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<title>Hey, its Matt!</title>
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<h1>Hey, its Matt!</h1>
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<h2>About Me</h2>
<p>I'm an experienced technical writer and instructional designer who wants to be the next addition to the GitHub Training team! I've used the last few days to learn as much as I could about Git and GitHub using various sources and firsthand experience with GitHub Pages to respond to the position qualifications and get an understanding of Git and GitHub.</p>
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<h3>Qualifications</h3>
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Eager to acquire Git and GitHub skills</a>
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<p>Before applying for this position, I started with Try Git, then moved to Git Real from Code School and Git Basics from Treehouse. Then I moved to installing GitHub Desktop, followed by hosting this page on GitHub. I’m definitely eager to learn more about both Git and GitHub, but I’m hoping my immediate immersion in everything Git and GitHub shows my enthusiasm to acquire skills in both.</p>
<img src="img/treehouse_badges.png" />
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Background as a developer or technology teacher</a>
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As an experienced technical writer and instructional designer, I have: created, edited, maintained, and published content for everything from Laboratory Information Systems, IT Security certifications, and payment authentication system implementations. I believe my experience developing multi-day IT Security certification review courses would be essential for this role. Working with SMEs and other team members, I created thousands of pages of content and more than my fair share of PowerPoint slides. To coincide with the courseware, I have created software simulations as ancillary labs.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Ability to convert knowledge into learning experiences</a>
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Firsthand experience is something I have always tried to use to increase the relatability of my content. In my experience, without the proper context an example doesn’t always provide the students with an engaging learning experience. I typically try to find scenarios that I have found myself in, or, other students have provided during previous trainings. Student questions are a great opportunity to identify new opportunities to improve course content and provide examples in future classes.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Ambition to help students learn job skills</a>
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I love helping people learn how to do something better or increase their efficiency. People work hard and have a lot on their plates, showing them ways to be more efficient in their daily tasks can free them up to spend time on upcoming deadlines. For instance, when I developed an internal training for using SnagIt, I discussed the effectiveness of creating keyboard shortcuts for frequently used profiles and how it could save time while capturing images.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Must possess a relaxed, knowledgeable, and classy disposition in front of people</a>
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I'm gregarious and can typically connect with someone within minutes of meeting them. I like to provide informed answers to questions and I'm not afraid to admit when I need to research something before providing an answer. When speaking with people professionally, I know I'm representing my organization with my actions and it is something I am consciously aware of. Although I typically have some form of beard, I always keep it groomed and professional looking.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Ability to critically discuss and write debriefs of training events</a>
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As a content developer, I have been on the receiving end of critical discussions and have taken part in daily recap meetings regarding training delivery and development and completed session debriefs. Additionally, I have been responsible for organizing, reviewing, and evaluating course surveys to identify areas of improvement for the course material as well as instructor delivery. I view feedback sessions as an excellent opportunity to grow as a professional and nurture my existing skill sets. I have always valued the role that feedback has on current and future content development.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Ability to collaborate and work well with others, including clients and team members</a>
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In my previous roles I have had the opportunity to work with project managers, business analysts, SMEs, official partners, and clients/customers. I have been responsible for providing support to students taking courses through in-person events, online classes, and using an iOS/Android app. I've worked with people inter-departmentally and always had a positive experience working on projects with multiple stakeholders. I'm a people person through and through, and pride myself in giving 100% when working in a group. That being said, when needed, I have no problem throwing on some headphones and working as a lone wolf.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Strong attention to detail</a>
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<p class="float-left">My work experience has offered me the opportunity to review, edit, and publish thousands of physical and electronic pages for public consumption. In my content reviews, I have looked for things like grammatical mistakes, layout issues, and inconsistent terminology use. Students lose faith in a product, if they catch mistakes or the examples provided are outdated. I often find myself critiquing the help documentation provided for different services and identifying how it could be better.<br />
As a side note, the job posting has a small mistake in it, "Willingness to speak to a wide range of range of audience sizes", should be "Willingness to speak to a wide range of audience sizes".</p>
<p clas="float-right"><img width="50%" height="50%" src="https://octodex.github.com/images/inspectocat.jpg"/></p></div>
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Must be willing to travel 50% to customer sites</a>
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I love travelling for work, it gives me an opportunity to visit new places and meet new people. My previous roles have provided me with opportunities to travel both domestically and internationally (sometimes at a moment's notice) and I'm always excited about the opportunity to interact with customers, clients, and team members.
