Experienced Lead Technical Writer with a strong background in Software products, specializing in crafting high-quality technical documentation, including user manuals, developer guides, and release notes. I am eager to join Presidio and help deliver accurate, accessible, and well-structured documentation to enhance my knowledge of cloud-based software products.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Technical Writer
Agilysys Technologies India Private Limited
Chennai
07.2019 - Current
Technical writer for the software product that handles payment processing for the world's leading hotel industry brands
The payment solution is a common integration platform that manages the payment processing for hotel properties' end-to-end activities, such as Room booking through mobile or web applications.
Analyze architecture/workflow between the POS/PMS OnPrem products, Cloud, and payment gateways/processors.
Coordinate with the higher management from the on-site team and get the requirements for various documentation needs.
Interview with the Business Analyst and gain insights on the business case/use case/problem solved by the product/feature/functionality
Interview the Product Manager, Quality Assurance team, or Development team and gather the required information about various technical details, such as architecture/workflow/sequence/feature/functionality enhancement, etc.
Create architecture/workflow/sequence diagrams.
Create feature documentation of the implemented feature/functionality.
Define and elaborate the configuration/integration steps for the POS/PMS products.
Elaborate the API endpoint specifications with the corresponding examples and sample requests/responses.
Document review with various stakeholders such as Business Analyst/Product Manager/Quality Assurance team/Development team/Peer review
Coordinate with Quality Assurance teams and document the QA process for all the features/bug fixes.
Create troubleshooting documents for payment products/devices for IT support/consumers.
Publish the documents to the documentation repository and ensure all the documents are up to date.
Ensured that the higher management is well-informed on all the documentation progress on a daily/weekly/monthly basis
Create product documentation for certification provided by payment gateways.
Community Manager/Technical Writer
Ooyala India Private Limited
Chennai
10.2018 - 07.2019
Act as the face of Ooyala across Online community, Social media platform, Forums
To convey the brand message of our company products and services
Manage community structure and style.
Increase engagement between Ooyala employees and end users in the community.
Manage posts and users.
Ensure moderators are replying to user queries.
Ensure spam posts/spam users are filtered/banned.
Technical writer for products and services in coordination with technical support and marketing teams
Manage and update the internal wiki on a timely basis.
Conduct competition analysis of competitor platforms and inform higher management on potential areas to work.
Coordinate with Engineering/Technical support/PSG/CSM teams and ensure that all the internal wiki and external help documents are current.
Assist Technical communications team in API documentation/product training/release notes.
Business Development Manager/Technical Writer
E-Orchids Tech Solutions Private Limited
Chennai
02.2017 - 10.2018
Proposal writing for various RFPs/RFIs for US-based government projects/tenders
Development of business model/revenue/competition analysis of IOT(Bluetooth) based mobile application called iSignal
Market research on various loyalty programs
Drafting & Wireframing functionalities & workflow
Training team in Sales & Marketing
Managing mobile app developers & web developers for integration
Lead generation of various business owners
Meeting various Food and Beverages industry leaders to get feedback on the developed application
Enhanced application as per feedback.
Signing contracts with Food and Beverage business owners.
ATL/BTL promotional activities
Pre-sales analysis
Developed marketing campaigns and worked on cold call scripts, cold calling, video scripts, and other marketing content.
Bid management and technical writing for the products and services rendered by our company.
Senior Business Analyst/Technical Writer
E-Orchids Tech Solutions Private Limited
Chennai
06.2012 - 08.2014
Gather requirements from clients regarding web development projects
User Interface Design, Business Requirement Analysis
Functional Requirements Analysis
Prototype/wireframe of web/mobile application development projects
Assist production deployment team with live implementation
Technical writing/User manual documentation
Presentation & Demo of Product Features along with documentation
Pre-Sales Business Analyst
Mobius Knowledge Services Private Limited
Chennai
09.2011 - 05.2012
Lead Generation & Information gathering through web research
Develop business presentations that are in line with business practices.
Market Research & development of the prospective client Database
Strengthen the company's business development capabilities.
Responsible for sales support involving understanding business and technology scenarios and needs, identifying opportunities, solution offerings, and business cases to the client & involvement in the preparation of proposals
Sales activities, including responding to RFIs/RFQs to various client requests, RFP analysis & Response
Creating a comprehensive proposal detailing estimates, milestones, etc
Support Business Development Manager in responding to Client RFPs / RFIs
Nurturing company database from selected domains
Analyze companies, document products & services as pitch report
Send pitch report to the sales team.
Create presentations of products & services for Face-to-Face meetings with clients.
Business Analyst/Technical Writer
E-Orchids
Chennai
12.2009 - 09.2011
Gather requirements from clients regarding web development projects
User Interface Design, Business Requirement Analysis
Functional Requirements Analysis
Prototype/wireframe of web/mobile application development projects
Assist production deployment team with live implementation
Technical writing/User manual documentation
Presentation & Demo of Product Features along with documentation
Assistant Manager (Business Analyst)
ICICI Bank
Mumbai
11.2007 - 11.2009
Business Analyst for the Core Banking Technology Group's applications.
Played many roles such as Project Estimation, Business Analysis, System Analysis, Business Process Management, Requirement Analysis
Acted as a liaison between Business User and developer to meet the requirements of the client
Writing test cases and reports, UAT Testing & LIVE deployment
User Documentation & support documentation preparation
Resolving LIVE issues with the support team
Ensured that applications were compliant with SOX Compliance standards and annual audits.
Education
BE - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ANNA UNIVERSITY
05.2007
Skills
API documentation for software products for both developers and business management professionals
Comprehensive Product documentation knowledge includes Application Handbooks for Windows, iOS, Android, and the Cloud, User Manuals, Feature guides, Release Notes, and Certification documents
Experience in creating technical architecture diagrams for various stakeholders and usage in documentation
Documentation for Troubleshooting and Infosecurity Audits
Knowledge of the tools/technologies used for technical documentation, such as Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Git, Swagger, Snagit, etc
Acquired skill sets across SDLC, including Pre-sales, Marketing, Sales, Business Analysis, Programming, Quality Assurance, Technical documentation, and Customer Support, which helps in understanding documentation requirements from various stakeholders and creating high-quality technical documentation
Emotionally intelligent to be Agile and handle cross-functional coordination, multiple stakeholders, and collaboration for teamwork
Certification
Technical Writing - Learn API Documentation with JSON and XML, Linkedin, 03/01/19
Technical Writing - Art of API Documentation, Udemy, 03/01/19
Digital Marketing - Search Marketing Specialist, Digital Marketer, 12/01/18
Digital Marketing - Content Marketing Specialist, Digital Marketer, 10/01/18
Digital Marketing - Marketing Foundations, Linkedin, 04/01/17
Digital Marketing - Online Marketing Foundations, Linkedin, 04/01/17
Digital Marketing - Digital Marketing Research, Linkedin, 04/01/17
Digital Marketing - Learning Email Marketing, Linkedin, 04/01/17
Financial Analyst at EMC SOFTWARE AND SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED/Dell, Technologies India Private LimitedFinancial Analyst at EMC SOFTWARE AND SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED/Dell, Technologies India Private Limited