Laurel Hale
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurel Hale is a semi-retired Senior Staff Technical Writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nearly three decades of experience turning complex distributed data systems and security concepts into clear, customer-focused documentation. She has led content strategy and teams at Fortune 500 firms including ServiceNow, Cloudera/Hortonworks, Microsoft, Visa, and Oracle, and is skilled at using information architecture, SEO, and Agile publishing to make content a market differentiator. Known for mentoring writers and building cooperative cross-functional relationships, she combines project and people management with hands-on technical writing for developer and IT-pro audiences. Laurel’s background includes large-scale documentation toolchains (DocBook, DITA) and successful shifts from quarterly to continuous content delivery, and she now takes on short-term, interesting projects that leverage her deep domain knowledge in data platforms and security.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Technical Writing, Certificate, Technical Writing at University of California, BerkeleyCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoBA, English, BA, English at California Lutheran University
Github Skills (12)
sql9
spark9
big-data8
impala8
apache8
hadoop8
olap7
java6
sdk5
parquet5
apache-flink3
navigator3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cloudera/navigator-sdk
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 25 days
navigatorsdk
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