About Me

My name is Mauricio Palau and I'm a technical writer, greetings from Mexico πŸ‡²πŸ‡½

I have 10+ years of experience in IT engineering and operations, mostly in cloud modernization projects specializing in technical writing.

I started as a software engineer intern at a local IT consulting agency, this led to a role as an IT analyst in enterprise operations at Honeywell. There, I learned the importance of technical documentation in enhancing user experience and technology adoption, leading me to specialize in technical writing.

As aΒ technical writer at Wizeline, I expand my software consultancy expertise collaborating with clients to deliver compelling products and services.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Writer III
Wizeline
2023/09 β€’ Present


Project: Scalable Documentation Framework
Impact: For a leading clothing company, I integrated a documentation directory into an application template, ensuring new applications seamlessly instantiate with prebuilt documentation templates to set up documentation projects in the company developer portal quickly. This integration features a README with guidelines for writing API query pages, creating architecture diagrams, and writing release notes. I documented an application with this framework, which serves as a reference point for new applications' documentation projects.


Project: P&L DataLake codebase documentation
Impact: For a leading beverage company, I authored documentation for a three-layer architecture DataLake for a P&L report application using Azure DevOps Wiki. The documentation's key feature includes an Azure Databricks workflow diagram. Each of the 35 jobs within the workflow is independently documented containing their respective data flow diagrams. This documentation provides the IT team with clear instructions for managing parametrization and scalability.


Project: Prompt engineering for GenAI POC
Impact: For Wizeline, I participated as a prompt engineer on an AI POC capable of autonomously maintaining a database leveraging web scrapping techniques and the OpenAI API. Additionally, I supported the technical writing program in outlining standards for AI POC documentation.



Technical Writer II
Wizeline
2022/03 β€’ 2023/09


Project: Data Ingestion Pipeline Architecture
Impact: For a financial analytics company, I innovated three architecture diagrams for the company's flagship product infrastructure combining the C4 model and UML. These diagrams helped our clients visualize the system's components and data workflows at various levels of abstraction. Additionally, I documented an Architecture Overview that presents the infrastructure in a storytelling format, enhancing its appeal and value to readers. The project was completed in two months.


Project: DevPortal Migration and Documentation
Impact: For a fashion retail company, I wrote and peer-reviewed copy texts for ten software product pages, created and tested sections for code labs, and formatted one year's worth of technology chapters and external events entries in Markdown for a DevPortal. Also, I produced AsciiDoc technical documentation for a software product in a five-month project.


Project: AWS Migration & Modernization
Impact: For a landscaping company migrating their computing infrastructure from on-premise to AWS, I created an architecture overview, a system administration guide, and a business recovery plan following the AWS Well-Architected framework, enabling our clients to familiarize themselves and resume operations through the AWS infrastructure in a three-month project.


Project: Authentication API
Impact: For a media company, I documented the Authentication API reference of their streaming service application, supporting the engineering teams in releasing the user registration and membership enrollment product features in a five-month project.



IT Analyst III
Honeywell
2020/10 β€’ 2022/03


Project: Azure Migration
Impact: Updated standard operating procedures (SOPs), knowledge base articles (KBAs), and user-facing documentation for an IT service migrating their infrastructure from on-premise to the Azure cloud, resulting in the successful resumption of operations for system administrators and 40,000 users.


Project: IT Operations Insourcing
Impact: For the IT mobility team implementing their ITSM operational model, I documented standard operating procedures (SOPs), knowledge base articles (KBAs), and troubleshooting guides. I also onboarded and trained five system administrators to support the team's objectives.



IT Analyst II
Honeywell
2017/01 β€’ 2020/10


Project: Basic to OAuth User Group Migration
Impact: Created workaround instructions and troubleshooting guides for the IT mobility team's help desk, resulting in a successful migration of 35,000+ end users from Basic to OAuth with a 90% CSAT


Project: VMware Boxer Launch
Impact: Created setup instructions and how-to videos to assist 2,500 mobile users in adopting the VMware Boxer app for both company and BYOD use for the IT mobility team.


Project: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program
Impact: Designed and developed the web documentation for the IT mobility team Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) service using Bootstrap 3 and successfully coordinated the program's release communications, resulting in the enrollment of 2,500 users.


Project: Bootstrap Implementation to Sharepoint Site
Impact: Migrated over 20 user-facing Sharepoint pages to a Bootstrap 3 website using HTML/CSS/JS, enhancing the user experience of the IT mobility team's web documentation.



IT Analyst I
Honeywell
2015/07 β€’ 2022/03


Project: Major OS UAT templates
Impact: Created user acceptance testing (UAT) templates for the IT mobility team, allowing for the assessment of the service's UX and enabling the IT team to test and approve mobile beta OS releases before launch.


Project: Enrollment Guide Modernization
Impact: Simplified the mobile activation instructions for the IT mobility service's device request and enrollment process, reducing 25 PDF pages to a 5-minute read article and a 3-minute how-to video.



Education

B.Eng., Software Development
Universidad Tecmilenio
2011 β€’ 2015

M.Sc., Information Technology Management
Universidad Tecmilenio
2016 β€’ 2018

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Issued on 2022/11, expires in 2025/11

Meta Full-Stack Engineer Certificate
Meta
Issued on 2023/10

Certified Project Manager
EC-Council
Issued on 2015/05

Skills

Expert
πŸ“ Docs-as-Code
πŸ“ Unified Modeling Language
πŸ“ Architecture Documentation
πŸ“ Information Architecture
πŸ“ Knowledge Base Articles
πŸ“ Installation Guides
πŸ“ Troubleshooting Guides
πŸ”§ Markdown
πŸ”§ HTML, CSS
πŸ”§ JSON, XML, YAML
Advanced
πŸ“ Administrator Guides
πŸ“ Configuration Guides
πŸ“ Standard Operation Procedures
πŸ“ Frequently Asked Questions
πŸ“ User Guides
πŸ“ Proof Reading
πŸ“ Developer Guides
πŸ“ Release Notes
πŸ”§ Google Workspace
πŸ”§ Microsoft 365
πŸ”§ Prompt Engineering
πŸ“’ Cloud Migration
πŸ“’ IT Change Management
πŸ“’ Amazon Web Services
πŸ“’ Agile Scrum Methodology
Intermediate
πŸ“ API Documentation
πŸ“ Copywriting
πŸ“ Requirements Gathering
πŸ”§ Confluence
πŸ”§ Bootstrap
πŸ”§ GitHub
πŸ”§ UNIX CLI
πŸ”§ MySQL
πŸ”§ Python
πŸ“’ ITIL
πŸ“’ API
πŸ“’ Azure
Novice
🎨 Wireframing
🎨 Journey Mapping
🎨 Personas
🎨 Figma
πŸ”§ Django REST Framework
πŸ”§ React.js
πŸ”§ JavaScript
πŸ”§ PHP
πŸ”§ Swagger

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