Celeste Burley
Technical Writer at CertiPath, Inc.
Virginia, United States
Summary
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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 (30)
public-key10
iterative10
infrastructure10
certificate10
x50910
pki10
identity9
authentication9
security9
authorization9
linter9
access-control9
tiger9
access-management8
control-systems8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GSA/ficam-federation
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Information on Federation within the US Federal Government.
Contributions:54 commits, 50 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
federal-governmentfederationgovernmentus-federal-governmentfederal
clstmbrly/Practice-Testing-Area
Mar 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 390 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 11 months
testing
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