CURRICULUM VITAE

Professional Experience

RINGTAIL INTERACTIVE

Technical writer with Ringtail Interactive's subsidiary, Ringtail Technology, focusing on gaming-related platform documentation.

Technical Writer
Feb 2023 - Present
Stockholm, Sweden

SIGMA TECHNOLOGY GROUP

Consultant
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Gothenburg, Sweden

Technical writer consultant. Clients include Volvo Cars, for whom I was a technical editor embedded within the Fault Tracing & Diagnostic editorial team; and Volvo Buses, for whom I was a product information specialist with the Driver Handbook team.

JUST FOR THE WIN

Technical Writer
Localization Project Manager
Sept 2018 - Dec 2021
Gothenburg, Sweden

Developed the online casino game studio’s first technical writer role.
Localization management of 29 non-English languages.
Documentation of game specifications in accordance with market regulations.
QA/QC of localized deliverables in HTML5, XML, and JSON for both desktop and mobile.
Collaboration with SMEs to efficiently translate tech-heavy texts into user-friendly descriptions in accordance with compliance requirements across multiple gaming markets.
JIRA, Confluence, Game Technology Portal, XTM, Google Suite.
API documentation.

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EDUCATION

2021 - 2024 (expected)

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Master of Science
Human Language Technology
Linguistics from a computational perspective

2019 - 2021

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science
Technical Communication
Summa Cum Laude 3.8 GPA

2020

BERGHS SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION

Certificate of Completion
UX Writing

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SKILLS

In no particular order and at varying skill levels, names of things I've picked up on the job and through studies:

Atlassian Suite - JIRA and Confluence
Arbortext Editor
Atom (split-diff is a god-send)
Visual Studio Code
Ubuntu and other *nix-based operating systems
Jupyter
Python (regular expressions, POS tagging, various text processing techniques)
Perl
XML
HTML
JSON
Git
Game Technology Portal
XTM Translation Management
Google Suite
Topic-based authoring
Figma
Balsamiq
UX testing through various methods
UX/UI copy (or microcopy for you pedants)
Product and feature naming
Marketing copy

If there is something missing from this list, fear not: I am a fast learner.

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