Content Specialist · Instructional Designer · Knowledge Engineer

Daniel
Ng

Hardware to software. Manuals to micro-videos. I transform complex products—from RFID terminals to autonomous vehicles—into clear documentation, learning experiences, and knowledge systems, using docs-as-code and automation where they add value.

Selected
work

What I've delivered

  • User manuals, visual quick-start guides, and mixed-media installation and maintenance documentation for hardware products, including RFID terminals and autonomous vehicle systems.
  • Installation, quickstart, administrator, troubleshooting, tutorials for large enterprise software systems across multiple releases.
  • Document lifecycle automation with Git, docs-as-code, for modern CI/CD workflows.

Professional
highlights.

01

Hardware documentation · Autonomous vehicles

Documenting hardware and autonomous vehicle solutions

Produced documentation for industrial-grade RFID terminals and autonomous vehicle systems. Created quickstart, operations and maintenance manuals, covering autonomous controls, lidars, safety panels and remote monitoring software.

  • Hardware documentation
  • Smart RFID terminals
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Video procedures
03

Developer learning · Engineering enablement

Developing learning courses for engineering teams

Developed e-learning courses on release management, SOX, patents, quality, and engineering compliance. Combined interactive learning, narration, animation, and assessment for delivery to hundreds of engineering staff.

  • Learning design
  • Articulate Rise
  • Easygenerator
  • Multimedia
04

Software documentation · Enterprise software

Owning enterprise security product documentation

Owned documentation for an enterprise security product, with responsibility later expanding across the security portfolio. Planned and delivered installation, configuration, support, and release information using hands-on validation, DITA XML, and engineering reviews.

  • DITA XML
  • Enterprise software
  • Structured authoring
  • Release delivery
05

Training · Knowledge management

Moving from technical training into knowledge systems

Led technical training and later managed knowledge management. Led an Engineering Process Group supporting a CMMI Maturity Level 2 initiative, coordinated process documentation and improvement work, and completed ITIL Foundation training.

  • Knowledge management
  • CMMI ML2
  • Process governance
  • ITIL training

Areas of
experience.

01

Product documentation

Clear guidance for complex hardware and software, from quickstarts and installation instructions to maintenance and troubleshooting in multiple languages.

02

Documentation automation

Practical workflows that move structured source data into published documentation using Python, JSON, Git, docs-as-code, and CI/CD.

03

Structured authoring

Topic-based content in DITA XML and Markdown, designed for reuse, conditional publishing, and localization.

04

Technical learning

Courses and short-form learning that combine clear scripts, visuals, narration, and assessment.

05

Knowledge and process management

Information structures and documented processes that help teams find, maintain, and reuse what they know.

Selected
publication.

“Realizing Seamless Translation in the Textile Industry”

How a Malaysian IT solutions provider used multilingual online and print documentation to better support customers and differentiate itself.

Daniel Ng · ClientSide News · August 2008

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