professional and educational experience, you may rightfully wonder what can I actually do as a technical writer. In order to answer this question, I have compiled a short description of my skillset, as well as the list of software tools I am familiar with.

Transferable skills: information planning and architecture; procedural and structured writing; instructional writing and CBT; comprehensive and copy-editing; online help,
web, and database development; documentation project management, knowledge management; documentation and web usability testing; programming; ability to learn and understand technology; strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills

Tool skills: MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel), MS Works, FrontPage, Outlook, Visio, MS Project, MS Visual Studio (Visual InterDev, Visual Basic, Visual C++), XML Spy, RoboHELP,  Adobe Acrobat, PageMaker, Photoshop, FrameMaker, JBuilder, SAS/SPSS, Oracle 9i, SQL Plus, Dreamweaver, some Flash

Programming and scripting languages: C++, VB, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML