Mentoring
What is the program about?
An effort to optimize the huge amount of experience and knowledge in the Technical Writing industry to help develop new leaders. We facilitate experienced TW managers to sign up as mentors, and give opportunities for junior TW managers to find mentors in this group.
How do you find a mentor?
The list of mentors available are published on this page with their LinkedIn profiles. Mentees can go through the list and select a mentor based on their needs. Mentees can contact the Mentor by sending messages via LinkedIn.
For more information, see FAQs below.
Contact a Mentor
Uday chava
Uday is a storyteller, content developer and editor since 1995. Writing experience spans several domains, technical and business content, and a variety of artefacts - technical documentation, learning content, and business stories. A wide array of content skills; adept at developing content for different types of users.
Connect: LinkedIn
Bharathan Jeyapal
Bharath is an experienced documentation professional with 19 years of experience in domains, such as enterprise cloud data management, enterprise management, energy, and healthcare. He currently works as a senior documentation manager at Informatica. He manages a global documentation team for the master data management products. He is passionate about technology, quality, automation, and analytics.
Connect: LinkedIn
Edwin Skau
Content professional with a career spanning over 26 years as a journalist, researcher, and technical communications professional at multiple levels, playing multiple roles.
Not yet a published author, but he has a few books in him that he’s dying to share. (eerie speaking of myself in third person, as if I’m not here).
Connect: LinkedIn
Doug Erickson
Doug Erickson has been in the tech writing business for 25 years, with nearly 20 of them as a manager at Microsoft, AWS, and Databricks. He's been a manager of writers, of engineers, and of other managers. He has extensive experience in business writing and Agile methodologies, as well. As a neurodiverse person himself, he has worked to advocate for ND employees in all of his roles.
Connect: LinkedIn
Linda McGovern
Linda has over 20-years experience in all aspects of technical communication from writing to tool selection, hiring, team building, cross-functional relationship building, mentoring and coaching. She would love the opportunity to coach or mentor aspiring or new technical communication managers, or writers, to reach their work goals. She is based in Ireland and looks forward to connecting with you!
Connect: LinkedIn
Megha Mathur
Megha Mathur is a part of the Documentation tribe for 13 years. She has been a part of many corporates but has primarily worked for Telecom and Networking companies.
Her Technical Writing experience varies from marketing collaterals to varied technical documents. From tools to types of docs, she has seen technical documentation evolve.
Megha enjoys being a technical writer as well as a creative writer on a personal basis. She is always up and game for learning and growing professionally.
Connect: LinkedIn
Sam George
Sam George is a Senior Documentation Manager, responsible for all Enterprise Switching, Routing, and Wireless product documentation at Cisco Systems. His interests include advanced in-product assistance, augmented reality, and videos. He is currently focused on building a culture of stakeholder partnerships that drive customer value and content that aids product adoption. Outside work, Sam is passionate about musical instruments from around the world.
Mentoring preferences:
Defining a strategy and KPIs
Operational excellence
Scaling innovation
Exploring videos and AR
Conflict management
Connect: LinkedIn
Ghaus Rabbani
Ghaus is a content professional with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. He has played multiple roles of being a technical writer, trainer to technical writers, account manager for content services, leading technical content teams, and now spends his time strategizing about selling content services.
He is passionate about technology and nature and aims to play a part in the sustainable development of technological practices. He draws his inspiration from philosophy, the history of silicon valley, and Formula 1. He is open to talking about growing teams, nurturing high performing teams, selling the importance of content to business leaders, building cohesion among teams, and shifting the focus from metrics to results.
Connect: LinkedIn
Dr Anu Singh
Dr Anu Singh is a creative disrupter with a Ph.D. in English Literature. She believes in the enormity of the human mind, its thoughts, feelings and the social paradigm it creates and coexists in. Her mission is to close the gap between experiential learning of a user on products they use for the first time through content.
Anu possesses numerous degrees and certifications and she can help you connect the dots between a great product experience and a successful product adoption for customers with a focus on enabling client’s success through adaptive and predictive information around their needs.
