Steve Hord
Sr. Technical Writer Instructional Designer QA at Skillup Technologies
Benton City, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Hord is a seasoned Senior Technical Writer and Instructional Designer with over 8 years of recent industry experience and a 15-year tenure at Microsoft, now shaping documentation, learning materials, and QA processes at Skillup Technologies. He combines strong technical fluency in databases, HTML/XML/Markdown, and business intelligence with instructional design to turn complex software concepts into accessible content for diverse audiences. His background includes LAN/WAN certification and a Liberal Arts degree, giving him a rare blend of technical rigor and clear, audience-centered communication. Known for bridging engineering and product teams, he excels at creating reproducible, standards-based documentation and QA artifacts that improve developer and end-user outcomes. Based in Benton City, Washington, he brings institutional knowledge from large-scale software environments to agile product workflows.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts, Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts at Weber State University
Github Skills (6)
microsoft-graph10
sharepoint-online10
sharepoint10
spfx10
onedrive10
microsoft10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SharePoint
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business documentation
Contributions:927 commits, 33 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 4 months
mvldocspower-platformofficedocssharepointonedrive-for-business
tseward/OfficeDocs-SharePoint
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business documentation
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
sharepointonedrive-for-businessonedrivesharepoint-onlinespfx
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