Rock climbing
Shashi Kumar
Bengaluru
Summary
- 10 years of experience in Technical Writing.
- Experienced in Technical Writing, Information Analysis, Information Designing, and Manual Testing.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Worked in large teams and small teams involving team members from diverse geographical locations and cross cultures.
- Experienced in using PLM tools such as Clearquest, Jira and TFS (Team Foundation Server).
- Domain knowledge in Automation, Telecom, Software and Networking domains.
- Worked closely with the developers, program managers, product owners and testers to provide the documentation in accordance with their Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and software builds.
- Implemented chatbot on the documentation tool with the help of developers.
- Provided various ideas on how document can be modularized based on the PI classification.
- Documented various manuals using DITA (Darwin Information Theory Architecture) and information mapping principles. Maintaining the CMS (Content Management System) and was responsible for version controlling and metadata mapping.
- Documented various guides using modular documentation methodologies and reusability concepts.
- Skilled in tools like Adobe FrameMaker, Atlassian Confluence Wiki, MathType, SnagIt, Adobe illustrator, Photoshop Elements and Microsoft Visio.
- Experienced in internal quality testing on various manuals and products using manual testing principles.
- Involved in process documentation and style-guide guidelines.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Documentation Specialist
SIEMENS
03.2019 - Current
- Working in SIEMENS as a Senior Documentation Specialist from March 2019 – till date on SIMATIC products such as PCS 7 for European, Chinese, Japanese and Indian markets
- Roles and responsibilities:
- Leading a team of 4 members
- Involving in all phases of DDLC (Documentation Development Life Cycle)
- Documenting and testing various manuals for PCS 7 w.r.t Information mapping principles, Modular documentation, and Manual testing principles
- Illustrations using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop elements and MS-Visio that involves hardware diagrams and layout diagrams
- Managing translation and localization activities
- Configuring the hardware and executing various test cases
- Created videos on Troubleshooting, Configuring, and Installing of different components
- Implementing chatbot with respect to our documents
Information Developer
BMC Software
11.2015 - 03.2019
- Worked in BMC Software as an Information Developer from Nov 2015 – Mar 2019
- Roles and responsibilities:
- Took the ownership of handling Knowledge Modules for BMC TrueSight product
- Documented Knowledge Manuals for different OS platforms
- Created How-to videos on various Knowledge Modules
- Migrated contents from Adobe FrameMaker to Atlassian Confluence Wiki
Technical Writer
Commit Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2015 - 10.2015
- Worked in Commit Technologies Pvt Ltd as a Technical Writer from April 2015 – Oct 2015
- Roles and responsibilities:
- Documented various manuals for the Altivar Drives
- Documented the User Manual for SoMove a configuration tool used to configure various Altivar drives
- Involved in analyzing and presenting competitor analysis report to the management
Documentation Engineer
Assystem India Private Limited
10.2014 - 03.2015
- Worked at Assystem India Private Limited as Documentation Engineer Oct 2014 – Mar 2015
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Documented various manuals for Intelligent Electronic Devices used in both substation and distribution automation
- Involved in Information designing provided inputs in designing the manuals and how to make the manuals more user friendly and modular
- Maintained the CMS and was also responsible for the version controlling of the manuals
Skills
- DITA
- SharePoint
- Trisoft Infoshare
- Clearquest
- SalesForce
- SIPS
- Atlassian Confluence Wiki
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Microsoft Word
- Notepad
- RoboHelp 60
- Camtasia
- Adobe Captivate
- XML
- Adobe Illustrator
- Photoshop elements
- MS Visio
- Documentation Management
- XML Authoring
- Structured Authoring
- Content Reuse
- Information Mapping
- Topic-based Writing
- API documentation
- Metadata Management
- Editing and proofreading
- Information architecture
- Effective Communication
- Graphics Creation
- Problem-solving abilities
Certification
- SAFe Agile
- Train the Trainer program
- Generative AI
Accomplishments
- Awarded “Pat on the back” twice for the SIMATIC PCS 7 documentation.
- Awarded with “Instant Puraskaar award” for the innovation that we did in documentation with respect to information 4.0 principles.
Personal Information
Father's Name: K M Kalyanaiah
Languages
English, Kannada, and Hindi
Hobbies and Interests
Adventure sports, Wildlife rescuing, bike modifier and Trekking
Affiliations
- Attended Docu Hackhathon that happened at Karlsruhe, Germany
- Presented my whitepaper at Stockholm, Sweden
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
SJMIT
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Work-life balanceCareer advancementHealthcare benefitsTeam Building / Company RetreatsQuote
If the doors of perception were cleaned, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.
William Blake
Interests
Hiking
Rafting
Animal Rescuing
Timeline
Senior Documentation Specialist
SIEMENS
03.2019 - Current
Information Developer
BMC Software
11.2015 - 03.2019
Technical Writer
Commit Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2015 - 10.2015
Documentation Engineer
Assystem India Private Limited
10.2014 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
SJMIT
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