1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
She graduated with a degree in Literature & Professional Writing, also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Interpreting & Translating. She started off as a Journalist and Editor for a magazine and had some experience in teaching as a Teaching Assistant as well before transitioning as a Writer/Copywriter Editor. She was a Translation Clerk for XXXX where she was involved with translating manuals and procedures document for repairing industry and was an Editorial Assistant as well for XXXX where she worked on electronics article and content for publication. She then started her Technical Writing journey with XXXX where she mainly conducted interviews with engineers to be able to write and revise manuals for electronic products, involved with translation and printing initiatives, and making of BOM as well. After that, joined XXXX as a Technical Writer again where she mostly was involved manuals and product specifications for toys. She also coordinated there with translation projects and such. She is currently a Tutor for XXXX where she proofreads Chinese materials, help students with homework, and mainly teach them different subjects.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be her people skills and has vast experience coordinating with different teams for different projects; including design team, product team, and such. She also has great grasp of technology and had to learn it constantly for her to write articles about it. For the tools, she is mostly familiar and using Microsoft on a daily basis but is open to explore other tools such as Adobe in the future.
3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements?
She has more than 20 years of overall experience and about 10-15 of it is in technical writing/editing. She has about 5 years of experience within manufacturing and electronic industry and the other years are focused on reporting and translation projects. She is also knowledgeable with compliance and regulations since she has worked on electronics and manufacturing sector previously. In addition to technical manuals and materials, she also has experience editing and writing magazine articles and some other publications; she would be comfortable working on documentations for machines or any consumer products.
