About me

Dustin Guericke #

Contact #

Experience #

Director of Knowledge Services at Lucidworks #

May, 2019 to present
Spearfish, SD (remote)

  • Manage Documentation and Training teams consisting of four technical writers and three instructional designers.
  • Document complex APIs with over 330 endpoints across SaaS and PaaS platforms.
  • Delivered developer documentation on time for over 75 releases.
  • Planned, developed, and launched documentation for six new products. Several more new products are approaching release.
  • Lead the design and development of a custom documentation site utilizing GatsbyJS.
  • Designed and implemented a company style guide for technical documentation.

Other positions held at Lucidworks:

  • Director of Documentation (September 2021 to November 2023)
  • Senior Manager, Documentation (March 2021 to September 2021)
  • Documentation Manager (August 2019 to March 2021)
  • Technical Writer (May 2019 to August 2019)

Technical Writer at Project Solutions, Inc. #

June, 2017 to April, 2019
Rapid City, SD

  • Authored successful proposals that won government contracts.
  • Supported active contracts by authoring technical documents, such as safety plans, management plans, reports, and HR documentation.
  • Collaborated to produce marketing materials for Project Solutions, Inc. and its contracts.

Technical Writer at Teledyne Isco #

February 2016 to June, 2017
Lincoln, NE

  • Authored user manuals for complex scientific instruments, such as flow meters, chromatographs, and syringe pumps.
  • Created marketing materials, including animated videos, brochures, and instructional videos.
  • Collaborated to develop a new company website.

Skills #

  • API documentation: Swagger and OpenAPI (JSON and YAML), Postman, Stoplight, Backstage
  • Developer documentation: configuration specifications, architecture, deployments, upgrades
  • Markup languages: Markdown, Asciidoc, MDX
  • Docs-as-code: GitHub, testing, automation
  • Project management: Jira, Confluence, Agile methodologies
  • Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, YAML, JSON, XML
  • Static site generators: Jekyll, GatsbyJS, Hugo