About me

Hi, my name is Shibu V Krishnan. I am a technical writer with over eight years of experience in documenting software and hardware products of varying technical complexity. I enjoy the challenge of learning new applications and technologies and take pleasure in writing about them to help others understand and appreciate these innovations.

Currently, I work as a Technical Content Developer at Dell Technologies, where I focus on one of their storage products.

Skills

Core Skills

  • Technical communication
  • Technical content strategy
  • Product documentation
  • Content design and development

Documentation Tools

  • Oxygen XML Editor
  • Arbortext Editor
  • Salesforce Lightning
  • Stoplight
  • Markdown
  • Microsoft Office

Management Tools

  • Content management systems
  • Git
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • SharePoint

Illustration Tools

  • Snagit
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Canva
  • Visio

Style Guide and Specifications

  • DITA
  • Microsoft Manual of Style
  • S1000D
  • Simplified Technical English

Experience

This section lists some of the documentation tasks I have managed and delivered across various projects.

User guides/manuals

Collaborated closely with engineering teams to develop and maintain user guides for products throughout their lifecycle.

Release notes

Scoped, planned, and created release notes for users, covering multiple product version updates.

Installation guides

Created detailed installation manuals for hardware storage devices, utilizing engineering documents, 3D models, and live demonstrations.

API documentation

Managed and published API documentation across various product version releases and revamped the existing API documentation process with the help of latest tools.

Legacy document conversions

Successfully migrated over 100 legacy documents to a new DITA-based content management system with high accuracy.

Knowledge base articles

Collaborated with subject matter experts to create several knowledge base articles, significantly addressing content gaps in the documentation portfolio.

Here are a few samples of the documention I created.

Most of the documentation I've created is proprietary and internal-only. However, you can browse some publicly available documents below:

Sample User Guide

This is a sample document I have created during my training. This guide provides an overview of the tool and step-by-step instructions on how to use the tool.

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Installation Guide

This is an installation guide I created for a storage infrastructure monitoring and reporting solution from Dell. Some of the other deliverables for this product are available here.

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Owner's Manual for a Hardware Device

This manual provides an overview of the system, information on installing and replacing components, and troubleshooting procedures.

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Contact

Shibuvkp@gmail.com

+91 9745883615