Stan Doherty
Senior Technical Writing Manager at Google
Hingham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolStan Doherty is a Senior Technical Writing Manager and information architect based south of Boston with over a decade of experience designing and delivering modular, DITA-based documentation and content ecosystems for companies from Sun Microsystems to Google. He has led and scaled information-architecture and user assistance teams at enterprise firms like Oracle and Google, and has a strong track record bringing XML/DITA, CMS, and collaborative content strategies into production for manuals, help systems, and web information centers. A founding member and long-time contributor to the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, he combines standards leadership with hands-on implementation of conversion tools, metadata strategies, and content-model design. Stan’s background spans startups and large vendors—where he introduced modular documentation workflows, trained teams in DITA, and managed cross-functional localization and publishing operations. He holds deep humanities training (PhD in English) that informs his pragmatic approach to information design, and maintains a public research and sample library at ModularWriting.com. Locally active in New England, he’s a practical bridge between content strategy, engineering, and production publishing.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Philosophy, BA, English, Philosophy at Merrimack CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), English Language and Literature/Letters, Honors, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), English Language and Literature/Letters, Honors at Harvard UniversityBentley University
latin (read, write) - proficient, koine greek (read) - beginner, french (read, write) - beginner, german (read, write) - beginner
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Github Skills (27)
xslt9
dita-ot9
dita9
xml9
ant8
darwin8
architecture7
oasis7
documentation5
jekyll-theme5
jekyll5
medium5
markdown5
api-documentation4
documentation-generator3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
StanDoherty/dita-migration-best-practices
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
First pass at collecting best practices for small- to medium-sized teams migrating to OASIS DITA
Contributions:1 PR, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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StanDoherty/LightweightDITATesting
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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