Aaron K. Redshaw

How to get a job in technical writing

Creating an Online Portfolio

2020-05-15
Resources Slides from presentation Handout for Creating an Online Portfolio The best article I found for comparing web hosting sites The top part contains inexpensive hosting plans, with free accounts at the bottom. Advice for aspiring writers This was a letter I wrote to Karen (not her real name), full of advice about what worked for me and how I went about getting into technical writing. Technical writing tools / skills most in demand According to searches I made on Indeed. Continue reading

DebtPayoff

2020-05-15
As I was learning Java, I realized I had need of a program that would calculate how much money and time it would take to pay off my credit card. I wanted to be able to play with the numbers. If I paid $20 more per month, how much would I save in interest payments? How about $50? This program does just that. View the Source Code or Download the Program

DITA & FrameMaker

2020-05-15
Skills demonstrated: DITA, XML, topic based authoring, structured authoring, single source publishing, computer hardware, research, photo editing, docs as code​ Tools used: FrameMaker, Photoshop, WinSCP How to Build a Computer​ Three file types generated, two conditional outputs, one XML source Windows Directions Responsive HTML 5 (Windows) Microsoft HTML Help File (Windows) Kindle e-book-.mobi) (Windows) Linux Directions: Responsive HTML 5 (Linux) Microsoft HTML Help File (Linux) Kindle e-book-.mobi (Linux) Note: Continue reading

Resume

2020-05-15
Read my resume as a Word doc or PDF. If you are ambitious, try my Java Swing resume.

Technical Writer – Developer Docs / APIs

2020-05-15
| Resume | LinkedIn | GitHub | Amazon | Resources for “Creating an Online Portfolio” STC Presentation Summary of Skills For experience with these, see my resume Managing projects with multiple subject matter experts and stakeholders. Documenting SDKs and APIs, including OpenAPI specs and Swagger. Integrating code into documentation (Java, Python, JavaScript, command-line scripts). Writing docs for overviews, concepts, guides, quick-starts, tutorials, and reference. Reading and writing code in Java and Python. Continue reading

White Paper

2020-05-15
A friend of mine was part of a startup and asked if I wanted to write a white paper for them. It was a social media startup based on blockchain. I did what anyone new to writing white papers would do. I bought two books on how to write a white paper and got to work. Here is my result. Download the white paper

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