Dhanashekar Raja

Senior Technical Writer | Business Analyst

Turning product complexity into content people can trust, use, and act on.

I’m a Senior Technical Writer and Business Analyst with 9+ years of experience supporting enterprise and SaaS products through customer-facing documentation, release communication, workflow analysis, user stories, functional and non-functional requirements, and cross-functional collaboration.

I work closely with Engineering, QA, Support, and Product teams to clarify feature changes, identify usability gaps, and improve how product information reaches users. I’m building toward Product Management roles focused on product communication, customer experience, and cross-functional execution.

Profile

I work at the intersection of product behavior, customer understanding, and operational clarity. My documentation background has trained me to uncover user needs, reduce ambiguity, and create assets that help both customers and internal teams act with confidence.

Strengths

Structured authoring, release communication, knowledge design, docs-as-code workflows, cross-functional collaboration, HTML/CSS troubleshooting, and translating technical change into user-ready guidance.

Product direction

I’m building toward product-facing roles where I can combine communication, workflow thinking, stakeholder alignment, and customer empathy to support better product decisions and stronger adoption outcomes.

Experience

Career highlights

A documentation career shaped by enterprise software, release communication, workflow analysis, user guidance, and close collaboration with product and engineering teams.

150+ published articles

Knowledge base articles and release notes supporting customer and support teams.

Cross-functional execution

Worked across Engineering, QA, Support, and Product to keep documentation aligned with change.

Product-minded communication

Focused on usability, discoverability, adoption, and clearer end-user outcomes.

July 2022 - Present

Fortra

Technical Writer II

  • Develop customer-facing documentation, knowledge base content, and release notes for enterprise SaaS products, helping users and support teams understand product changes more effectively.
  • Authored and published 150+ knowledge base articles and release notes in Microsoft Dynamics 365, improving support readiness and customer self-service access to product information.
  • Partner with Engineering, QA, and Product teams to translate technical changes into structured, user-focused documentation aligned with feature updates and release priorities.
  • Participate in sprint meetings, product demos, and Agile ceremonies to stay aligned with upcoming enhancements, bug fixes, and user-impacting changes.
  • Review UI workflows from an end-user perspective, identify usability gaps and inconsistencies, and collaborate with QA and engineering teams to support issue resolution.
  • Maintain developer-facing documentation and README content in GitLab, contributing to docs-as-code workflows and more consistent product communication across teams.

Apr 2018 - Jan 2021

eClinicalWorks

Senior Business Analyst - Technical Writer

  • Produced customer-facing and internal documentation in an Agile environment, supporting product usability, issue resolution, and clearer communication of feature changes.
  • Collaborated with developers, SMEs, QA, and product stakeholders to gather requirements and translate technical updates into release notes, workflow documentation, and change communication.
  • Conducted post-release analysis of EMR/EHR workflows to identify usability issues and customer-impacting defects, then worked with QA and engineering teams to support timely fixes.
  • Supported customer-facing teams by documenting known issues, feature updates, and process changes, improving transparency and helping reduce repeat questions.
  • Facilitated stakeholder discussions to clarify system behavior, edge cases, and product-impacting changes across teams.
  • Prepared training and enablement materials that helped internal teams understand workflows, updates, and operational changes more clearly.

Sep 2015 - Feb 2018

Bluestream

Associate Detail Engineer

  • Created structured technical documentation based on project scope and stakeholder input, ensuring installation teams had clear execution guidance.
  • Supported installation teams with detailed technical instructions for commissioning and decommissioning tasks.
  • Coordinated with engineers, admins, and project stakeholders to support issue resolution, technical communication, and documentation needs across implementation work.

Education

Learning and credentials

A mix of engineering, business, telecommunications, and technical writing specialization.

Academic background

Postgraduate in Wireless Telecommunications, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Toronto, Canada.

Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Bangalore University, India.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, India.

Certifications

  • MadCap Advanced Developer, MadCap Software (2025)
  • Technical Writing, Coursera (2021)
  • Cloud Computing and Virtualization, Rooman Technologies (2016)

Tools and workflow

  • MadCap Flare, Markdown, Adobe FrameMaker
  • Git, GitLab, Jira, Confluence
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365, SharePoint, AWS
  • HTML, CSS, Agile and Scrum workflows

Projects

Selected documentation samples

These samples show a useful mix of process writing, product documentation, workflow guidance, and user-focused communication.

SOP Writing

Google Pay Standard Operating Procedure

Created a structured SOP to make a repeatable operational task easier to follow, with step-based guidance designed for consistency, clarity, and reduced ambiguity.

  • Role: built step-by-step procedural guidance for a user workflow.
  • Approach: organized instructions for clarity, continuity, and ease of execution.
  • Value: demonstrates workflow thinking and operational documentation discipline.
Open sample

Product Help

En route to Canada

Built a live help experience that shows how complex informational content can be structured, published, and made easier for users to navigate in a web-based format.

  • Role: created and organized published help content in a live HTML format.
  • Approach: used topic structure and information hierarchy to improve usability.
  • Value: demonstrates MadCap Flare capability, information architecture, and product help thinking.
Open sample

Workflow Guide

Quora User Profile Creation Workflow

Documented a simple user journey as a clear workflow, turning a basic platform task into a repeatable set of instructions that emphasizes usability and task completion.

  • Role: translated a user task into a structured workflow guide.
  • Approach: broke down the journey into simple, user-friendly steps.
  • Value: shows user-task analysis and communication skills relevant to product-facing work.
Open sample

Contact

Open to technical writing and documentation strategy opportunities

I’m interested in roles and collaborations across technical writing, product communication, knowledge management, content operations, and product-adjacent execution.

Professional focus

  • Product documentation and release communication
  • Cross-functional execution across Engineering, QA, Support, and Product
  • User-focused workflow analysis and communication
  • Knowledge base design and support readiness
  • Process writing, SOPs, and workflow guidance
  • Docs-as-code and scalable documentation operations