Bernie Cohen

Senior Technical Writer, studies ML/AI with Python and GenAI with ChatGPT. Writes highly technical APIs/SDKs. Creates, explains, and maintains code samples and sample apps. Creates docs-as-code and autogenerates docs. Creates accurate, relevant, clear, concise developer docs that make complex concepts easy to understand, including AI for Android, a Kotlin SDK for Google Wear Android watches, Oracle's first Java SDK, C/C++ gaming platform integration docs for EA, and a Python SDK for Switch++. Owns his projects. Creates developer, IT, DevOps, user, and knowledge base docs from scratch and updates existing docs. Coaches writers and devs. Known for reliability and positive teamwork.

• Contract Senior Technical Writer, MapR Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, 2011-01-01, 2012-02-29, Wrote SDK for Hadoop big data analytics software, Created and updated REST API and CLI docs for configuring and querying MapR disks, nodes, and clusters, Revised instructions for using Pig, Hive, HBase, Mahout, and NFS in the MapR environment, Wrote Hive-HBase integration tutorial
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, Karmasphere, Inc. (FICO), Cupertino, CA, 2011-01-01, 2011-02-28, Wrote Getting Started and Installation Guides for Karmasphere Studio Community Edition, an open source Eclipse plugin for visually developing, debugging, and deploying MapReduce jobs; the Getting Started Guide was bundled with Cloudera's Hadoop Training Virtual Machine, Wrote tutorials showing Hadoop developers how to deploy MapReduce jobs from Karmasphere Studio using JAR files, Hadoop streaming with Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, and R scripts, and MapReduce jobs developed visually using the Karmasphere Studio Workflow Wizard, Led UI/UX initiative to make the Karmasphere Studio UI more intuitive and easier to use, Created release notes for Karmasphere Analyst, a visual analytics application that enables developers to run SQL and Hive queries on data stored in Hadoop clusters
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, Fujitsu Software Corporation, San Jose, CA, 2001-01-01, 2001-06-30, Managed six-book doc set for i-Flow, a 100% Java business process automation engine, Wrote custom code that generated MIF files from Java source code using Javadoc's MIF Doclet extension, then created FrameMaker API reference guides from the generated MIF files, Revised and updated developer, administration, installation, user, and integration adapter guides for major and point releases, Revised and edited architecture white paper, tutorial, brochure, corporate backgrounder, data sheet, FAQ, code samples, press releases, and release notes
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, Switch++ (Wind River), Santa Clara, CA, 2010-01-01, 2010-03-31, Created Python SDK for embedded software for switches and routers, Wrote Python code samples showing developers how to use the API to retrieve data, generate detailed reports, test system conditions, and modify the system on the fly, Wrote SDK for external API of embedded C/C++ library that used SQLite3 for persistent storage and an XSD schema for data bindings, Wrote cross-platform network management software prototype that dynamically generated cascading menus from XML database schemas and used Python/Tk/tkinter/ttk to implement Layer 1, Layer 2, and Layer 2+ functionality via the API using an XML/RPC proxy server
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, RSA Security, Inc. (EMC), San Francisco, CA, 2002-01-01, 2002-03-31, Updated Java and C administration and runtime chapters in RSA ClearTrust Developer's Guide, Updated Java and C API docs and code samples, Created and edited comments in Java source code and C header files, Added sections to Java and C chapters describing new functionality in upcoming releases
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA, 1997-01-01, 1997-10-31, Wrote Java and JavaScript SDKs for Oracle Video Server Application Programmer's Guide using FrameMaker for Unix, Wrote Oracle Java Video Player, Oracle's first published Java developer documentation, Made extensive revisions to Oracle Video Server Unix System Administrator's Guide
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, Verity, Inc. (Autonomy/HP), Sunnyvale, CA, 2003-01-01, 2003-03-31, Created Java and C developer guides for Verity's K2 and Ultraseek search engines, Wrote two new Java chapters, Edited Javadoc comments in source code, Created integrated code samples and revised Java and C SDKs including API reference
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, 2012-01-01, 2012-05-31, Led documentation projects for IT department of thriving GPU company., Substantially revised documentation and associated processes for:, - Worldwide data storage infrastructure, including data center and virtualization environments, - Worldwide data retention policies, - Worldwide backup and restore rules and procedures, - Made major revisions to NVIDIA Information Technologies Incident Response Plan
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, SuccessFactors, Inc. (SAP), San Mateo, CA, 2005-01-01, 2006-03-31, Completed various assignments for this SaaS cloud startup, Documented XML server configuration settings and procedures, Coded JDOM prototype for automating XML back-end server configurations, Created web hosting IT architecture white paper and PowerPoint presentation, Created IT architecture design doc for large manufacturing client under tight deadline, Wrote functional and design specification gap analysis report for large financial services client, Prepared monthly PowerPoint presentations for board of directors, Created internal IT and documentation wikis, Provided UI/UX feedback on application and web designs and helped drive improvements
• Contract Senior Technical Writer, Loudcloud, Inc. (Opsware/HP), Sunnyvale, CA, 2001-01-01, 2001-03-31, Completed numerous assignments for this bleeding-edge cloud startup's R&D department, Created technical white paper on designing web architectures that scale; topics included designing multi-tiered systems, separating presentation layer from application layer, horizontal and vertical scaling, caching, queuing user requests, connection pooling, session management, database optimization, logging, monitoring, and benchmarking, Wrote first detailed overview of Opsware, Loudcloud's data center infrastructure software, Made developmental edits to white papers for delivery to CEOs of vendor partners, Developed collateral for Vice President of R&D including VP's bio, collaborating on speech for Oracle AppsWorld, and editing press release, Worked with legal department to develop legal guidelines for internal and external white papers, Rewrote R&D department extended mission statement, Mentored writers and editors

• Python
• C/C++
• Java
• Kotlin
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• Ruby/Rails
• PHP
• Perl
• Hadoop
• Hive
• SQL
• JSON
• CSS
• HTML
• XML
• DITA
• Shell scripts