Marla Sowards
Lead Technical Writer at Verifiable
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolMarla Sowards is a Lead Technical Writer with 10 years of experience crafting clear, user-focused documentation and content strategies for data and healthcare software. Currently at Verifiable after a multi-year tenure at Health Catalyst, she specializes in end-to-end content lifecycles—authoring install/admin/user guides, API documentation, release notes, and in-product messaging while coordinating closely with UX, product, and engineering teams. She brings a strong editing and information-architecture background that ensures consistency and discoverability across documentation portals and internal knowledge bases. Marla pairs research-driven decisions (user feedback, analytics, personas) with practical governance—audits, maintenance processes, and contributor-friendly style guides—to keep content accurate and actionable. Based in Salt Lake City, she combines an MS in Professional and Technical Writing with hands-on experience enabling developers and nontechnical users alike to achieve their goals.
10 years of coding experience
MS, English—Professional and Technical Writing, MS, English—Professional and Technical Writing at Utah State UniversityBA, Communications—Print Journalism Emphasis, BA, Communications—Print Journalism Emphasis at Brigham Young University
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (33)
markdown10
static-site-generator10
dotnet10
api10
csharp10
documentation10
health9
catalyst9
angular9
react8
office3658
pnp7
sharepoint7
docfx6
html6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cedar-ave/docs-project-template
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
A Health Catalyst-branded sample Markdown documentation project that generates a website and/or PDFs
Contributions:67 commits, 20 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 4 months
markdown
HealthCatalyst/vsts-release-notes-html-table
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
This solution automatically generates release notes from VSTS work items associated with a VSTS release and publishes them in a filterable, sortable, and searchable HTML table.
Contributions:37 PRs, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
notesvstsvscode-extensionrelease-notessortable
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