Bruce Curley Technical and Proposal Writer Resume

Bruce Curley

Senior Technical and Proposal Writer

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

 

 

Clearance: Public Trust

 

poetslife@protonmail.com                                                                                          301 325 7936

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucecurley/                                          https://poetslife.substack.com/

 

Core Competencies
Cybersecurity Documentation Specialist Writing Cybersecurity and AI Documents	25 Years of Experience using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel	Senior Technical and Proposal Writer and Document Manager
Cyber, Proposal, Blog, Web Content, Instruction, Policies Writer	Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts, including Software, Hardware, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence Engineers	Author Quick Start Guides, Continuity of Operations and First Article Testing Documents
Expert-Level at Editing, Style, Formatting	Author White Papers and Run Books	Deep Experience with Software Development Life Cycle
Write Plain English Software and Hardware User Manuals	Write Clear Manufacturing Instructions for Native Speaking and Foreign Speaking Workers	Author Writing, Style, and Formatting Guidelines Books

 

Professional Summary - Senior technical and proposal writer with over two decades of experience crafting clear, high-impact technical documentation, proposals, and user-focused content for cybersecurity, software, hardware, and artificial intelligence applications. Adept at collaborating with hardware engineers to deliver user manuals, training guides, standard operating procedures and other written products that meet stringent deadlines and drive organizational success. Proven ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences, including native and non-native English speakers, while maintaining quality. Create documentation in a fast, elegant, useful, high quality manner.

Senior Cybersecurity Technical and Proposal Writer, Red Cedar Solutions, 05/2023 — 02/2025, (Bernard, Hall, Manager, 301 580 0776, bhall@alankok.com) 

·         For the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), with cybersecurity and strategy experts, wrote BSEE Cybersecurity Strategy, BSEE Recommended Cyber Risk Mitigation Strategy and Practices for Gulf of America oil and gas platform safety.

·         Edited BSEE/BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Management) Preamble Plan of Action. 

·         With proposal team, created, wrote, and edited technical proposals and SOW’s for FRP’s.

 

Senior Technical and Cybersecurity Writer, Sealing Technologies Inc., 6750 Alexander Bell Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, MD 21046, 10/2021 — 01/2023

·         Partnered with cybersecurity, mechanical, and software engineers to produce user manuals, quick start guides, and AI/ML documentation for special forces cybersecurity fly-away kits.

·         Authored 12 milestone documents in 7 weeks, securing a $3M payment milestone.

·         Developed the company’s Style, Formatting, and Writing Guidelines book, standardizing documentation practices.

·         Conducted quality control for the Solar Winds Service Desk Solutions dashboard documentation, improving usability for internal and external stakeholders.

 

Senior and Cyber Technical Writer, Alpha Omega Integration, 8150 Leesburg Pike, Suite 1010 Vienna, VA 22182 (Contactor, IHS), 2/2021 — 10/2021

·         Wrote templates and content for Planview Capability Technology Management Knowledge Transfer for the Indian Health Service and metamodel data dictionary, glossaries, and other artificial intelligence client deliverables.

 

Senior Technical Writer, STULZ USA, 1572 Tilco Drive, Frederick, MD 21704, 5/2018 — 2/2021

·         Worked with engineering teams to write and edit installation, operation, and maintenance manuals for cooling, humidifiers for AI data center rack temperature solutions.

·         Co-authored sales policies and product support handbooks, distributing PDFs to marketing, sales, and engineering teams.

·         During a corporate merger, I updated 189 manuals to match STULZ USA format and style.

·         Improved document accessibility and consistency across departments.

 

Senior Technical Writer, Allegis Group, 301 Parkway Dr Hanover, MD, 21076-1159, 9/2016 — 5/2018

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

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

·         Migrated and rewrote legacy documents to current standards, style, formatting and organization rules and regulations and uploaded them to the SharePoint website.

 

Senior Technical and Cybersecurity Writer, Transamerica, 1201 Wills St, Baltimore, MD 21231, 4/2016 — 9/2016

·         With contributions from Manager, Risk Systems, Global Hedging Services and SMEs, re-wrote  multiple store-of-knowledge artifacts into Plain English.

·         Created 38 forms and templates to meet corporate, regulatory, and financial standards.

·         Reviewed over 40 corporate continuity of operations and disaster recovery plans to write integrate them into one model business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

·         Rewrote Service Level Agreements (SLA's) in Plain English for bank customers.

 

Education

University of Pennsylvania, BA, Cum Laude 3.56 GPA; Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies, graduate courses in Canadian Studies and economics, American University in Paris semester abroad, Society for Technical Communication seminars for 18 years.

Professional Affiliations

Volunteer Vice President, The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG), https://tacda.org/about/#board). Provide family-friendly manmade and natural disaster education, vision, and direction for over 7,000 members. I have written 18 civil defense articles over 16 years of leadership. Write policy articles for TACDA’s Journal of Civil Defense, such as: Cybersecurity is Everyone’s Business: Protect Your Family, Vol. 60, Issue 1, 2025; Farmers Markets: Solution to American Food Shortages, Vol. 58, Issue 1, 2023; Children and Civil Defense, Vol 52, Issue 1, 2018.

Write and publish the American Tactical Civil Defense Substack to help American families prepare for and recover from disasters: https://poetslife.substack.com

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

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.