Michael Sochka
Designer at IBM
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sochka is a seasoned content designer and technical communication leader with nine years focused on content strategy, accessibility, and onboarding experiences within IBM Analytics and Watson data products. He brings decades of documentation, training, and editorial expertise—having shepherded thousands of pages through mergers and standardization at IBM, Cognos, and acquired teams—to translate complex analytics and ML workflows into usable guidance. Comfortable at the intersection of product, UX, and engineering, he has led content for Watson Data Platform, Data Science Experience, and Watson Machine Learning while creating training and conversion playbooks for newly acquired businesses. Earlier roles in telecom and government-focused systems demonstrate his ability to run P&L, revamp documentation operations, and deliver customer-facing training and video. A Yale BA and Columbia LIS background underpin his knack for rigorous information design and preservation of institutional knowledge. Notably, he pairs editorial precision with pragmatic process improvements that accelerate product adoption and team integration.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Library and Information Science, Library and Information Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Religion/Religious Studies, Graduated Cum Laude and With Destinction in my Major, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Religion/Religious Studies, Graduated Cum Laude and With Destinction in my Major at Yale University
Russian
Github Skills (10)
dsx9
data-science-experience9
watson-openscale7
mean-stack6
ibm-cloud5
python4
deep-learning3
serverless3
machine-learning3
kubernetes2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IBMDataScience/datascix
Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
Repository hosting change log entries for use in the What's New page within Data Science Experience (DSX).
Contributions:61 commits, 6 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 3 months
data-science-experiencedsx
ibm-cloud-docs/PredictiveModeling
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 5 comments in 9 months
pythonmachine-learning
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