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Mona Clerico

Thayngen

Summary

Professional communicator with solid experience in creating clear, concise, and user-friendly documentation. Skilled in technical writing, content creation, and information architecture, bringing strong focus on collaboration and achieving results. Known for reliability and adaptability in dynamic environments. Expertise in simplifying complex information, ensuring accuracy, and meeting deadlines consistently.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Writer

Trapeze Switzerland GmbH
03.2023 - Current
  • Conception of user manuals and online help for public transport software solutions, intelligent transport systems, and mobile technologies
  • Developed new online help
  • Further development of the intranet presence (Sharepoint) regarding system overviews, product portfolio and provision of documents for customers and employees

Technical Writer

Adelbert Haas GmbH
12.2017 - 02.2023
  • Concepted, created and updated technical documentation in the CMS Cosima Go (Docufy)
  • Documented and improved internal processes
  • Developed training materials
  • Cooperated with the Marketing department in improving the company website
  • Responsible for all technical content for customers and trainers

Copywriter

KE-Communication GmbH
06.2016 - 11.2016
  • Developed slogans, advertising texts, mailings
  • Created communication concepts and campaigns
  • Prepared presentations for pitches (new customer acquisition)

Marketing Manager

Magnetische Pruefanlagen GmbH
12.2015 - 05.2016
  • Built up a marketing department for the subsidiary of Foerster Group
  • Developed marketing strategies and content for websites, presentations, magazines
  • Prepared conferences and industry events

Head of editorial office

Schott Relations GmbH
01.2015 - 11.2015
  • International media relations and communications for customers from the packaging industry
  • Prepared product fairs and industry events for Schubert GmbH (leading manager of packaging machines)

Internet Editor / Project Manager

ETAS GmbH
07.2014 - 12.2014
  • Concepted drafts and ideas for the website relaunch
  • Responsible for the quality of all website content of ETAS group (embedded systems for automotive)
  • Localized web content for technical audiences

Account Manager / PR Consultant

Storymaker GmbH
05.2012 - 06.2014
  • PR consulting and content production for Dassault Systèmes, Reply, AnchorFree, Carl Zeiss, PCO, Walter AG
  • Maintained media relations
  • Prepared pitches and gave presentations for new customer acquisition
  • Gained corporate publishing award for the Walter AG customer magazine

PR Consultant

PR-COM
10.2010 - 03.2012
  • Prepared and executed high-level B2B events for Dell
  • Selected speakers, topics, venue
  • Prepared and followed up the events for the media, supported journalists during the events

Marketing and Communication Manager

self-employed
02.2010 - 09.2010
  • Website content management for GoldMoney, Jersey, British Channel Islands (videos, texts, navigation)
  • Wrote professional articles for Schneider Electric via Lewis PR, Munich, Germany
  • Created my own website and used it for customer acquisition, worked with Google Analytics

Press Spokesperson

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) and Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
01.2008 - 01.2010
  • Built up a common PR department for both institutes
  • Developed English and German image brochures
  • Introduced video podcasts, interactive internet comics and YouTube into the institutes’ PR palette
  • Coordinated numerous projects and cooperations on the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy 2009

Correspondent

Associated Press (AP), news agency
12.2005 - 12.2007
  • Wrote reports on IT and internet trends for the Computer & Cyberspace section

Art critic

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, daily newspaper, Cultural News Department
12.2005 - 01.2007
  • Attended events, vernissages and exhibitions
  • Wrote art reviews and event reports

Teaching positions

Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany and University of Fine Arts (HBK), Dresden
04.2004 - 02.2006
  • Planned and held interdisciplinary proseminars

Interdisciplinary Postdoc Project

Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany / German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn
10.2003 - 02.2006
  • Attended international conferences, gave talks
  • Published a paper in a peer-reviewed journal on the implications of artists’ books for the future of the medium

Education

Doctoral Examination (Dr. phil.) - German Literature

Ludwig Maximilians University
07.2003

Magister Artium (M. A.) - German Literature, Theory of Drama and Psychology

Ludwig Maximilians University
03.2003

Abitur - undefined

Gisela-Gymnasium
06.1995

Skills

  • Microsoft 365 (Teams, PowerPoint, Excel)
  • Joomla
  • Google Analytics
  • COSIMA go (Docufy)
  • Schema ST4 (Quanos)
  • Confluence, Jira
  • Sharepoint
  • TimeLine ERP
  • Corel Draw, Picasa, GIMP
  • Editing and proofreading
  • Effective writing
  • Instruction writing
  • Technical editing
  • Content development
  • Process documentation
  • Documentation management
  • CMS management
  • Release notes writing
  • Content strategy
  • Software documentation

