Sharon Lifshitz

Experience

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  IDF

  Apr 1995 - Apr 1998

  Military Prosecutor (Captain)
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  Esti Sela, Adv.

  May 1998 - Sept 1999

  Lawyer
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  Jungo (now part of Cisco)

  Sept 2001 - Apr 2013

  Jungo/NDS/Cisco: 2006 — NDS acquires Jungo; 2012 — Cisco acquires NDS● Technical writer and documentation manager for the Connectivity Software division (~50 people), at times as the sole writer and at times as a team leader; part of the R&D team, reporting directly to the division’s CEO/COO● Managed all division documentation for multiple, dynamically-changing, technical products● Spearheaded the migration of all existing documentation to DocBook (XML-based)● Collaborated with R&D to define and enforce new coding conventions Show less

  • Technical Writer and Documentation Manager

    Jun 2005 - Apr 2013

  • Software Engineer

    Sept 2002 - May 2005

  • R&D Support Engineer

    Sept 2001 - Sept 2002
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  Jungo Connectivity

  May 2013 - Sept 2015

  Senior Technical Writer

  Jungo Connectivity develops multiple industry-leading product lines, including automotive infotainment and connectivity middleware and USB/PCI driver development software.● Sole technical writer, responsible for all documentation needs; part of the R&D team (~20 engineers), reporting directly to the COO● Wrote and maintained API references, SDKs, user manuals, developer guides, quick-start and evaluation tutorials, release notes, use cases, white papers, data sheets, code comments, and web-based documentation (including technical documents and FAQs)● Developed reusable single-source DocBook and XML/XSL code, which can be compiled into different formats (PDF; single-page HTML; multi-page (chunk) HTML; web-integration HTML)● Advised R&D on software design — aiming to ensure logical, clear, and consistent APIs● Contributed to moving the web infrastructure from HTP to WordPress; was responsible for developing and maintaining WordPress shortcode macros and .htaccess URL redirect rules Show less

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  IBM

  Oct 2015 - Apr 2017

  Senior Information Developer / Technical Writer

  Senior information developer for IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation — a comprehensive open platform that facilities the development, testing, execution, and management of native and hybrid mobile and web applications, featuring both on-premise and cloud solutions.● Sole technical writer for the security and server squads; globalization ID focal for non-PIIdocumentation; main ID focal for non-squad requirements● Write, maintain, and review, in continuous-delivery mode, Development Center and KnowledgeCenter documentation — including developer and administrator tutorials, release notes, blogposts, and API references — for multiple and diverse product versions Show less

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  Iguazio

  Apr 2017 - Aug 2022

  Documentation manager and senior technical writer in charge of all documentation content and infrastructure for the Iguazio Data Science and MLOps Platform and related products, including the MLRun open-source framework for orchestrating machine-learning operations (MLOps) from the research stage to production-ready AI applications.

  • On Personal Leave

    Sept 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Documentation Manager and Senior Technical Writer

    Apr 2017 - Sept 2021