Pamela Colquhoun
Senior Technical Writer at Schneider Electric
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPamela Colquhoun is a Senior Technical Writer based in Ottawa with 12 years of focused experience creating developer and end-user documentation for industrial control, SCADA, and embedded systems. She combines a strong technical foundation—a BMath in Computer Science and a Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing—with hands-on familiarity with DITA CMS, Doxygen, Help+Manual and multimedia tools like Camtasia to produce clear, publishable content. At Schneider Electric she authors documentation for RTUs and field automation while also serving as a local patent correspondent, demonstrating comfort translating engineering detail into both user guides and IP disclosures. Her background ranges from developer docs at BlackBerry to academic and ISO-driven documentation, showing adaptability across fast-paced product releases and regulated environments. Fluent in German and French literature academically, she brings a rare blend of linguistic sensitivity and technical rigor that improves usability and cross-team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, German Literature, Minor in French, B.A, German Literature, Minor in French at McMaster UniversityAlgonquin CollegeEspanola High SchoolBMath, Computer Science and Information Systems, BMath, Computer Science and Information Systems at University of Waterloo
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