Professional Resume Template for
Knowledge Officer
Julian E. Sterling
Denver, CO
(303) 555-0142
julian.sterling@email.com
linkedin.com/in/julian-sterling | juliansterling.com
Professional Summary
Systems-oriented Knowledge Officer with 6 years of experience building and scaling enterprise knowledge management systems across fast-growing corporate environments. Specialized in designing intuitive taxonomy schemas, mapping information flows, and deploying modern cognitive search platforms. Successfully transitioned 3 legacy database portals to a unified Glean engine, reducing search times by 32% and recovering 9 hours of employee capacity weekly. Adept at conducting audits with subject matter experts to catalog standard operating procedures and reduce informational silos. Proficient in Confluence, Notion, Guru, and search telemetry dashboards.
Work Experience
Knowledge Officer — Horizon Fintech Solutions
Denver, CO | July 2023 – Present
- Established and managed an enterprise-wide knowledge curation workflow using Confluence, auditing 1,400 legacy documents to consolidate 6 departmental spaces and reduce duplicate articles by 42%.
- Designed and deployed an AI-enabled cognitive search experience using Glean, reducing zero-result search queries from 28% to 4% for a team of 450 corporate users.
- Partnered with 18 cross-functional team leaders to document and index 85 standard operating procedures, cutting average employee onboarding cycle time by 3 days.
- Implemented search analytics tracking via Tableau dashboard, identifying 35 critical documentation gaps and directing content sprints that resolved 90% of search failures.
Knowledge Specialist — Summit Global Advisory
Boulder, CO | June 2020 – June 2023
- Migrated 1,200 unstructured PDF guides and reference files into a standardized markdown-based wiki in Notion, reducing average query lookup times from 15 minutes to under 3 minutes.
- Created a standardized taxonomy and metadata tagging scheme across 8 business divisions, improving general documentation findability rates by 38% across the enterprise.
- Organized and facilitated a bi-weekly knowledge transfer program for 12 departments, preserving critical intellectual capital and increasing weekly knowledge base contributions by 25%.
- Conducted quarterly content freshness audits on 900+ technical articles using JIRA tracking, archiving 150 obsolete documents and updating metadata for compliance.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Information Management
University of Colorado Denver · Denver, CO · 2020
Skills
Knowledge management, Information architecture, Taxonomy design, Metadata mapping, Content lifecycle management, Cognitive search, Subject matter expert collaboration, Confluence, Notion, Glean, Guru, SQL, Tableau, JIRA, SharePoint, Change management
Projects
Enterprise Cognitive Search Deployment
Role: Lead Knowledge Officer
Tools: Glean, Confluence, JIRA, Slack
Spearheaded the integration of a unified AI search index across 4 core business databases, reducing employee search failure rates by 85% and saving 9 hours per user weekly.
Global Taxonomy Harmonization
Role: Knowledge Specialist
Tools: Notion, Guru, Miro, Power BI
Harmonized tagging taxonomy for 8 global departments, auditing and cleaning 1,500 duplicate files to boost catalog findability rates by 38% across all lines.
Certifications
- Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) (2022)
- APQC Knowledge Management Certification (2021)
- Prosci Certified Change Practitioner (2023)
Additional information
- Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
- Volunteer Work: Developed cataloging systems for local digital archive project (2022–Present)
- Availability: 2 weeks notice
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Market data and opportunities for
Knowledge Officer
Job Market Insights
$76,000
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$115,000
Avg:
$94,000
Growth Outlook:
The demand for Knowledge Officers is rising steadily as organizations confront vast volumes of unstructured data and implement AI-powered enterprise search tools. Sectors such as management consulting, financial services, healthcare, and software systems lead the hiring. While AI automation streamlines initial categorization, it highlights the need for human experts to design taxonomies, govern security, and foster cultures of sharing. Employment of related information managers is projected to grow by 9% from 2024 to 2034, which is faster than the average for all occupations.
9% growth over 10 years
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