My work and impact
Evidence‑backed impact across platforms & performance, design systems, and structured content for AI.
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Turning vague content guidelines into measurable AI-ready standards
UNDRR's AI assistant couldn't learn from vague guidelines like 'keep it concise.' I extracted patterns from high-quality examples to create measurable standards. |
2025 | UNDRR | content strategyAIDrupaleditorial systems |
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Making disaster economics compelling for global policymakers
UNDRR's flagship disaster risk report needed to communicate $2.3 trillion in annual losses — without burying the message in data or slowing access for users in disaster-prone regions. |
2025 | UNDRR | content designinteractive storytellingweb performancedata visualization |
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Reclaiming three weeks of editorial time every month
No single issue was breaking UNDRR's editorial experience — it was an accumulation of paper cuts that drained editor time and patience. |
2025 | UNDRR | editorial workflowcontent operationsefficiency optimizationCMS optimization |
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Recovering platform performance after a cloud migration failure
UNDRR's Azure migration followed the playbook — managed services, platform-as-a-service, letting the cloud handle complexity. Instead, performance degraded and user trust eroded. |
2025 | UNDRR | DrupalAzureperformance optimizationdatabase performancecloud migration |
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Untangling an 80-link footer into scannable navigation
EMBL.org's footer had become a screen-and-a-half of densely packed links — failing users and stakeholders alike. |
2021 | EMBL | information architecturenavigation designuser experiencedesign systems |
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Decoupling content from platforms across 80 properties
EMBL's 80+ properties ran on different CMSs — and content was trapped in each one. |
2020 | EMBL | content federationheadless CMSplatform independencecontent APIs |
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Building a component library adopted across 50+ scientific properties
Dozens of teams across six countries were solving the same UI problems independently — duplicating effort and fragmenting user experience. |
2019 | EMBL | design systemscomponent librariespattern librariescross-platform design |
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Scaling Drupal e-commerce for 150,000 satellite-connected customers
Every timeout during checkout cost revenue. Every slow page load over satellite eroded trust. |
2014 | DRS Technical Solutions | Drupalperformance optimizationdatabase tuningcaching strategies |