Woodinville, Washington, United States
Detail-oriented technical editor/content manager/web site manager with 11 years experience in the computer software industry. Strong project management skills. Proven ability to work independently under deadline pressure and remain calm under fire. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-group collaboration skills. Specialties: • HTML • XML/XHTML • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) • MSTP • Chicago Manual of Style • Source Depot • MTPS/MNP • PublishThis!/PubWiz • Content Management Server • Web Trends • Product Studio • FeedForAll
Editor for MSDN Developer Centers, ensuring consistency of tone and style across all properties, as well as maintaining editorial quality. Wrote Best Practices documentation and Editorial Guidelines for content contributors and site managers for MSDN, TechNet, and Microsoft Expression.
Worked with several product groups to create and maintain their developer centers. Responsibilities included establishing the information architecture for the site, building the pages, and ensuring the content was consistently timely, fresh, and of high quality. Ongoing maintenance included continuous improvement of the sites based on monthly metrics and customer feedback.
Edited and published high-quality developer content to the MSDN Library, both online and on the quarterly CDs. Improved customer usability on the MSDN CD by working with a cross-Microsoft team of writers and editors to create the Microsoft Indexing Guidelines.