Coding experience

I’ve dabbled in code throughout my career to feed my curiosity, add value, and translate developers’ language into high-quality content.

Here’s how I’ve used code to solve content problems:

  • Created my first website in the 1990s.
  • Wrote SQL queries to analyze hidden user metrics in a legacy help system.
  • Converted a 1500-topic Adobe RoboHelp project to DITA XML.
  • Developed custom XSLT transforms for DITA-to-HTML conversion.
  • Built a unique publishing platform using Atlassian Confluence as a CMS with a custom front end.
  • Created a Python script to help subject matter experts (SMEs) auto-fill homepage metadata.
  • Automated repetitive team tasks through custom scripting.
  • Designed and built contentcontent.info — a decade-long technical content aggregator — using Drupal CMS.
  • Helped establish the Drupal CMS Northern NJ user group as a founding member.
  • Built edmarsh.com from scratch using WordPress in 2008.
  • Transformed edmarsh.com to run on a static site generator in 2025.
  • Defined Jira user story guidelines that were adopted division-wide within three months of onboarding.
  • Wrote Jira user stories and epics following Gherkin language principles.
  • Worked with Kanban and story boards.

Related work

Panel discussion: Pros and Cons of using Markdown for tech docs

Content Wrangler webcast, 2024

Presentation: Creating a Drupal sandbox using VirtualBox and Drupal Quickstart

Drupal NJ user group, 2010

Tools used

    Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)

    Open-source

    Db2 database

    IBM

    Drupal CMS

    Drupal

    Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)

    Open-source

    GitHub Copilot

    Open-source

    GitHub/GitLab

    GitHub/Microsoft

    GPT4All

    Open-source

    HTML

    Open-source

    LM Studio local AI LLM

    Open-source

    Miro mockup and diagramming tool

    Miro

    Nunjucks templating engine

    Nunjucks

    Ollama AI

    Open-source

    oXygen XML Editor

    oXygen

    PlantUML diagramming language

    Open-source

    SQL Server

    Microsoft

    VS Code

    Microsoft

    WordPress

    Automattic

    XML

    Open-source