Senior Writer, Technical Cover Letter

I am excited to be applying for the position of senior writer, technical. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for assistance in the development and maintaining of the Unix/Linux infrastructure services based on the banks standards.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience using XMetal or Live Content Architect, and Adobe Robohelp Preferred
• Consistent highly effective performance at grade 9
• Comfort interacting with subject matter experts while developing interview skills in multiple environments (email, chat, face-to-face)
• Significant experience writing technical publications for a technical audience
• Experience with professional technical writing tools and wiki markup/HTML to create and manage technical publications
• Significant experience in working with extremely complex technical solutions
• Experience documenting publicly available APIs
• Familiarity with document authoring tools, including with light weight markup languages

In response to your job posting for senior writer, technical, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for unix and Linux related mentoring and technical guidance to first level command center support via documentation of operational processes and procedures, as well as occasional workshop sessions.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Knowledge of technical writing authoring technologies, including XML and DITA
• Understands concepts and develops in-depth working knowledge of products, applications and systems in assigned area of responsibility
• Proficient in reading mechanical and electrical schematics, flow sheets, drawings, bills of materials, and technical specifications of complex equipment
• Detail-oriented in writing and formatting documentation
• Proficient in the use of Interleaf and/or FrameMaker Desktop Publishing Software
• Understanding of DITA, publishing to XML, and HTML
• Technical Writing, Journalism, English, Information Design, or Software Engineering Major
• Above-average proficiency with written English

I would like to submit my application for the senior writer, technical opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for support to Customer in effectively using the IETP if required.Collaborate with the Electronic Publications team, Tech Pubs System Developer, Illustrator, Multi-Media Designer, Editor and Translators to enable the completeness of the work task and the necessary update to the Technical Publication(s);.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Analytical and organized, excellent time manager and a self-starter
• Adapting comfortably to change
• Solid FrameMaker skills
• Experience using SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, and MS Project
• Support to tactical SATCOM programs
• Team player, who goes out of his/her way to help team members, whenever possible
• Professional written and verbal English
• Proficiency in various content editing tools

Please consider me for the senior writer, technical opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for technical direction and escalation for technologies maintained within the Unix/Linux compute space.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Need to work collaboratively with subject matter experts including researchers, developers, product management, and client and managed services team members to analyze requirements, understand and document system processes and functions
• Need to convey complicated ideas into simple words and instructions
• Follow defined standards and processes, such as business guidelines and documentation style and organization
• Need to be proactive, take own initiative and responsibility to drive the documentation, and documentation solution and processes, forward
• Need to be group oriented as focus is on team achievements
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook and PowerPoint)
• Exposure to MadCap Flare
• Front Arena knowledge

I am excited to be applying for the position of senior writer, technical. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for experienced technical editor(s) to review, edit, and standardize study reports, information papers, and other formal documentation.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Experience with product development software for Agile environments such as Jira
• Familiarity with FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher
• Experience with online help projects using single sourcing
• Knowledge of LINUX-based systems
• Substantial experience with writing for technical audiences
• Experience with documenting command-line interfaces or APIs
• B.S in technical writing, related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of virtualization, networking, and container technology