Shweta Shetye-Sabharwal
Senior Technical Writer at Protegrity-
Summary
Experienced technical writer with over 9 years of technical writing experience. I have spent 8 out of these
9 years working with corporates such as LionBridge and IBM India, and helped them create product
documentation of optimum quality.
For the past one year, I have experimented with working as a freelance technical writer and very fondly worked
as Editor with www.curiousmumma.com.
Now, I am looking to enter the corporate once again, and hence looking for an exciting opportunity to showcase
my expertise as a writer.
Feel free to reach me at-for a quick discussion about how good content matters!
Experience
Senior Technical Writer at Protegrity
September 2015 - Present
Consultant Technical Writer/editor-Curiousmumma.com at CuriousMumma.com
April 2014 - Present
Working on multiple projects ranging from creating technical documentation for web applications, mobile
applications to proof reading reports. As part of Curiousmumma, managing the content selection and editing
every blog that goes on the site.
# Consultant Technical Writer
# Worked as a contractor on Elance.com with a rating of 4.6/5.0. Link can be provided on
request.
# Created documentation for healthcare applications, Joomla applications, and WooCommerce
applications. Links can be provided on request.
# Edited reports for MBA students
# Successfully was part of the Udemy writer group. Technical articles written for Udemy can be found at
https://www.udemy.com/blog/author/shweta_shetye.
# Editor-Curiousmumma.com
# Conceptualized and started parenting blog in April 2014.
# Written more than 100 articles spread over the course of a year.
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# Established FB page likes of 745 and Twitter following of 212 with social media engagement.
# Daily viewership of 200 views.
# Have been involved in content strategy, marketing strategy and publicity related decisions for
the blog.
# Expert at using Wordpress as a CMS.
Senior Information Developer at IBM
June 2008 - March 2014 (5 years 9 months)
Managing information development requirements for the BPM India team, which includes creating
documentation, technotes, and release notes.
• Information Development Activities –
- Creating technical documents such as development guides, how-to guides, installation guides, and release
notes using Arbortext Editor.
- Working on internal DCF tool to create Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document for WebSphere
Industry Content Packs.
- Reviewing documents using integrated Acrocheck tool and also in MS Word for technical accuracy and
grammatical errors.
- Using the internal iDOC online reviewing tool for maintaining review comments.
• Localization Activities –
- Responsible for using IBM IDWB internal tool for packaging translation Information units and shipping
them for translation.
- Responsible for communication with translation vendors and communicating via TCT internal IBM
communication tool with translators.
- Co-ordinate with translation leads for different countries for timely return of translated content and
organization of these IUs.
- Estimate the word counts and difference in word counts for the IUs sent for translation.
• Project Management Activities –
- Project scoping and requirement based work estimations.
- Project timelines definitions and tracking in internal tracking tool Rational Team Concert.
- Tracking of project related issues via internal issue tracking tool, JIRA.
- Using RTC for effective line items and task time lines definitions.
- Gathering requirements based on work items and providing required time lines.
• Innovation and others –
- Was part of internal Mind mapping tool project named Mindsearch
- Part of the internal IBM social media group BlueIQ and responsible for spreading awareness about
the social collaboration tools in IBM under Lotus. Under this, mentored Dr. Gopal PonnaniKrishnan in
collaboration with another colleague.
Technical Writer at Lionbridge
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November 2006 - June 2008 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for creating user guides for HP iPAQ handsets using Arbortext Editor. Also, worked on creation
of multiple guides for different HP iPAQ accessories using Adobe Framemaker (unstructured).
• Worked on Adobe Acrobat Pitstop plug-in to edit PDF documents and modify them by adding crop marks,
graphics, color variations, etc
• Work in co-ordination with Localization team (generation of part number and maintaining a link between
writing and localization) Interaction with clients on a day to day basis and worked as an acting Team lead
Education
Mumbai University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 2002 - 2005
Government Polytechnic, Mumbai
Diploma in Engineering, Industrial Electronics, 1999 - 2002
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Shweta Shetye-Sabharwal
Senior Technical Writer at Protegrity-
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