Skills and tools

What I use, and where.

I use these products, tools, and methods to investigate systems, create technical guidance, and improve documentation workflows. Each entry shows the role or context in which I applied it.

AI and automation7 entries

ChatGPT / Codex / Claude

Technical Writer I/II

Used ChatGPT to draft, revise, and review guidance; built Jira-connected authoring, peer-review, migration, and validation workflows with Codex and Claude. Used Claude for migration development and prepared reusable skills for both agent environments.

Microsoft Copilot / Copilot Studio

Technical Writer II

Built and evaluated task-focused agents for team coordination and documentation work, including email and tracker-triggered updates and notifications.

Power Automate

Technical Writer II

Built flows that respond to incoming email or new worksheet and tracker entries, update records, and send notifications; also explored documentation-ticket and video alerts.

Open Web UI

Technical Writer II

Investigated AI integration options, local workflow interactions, and governance for documentation research.

Python / Tkinter

Technical Writer II

Developed or inspected documentation utilities, including a desktop DITA figure tool and migration checks.

PowerShell

RWDI; Technical Writer II

Used for directory administration at RWDI and packaged a portable Jira helper in a generalized public skill.

APIs / MCP integrations

Technical Writer II

Investigated Jira/Figma retrieval, Umbraco Management API access, and AI-assisted research connections with stated permission boundaries.

Products and device ecosystems10 entries

SOTI MobiControl

Support specialist; Technical Writer I/II

Investigated customer environments and device management across Android, Apple, and Windows; later researched and improved product help.

SOTI Connect

Support specialist

Installed and configured environments using MQTT and REST adapters and HiveMQ; worked with Zebra and SATO printers.

SOTI XSight

Support specialist; Technical Writer II

Diagnosed remote-control and operational-data issues; later worked on help migration and a visual-context proof of concept.

SOTI Identity

Support specialist; Technical Writer II

Configured roles, permissions, and directory/provider integration; later investigated documentation imports.

Apple Business Manager / automated enrollment

Support specialist; Technical Writer I/II

Supported enrollment and volume-purchase deployment; later researched and revised Apple enrollment guidance.

Android Enterprise / BYOD / Corporate Personal / Classic

Support specialist

Configured and troubleshot these Android mobility modes for customer environments.

Windows CE / Desktop Classic / Modern

Support specialist

Supported enrollment and configuration of Windows device-management modes.

Honeywell Enterprise Provisioner / Zebra StageNow / Samsung Knox

Support specialist

Worked with provisioning and device ecosystems during enterprise mobility support.

SOTI Cloud Link Agent

Support specialist

Set up and troubleshot on-premise directory-service connections.

MQTT / REST / HiveMQ / Zebra and SATO printers

Support specialist

Configured SOTI Connect protocol adapters, broker connections, and supported printer devices.

Writing, publishing, and design13 entries

DITA / XML / Oxygen XML

Technical Writer I/II

Authored and reviewed structured topics, maps, procedures, and source-level changes; explored a stopgap authoring tool.

WebHelp / HTML5 / CSS

Technical Writer I/II

Produced and customized online-help output and inspected rendered results.

Git / GitHub / GitHub Enterprise

Technical Writer I/II

Tracked help-source changes, studied peer-review history, and collaborated on documentation tooling in shared repositories.

Jira / Jira Data Center

Support specialist; Technical Writer I/II

Filed Development issues in support, researched documentation tickets and linked designs, and built a reusable issue workflow. I also explored Jira Data Center data in Excel.

Figma

Technical Writer II

Retrieved design context for feature research and developed requirements for finding and exporting mockups linked through Jira.

Umbraco

Technical Writer II

Developed and investigated content migration, authoring, publishing, and integrity workflows.

Pulse / WebHelp exporter

Technical Writer II

Investigated static online-help package generation, navigation, search, and content fidelity for migration.

DITA-OT / Ant / XSLT

Technical Writer II

Investigated DITA transformations, Markdown table handling, build tooling, and custom XSLT approaches.

Camtasia

Technical Writer I/II

Used video editing alongside instructional-content work and video-first task planning.

ShareX / GIMP / Adobe Photoshop

Technical writing and visual production

Used image-editing tools to prepare and adjust visual material for technical content.

Microsoft Office / Excel

RWDI; Technical Writer II

Used Office in service-desk and documentation work, and explored refreshable metrics and Jira reporting in Excel.

Aha

Technical Writer II

Worked with exported Aha data and a pivot-based view to shape refreshable team reporting.

Cisco ThousandEyes

Technical Writer II

Wrote a deployment knowledge-base article and delivered it to the team by email.

Support systems and infrastructure18 entries

IIS / server and browser tooling

Technical Writer II

Troubleshot local hosting, ports, rewrite/proxy behavior, and publishing previews for documentation tools.

Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID

RWDI; Support specialist

Handled directory administration at RWDI and investigated identity-provider integration in SOTI Identity support.

Exchange Server 2019 / Outlook

RWDI service desk

Configured mail flow, mailboxes, delegation, permissions, rules, archives, recovery, and spam controls.

DHCP / DNS / print services

RWDI service desk

Administered core network and print services while supporting users and devices.

Event Viewer / application logs / Android ADB

Support specialist

Collected diagnostic evidence for server and device investigations.

SQL Server Management Studio / SQL

Support specialist

Used database information and prepared queries or maintenance operations in the relevant support context.

Salesforce / SharePoint / SOTI Wiki

Support specialist

Researched related cases and internal guidance while investigating customer issues.

SOTI Help / knowledge base

Support specialist

Consulted product guidance, authored more than 60 knowledge-base articles, and helped colleagues improve article structure.

Cloud VMs / firewalls / server upgrades

Support specialist

Monitored customer environment resources, configuration, upgrades, and cloned environments for diagnosis.

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

Cross-role systems practice

Worked with Windows configuration-management tasks, including device settings and software deployment.

Oracle Database Server

Cross-role database practice

Set up databases and ran basic database commands; I use this as working knowledge alongside support troubleshooting.

AWS / Azure cloud solutions

Systems and support practice

Applied cloud-platform knowledge while investigating hosted environments and infrastructure.

TCP/IP / VPN / SMTP / WINS / FTP / Ethernet

Education and support practice

Used networking and protocol knowledge to investigate connectivity, mail flow, and enterprise environments.

ITIL Foundations

Education and support practice

Applied service-management principles to customer support, escalation, and knowledge sharing.

Sensr / Senseview

RWDI service desk

Supported software for civil-engineering recording instruments.

OneDrive / MFA / device imaging

RWDI service desk

Configured company phones and performed hands-on service-desk device work.

Microsoft Teams

Support specialist; Technical Writer II

Coordinated knowledge work and documentation discussions, including Project Sherpa and migration conversations.

SSH / RDP

Technical Writer II

Investigated documentation environments and server behavior through remote-access workflows.

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