Will Tripp

Experience

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  Chrysalis Publishing Group

  Jul 2002 - Aug 2004

  • Editor

    Jul 2003 - Aug 2004

  • Associate Editor

    Jul 2002 - Jul 2003
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  Self-Employed

  Aug 2004 - Jul 2006

  Freelance Writer and Editor

  Freelanced full time while attending graduate school, writing K-8 science and math educational content.

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  EPS Literacy and Intervention

  Jul 2006 - Jun 2013

  • Wrote and edited internal and customer-facing documentation for company's learning management system, including UI specs, QA plans, online help topics, release notes, and FAQs.• Oversaw development of six web and mobile apps and acted as bridge between editorial and software development team. • Created 20 instructional videos and 7 product overview videos for company's digital products, saving more than $25,000 in video production costs.• Implemented department-wide use of company's custom-built authoring tool. Wrote guidelines, trained staff, and served as content administrator for all products.

  • Senior Editor

    May 2010 - Jun 2013

  • Editor

    Jul 2006 - May 2010
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  Pearson North America

  Jun 2013 - Feb 2014

  Editor

  • Wrote and edited instructional content for print and digital mathematics programs.• Managed team of two editors in developing content that met rigorous educational standards.• Wrote 50 pages of guidelines, checklists, and reference materials, improving editors' review times by more than 50%.

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  MathWorks

  Feb 2014 - Oct 2021

  • Managed team of 6 technical writers in the autonomous systems area while maintaining my writing duties for Automated Driving Toolbox. Products my team covers include Robotics System Toolbox and Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox.• Led project to migrate 150 external doc pages into the MathWorks toolchain as part of the acquisition of the RoadRunner family of products, and developed a multi-year content strategy to improve the doc set.• Wrote a script to generate cross-reference links, automating a previously manual and tedious process for hundreds of example authors. Show less

  • Manager, Autonomous Systems Documentation

    May 2021 - Oct 2021

  • Senior Team Lead, Autonomous Systems Documentation

    May 2019 - May 2021

  • Senior Technical Writer

    Oct 2017 - May 2019

  • Senior Technical Content Editor

    May 2016 - Oct 2017

  • Technical Content Editor

    Feb 2014 - May 2016
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  InterSystems

  Nov 2021 - Jun 2022

  Senior Technical Writer

  • Developed new standards for database platform’s SQL reference pages and used data-driven methods to prioritize revisions.• Spearheaded team’s efforts to transform doc set from book-based to topic-based content model.

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  MathWorks

  Jul 2022 - now

  Principal Engineering Technical Writer