Skills
- Designing and writing online help and printed manuals.
- Documenting APIs, use cases, training materials.
- Writing microcopy: UI labels and customer-facing messages.
- Creating engaging and compelling e-learning courses.
- Defining writing practices, standards and procedures.
- Translating user guides, GUIs and whatever I find interesting/challenging/helpful
- Subtitling
Tools & Programming Languages
Documentation
- XML documentation add-on for Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe FrameMaker
- MadCap Flare
- DoctoHelp
- Microsoft Office
- Confluence.
Video/Images/Graphics
- Visio
- SnagIt
- Camtasia
- Vyond
- LucidChart
Digital adoption platforms
- WalkMe
E-learning
- Articulate (Storyline, Rise)
Version control
- GIT / GITHUB / GITLAB
- SVN
- P4
CI/CD Tools
- TeamCity
- Jenkins
- Bamboo
Subtitling
- Amara
Markup Languages
- HTML
- Markdown
- XML
CSS
Programming languages
- JavaScript (intermediate)
- C (basic)
Business Analytics
- Microsoft Power BI
Other tools
- JIRA
- Postman
- OpenAPI (Swagger)
Experience
Nov 2019 – Present – Senior Technical writer at Broadcom (Vienna, Austria).
Aug 2019 – March 2020 – Season of Docs (Google Developers) Technical writer at Open Food Facts (Remote).- Mar 2016 – Nov 2019 – Technical writer at Broadcom (Vienna, Austria).
- Apr 2014 – Feb 2016 – Technical writer & Spanish translator at SmartStream Technologies (Vienna, Austria).
- Jan 2015 – Mar 2016 – Proofreader for the Spanish Matura (school-leaving examination) at BIFIE – Austrian Federal Institute for Education Research (Vienna, Austria).
- Sept 2013 – Mar 2014 – Spanish language assistant at Education Board Upper Austria (Freistadt, Austria).
Jul 2010 – Sep 2010 – Internship at the Spanish Translation Service of the United Nations (HQ) (New York, USA)
Oct 2007 – Jun 2008 – Collaboration Grant with the Translation Department. University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain). Spanish Ministry of Education.
Jul 2006 – Jun 2007 – Internship at the SAP Language Services Department (Walldorf, Germany)- Additional experience includes:
- Director of the Internship & Career Office at UCAV (Avila, Spain).
- Secretary at the Conference and Events Department at UCAV (Avila, Spain)
Foreign Trade Technician at ADE International EXCAL (Lisbon, Portugal)- Executive Secretary at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (Madrid, Spain)
Education
- Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Web Programming (Harvardx, online, anticipated completion: 2021)
- Masters in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Universidad Pablo Olavide, Spain)
- Degree in Translation and Interpreting (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
- Exchange Student under the Erasmus scholarship program (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
- MSc in International Trade (ESIC, Spain)
Certificates
- 2018 – SAFe 4 Practitioner Certificate
- 2018 – DevOps Foundation Certificate – DevOps Institute
- 2012 – Negotiations Program – UCLA Anderson School of Management
Courses
- 2020 – Web Accessibility Bootcamp – Deque University
- 2020 – A Practical Approach to Instructional Design – Udemy
- 2020 – Working with Oracle Autonomous Database – Oracle
- 2019 – Introduction to Cybersecurity – Cisco Academy
- 2019 – Introduction to DITA – LearningDita
- 2018 – API Documentation: Basic Programming – Udemy
- 2018 – Learn API Technical Writing: REST for Writers – Udemy
- 2018 – Learn API Technical Writing: JSON and XML for Writers – Udemy
- 2017 – Localization Essentials – Udacity
- 2008 – Business German Course – Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Awards
- 2020 – Broadcom’s Vienna Hackaton winner
- 2016 – Automic Automagician award (Top performer recognition award)
Conferences Attended
- 2018 – Write the Docs – Prague, Czech Republic
- 2019 – Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit – Warsaw, Poland
Others
- 2018-2019 – Mentee at Professional Women’s Network Vienna Mentoring Program. Topic: Career Advancement
To learn more about my work experience, visit my LinkedIn profile: https://at.linkedin.com/in/marinahernandezgarcia
