Summary
Elaine Muus is a seasoned technical writer with over 20 years’ experience crafting clear, user-focused documentation for software, telecom and services, currently shaping imaging product docs at STMicroelectronics. She combines deep DITA and toolchain expertise (Oxygen, Acrolinx, FrameMaker, GitHub-hosted docs) with hands-on project management and Agile practice, having reduced massive test suites and reorganized complex doc sets. Comfortable liaising with engineers and product teams, she brings a usability-minded voice that has influenced product UI and content strategy at Sun Microsystems and UShareSoft. Based in Grenoble, she pairs a humanities background (MA in Comparative Literature) with practical technical fluency, which helps her translate complex engineering concepts into accessible, customer-focused materials. Colleagues rely on her initiative, efficiency and consistent delivery on quality and timeliness across both individual authoring and team-led projects.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Comparative Litterature, M.A., Comparative Litterature at Carleton University
English, French