Diana’s CV

👋 Hey there, I write and edit and format stuff to be readable and recyclable.

Meme of two buttons labeled 'indexes' and 'indices,' and a man sweating while choosing which button to press.

🔧 Work Experience

Technical Writer — GEP

March 2021 - July 2024

  • Migrated content while developing a digital help center using Madcap Flare.
  • Created and updated user manuals and data dictionaries for procurement and supply chain software.
  • Managed release notes for 3 product lines, in accordance with the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Organized demos and webinars monthly, coordinating with teams spanning across 3 continents.
  • Visualized software architecture flows and formatted LaTeX for IP patent submissions.

Printing & Customer Service — Copyworks

May 2019 - May 2020

  • Unjammed and operated large-scale printers to fulfill orders.
  • Advised customers about achieving fidelity of their project deliverables.
  • Set up bleed margins, alignment, or data mail merge using graphic design programs.
  • Collected packages and validated shipping labels for UPS and FedEx drop-offs.

Grant Writer Intern — Iowa Able Foundation

October 2017 - December 2018

  • Submitted to grant opportunities pertaining to financial access for the underserved and disabled.
  • Created assets for proposals and outreach (infographics, organization charts, flyers).
  • Wrote letters of inquiry (LOIs) and drafted proposal sections.

Food Service — ISU Dining

August 2016 - December 2018

  • Resolved complaints and inventory shortages with clientele.
  • Sanitized and disinfected industrial machines to uphold quality, safety and health standards.
  • Processed, packaged and delivered bulk inventory through temperature-controlled environments.

📖 Publications

Fiction

  • Short stories published in Dark Drabbles, Slouching Beast, and Sci-fi Lampoon literary magazines (under a pen name).

Reporter — Iowa State Daily

🐞 Open Source Contributions

Prose Grinder Pandoc Templates

A set of Bash and Powershell scripts to convert Markdown into Shunn Manuscript Format (for submitting massive texts to editors at publishing houses).

  • Ported Bash to PowerShell.

Directus CMS

  • Documented database type variables.
  • Prototyped UI features.
  • Implemented an auto‑junction feature in the frontend to create a many‑to‑many (M2M) relation.

🎓 Education

B.S. Technical Communication — Iowa State University
August 2016 - November 2020


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