Jason Whitmarsh
Senior Content Publishing Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Whitmarsh is a Senior Content Publishing Manager with over 15 years of experience crafting technical content and leading teams at Microsoft to serve IT architects, administrators, and developers. He has repeatedly defined content strategy, information architecture, and agile publishing practices across large product families—driving two-week sprints, daily releases, and measurable customer-satisfaction goals. Jason manages cross-functional partner engagement and complex review workflows, extending authoring models into engineering, CSS, and marketing to produce solutions-level content for critical customer scenarios. He pairs a humanities background (MFA in English) with a BA in Mathematics to communicate complex technical topics clearly and influence executive stakeholders. His hands-on contributions to MicrosoftDocs include configuring Acrolinx quality controls, demonstrating a focus on enforceable terminology and documentation standards. Based in Redmond, he’s known for balancing discretionary budgets, distributed teams, and rigorous content metrics to improve global documentation quality.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Fine Arts, English, Master's of Fine Arts, English at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (10)
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content-model10
web-content10
office-js10
technical-writing10
documentation9
xcore9
opencore9
coreos9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-DeployOffice
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
Office client deployment documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:992 commits, 126 PRs, 110 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the repository by modifying the `.acrolinx-config.edn` file. These changes involved updates to Acrolinx configuration settings, including minimum score requirements, guidance profiles, and terminology settings. The user seems to be focused on configuring Acrolinx for specific documentation and enforcing quality standards within the project. Their work ensures the documentation adheres to the defined terminology and quality guidelines.
mvldocsdeploymentofficedocsnon-build
mlyeager/OfficeDocs-DeployOffice
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Office client deployment documentation
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
deployment
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