Paul Buchanan

Background

About Paul Buchanan

Significant experience of managing, designing and developing technical documentation for a wide variety of end-users within the defence, engineering, telecomms and hospitality sectors. Positive and enthusiastic personality with well-developed communication and project management skills. Easily forms effective relationships with colleagues and is flexible and receptive to new technology and process. Good understanding of the documentation process from audience analysis, through media design to delivery and ongoing maintenance. Experienced in using industry standard authoring tools – Adobe Technical Communication Suite (FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Acrobat DC); Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop) – to produce responsive HTML5 WebHelp, hard copy end-user guides and online documentation (inc. web content). Experienced in managing multinational and client-specific/bespoke documentation sets and directing external printing, localisation and design agencies. Good understanding of corporate brand guidelines and the accurate application of this to all company artefacts, including sales and advertising collateral.