Textabulous is all about excellence in writing, editing, and translation from Dutch to English (registered sworn translator) and French to English. For writing, that includes technical documentation, help procedures, long- and short-form marketing copy, press releases, and communications.
Technical writing and editing: I have drafted and edited technical documentation for organisations such as:
• HCL, for Novartis/Sandoz (one year, to January 2024): one of two Technical Writers/Editors on the last year of a multi-year programme that set up and launched the IT infrastructure for Sandoz as an independent spin-off of Novartis. I edited, and on request drafted portions of, a range of technical documents, from architecture handbooks to configuration and design specifications, as well as SOPs and WIs, for projects such as Data Protection, WAF & Load Balancer, Virtualisation, Monitoring & VDI, and Storage.
• ASML, the world's largest maker of the most advanced photolithography machines, which produce computer chips (one year, till December 2017): Technical Writer, working with competency and field engineers on documentation updates that were required further to service calls by engineers to sites in China, South Korea, and the United States
• ITS Global at KPMG International (five contracts, straddling 2015 to 2021, for a total of just under three years)—Technical Writer and Editor on a range of projects, including:
• One Platform (OP) Security, Country Hosting, OP Continuous Delivery, and Platform-Wide Security and Guardrails.
• For the Network of the Future (NOTF) project, I reviewed the final contract documentation for adherence to KPMG style and overall formal consistency.
• Edited runbooks and other step-by-step procedures
• Produced from scratch a Quick Guide to Producing Clear, High-Quality Documentation
• Drafted and edited internal communications and messaging to member firms
• Edited KPMGI’s adaptations of Office365 documentation on Teams, Skype, and Windows Virtual Desktop
• The National Bank of Belgium (sMore...