Demi Kureghian
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Career Quest · Loaded for Lucid Software

Ten years of turning confusing into clear.

I'm a documentation leader who designs learning experiences — I just usually call them "user guides." Scroll to play through the journey, unlock badges for the wins, and try translating real integration-guide jargon into something a first-day user could actually follow.

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400+
User guides shipped
190
Integration guides authored
70%
Faster time-to-value
10+
Years in the field
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The career map

Four studios, one throughline: make hard products make sense. 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 doc library from scratch — grounded in real customer interviews, not guesswork.

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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 docs 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 — labels, workflows, 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 doc 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 — hiring, prioritizing releases, 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 — Confluence, SharePoint, ServiceNow, OneDrive — into one knowledge base.
  • Wrote and shipped a company-wide style guide, cutting editorial review time by 40%.
  • Revised 400+ guides to WCAG 2.2 ahead of government contract requirements.
  • Designed in-app Pendo campaigns and used analytics to close documentation gaps.
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Achievements unlocked

The wins that matter most for a learning-experience role — scaled impact, not just shipped pages.

+20 XP
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Integration Master

190 cybersecurity integration guides, 70% faster time-to-value for new customers.

+20 XP

Accessibility Champion

Rebuilt 400+ guides to WCAG 2.2 ahead of a government contract deadline.

+15 XP
🧭

Knowledge Unifier

Consolidated four fragmented content systems into one searchable knowledge base.

+15 XP
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Style Guide Architect

Company-wide style guide across Product, Support, and Marketing — 40% less review time.

+15 XP
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Team Builder

Hired, coached, and managed a technical writing team through hypergrowth.

+15 XP
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Adoption Booster

In-app Pendo campaigns, driven by analytics, that measurably reduced onboarding friction.

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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.

🔧 Engineer mode
Patch notes

Release notes I actually shipped

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
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 docsEnablement
v2025.12 · December 2025

Transit, Phishing Analyzer, Discover, Workflows, Mobile, Intel — six releases in one edition

  • Coordinated release notes across six simultaneous product updates in a single customer-facing edition.
  • Kept each section scannable on its own, for readers who only cared about one feature.
Multi-release coordinationCustomer comms
Character sheet

Skill inventory

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

Documentation

Release communications
Product / integration guides
Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
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
🎮 Quest 75% complete — keep exploring

Ready for the next level: Lucid's Customer Education team.

I've spent ten years translating technical complexity into learning people actually finish. I'd love to bring that to Lucid's Learning Experience Designer role.

✉ Email Demi ☎ (801) 913-2006