Documentation Director

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Creates Distilled Pages - Documentation Brief Pages - for each project

Requests to Developers for explanations, video clips, vlogs, measurements, or other technical documentation.

Responsible for staying on top of documentation fulfillment with all FeF developers

Duties

  • Responsible for the overall state of OSE documentation
  • Assures that organizational learning
  • Collects and assesses available documentation and industry standards from external resources
  • Collates, requests, and refactors documentation from team members
  • Synthesizes, organizes, diagrams, maps, and otherwise upgrades information architecture
  • Sets development priorities for documentation
  • Helps to develop documentation standards for OSE
  • Studies external resources and assimilates best documentation practices into OSE
  • Develops training materials for Documenters-in-Training
  • Works with CAD Director to assure CAD assets are being generate as needed
  • Works with FeF Documenter, Blogger, and CAD Director to assure that documentation standards and progress are communicated to the external world
  • Produces high quality explainer videos as necessary
  • Develops and oversees soundtrack, video archive, photo archive, media asset, CAD, and other repositories and file versioning systems
  • Works with Curriculum Director to produce teaching materials for Post-Scarcity Civilization


  • Works with field-testing interns/trainees to write field-testing reports
  • Sets technical writing standards for Documentation Community.
  • Organizes writing of technical manuals: fabrication process, assembly, operation and safety
  • Works with field-testing team/product designer/industry professionals (SME’s)
  • Works with Production Director to generate Open Business Models


Skills Required

  • Photoshop/Illustrator/Gimp/Inkscape
  • Expertise in nonlinear video editing
  • Technical background (engineering, physics, or related background that provides technical literacy
  • Familiarity with Systems Engineering Design Software (ask)

Work Product

  • Organizational strategy and learning materials package for documentation