About Barry Kingsbury

Senior documentation writer and project leader who possesses exceptional skills at conveying technical information clearly, directly, and precisely. Accuracy of work occurs by using the product, whether it is a GUI, web application, or an API. Technical skills mean that engineers do not have to explain every detail, thus increasing your ROI.

Selected Skills

Retired: Beginning November 1...

• Costa Rica (Lake Arenal area) in the winter

Informatica (formerly Active Endponts): 2012 to October 31, 2014

Software Documentation

• Create and update all of the merged cloud-based documentation for Informatica's Business Process Management software.
• Create and Update Cloud Extend Documentation. Cloud Extend is a product that allows citizen developers to create software that runs within the Salesforce environment.
• Update the ActiveVOS documentation. ActiveVOS is a business process management suite. Business processes are designed using the graphical BPMN 2.0 notation. The process engine implements the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard as well as BPEL4People for processes that require people to perform tasks from a task list.

PING IDENTITY: 2011 to 2012

Consulting

• Wrote overview, use cases, installation, and administration documentation that were customized for one of the company's clients.

RECOMBINANT DATA CORP: 2010 to 2011

Documentation Specialist

• Document SQL Server databases for medical organizations.
• Document ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) operations that build databases.
• Document open source bioinformatics software such as REDCap and Profiles.
• Develop documentation for internal Recombinant products.

PAPERTHIN: 2009 to 2010

Consulting

• Created API documentation for a large CMS product.
• Rewrote installation, administration, and end user documentation.

LIGHTHOUSE BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES: 2009

Consulting

• Add dynamic and interactive elements to web sites using PHP, JavaScript, DOM manipulation, and CSS. PHP scripts often interact with MySQL databases.

TOTALVIEW TECHNOLOGIES: 1999 to 2008

Documentation and Web Development

TotalView products are used by developers debugging programs in C++, C, and Fortran. These programs run on multi-core systems, clusters, and supercomputers.

• Created all documentation and wrote most of the copy for the company's web site.
• Created web pages that used Perl, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript with DOM manipulation.
• Wrote code that integrated information collected by web forms into MySQL databases and with salesforce.com.
• Programmed converters to change FrameMaker documentation into HTML and help.
• Presented webinars to customers and prospects.
• Created and wrote a tip-of-the-week mailing list that emphasized product features and debugging techniques.

Projects

Help for all products, Installation Guides, User Guides, Reference Guides, Memory Debugging Guides, New Features Guide, Creating Type Transformation Guide, Platforms Guides, Reference Cards, QuickView, Tip-of-the-week, Workbench Guide, and Training Guides. Both HTML and PDF versions of all documentation were available on the web site.

NOBLENET: 1995 to 1999

Principal Software Writer/Publications Manager

• Wrote documentation for NobleNet's COM/CORBA middleware API and nearly all of the company's RPC middleware. (All APIs were in C or C++.)
• Created Web Works Publisher-based converter that allowed simultaneous creation of HTML and printed documents written with FrameMaker. Used Acrobat to create PDF documentation. Used RoboHelp to create Windows help files.
• Supervised writers and contractors (including artists and editors), qualified vendors, and obtained printing services.

Projects

Nouveau Reference: Objects and Functions, Nouveau Reference: Transport Objects, EZ-RPC Programming Guide, RPC 3.0 Programming Guide, RPC 3.0 Functions Guide, RPC 3.0 Environments Guide, NobleNet Web Guide. Help files for three Windows-based applications. Collaboration: Client/Server Toolkit for C and C++ Programmers.

APPLIX: 1992 to 1995

Lead Technical Writer

• Wrote all ELF documentation. (ELF is equivalent to Visual Basic.)
• Won STC Award of Distinction for writing a major part of the help documentation.

Software Engineering

• Created software tools that enhanced writer productivity.
• Designed and programmed a version of Applix's internal help desk software.
• Designed and programmed the hypertext software for a UNIX-based office automation suite.

Projects

ELF Quick Reference, Words Macros, Spreadsheets Macros, Mail Macros, Graphics Macros, Data Macros, and Base Macros Guides, Applix Words Technical Reference

PRIME COMPUTER: 1979 to 1987

• Section Manager, Lead Writer, afnd Senior Technical Writer: Led the Data Management group; this group had 21 people. Departmental budget was slightly more than $1,000,000. Had functional managerial control over the Stevenage, U.K. CAD documentation group.
• Principal Software Engineer: Designed and implemented (in a Lisp dialect and an internal programming language) commands and subsystems for the EMACS programmable editor.

Projects

DBMS/Query Reference, and Users Guide, DML Guide, EMACS Extension Writing Guide, PST 100 (terminal) Programming Guide. Collaborations: TAPS Reference Guide, DBMS DDL Reference Guide, EMACS Reference Guide, CAD system administration literature, Preliminary Technical Updates, Minor Release Updates

Other Permanent and Consulting Positions

Education

Ph.D. Bowling Green State University

M.A., B.A. University of Connecticut

 

 

 

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