Dim studio desk lit by a single lamp

TJ Kleven

Content operations, technical communications & digital experience

Systems that ship content,
teams that trust the process.

15+ years turning messy publishing workflows, technical documentation and enterprise websites into content operations teams can actually run. Currently open to full-time and contract work.

Louisville, Colorado based, remote friendly.

Editorial style guide with red pen markupsContent governance checklist on a monitorAnnotated publishing workflow diagramsKeyboard beside an open CMS publishing dashboardWhiteboard mapping a content intake processPrinted technical documentation pages pinned to a wallNotebook of editorial tone and voice notesTwo people reviewing a runbook on a laptopEditorial style guide with red pen markupsContent governance checklist on a monitorAnnotated publishing workflow diagramsKeyboard beside an open CMS publishing dashboardWhiteboard mapping a content intake processPrinted technical documentation pages pinned to a wallNotebook of editorial tone and voice notesTwo people reviewing a runbook on a laptop
I stopped maintaining scattered wikis and started running the Helio knowledge base myself

TJ Kleven

NorthgateLedgerloopHelio
TJ Kleven at work in a dim studio

Contract projects

Fixed scope, fixed timeline.
Design system, audit, or a build sprint.

Four weeks

Minimum engagement

What teammates say

12 endorsements on LinkedIn

TJ took a vague dispatch training problem, ran the SME interviews, and shipped a full SOP library in two quarters. Escalations fell by half.

Priya Raghavan

Priya Raghavan

→ Product Manager, Northgate

He built our onboarding documentation and knowledge base himself. Our first enterprise customer signed after seeing it.

Marcus Bell

Marcus Bell

→ Founder, Ledgerloop

The only content lead I have worked with who understands our publishing pipeline end to end. Handoff friction basically disappeared.

Dana Whitfield

Dana Whitfield

→ Engineering Lead, Helio

TJ raised the bar for editorial quality on our team, then documented the standards so they stuck after he rolled off.

Owen Castellanos

Owen Castellanos

→ Publishing Director, Field Collective

He turns SME interviews into clear documentation fast, and he never cuts corners on accuracy. Rare combination.

Sofia Lindqvist

Sofia Lindqvist

→ Head of Research, Meridian Care

TJ took a vague dispatch training problem, ran the SME interviews, and shipped a full SOP library in two quarters. Escalations fell by half.

Priya Raghavan

Priya Raghavan

→ Product Manager, Northgate

He built our onboarding documentation and knowledge base himself. Our first enterprise customer signed after seeing it.

Marcus Bell

Marcus Bell

→ Founder, Ledgerloop

The only content lead I have worked with who understands our publishing pipeline end to end. Handoff friction basically disappeared.

Dana Whitfield

Dana Whitfield

→ Engineering Lead, Helio

TJ raised the bar for editorial quality on our team, then documented the standards so they stuck after he rolled off.

Owen Castellanos

Owen Castellanos

→ Publishing Director, Field Collective

He turns SME interviews into clear documentation fast, and he never cuts corners on accuracy. Rare combination.

Sofia Lindqvist

Sofia Lindqvist

→ Head of Research, Meridian Care

TJ took a vague dispatch training problem, ran the SME interviews, and shipped a full SOP library in two quarters. Escalations fell by half.

Priya Raghavan

Priya Raghavan

→ Product Manager, Northgate

He built our onboarding documentation and knowledge base himself. Our first enterprise customer signed after seeing it.

Marcus Bell

Marcus Bell

→ Founder, Ledgerloop

The only content lead I have worked with who understands our publishing pipeline end to end. Handoff friction basically disappeared.

Dana Whitfield

Dana Whitfield

→ Engineering Lead, Helio

TJ raised the bar for editorial quality on our team, then documented the standards so they stuck after he rolled off.

Owen Castellanos

Owen Castellanos

→ Publishing Director, Field Collective

He turns SME interviews into clear documentation fast, and he never cuts corners on accuracy. Rare combination.

Sofia Lindqvist

Sofia Lindqvist

→ Head of Research, Meridian Care

Helio

A knowledge base and style guide adopted by four product squads in one quarter

Helio interface

Northgate Logistics

A dispatcher SOP and training library rebuilt around the dispatcher's real day

Northgate Logistics interface

Ledgerloop

Onboarding documentation that finance teams actually trust

Ledgerloop interface

Let's work together

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