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I am legally authorized to work in the United States. I promise.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Experience as a technology trainer</a>
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In the past, I have developed content that I have used to train an internal audience and I have also created content for week long classroom / online courses that were delivered by other instructors. Unfortunately, I was unable to teach the content for the various (ISC)² certifications as I wasn't a credential holder. Outside of "traditional" training (classroom / online-based), on numerous occasions, I have trained and on boarded new employees on template and software use.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Git and GitHub skills</a>
<div class="accordion-content" data-tab-content>Since noticing the position on the GitHub Jobs page, I have been eagerly learning Git and GitHub through various sources, as well as creating this GitHub page. I've always been aware of what Git and GitHub were, I just hadn't had an opportunity to use it professionally or personally. I hope my eagerness to learn both Git and GitHub before applying for this position speaks to my interest in this position and the technology I would be instructing for.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Continuous integration and application lifecycle management (ALM) knowledge</a>
<div class="accordion-content" data-tab-content>I find the correlation between Integrated ALM / ALM and developing content to be very similar. Not only have I worked with product teams during the development of an application and understanding what content needed to be created to support the release, but I have worked in conjunction with multiple authors in the same projects. I know firsthand the frustrations associated with working in an environment that doesn't allow collaborative workflows and restricts content updates to check-in/check-outs, not knowing what changed in a file, and encountering numerous errors during compilation that were due to last minute changes that I needed to track down.
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Experience building screencasts</a>
<div class="accordion-content" data-tab-content><p>Although not identical to a screencast, I have experience developing asynchronous content and recording live conference sessions to be delivered through an LMS. I have attended numerous screencasts, and my biggest take away as a attendee, is the need for interactive sections that keep the audience engaged. While developing asynchronous content, I identified areas where simulation based training opportunities could be provided to the students to break from the typical multiple choice questions and word matching exercises often found in online training.</p>
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<a href="#" class="accordion-title">Great stage presence or ability to be comfortable on camera</a>
<div class="accordion-content" data-tab-content>In the past I have co-hosted company-wide "All Hands" events and have played an integral role in the success of classroom and conference based training sessions. I have also provided internal training sessions on numerous occasions and have no qualms about being on camera or keeping an audience’s attention.</div>
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<h3>Work Examples</h3>
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<h5 class="text-center">Courseware Example</h5>
<div class="callout secondary"><p class="text-center"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia4lqvw9w06zwr2/ArchConceptsDesignReqs_example.pdf?dl=0"><img src="img/isc2_ex.png"/></a></p></div>
<p class="text-justified">This is a snippet from the CCSP Training Seminar Facilitator Guide. Working with SMEs I developed a 5 day classroom training covering Cloud security.</p>
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<h5 class="text-center">Implementation Example</h5>
<div class="callout secondary"><p class="text-center"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5dkft1qay5csiq/ImplementationProcess_example.pdf?dl=0"><img src="img/imp_proc.png"/></a></p></div>
<p class="text-justified">This is an implementation guide for a laboratory information system that I developed in conjunction with the product management team.</p>
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<h5 class="text-center">UI Description Example</h5>
<div class="callout secondary"><p class="text-center"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8dabuz8hjgncgj/Main_User_Interface_example.pdf?dl=0"><img src="img/mui_ex.png"/></a></p></div>
<p class="text-justified">This is an example of a user interface description document used for a new product that was being developed. Using the application, screen capture software, and conversations with the product manager, I developed this content.</p>
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<h5 class="text-center">Technical Doc Example</h5>
<div class="callout secondary"><p class="text-center"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwwxoy0e8q2vanh/GP_RoT_Definitions_and_Requirements_v0.0.0.41.pdf?dl=0"><img src="img/rot_ex.png"/></a></p></div>
<p class="text-justified">This is just another example of a document I created that is primarily a technical implementation guide.</p>
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<h4>Video Projects</h4>
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<p>In the past I developed online training using SMEs (like these <a href="https://learning.isc2.org/content/official-isc%C2%B2-cissp-training-seminar-ondemand" target="_blank">Example 1</a> and <a href="https://learning.isc2.org/content/official-isc%C2%B2-ccsp-training-seminar-ondemand" target="_blank">Example 2</a>).</p>
<p>The following video is a quick training I did identifying how to setup GitHub Pages using GitHub repositories and GitHub for Windows.</p>
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<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ctQPzik22U8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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