Lee Anne Kowalski

About

Over seventeen years experience as a technical writer with business analysis and project management experience. Specialties: Technical writing, online help, information architecture, DITA, Eclipse, cloud software, open source software, relational databases, project management, business analysis

Experience

• Senior Staff Technical Writer at Omnissa
  Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Senior Staff Technical Writer at VMware
  Jun 2012 - Jul 2024 · 12 yrs 2 mos

  Currently working on technical documentation for Horizon Control Plane and Horizon Cloud Service. Horizon Control Plane manages both Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and Horizon 8 Connection Server pods deployed in public clouds or on-prem data centers. Previously worked on technical documentation for VMware Cloud Foundation and vCloud Director lines of business.

• Senior Technical Writer at Pegasystems
  2010 - Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  Technical documentation for PegaRULES Process Commander (PRPC).

• Technical writer at contract; freelance
  May 2007 - Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  Technical writer and documentation delivery specialist. Specializing in Eclipse online help/infocenter systems, and DITA-sourced content.

• IBM (14 yrs 8 mos)
  • Project Team Leader
    Aug 2003 - May 2007 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Project team lead for the IBM User Assistance software tools team: * Delivered software tools built on open source technology on time and budget. * Managed the SDLC for the IBM Eclipse Help System ( http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/iehs).

  • Online Help Team Lead/Information Architect
    Jan 1998 - Jul 2003 · 5 yrs 7 mos

    Led a cross-site team of technical writers to deliver the online help information for three releases of the DB2 Universal Database for Windows, UNIX, and Linux product.

  • Technical Writer
    Oct 1992 - Dec 1997 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    Wrote users guides and API reference books for programming language and database system products.