Simon Bate
Sr. Technical Consultant at Scriptorium Publishing Services
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorSimon Bate is a senior technical consultant with over three decades of experience specializing in tooling and automation for technical communications, with 11+ years in his current Sr. Technical Consultant role at Scriptorium. He designs and implements DITA and DITA-OT specializations and plugins, architects automated document build systems, and programs across XSLT, XSL-FO, JavaScript, Python, Perl and more to convert and format complex content. He has deep experience with CCMS platforms (easyDITA, SDL Tridion Docs, IXIASOFT, AEM) and production formatters such as Antenna House, Apache FOP and Prince, and converts learning content into LMS formats like SCORM. An Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor and CompTIA CTT+ certified trainer, he also develops and delivers training in DITA, Oxygen, XMetaL, XSLT and FrameMaker. His background spans roles at enterprise software companies (Oracle, BMC/Remedy, Symantec) and early web startups, giving him uncommon perspective on integrating legacy publishing systems with modern structured authoring. Based in Apex, NC, he combines hands-on development with pragmatic consultancy—often building bespoke plugins or templates that bridge authoring workflows and automated publishing pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (27)
dita10
xslt9
xml8
dita-ot8
stopwords7
darwin6
ant6
science6
php6
kotlin6
distributed-computing6
java6
architecture6
hebrew5
android5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simonbate/ditatraining
Jun 2015 - Apr 2019
Learning content for DITA, written using the DITA learning specialization
Contributions:13 PRs, 208 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 10 months
ditaspecialization
simonbate/dita-ot
May 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
xmlditaoasisspecification
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