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
- AsciiDoc (+ Antora)
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
- 2021 – Several courses about requirements engineering – Pluralsight
- The Value of Capturing Requirements
- Tracing and Leveraging Requirements
- Modeling Requirements
- Managing Changing Requirements
- 2021 – Picturing Architecture (UML) – Pluralsight
- 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 – Recognized as key contributor to the AIOPS & Automation segment (Enterprise Software Division)
- 2020 – Broadcom’s Vienna Hackathon winner
- 2016 – Automic Automagician award (Top performer recognition award)
Conferences Attended
- 2019 – Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit – Warsaw, Poland
- 2018 – Write the Docs – Prague, Czech Republic
Others
- 2020-2021 – Mentee at the Female Factor
- 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