Professional Resume Template for
Knowledge Architect
Devon K. Mercer
Seattle, WA
(206) 555-0148
devon.mercer@email.com
linkedin.com/in/devon-mercer | github.com/devonmercer | devonmercer.dev
Professional Summary
Systems-oriented Knowledge Architect with 5 years of experience designing and optimizing enterprise taxonomy, ontology, and information architecture systems. Demonstrated expertise in building enterprise-grade knowledge graphs, establishing metadata standards, and streamlining document retrieval pathways. Successfully reduced internal search time by 28% and improved document discovery rates by 22% across 2 large-scale intranet migration projects. Proficient with Neo4j, PoolParty, SPARQL, RDF, OWL, and Confluence, with a strong background in search relevance engineering and semantic web technologies.
Work Experience
Knowledge Architect — Aether Solutions
Seattle, WA | July 2023 – Present
- Designed and implemented an enterprise taxonomy and ontology framework for a database of 250,000+ technical articles, improving content categorization accuracy by 34%.
- Developed a knowledge graph using Neo4j to link cross-departmental assets, reducing search time for 1,200 active employees by 24% and mitigating information silos.
- Governed metadata standards and controlled vocabularies across 5 corporate platforms, decreasing document tagging errors by 41% and increasing auto-tagging efficiency.
- Collaborated with engineering to integrate semantic search capabilities, resulting in a 19% increase in click-through rates on internal search engine result pages.
Associate Knowledge Architect — Cognitive Systems Inc.
Seattle, WA | June 2021 – June 2023
- Mapped and migrated 12 legacy document repositories into a unified cloud-based knowledge management system, reducing data retrieval latency by 28% for remote teams.
- Conducted regular content audits on 8,000+ knowledge base assets, identifying and archiving redundant articles to improve overall search relevance scores by 18%.
- Facilitated training sessions on taxonomy best practices for 40+ content authors, lowering initial document submission rejection rates from 25% down to less than 5%.
- Wrote 15 comprehensive metadata schema guidelines and user manuals, which successfully decreased the onboarding time of incoming content managers by 2 weeks.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Skills
Taxonomy Design, Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Graphs, Metadata Schema, Information Architecture, Controlled Vocabularies, Search Relevance, Semantic Web, Neo4j, PoolParty, SPARQL, RDF, OWL, Confluence, Jira, Python, SQL
Projects
Enterprise Knowledge Graph Migration
Role: Lead Knowledge Architect
Tools: Neo4j, Python, PoolParty, SPARQL
Designed and executed the semantic migration of 40,000+ data nodes, reducing query response times by 32% and enabling cross-domain semantic recommendations.
Search Recommender Engine Integration
Role: Information Architect
Tools: Elasticsearch, Python, RDF/XML, Confluence
Engineered a localized thesaurus mapping 5,000+ terms, improving search precision by 22% and reducing search query abandonment rates by 15%.
Certifications
- Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) (2023)
- Certified Information Professional (CIP) (2022)
Additional information
- Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
- Volunteer Work: Taxonomy designer for a regional digital library archiving historic documents (2022-present)
- Availability: 2 weeks notice
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Market data and opportunities for
Knowledge Architect
Job Market Insights
$88,000
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$135,000
Avg:
$110,000
Growth Outlook:
The demand for Knowledge Architects in the United States is growing steadily as organizations struggle with massive volumes of unstructured data. With the integration of artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs), structured knowledge frameworks, taxonomies, and ontologies have become critical to ensuring data reliability. As a result, companies in tech, healthcare, and finance are actively hiring experts to build and govern semantic networks. Job openings in information management roles are projected to grow by 9% between 2024 and 2034.
9% growth from 2024 to 2034
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