Summary
Bob Ducharme is a Senior Technical Writer and data architect with over 30 years of experience turning complex XML, RDF, and semantic-web technologies into usable documentation, training, and data products. He has led documentation and solution design roles across companies like TopQuadrant, Ontotext/Graphwise, and Katana Graph, blending technical authorship with data modeling, API guidance, and customer-facing training. A published author and frequent speaker, he’s known for rapidly mastering new standards (SPARQL, RDF, DITA) and translating them into practical tooling, automated reporting, and multimedia learning assets. Bob’s background as a consulting software engineer at LexisNexis and enterprise publishing work gives him rare depth in both schema design and publishing pipelines, and he continues to freelance and author while contributing to product documentation at Graphwise.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Hopkins School
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at New York University
BA, Religion, BA, Religion at Columbia University