David Bailey

Head of User Content

United Kingdom

About

Leading the User Content team at aPriori, I am developing good practice and best-of-breed content for information delivered to our end-user base, including documentation and training collateral. Working to support content creation throughout the company, focussing on client-facing user documentation, I liaise with all client teams, platform teams, and development teams, to manage delivery of high-quality content to internal users and clients.

Experience

  • Head of user content at aPriori Technologies
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Leading the User Content team at aPriori, I am developing good practice and best-of-breed content for information delivered to our end-user base, including documentation and training collateral. Working to support content creation throughout the company, focussing on client-facing user documentation, I liaise with all client teams, platform teams, and development teams, to manage delivery of high-quality content to internal users and clients.

  • Senior Manager, User Documentation at Snyk
    Sep 2020 - May 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Working in the Product team at Snyk, I developed good practice and best-of-breed content for information delivered to our end-user base.

  • Lead Information Architect at White Clarke Group
    Aug 2015 - Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Running the White Clarke Information Architecture team, creating and managing all documentation, training and knowledge collateral.

  • Staff Technical Writer at ServiceNow
    Oct 2012 - Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    My responsibilities included: - Writing application documentation and help on a SaaS platform, aimed at a range of audiences, including business analysts, end users, IT support staff and application developers. - Supporting, training and working with development teams in the USA, India and the Netherlands, to ensure they worked smoothly with their writers to deliver great quality product. - Recruiting and training other authors, and editing their documentation to meet corporate and quality standards. - Transitioning documentation to a DITA environment.

  • Senior Technical Author at Hornbill Systems Limited
    Aug 2006 - Oct 2012 · 6 yrs 3 mos

    Responsibilities: - Implementing new documentation systems and platforms - Creating documentation in a Web-based format for cloud delivery. - Delivery of all application documentation and online help. - Creating training materials and e-learning content. - Recruiting training and supervising other authors. - Working on high-level content such as marketing brochures