Demi Kureghian
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Career Quest

Ten years of helping users move from confused to prepared.

I'm a technical communicator who designs learning experiences like user guides, in-app walkthroughs, and tutorial videos. Scroll to play through my career journey, unlock badges for the wins, and try translating real integration guide jargon into something a first-day user could follow.

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400+
User guides published
2
Pluralsight courses authored
70%
Faster time-to-value
10+
Years in the field
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The career map

Four companies, one throughline: make complex products, features, and workflows approachable. Click a node to open the mission log.

01

Documentation Specialist

Sept 2014 – Jul 2018
Instructure · Salt Lake City, UT

Where it started: weekly release notes to 1,000+ customers, community support, and the first video tutorials.

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Tools: ScreenSteps · Camtasia · Vimeo · MailChimp · Jive
  • Authored and distributed weekly release notes to 1,000+ external customers across multiple products.
  • Built documentation for three very different audiences at once: students, teachers, and IT admins.
  • Scripted and produced video tutorials for new and prospective users.
  • Trained new hires and moderated community forums with troubleshooting guidance.
02

Technical Writer / Production Editor

May 2018 – Jan 2020
Pluralsight · South Jordan, UT

Rebuilt the documentation library and produced Pluralsight's first Getting Started with Pluralsight courses.

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Tools: KnowledgeOwl · Zendesk · Notion · Adobe Premiere Pro · Confluence · Pendo
  • Overhauled the entire documentation library based on findings from extensive customer interviews.
  • Produced a full tutorial video library to raise feature visibility and adoption.
  • Partnered cross-functionally with Marketing and Sales to repurpose documentation for their needs.
  • Established a video style guide so every tutorial felt like one product, one voice.
03

Technical Writer

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021
Podium · Lehi, UT

Went micro: in-product labels, workflows, and feature announcements that had to work in one glance.

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Tools: Zendesk · Pendo · Confluence · Figma · Miro · Camtasia · Vimeo
  • Designed UI microcopy, including labels, workflows, and guided walkthroughs, to improve usability and adoption.
  • Planned the release-communication timeline in lockstep with Product and Design.
  • Owned Help Center content for an entire product area, keeping it current release over release.
  • Closed the loop with Support and Professional Services using real customer questions as documentation input.
04

Manager of Technical Writing

Aug 2021 – Mar 2026
ReliaQuest (Cybersecurity) · Sandy, UT

Ran the whole program: a team, a knowledge base, an accessibility overhaul, and a company-wide style guide.

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Tools: ServiceNow · GitBook · SharePoint · Confluence · Contentful · Pendo · Copilot · Figma · GitLab
  • Led a team of writers, including hiring, prioritizing releases, and running performance reviews.
  • Authored 190 integration guides for cybersecurity tools, cutting new-customer time-to-value by 70%.
  • Maintained 400+ user guides, on time, for every major release.
  • Unified four scattered platforms, including Confluence, SharePoint, ServiceNow, and OneDrive, into one knowledge base.
  • Wrote and shipped a company-wide style guide, cutting editorial review time by 40%.
  • Revised 400+ guides to WCAG 2.1 AA ahead of government contract requirements.
  • Designed in-app Pendo campaigns and used analytics to close documentation gaps.
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Achievements unlocked

A few of the projects I'm proud of, and why they mattered.

+15 XP
📰

Audience-First Writing

Weekly release notes and guides to 1,000+ customers, written for three separate audiences: students, teachers, and IT admins.

+15 XP
🎬

Video & Tutorial Production

Rebuilt the documentation library from real customer interviews, then produced a full tutorial video library with its own style guide.

+15 XP
✏️

UX Microcopy

Designed in-product labels, workflows, and guided walkthroughs that measurably improved usability and adoption.

+25 XP
🧭

Program Leadership at Scale

Led a writing team while authoring 190 integration guides that cut new-customer time-to-value by 70%.

+15 XP
📬

Patch Notes Pro

Published dozens of release notes that turned dense, multi-product updates into scannable customer reading.

+15 XP
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Full-Stack Documentarian

A toolkit spanning documentation, leadership, and hands-on technical skill, from WCAG accessibility to Python.

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The plain-language translator

Straight from a real integration guide I wrote at ReliaQuest. Toggle to see the same instruction in engineer-speak vs. how I'd actually hand it to a learner.

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Patch notes

Release notes for a wider audience

Every month, real product changes had to reach customers who'd never read the release plan. These are three consecutive editions I wrote and published.

v2026.02 · February 2026

GreyMatter Chat, Threat Hunting Teammate, Detection Engineering Teammate

  • Introduced GreyMatter Chat, letting security teams query the platform directly in natural language.
  • Shipped two new agentic "Teammates" for threat hunting and detection engineering.
  • Added new direct source integrations for broader telemetry coverage.
Release commsNew feature launch
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v2026.01 · January 2026

Phishing Analyzer enhancements, new direct sources

  • Improved workflow visibility into every step of a phishing investigation.
  • Documented remediation actions so analysts could see what happened and why, end to end.
Workflow documentationEnablement
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v2025.12 · December 2025

GreyMatter Transit, Phishing Analyzer enrichment, Discover saved filters

  • Launched GreyMatter Transit, a new service that detects threats in data as it moves through the pipeline, before it ever reaches storage.
  • Added recipient, click, download, and reply data to Phishing Analyzer so analysts can see an email's full blast radius at a glance.
  • Let customers save, name, and reuse Discover filters instead of rebuilding the same queries every visit.
Multi-release coordinationCustomer comms
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Character sheet

Skill inventory

Levels are relative to my own toolkit, not a universal scale.

Documentation

Release communications
Product / integration guides
Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
UI microcopy

Leadership

Content strategy & IA
Team management & hiring
Cross-functional stakeholder mgmt
Change management

Technical

Docs-as-code / Markdown
HTML / CSS
JavaScript / Python / PowerShell
Pendo / in-app guidance
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Ready for the next level

I've spent ten years translating technical complexity into learning people actually finish. I'd love to bring that experience to my next opportunity.

✉ Email Demi ☎ (801) 913-2006