Podczas naszej ostatniej wizyty w Pradze (z której relację możecie przeczytać tutaj) poznaliśmy wiele ciekawych osób. Jedną z nich jest Brad Schmidt - kiedyś tester w Dolinie Krzemowej, a obecnie Tech Writer w stolicy Czech. Zobaczcie jak to się robi u naszych południowych sąsiadów.
How long have you been working as a Tech Writer?
A little more than 10 years.
How did you become a Tech Writer?
It was a lucky accident! I'd done QA for years in Silicon Valley, but sort of burnt out by 2001, which lead me to come to the Czech Republic to teach English in 2002. After a couple years, a colleague at a school I taught at demanded that I give him my CV because there were so many IT jobs coming to Prague after they joined the EU. Shortly thereafter I interviewed for a Tech Writer job. My sales pitch was that writing user documentation was like writing test cases and bug reports except the result was a positive one. Ten years on, I'm still doing it. 😊
Can you say something about the company you work for and your team?
Currently, I'm in the IT infrastructure and operations organization of a large pharmaceutical company. I'm one of a few full-time documentation staff that are embedded within various project teams.
How is your and your team’s work organized?
I serve several different project teams within an organizational group. There's a mix of agile and waterfall projects.