Josiah Brown
Ashburn,VA
Summary
Accomplished Senior Technical Editor and Writer for the Intelligence Community with more than 13 years of relevant experience, adept in technical editing and collaborative editing. Expertise in transforming complex intelligence into clear, actionable insights. Trained and developed editorial talent, ensuring high-quality production. Published over 1,000 analytical products, enhancing decision-making for the Congressional policymakers. Demonstrates exceptional style guide adherence and teamwork, contributing to national security.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Editor and Writer
Leidos Corporation
06.2018 - Current
- Served as senior technical editor and writer to communicate complex and technical information more clearly.
- Applied expert knowledge of grammar, punctuation, corporate writing standards, substantive editing, and formatting to review and prepare technical reports for publication.
- Partnered with other editors on the team to review and release projects in support of complex publication deliverables; communicated, transmitted, processed, and stored proprietary US Government information in secure and authorized manner.
- Developed production timelines and best practices with editor team to ensure delivery of high-quality production.
- Edited and processed complex text and graphics for senior government officials in the Intelligence Community (IC) and other Federal Government agencies, adhering to established technical production guidelines and quality control standards.
- Trained government customers and team members on different aspects of the technical editor discipline. Facilitated senior-level customer product feedback and accurately incorporated comments into final product. Disseminated finished products to broader IC and archived digital files after product delivery.
- Edited and published more than 1,000 highly analytical products, including all cyber, domestic, strategic, and insider threat production.
- Vetted, trained, and developed new editors to ensure competency and knowledge base to meet job performance standard.
- Collaborated with other editors on the team to identify and harmoniously resolve editorial issues and inconsistencies in complex textual, graphic, and multimedia products.
- Coordinated editing changes with graphic designers, cartographers, SME authors, tradecraft reviewers, and senior government managers.
- Applied publishing tradecraft principles to conceptualize a variety of complex intelligence projects.
All-Source Intelligence Analyst
Department Of Defense
07.2017 - 06.2018
- Applied intelligence analysis techniques to monitor, assess, and report on intelligence situations pertaining to foreign underground facilities.
- Analyzed framework of foreign infrastructure networks and systems (transportation, energy, telecommunications) providing intelligence products essential to national security.
- Detected, identified, and characterized underground facilities used by adversarial countries and nonstate actors to protect and conceal critical assets, including WMDs, CW, C2, leadership relocation, military forces, and strategic industries.
Technical Editor
Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA
10.2015 - 07.2017
- Reviewed, edited, and performed quality control on finished intelligence products and ad hoc requirements in accordance with DIA policy and tradecraft.
- Collaborated with partner editors to review and disseminate strategic products to CENTCOM Commander and IC agencies.
- Met with regional intelligence analysts and managers in production of daily strategic and current intelligence products and briefings.
- Curated and published daily in-depth regional, military, and political analytical products. Conducted SharePoint production workflow management for finalizing and disseminating intelligence products to CENTCOM Commander, Coalition partners, and IC agencies.
All-Source Intelligence Analyst
US Army
03.2010 - 10.2013
- Served as an all-source intelligence analyst in support of Middle East contingency operations.
- Analyzed intelligence to assess area of responsibility, military and political intentions, and ally and adversarial courses of action.
- Collaborated with intelligence teams to assess most probable courses of action for existential and emerging terrorist threats.
- Produced and briefed strategic intelligence products to commanding officer and staff to increase situational and operational awareness of factors that could undermine national or regional stability and potentially affect US national security interests.
Education
Master of Arts - English
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL12.2024
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL04.2017
Skills
- Technical Editing
- Collaborative Editing
- Technical Writing
- Style Guide Adherence
- Substantive Editing
- Tradecraft Review
- Production Management
- JIRA
- Microsoft Office/365
- Adobe InDesign
Timeline
Senior Technical Editor and Writer
Leidos Corporation
06.2018 - Current
All-Source Intelligence Analyst
Department Of Defense
07.2017 - 06.2018
Technical Editor
Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA
10.2015 - 07.2017
All-Source Intelligence Analyst
US Army
03.2010 - 10.2013
Master of Arts - English
University of Central Florida
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
University of Central Florida
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