Samantha Robertson
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Robertson is a seasoned content and information architecture leader with over 8 years of focused experience at Microsoft building taxonomy, metadata, and content models that scale across enterprise products and multiple authoring platforms. She has repeatedly driven cross-division programs—boosting AI readiness and increasing metadata coverage to make tens of thousands of articles more consumable by automation and downstream tools. Known for marrying technical documentation, solution-focused content, and visual storytelling, she led content strategy for Microsoft 365 frontline workers and created shared libraries used across Microsoft Learn and Support. Her open-source contributions include fine-tuning Acrolinx configurations in a prominent MicrosoftDocs repo, reflecting a practical attention to writing quality and automated governance. Based in Redmond, she combines deep editorial roots (an MA in English) with program-level delivery to turn complex product knowledge into usable, discoverable content.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts English, Bachelor of Arts English at University of WashingtonMaster of Arts ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Master of Arts ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (5)
acr10
office36510
documentation10
web-content9
content-model9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-O365ITPro
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
Documentation for Office 365 Kaizala, Yammer
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:105 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Samantha's commits primarily involve modifications to the `.acrolinx-config.edn` file within the `microsoftdocs/officedocs-o365itpro` repository, which is related to documentation for Office 365. These changes focus on configuring Acrolinx, a tool for checking grammar, spelling, and writing style. The commits configure the Acrolinx settings, including language, rules, and term sets. Further commits define the Acrolinx scorecard templates, highlighting the importance of achieving a minimum score, and setting up scoring exceptions.
office365mvldocsnon-buildnoncoreofficedocs
MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-M365FreelanceToolkit-pr
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:148 PRs, 235 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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