I actually never realized technical writing was a career option early on. Shortly after moving to Austin, I spent a large chunk of my time writing policy and procedure documentation for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Around that time it clicked that I could make more money doing these tasks in an official capacity, and I began working as a technical writer at Accruent, writing documentation for four different software suites. I eventually accepted a position at AlienVault, where I write documentation for the Appliance, Anywhere, and Central products. A large portion of the content written for the AlienVault Central and AlienVault Anywhere Deployment Guide was written at least in part by me.

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While my official duties have sprawled out into Scrum Master and design roles in tandem with my primary duties, I think that the tenets of clear and consistently voiced documentation inform my values for all my other duties.

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To see some of my documentation writing, you can look at the Appliance, Anywhere, or Central documentation pages. I've worked on all three products at one point in time or another. I also created the Anywhere and Central API pages. I used to manage most of the CSS and design elements, but much of the overall layout has been slowly transitioning to AT&T's design requests the the wake of our early 2019 acquisition. 

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A couple examples of some of my CSS additions are captured below. I also put together a JavaScript tool that can compile selected portions of a configuration script, customize the content in the script for the desired protocol, and input the destination IP address in the script, all depending on the selections the user chooses from the interface. The production release is pending changes with the supported products, but a mockup is featured below (I can provide a sanitized CodePen link upon request).