Grant Hogarth

About Grant Hogarth

I am a broadly experienced technical content creator and content team leader who has created award-winning user and reference manuals, along with instructional videos, API and SDK documents, technical specifications, requirement documents, and online assistance in multiple formats. As a team leader I have managed both creative and technical personnel in multiple environments.I am comfortable being \"thrown in at the deep end\" for projects and have done so for a wide variety of client and documentation types. I have a strong knowledge of the disciplines supporting product development and project management, as well as an extensive knowledge of authoring and video-creation tools, databases, spreadsheets, and other tools. My current position has resulted in me being widely read in the AI and information security spheres.Professional Associations: Senior Member, STC; Senior Member, Member, ACM. CAPM certified

Experience

1. Senior Technical Writer

   Workiva

   Oct 2018 — Present · CO, US

   Authored, edited, or maintained over 200 internal wiki pages. Facilitated the creation of internal research documents, dashboards, and whitepapers. AI researcher, technical facilitator for the in-house \"Breakthrough Leadership\" program.

Education

• The University of British Columbia

  B.A., English; minor in Technical Theatre

  1980 — 1983

• The Ohio State University

  M.A., English (Rhetoric, Poetics)

  1987 — 1989

• YESI EDUCATION

  Certificate, Business Analysis

• Wayne State University

  M.F.A. (incomplete), Technical Theatre

  1983 — 1984

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  M.S., Technical Communications

  1989 — 1990

• Banff School of Performing Arts

  NA, Technical Theatre

  1979 — 1979

Skills

• Template Creation
• Template Design
• Style Guides
• Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Html Help
• Dita Xml
• Online Help
• User-Centered Design
• Software Documentation
• Maintenance Manuals
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Help Files
• Graphic Creation
• Training Guides
• Proofreading
• Release Notes
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Structured Authoring
• Conceptual Illustration
• User Analysis
• Teaching
• Copy Editing
• Instruction Manuals
• Microsoft Word
• Paper Prototyping
• Team Leadership
• Editing
• Instructor-Led Training
• Framemaker
• Conceptual Thinking
• Desktop Publishing
• Madcap Flare
• Manuals
• Design Specifications
• Interface Design Consulting
• Online Help Development
• Data Sheets
• Indexing
• Microsoft Office
• Technical Writing