CV

Søren Andreasen Weimann

Curriculum Vitae

Søren Andreasen Weimann

Elmegårdsvej 1A, Tørslev

3630 Jægerspris

 

Phone: +45 4029 7560

E-mail: sorenweimann@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sorenweimann/

 

Date of birth: 19.09.1973

Private life: Married and have two children

 

Work experience

 

  • Implementation Manager at DitaExchange (2016 - today)

I am managing customer implementations of component content authoring and management tools in major corporation primarily within finance, legal, pharma and aerospace. Or in plain language, I help big companies with truckloads of documentation write smarter and make their knowledge and information more available and accessible.

 

  • Information Architect at Napatech (2013 - 2016)

I am leading a DITA XML implementation that single-sources content to technical documentation and marketing collateral. I have been leading the project through content audit, tools selection, tools implementation, content conversion and content opimization. Also, I am writing technical documentation and marketing collateral.

 

  • Technical writer at Novo Nordisk (2011 - 2013)

I was involved in LEAN projects that were seeking to standardize production processes in Novo Nordisk. I was driving process mapping workshops as well as criticality analysis workshops. I was writing and reviewing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for manual as well as IT processes.

 

  • Senior technical writer, project and team lead at Motorola Solutions (2007 - 2011 )

I was developing user assistance for IP based radio systems (both infrastructure and terminal management). Also I was leading a project team responsible for implementation and configuration of tools used by technical writers in Copenhagen, Krakow, Chicago and Penang. In this work I was responsible for strategy, training and tools for implementing DITA XML into the toolbox.

 

  • User consultant and communications manager at Tabulex Aps. (2005 - 2007)

I was responsible for external communication such as development of news letters, white papers and user assistance products, and I was assisting the sales team in text production for marketing material. I developed and implemented new standards for written user guides across all Tabulex products. In addition I was performing user training and developing courseware.

 

  • Teacher, schedule developer and IT guidance counselor at Kregme School (2003 - 2005)

Apart from teaching Danish and English, I was providing IT support and training for the school staff.

 

  • Project coordinator at Orange A/S (1997 - 2002)

Primarily I was working with response to written support requests from customers. Among other things I developed a system and process for template based replies to customer e-mails. My very first venture into single sourcing information.

 

Education

  • Master of Arts, majoring in Danish and English language theory from Roskilde University
  • Thesis: Developing and employing a model that enables review and editing of text with regards to enhancing usability for the real-world readers.

 

Relevant courses

  • Abreve Green Star training by Architext
  • DITA XML by Comtech Services
  • Usability at IT-University of Copenhagen
  • Project Management Courses by C2
    • Professional Project Management

Project management Communications

  • Scheduling and Cost Control for Project Managers
  • Project Leadership and Communication for Project Managers
  • Managing Risk for Project Managers
  • Negotiation Skills for Project Managers
  • Workshop Facilitation by Implement
  • cLEAN one star by Novo Nordisk
  • A3 - Systematic Problem Solving by Novo Nordisk
  • Poka Yoke (Mistake Proof It!) by Motorola
  • Quality in the Medical Business by Novo Nordisk
  • Test Fundamentals by Motorola
  • IT guidance counselor in Danish public schools by UNI-C

 

Relevant IT-tools

  • Oxygen XML editor - advanced user and configuration
  • Bluestream Xdocs CCMS - advanced user
  • Help and Manual - advanced user and configuration
  • Arbortex Editor - advanced user and configuration
  • Arbortext Styler (stylesheet development tool) - advanced user
  • Various XML editors for documentation development -advanced user
  • InDesign - advanced user (incl. sourcing content from DITA XML)
  • Photoshop - advanced user
  • Illustrator - advanced user
  • Adobe Technical Communication Suite - user
  • Vasont CMS - user and administrator
  • Typo3 CMS - user and administrator
  • Sharepoint - user
  • MS Office - advanced user
  • MS Project - user
  • Various tools for image processing and editing - advanced user
  • Various html editors - user

 

Presentations

  • How Tech Writers Will Support SMEs in Writing Structured Content, STC Technical Communication Summit, Florida 2018
  • Field Agents Doing Structured Writing, DITA Europe, Berlin 2017
  • What is Open DITA?, Content Management Strategies/DITA Conference, San Diego 2016
  • Making Marketing Collateral and Technical Documentation Meet, Content Management Strategies/DITA Conference, Seattle, 2014: ‘ http://youtu.be/QoyVtPEv7IM
  • Making Marketing Collateral and Technical Documentation Meet, Congility Conference, London 2014. Post-conference recording at the Congility Youtube channel: http://youtu.be/QoyVtPEv7IM
  • Small steps, big thoughts - getting started with DITA XML documentation, DITA Europe Conference, Vienna 2009.
  • DITA with Lego Blocks - an Introduction to DITA XML reuse Principals: http://vimeo.com/82182488