Anu loves reading about culture, new technologies and stories in the novel or short-story format.
Connect: LinkedIn
Ramya Janarthanan
Ramya Janarthanan has been in the tech writing world for over 17 years now!
Professionally, she adorned many roles: writer, content strategist, information architect, project/program lead, scrum master, people manager, and now a people leader.
She is passionate about:
Breaking down complexities
Encourage & follow customer advocacy in writing
Contribute to product usability by collaborating with Engg
Mentoring & empowering writers to get to next level, be it managerial or a lateral shift
She currently heads the product documentation team across India, Israel, and USA for Digital.ai.
Connect: LinkedIn
Anant Sabane
Anant has over 25 years of experience that includes teaching, research, technical writing, managing and executing huge document migration projects, managing teams of technical writers and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders.
He has mentored and trained many technical writing professionals throughout his career.
Besides activities related to technical writing, he's certified trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming from NFNLP, US and waiting for his trainer's certificate from ANLP, UK.
Connect: LinkedIn
Aditi Kashikar
Aditi brings over 16 years of experience in the technical communications space, having worked in diverse domains, such as enterprise content management, networking, and robotic process automation (RPA).
She heads a global Product Documentation team at Automation Anywhere, a global leader in RPA.
She is passionate about improving user experience and enabling customer success through content. She is equally passionate about growing and developing people and setting them up for success in their careers.
As a core member of India’s largest community of technical communicators, Technical Writers of India (TWIN), Aditi was instrumental in starting a training program focused at enabling aspiring technical communicators with job-focused skills.
Outside of work, Aditi enjoys travelling and indulging in adventure sports.
Connect: LinkedIn
Ram Venkatraman
Ram Venkatraman started his career as businessman selling high-voltage underground electric transmission cables to large utilities. Every time the company produces a new product, he was tasked to take the message to customers and position the product. Later, he wanted to become a writer and took to business writing and worked for a newspaper in the Middle East writing about the oil industry. Soon another newspaper and eventually tech money lured him to Sun Microsystems.
A good challenge motivates him, and organizations are full of them. In this information age, customers always do not get “the right information at the right time”. He sets about to find solutions for this problem in various industries such as enterprise software, networking equipment, middleware, wind turbine manufacturing, and medical science. Every industry is different, and each needs a different approach, tools, and processes.
Tech doc leaders need to be thoughtful, flexible, and sell solutions. Over the years, he has learned to identify customer needs for information and helped teams fill that gap. But the first step is to create a strategy and sell it to leaders and cross-functional groups in the organization. Passing on what he has learned to the next generation of leaders is the logical next step.
Connect: LinkedIn
Asha Mokashi
Asha has two decades of diverse experience in authoring for enterprise-level product development, setting up and leading global documentation teams, defining and implementing strategies for enhanced customer experience. She is currently working at Arm Ltd as Director of Technical Communications, leading a team spread across Shanghai, Bangalore, Noida, and Austin. She also plays a strategic role as the representative to the Physical IP Engineering Leadership team, driving internal collaboration to enhance customer experience.
She loves solving challenges at the intersection of content, communication, and customer success. With a history of going beyond her defined role to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and motivation across teams and sites, she is inspired by the common goal of helping our customers succeed.
Outside of work, Asha is passionate about nature, the environment, and supporting the development of the country wherever possible. She loves long walks, listening to people’s stories, reading, gardening, and all things funny.
Connect: LinkedIn
FAQs
What is the format of these sessions?
One-to-one mentoring format.
Can a mentee select a mentor they would like to work with?
Yes, this is completely up to you. You go through the list of mentors and you reach out to a person who you think would be a good fit for your needs through LinkedIn messages.
What will be the duration of each session?
Up to you and your mentor. You can choose the duration and frequency of the sessions after an initial conversation where you discuss the topic you want help with, and the mentor agrees to mentor you.
Are these sessions free of cost?
Yes. But it would be great if you could write a testimonial on your mentor’s LinkedIn page if you benefited from the sessions.