Celeste Burley
Technical Writer at CertiPath, Inc.
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolCeleste Burley is a highly awarded Senior Technical Writer with over 27 years of experience translating complex cybersecurity, cloud security architecture, and lifecycle engineering topics into clear, compliance-ready documentation for U.S. federal agencies and the Intelligence Community. She has led and mentored writer teams on high-stakes programs—IC ITE/IC CIO, FISMA reporting, C&A transformation, CNCI initiatives, and COCOM exercise assessments—producing policy guidance, CONOPS, SLAs/MOUs, POA&Ms, and user and admin guides. Known for substantive rewrites and coordination across multi-organization inputs, she has served as an alternate task liaison and website coordinator, ensuring timely, executive-ready deliverables. Her background spans NDLC/SDLC work for FAA and military systems, interoperability testing, and PKI/IdAM strategy, reflecting deep domain fluency beyond typical technical writing. Based in Virginia, she combines editorial rigor with program-level situational awareness, often operating at the intersection of technical detail and federal policy.
9 years of coding experience
San José State UniversityMusic, Music at University of ProvidenceBachelor's Degree, English (Writing Concentration), Bachelor's Degree, English (Writing Concentration) at George Mason University
german and italian (basic)
Github Skills (35)
public-key10
responders10
iterative10
certificate10
x50910
pki10
tiger10
identity9
authentication9
security9
authorization9
linter9
access-control9
control-systems9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GSA/ficam-pacs
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management - Physical Access Control Systems (PACS)
Contributions:98 commits, 1 PR, 231 pushes in 2 months
authorizationaccess-managementsecurityauthenticationcredential
GSA/piv-guides
May 2017 - Sep 2018
Implementation information for using PIV in federal networks and applications
Contributions:478 commits, 37 PRs, 236 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pivfederal
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