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Work History
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Skills
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Core Competencies
Recognitions
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Joseph Daniel

Joseph Daniel

Technical Documentation and User Experience
Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Over 18 years in User Experience and Technical Documentation.

Examining wireframes and providing user experience feedback. Designing, developing, and publishing User Guides, Video Guides, Training Workbooks, Online Help, Quick Reference Guides, Manuals, Security Manuals, Blogs, and Release Notes. Ensuring content follows publication standards: MSTP, Simplified Technical English (STE), The Chicago Manual of Style, or Business Style Handbook. Collaborating with different department team members, including, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Support, and Quality Assurance. Training, mentoring, and standardising the work of the team. Setting and aligning team objectives based on the organizational and departmental goals. Review escalations and work with the team to find lasting solutions. Review and share customer usage analytics. Review team Kanban and Sprint dashboards. Monitoring documentation update requests from various departments and assign to a writer. Report the team’s performance to stakeholders by maintaining the Jira dashboards.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
9
9
Certifications
112
112
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Lead – Technical Documentation

PowerSchool India LLC
6 2020 - Current

Lead – Technical Documentation

Curatech Pvt. Ltd
09.2018 - 03.2020

Mentor - Technical Writer

eClinicalWorks Pvt. Ltd
10.2014 - 09.2018

Technical Content Specialist Level 3

HSBC Data Processing Unit
12.2006 - 10.2014

Senior Technical Support Executive

America Online Software India
06.2004 - 09.2006

Education

MBA in International Business Administration -

Garden City College

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Annamalai University

XII STD -

Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School

Skills

Content Strategy

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Certification

Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques

Core Competencies

Resource Management - Recruiting, training, and appraising.

User Experience - Wire frame evaluation and heuristic evaluation.

Accessibility - VPAT review and compliance suggestions.

Content Types - User Guide, Administrator Guide, Implementation Guide, Online Help, Release Notes, Quick Reference Guides, Business Analyst Workbooks, Video Guides, and Blogposts.

Tools - Adobe FrameMaker, Confluence, MS Word, Jira, XML, HTML, ChatGPT, Photoshop, Acrobat DC, SharePoint, Photoshop, Corel PaintShop Pro, RoboScreenCapture, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Express, Camtasia, Figma,  and Snag IT.

Methodologies - Agile, Lean, Waterfall, and DITA.

Recognitions

  • 2023 Above and Beyond for championing the release notes automation of two products
  • 2022 Inspiring Leader for improving CSAT score by implementing Context Sensitive Help across seven products
  • 2022 Special recognition for updating the most number of topics for the internal style guide
  • 2020 Impact Player for leading and completing the transition of technical documentation to the India COE
  • 2020 Runners-up in the annual hackathon

Timeline

Generative vs Traditional AI, Research write using Generative AI Tools, Introduction to Prompt Engineering

06-2024

Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques

02-2024

Accessible UX Writing and finding your voice and tone

10-2021

MySQL Essential

08-2021

Introduction to Web Accessibility

02-2019

Lead – Technical Documentation

Curatech Pvt. Ltd
09.2018 - 03.2020

Grammar and Style from University of Queensland – Online

04-2018

Knowledge Management from Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Online

05-2017
2016, Introduction to DITA from learningDITA
10-2016

Mentor - Technical Writer

eClinicalWorks Pvt. Ltd
10.2014 - 09.2018
2013, Certification at Blue Dots Consultancy for Advanced Technical Writing
06-2013

Technical Content Specialist Level 3

HSBC Data Processing Unit
12.2006 - 10.2014

Senior Technical Support Executive

America Online Software India
06.2004 - 09.2006

Lead – Technical Documentation

PowerSchool India LLC
6 2020 - Current

MBA in International Business Administration -

Garden City College

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Annamalai University

XII STD -

Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School
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