Cat McCormick

Full Stack Developer

Profile

Dedicated and efficient full stack developer with experience in F/E and B/E technologies. Seeking to further improve HTML5 and CSS3 skills as the future full stack developer at an innovative company.

Education

Austin Coding Academy - May 2020 - Feburary 2021

Full Stack Web Development Certification

University of North Texas

Masters of Science in Learning Technologyies
Certification in Instructional Systems Design

Thomas Edison State University

Bachelors of Arts in English

Skills

HTML
CSS
Javascript
Markdown
Angular
GIT
XML

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master
Advanced MadCap Flare Developer

Work Experience

Liquibase - UX Technical Writer

UX Writing

Advocates for design, and shapes product experiences by creating useful, meaningful text that helps users complete tasks in our software.
Assists with UX software copy to ensure appropriate naming conventions are followed.
Develops information architecture for complex documentation sets or product suites and websites.
Incorporate learnings from analytics data and usability testing into the content.
Share and promote thought leadership on best-practices in UX writing and content strategy.

Technical Writing

Manage UNT students, interns, and other Datical writers work in JIRA and Trello to keep track of deadlines, workloads, and track dependencies on other components of the product.
Leads the creation of online content and documentation strategy throughout the documentation development life cycle.
Works with subject matter experts and engineers to create online written documentation and getting started guides for customers.
Participates in sprint planning and requirements reviews with business partners and development teams.
Works with the product team and QA to understand requirements from a customer and development perspective then writes high-level documentation as a component of requirements.
Builds and maintains external documentation websites with Markdown and Git, and internal websites with Confluence.

Instructional Systems Design

Leads the initiative to expand Datical into online training and other self-service enablement.
Created Liquibase University using TalentLMS to build a self-paced online training certification program.
Works with subject matter experts and Customer Success Engineers to develop an instructor-led training program for Datical Enterprise customers.
Analyzes, designs, and develops instructional materials and videos for Liquibase Pro products.
Develops training plans and creates development roadmaps for documentation of Datical and Liquibase products and instructional materials.

Dun & Bradstreet - Senior Technical Writer & Localization Project Manager

Project Management & Localization

Plan releases and future product direction.
Work hand in hand with cross-functional teams, including individuals from Product team(s), Engineering, UX Designers, Customer Training, and/or Customer Service.
Manage multiple localization projects & literals and handles vendor management for translation of content into German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
Handles all project management for budgets, purchase orders, invoices, and payment processing.
Create development roadmaps for all documentation and translation projects.
Work with translation vendors and maintain translation memory files.

UX Writing & Design

Present designs to team members, larger audiences, and key executives within Dun and Bradstreet.
Actively promote designs and future direction within Dun and Bradstreet and at outside conferences and meetups.
Design, build, and maintain documentation websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Created UX design wireframes in Excel, Balsamiq, and used sketch to create mockups, then iterated on them with product owners.

Technical Writing

Lead and develop customer-facing product documentation for a defined set of products.
Create online video tutorials for customer help centers.
Contribute documentation to all projects as needed and necessary for the team's success.
Develop, deploy, and perform all documentation development life cycle processes.
Adhere to defined brand standards, styles, and guidelines for the type of deliverable developed.
Participate in requirements review with business partners and development teams.
Provide focused and effective project management as it pertains to documentation development, implementation deliverables, and timelines to meet both release and customer deadlines.