Language Skills

German: native language
English: fluent (TOEIC: 970 scores of 990, IELTS: 7.0 = good user)
French: good reading and writing skills (TFI: 785 scores of 990)
Spanish: basic knowledge

Publications

  • Monograph: Welt – Ich – Sprache. Philosophische und psychoanalytische Motive in Thomas Manns Romantetralogie „Joseph und seine Brueder”. Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann, 2004 (= Epistemata, Wuerzburger wissenschaftliche Schriften, Reihe Literaturwissenschaft, Bd. 485)
  • The publication of the dissertation was sponsored by the Oskar Karl Forster scholarship.
  • Brochure: MPA anniversary brochure: https://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/69639/MPA_englisch.pdf (English) and http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/163794/MPA_deutsch.pdf (German)
  • Co-Editor: The International Journal of the Book, Vol. 2, 2004
  • Journalistic articles (selection): Super Substances. New materials offer breakthrough potential, in: COMPASS – The 3D Experience Magazine, Ausg. 2 Frühj. 2013: Fertigung im Zeitalter der Erlebnisse
  • Hauruck-Beschlüsse oder Strategie, in: IT-Mittelstand, Ausg. 10/2012
  • Jens Semjan: The private transport show, in: Photography now, Feb 2008 – http://photography-now.com/exhibition/53806
  • Papers (selection): Fast camera improves surveillance on the seas (co-authors Gerhard Holst und Sebastian Pless), in: Photonics Spectra, Feb. 2013 – https://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53055
  • Larger pixel sizes are not always more sensitive (co-author Gerhard Holst), in: Wiley Analytical Science, Jan. 2013 – https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/do/10.1002/imaging.3644
  • Preserving by Changing: Rodney Graham’s Book Objects as a Perspective for a seemingly old-fashioned Medium (co-author Eva Wattolik). In: The International Journal of the Book, Vol. 2, 2004, p. 89 – 106 - https://cris.fau.de/converis/portal/publication/111682824?lang=de_DE
  • Presentation: The Second International Conference on the Future of the Book, organised by Common Ground in cooperation with Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication and China Book Business Report, Beijing, 29 – 31 Aug 2004, talk: 31 Aug 2004
  • The lecture tour was sponsored by German Research Foundation (DFG).
  • Videos: Video podcasts on Planck satellite, the Galactic Centre, Herschel / PACS and new research findings on black holes for the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics – https://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/28644/Vodcasts
  • Comic: Interactive Internet comic on the cosmic microwave background to attract young people to Astrophysics. Documentation of the project: https://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/1071434/riding_early_waves3.pdf

Timeline

Technical Writer

Trapeze Switzerland GmbH
03.2023 - Current

Technical Writer

Adelbert Haas GmbH
12.2017 - 02.2023

Copywriter

KE-Communication GmbH
06.2016 - 11.2016

Marketing Manager

Magnetische Pruefanlagen GmbH
12.2015 - 05.2016

Head of editorial office

Schott Relations GmbH
01.2015 - 11.2015

Internet Editor / Project Manager

ETAS GmbH
07.2014 - 12.2014

Account Manager / PR Consultant

Storymaker GmbH
05.2012 - 06.2014

PR Consultant

PR-COM
10.2010 - 03.2012

Marketing and Communication Manager

self-employed
02.2010 - 09.2010

Press Spokesperson

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) and Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
01.2008 - 01.2010

Correspondent

Associated Press (AP), news agency
12.2005 - 12.2007

Art critic

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, daily newspaper, Cultural News Department
12.2005 - 01.2007

Teaching positions

Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany and University of Fine Arts (HBK), Dresden
04.2004 - 02.2006

Interdisciplinary Postdoc Project

Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany / German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn
10.2003 - 02.2006

Magister Artium (M. A.) - German Literature, Theory of Drama and Psychology

Ludwig Maximilians University

Abitur - undefined

Gisela-Gymnasium

Doctoral Examination (Dr. phil.) - German Literature

Ludwig Maximilians University
Mona Clerico