Bruce Curley Writer Resume

Bruce Curley, Writer

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; Others judge us by what we have done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Senior Technical and Proposal Writer

Seasoned technical writer. Translate technical information into Plain English. Create user manuals, quick start guides, templates, instructions, and other digital and paper products. Collaborate well with subject matter experts. Versatile and deadline-oriented self-starter.

 

Skill Stack
Technical Writer	Word	Cyber
Proposal Writer	Policies	Quick Start Guides
Editing, Style, Formatting	Documentation Creation	Templates
Web Content Creation	Editing	Procedures
Proposal Writing	Instructions	Run Books
SDLC	User Manuals	White Papers

 

Senior Technical Writer, Sealing Technologies Inc., 10/2021 — 01/2023

With cybersecurity, mechanical, software, devops, and electrical engineers, wrote hardware and software user manuals, quick start guides, assembly instructions, and other support documentation for cybersecurity fly away kits used by special forces teams.

Conducted quality control and approved documentation for our Dashboard Solar Winds Service Desk Solutions website for internal and external customers.

Created and maintained the company Style, Formatting, and Writing Guidelines document.

Updated legacy documents to current corporate style and format standards.

With manufacturing manager, created multiple cyber documents for product support, sales, engineering, mission, and manufacturing engineers. 

Senior Technical Writer, Alpha Omega Integration, 02/01/21 — 10/03/21

Write templates and content for Planview Capability Technology Management Knowledge Transfer document, metamodel data dictionary, glossaries, and other artificial intelligence client deliverables.

Senior Technical Writer, STULZ, 4/2018 — Present

With design, software, application, mechanical and electrical engineer contributors, write, edit and rewrite installation, operation, and maintenance and engineering manuals and procedures.
Organize and write sales policies handbook, sales handbook, and the Product support handbook..
Update legacy documents to current corporate style and format standards.
Maintain Document Product Status Matrix as a management tracking tool.
Release final documents as PDFs versions to marketing, product support, sales, engineering mission energy lab, application engineering, and BOM configuration departments.

Senior Technical Writer, Allegis Group, 9/2016 — 11/2017

·    Create format and style templates and write content for security, procedure, policy. server build standards and other enterprise operations documents.

·    Research and write white papers to implement plans for the on European Union (EU) General Data Protection Requirements (GDPR) for May, 2018.

·    Write and update the disaster recovery plan, disaster recovery run book, standards, policies, data sheets and other work products to meet current and future needs.

·    Migrate and change hundreds of legacy documents to current standards, style, formatting and organization rules and regulations and upload to the new SharePoint website.
Created a Governance Document Product Matrix with title, description, status, owner, version and date of hundreds of documents to meet international standards and large international client audit requirements.

Senior Technical Writer, Transamerica (TEKSystems) , 4/2016 —  8/2017

With contributions from Manager, Risk Systems, Global Hedging Services and SMEs, re-write multiple store-of-knowledge artifacts into Plain English, such as:

Created 38 forms and templates for theSDLC to meet corporate and regulatory and financial standards and regulations..

Reviewed over 40 corporate continuity of operations and disaster recovery plans to write a model  business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

Reformat and rewrite Service Level Agreements (SLA's).in Plain English

Edit and provide quality control check on proposals.

 Education

Society for Technical Communication (STC) seminars ( STC 2008 Philadelphia Annual Convention, Shaping the Future of Technical Communication, STC Carolina, 2005, April 2005); Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies, Graduate level coursework; BA, Cum Laude 3.6 GPA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, International Relations; American University in Paris, France, semester abroad program.

Professional Affiliations/Other Work

Senior Member: Society for Technical Communication (STC); Usability Special InterestGroup (SIG)

Featured in the article, “Bruce V. Curley: Poet” in Intercom, Society for Technical Communication magazine, November 2002, p. 44.

