Steve Burnett
Technical Writer | Information Developer
- Role
- Principal Technical Writer at IBM
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Steve Burnett
Committer for Presto, an analytics engine that is part of the Linux Foundation. I have also contributed to Apache Gluten.As a technical writer, I use and document systems, network, and cloud deployment and management platforms. I have authored, co-authored, or edited several books on computing topics. If I can contribute to a new or existing project let me know either by message here, or by email at b••••••@pobox.com.Areas of interest: open source, analytics, task-based procedural documentation, editing, cloud, deployment, virtualization, systems administration, question analysis, project management, information security, version control, UX.Professional associations, former and current: OWASP, Triangle UXPA, International Game Developers Association, Society for Technical Communication, Information Systems Security Association.
Experience
Principal Technical Writer
Apr 2023 — Present
Joined IBM as part of IBM\'s acquisition of Ahana. • Editing and writing of documentation for the Presto open source analytics engine, working with the Presto community.• Became a committer for Presto in GitHub.• Documented the PBench analytics benchmark tool.• Coordinated the transition of the Ahana documentation set to IBM.Tools: Git and GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, reStructured Text (RST), Sphinx, PrestoDB, SQL, PBench, Markdown, Jira, Docker, Slack, Visual Studio Code.
Education
North Carolina State University
B.A., Economics
1984 — 1989
North Carolina State University
B.A., History
1984 — 1989
North Carolina State University
M.S., Technical Communication
1989 — 1991
Skills
- Framemaker
- Programming
- Technical Writing
- Html
- Information Gathering
- Quality Assurance
- Integration
- Sound Design
- Cms
- Java
- UX
- Editing
- Networking
- Content Management
- Devops
- System Administration
- Enterprise Software
- Solaris
- Structured Documentation
- Operating Systems
- Web Applications
- Unix
- Information Security
- Project Management
- Web Development
- Xml
- Open Source
- Vmware
- Information Architecture
- Product Management
- Research
- Cloud Computing
- Os X
- Mac Os X
- Agile Methodologies
- Subversion
- Software Development
- Technical Documentation
- Analysis
- Usability Testing
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