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Ruth Abernathy
Technical Writer
ruth.abernathy@example.com·(555) 263-1195·Raleigh, NC·linkedin.com/in/ruthabernathy
Summary

Technical writer with nine years documenting developer platforms and enterprise software for admin and integration audiences. Owns the reference and tutorial set for a payments API with 4,000 integrating developers, and cut setup-related support tickets 31% by rewriting the quickstarts.

Experience
Senior Technical Writer — Fernbank Systems
2023 – Present
  • Own reference and tutorial documentation for a payments API used by 4,000 integrating developers across seven SDKs
  • Cut setup-related support tickets 31% by rewriting quickstarts around five tested integration paths with real code samples
  • Maintain a docs-as-code pipeline in Markdown and Git; 40+ releases have shipped without a documentation slip
Technical Writer — Quarrystone Software
2020 – 2023
  • Documented three major ERP releases a year, producing administrator guides averaging 200 pages each for regulated industries
  • Introduced single-sourcing in MadCap Flare, reusing 45% of topics across four product manuals and two audiences
  • Interviewed 20+ engineers per release cycle to turn terse specifications into task-based guides users could follow
Junior Technical Writer — Bluegrain Technologies
2017 – 2020
  • Wrote release notes and how-to articles for a 300-article customer knowledge base on a biweekly cadence
  • Reduced average article length 35% with a plain-language style pass, raising helpfulness ratings from 71% to 84%
Education
B.A. English — North Carolina State University2017
Skills
API reference|Tutorials & quickstarts|Release notes|Information architecture|Style guides
Markdown & Git|OpenAPI (Swagger)|MadCap Flare|Postman|Screen capture (Snagit)
Certifications
Certified Professional Technical Communicator (CPTC)

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