My job
I'm a technical writer in IT company. What do I do? I'm the one who describes the programming language for ordinary people and for developers.
My daily work includes:
- description of the new features and modules of our products
- communication with developers and project managers in order to understand the new features and then describe it
- searching in programming code and trying to understand it's logic
- creating tutorials and manuals, visual arrangement, drawing different schemas and graphs for visualisation
- creating FAQ sections for different products
- attending different lectures and events on behalf of the company
In general, i'm a knowledge base manager, who maintaining and aggregating all the internal knowledge in company. We are using a unique technologies so it is very urgent to accumulate those information in one place and make it useful and easy to find. For this we are using Confluence. It is a corporate portal where we store all the knowledge (articles, how-to, manuals etc).