Editor, Opening NATO’s Door, How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era, Ronald D. Asmus, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia University Press, NY, 2002

The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA), “Web 2.0 Tools for First Responders,” Spring Issue, 2009

Vice President, The American Civil Defense Association
Wrote the following articles:
Children and Civil Defense, JCD, Vol. 51, Issue 1, 2018, p. 18
When State Hackers Take Aim at the Power Grid, JCD, Vol. 50, Issue 2, 2017, p. 12
Rolling Up the ISIS Tactical Use of Social Media, JCD, Vol. 49, Issue 1, 2016, p. 17
How to Write a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plan, Vol. 49, Issue 2, 2016p. 32
ISIS Use of Social Media as a Force Multiplier, JCD, Vol. 48, Issue 2, 2015, p. 27
CBRNe: Low Probability, High Impact, JCD, Vol. 49, Issue 2, 2015, p. 30
Surviving a House Fire: Lessons Learned, JCD, Vol. 47, Issue 1, 2014, p. 27
Civil Defense Redux, JCD, Vol. 45, Issue 1, 2012, p. 13
The Importance of Private Sector and Local Government MOUs, p. 29; Creating a Church Emergency Plan, p. 38; Vol. 46, Issue 1, 2013
Active Shooter, Bomb Threat, or Just Rumors, Vol 47, Issue 1, 2014, p.3
Web 2.0 Tools for First Responders, Spring Issue, Vol 41, Fall/Winter Issue, 2009, p. 24
Creator of civil defense-themed Poetslife Blog (poetslife.blogspot.com). Sample posts follow.
EF-1 Tornado Lessons from Mt. Airy MD (https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/11/ef-1-tornado-lessons-from-mt-airy-md.html)
Church Emergency Evacuation, Shelter-in-Place, and Lock-Down Plan (https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/05/church-emergency-evacuation-shelter-in.html)
Emergency Exercise – EPLEX (https://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label/Emergency%20Exercise%20-%20EPLEX)
Hawaii Ballistic Missile Alert Fail and Fix (https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/01/hawaii-eoc-mega-fail-and-simple-fix.html)
Emergency Management – National Disaster Medical System (https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/05/emergency-management-medical.html)
Children and Civil Defense (https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html)

Have written over 12 speeches for the Mayor of Mt Airy, MD.

As a volunteer, set up the policies, procedure, plans, continuity of operations, and equipment for an emergency operations center (EOC) and wrote continuity of operations plans for the Town of Mt. Airy. Helped write the memorandum of understanding to obtain supplies from local merchants in an emergency.
Member of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). See: 

http://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label/Tornado%20Emergency%20Exercise; http://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label; Volunteer%20Mobilization%20Center;

http://poetslife.blogspot.com/search/label/Emergency%20Exercise
http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v005/poetry/curley.html

I have been married for 33 years and have two sons.

  

I am listed in the Top 142 Social Marketing Blogs on the Web by re:think your strategy. Click:

http://classicnew.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/top-142-social-marketing-blogs-on-the-web/

In the dozens of proposals, manuals, hundreds of procedures, specifications sheets, on-line content, CDs and DVD I have worked on, I have taken and still dense, confusing, and disorganized text, pictures, diagrams and tables and convert them into a clear, concise, and consistent package in digital and paper form.  As a quick study, I master highly technical material with minimal supervision.

In software documentation, I have created works for the full document cycle, from design to project to user manual. Most manuals I have written include hundreds of graphics, which I have strategically placed to guide the reader's learning. 

On numerous software and hardware teams, I have always added value to the product throughout the product life cycle. Here is one example. At Northrop Grumman, I helped write the Biohazard Detection System (BDS) Operation and Maintenance Handbook (Introduction, Safety, Theory of Operation, Hardware, Software, Operation and Maintenance, Troubleshooting chapters). 

It was a complex with an X, Y, Z robot, a genetic tester, and fluidics. I took hundreds of photos of components and integrated those photos with the text. For accuracy and project requirements, I undertook detailed validation testing of the unit, software, and network against the written procedures and checklists.

The manual and the CD are used to train dozens of technicians who maintain and operate the system, and engineers who use it as a store of knowledge. At one employer, I created a detailed diagram to central text equipment that led to a 20 percent decrease in calls to the help desk.