Position: Sr. Technical Writer
Location: San Jose, CA

Details:
Our client is San Jose, CA is seeking a senior technical writer with 10+ years of experience and a passion for communicating along with expertise in turning complex technical concepts into concise, understandable end-user documentation for the target audience.

Excellent writing, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills are crucial as this individual must represent the Technical Publications team at cross-functional meetings internally and interface with OEM customers externally on a regular basis.

Ideal candidate will have a broad writing experience with a very strong technical background, and feel comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic, deadline-driven environment, working either with subject matter experts or directly from engineering documentation and source code, as required.

Considerable experience writing, maintaining, and illustrating the following types of documentation:
- Installation guides
- System administration and configuration guides
- Reference, developer, and API guides
- Technical application notes and knowledge base topics
- Quick reference guides and release notes
- Online help, wikis, and Web-based communities

Strong Experience in documenting switching and routing protocols is a MUST. Any experience with the following protocols is a highly desired: RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VLAN, STP, RSTP and trunking.

Experience with the following Technical Publications tools (or equivalent) is required:

Writing Tools:
- Adobe FrameMaker and Acrobat
- Arbortext Epic (DITA)
- Microsoft Word
- HTML
- UNIX man page tools (nroff, xroff, troff)

Contact Information:
For immediate consideration, please send me your current resume along with your work samples.

If you are not looking at this time, please refer me to any of your friends who would be interested in this opportunity. We have a great referral bonus policy!

Raj Vemuri
Sr. Lead Technical Recruiter
MindSource
(650) 314-6408
raj AT mindsource DOT com