More detailed information about me, what I do, and what I enjoy in life.
I began my career as a technical writer producing documentation for software products. It taught me to become fully immersed in the product, to take deep dives in questioning and learning, and to test the product thoroughly while writing about it. In short, requirements gathering, scope, audience, and experience were paramount.
Then, as a groundbreaker, I began producing online documentation in HTML, when paper manuals were the norm (late 1990s).
Next, I collaborated with the software development team to get the documentation integrated into the products.
From there, we learned that most of the documentation was duplication of the screens the user saw. Why not just make the screens more helpful at the point of need?
My career evolved into front end development due to the insights I brought.
Later, I would join teams that disrupted existing markets to rapidly build ideas into functional prototypes.
The proof of concept gained key stakeholders and we worked hard to make the new ideas normative in the organization. I created standards and workflows to accompany the new products.
Eventually, the products would be passed back to in-house teams for long term support and I'd move on to the next adventure.
That's my story!