Jake Vastola

Technical Writer

Projects

1. Educational Website

An educational website built using the documentation platform Docusaurus. This project is ongoing and consists mostly of original content written by myself. I work with an international group of linguists and community members to develop the best product possible.

2. SampleTech Policy

This document is a generic version of a document my team and I worked on with a real company. As Team Leader, I helped my fellow team members stay on task while understanding their individual circumstances. I wrote detailed Meeting Minutes for every meeting. I both wrote original content and implemented content with extensive input from employees from the company.

3. Star Trek Style Guide

This document is a style guide set in the Star Trek Universe for members of Starfleet Command. This document was a collaborative effort between the entire class where I worked as a Technical Editor and Chapter Editor.

As Technical Editor, I worked with General Editors and the class as a whole to assemble everyone’s work into a cohesive document; this included attending regular meetings, writing instructions for classmates, and applying technical skills (page linking, headers/footers, cover page, table of contents, etc.). As Chapter Editor, I also wrote original content for my own chapter in my individual group.

This document was a challenge in part because material in the Star Trek Universe does not extensively address mundane topics. Therefore, I had to extrapolate from a combination of Star Trek media and real-world sources to write the content of my chapter.

4. Moodle Instructions For Students

This document is a set of instructions for the Course Management System (CMS): Moodle. I led two teams: one team from the US (my primary team) and the other in France. This project consisted of two phases: Phase 1 (creation of the original document) and Phase 2 (translation into French).

The US team studied Moodle and created the attached document under the idea that we had to write for an international audience and translation.