Optimizely is the industry leader in digital experience platforms. Their product suite is known as Optimizely One and it is described as the world’s first operating system for marketing and digital teams. Optimizely One combines solutions across content management, content marketing, experimentation, commerce and personalization. It powers every stage of the marketing lifecycle through an AI-accelerated workflow.
As an Optimizely Most Valuable Professional, I contribute to the development community by providing solutions, writing blogs and creating two packages for their Content Management System: Stott Robots Handler and Stott Security.
Certifications & Achievements
Optimizely MVP Technology
PLATINUM
OMVP
Optimizely CMS PAAS Certified Developer
Developer
Optimizely Opal Tools Certified 2025
Developer
Optimizely Opal Certified Administrator 2025
Administrator
Optimizely One Technical Architect Accredited
Architect
Optimizely Technical Sales Accredited
Sales
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Creating Opal Tools for Stott Robots Handler
An approach to creating Optimizely Opal Tools without using the SDKs.
Helping Opal Build LLMS.TXT Content
Using Instructions to help Optimizely Opal generate llms.txt content.
Opal Tools Support Comes to Stott Robots Handler v6
Stott Robots Handler for Optimizely CMS 12 has been released with added support for Opal Tools.
Simple Feature Flags In Optimizely CMS
A simple approach to feature flagging within Optimizely CMS.
LLMS.txt support comes to Stott Robots Handler v5
Stott Robots Handler for Optimizely CMS 12 has been released with added support for llms.txt files.
Optimizing Content Security Policies to Stay Within HTTP Header Limits
Discover how to audit, reduce, and optimize Content Security Policies. Helping you stay within browser and CDN header size limits.
Stott Security Version 3
A summary of all new functionality and changes that have been introduced to the Stott Security module so far.
Opti ID with Secure Cookies And Third Party Add-ons
How to make sure your cookies and third party add-ons are properly secured when using Opti ID.
Creating an Optimizely Add-on - Best Practices
Best practices for creating an Optimizely CMS Add-on.
Creating an Optimizely Add-on - Packaging for NuGet
How to package your Add-on to be distributed by Optimizely's NuGet feed.
Creating an Optimizely CMS Add-on - Adding an Editor Interface Gadget
How to create an editor interface gadget within Optimizely CMS PAAS Core.
Creating an Optimizely Add-on - Getting Started
How to create an Add-on with it's own UI within Optimizely CMS PAAS Core.
Stott Security Version 2 So Far
A summary of all new functionality and changes that have been introduced to the Stott Security module so far.
Working Programmatically With List Block Properties
Working with programmatic generation of IList
Adding CORS Management to Optimizely CMS 12
Adding Cross-origin Resource Sharing response headers to the Stott Security Add-on for Optimizely CMS 12.
Adding Block Specific JavaScript and CSS to the body and head of the page
Using the ClientResource management within Optimizely CMS to render JavaScript and CSS resources correctly within the rendered HTML document.
Extending Geta Optimizely Sitemaps to Include Image Sitemaps
Enhancing Geta Optimizely Sitemaps to include Images by overriding the SitemapXmlGenerator.
Making Content Recommendations Easy For Content Editors
Making Content Recommendations easy and consistent for content editors using a custom block.
Build it Once (A proposal for CMS 12 builds)
A proposition for using Razor Class Libraries and componentising Optimizely CMS 12 builds to reduce long term effort and rebuilding.
Opticon London 2022
Information learned at the Opticon London 2022 event hosted by Optimizely.
404 Error on Static Assets Within an Optimizely Plugin
Resolving 404 issues on static files in razor class libraries using the _content/foo.bar/scripts.js path.
Unit Testing Optimizely CMS 12 Dynamic Data Store - Part 2
Introducing a second way to mock and unit test with the Dynamic Data Store in Optimizely CMS 12.
Unit Testing Optimizely CMS 12 Dynamic Data Store - Part 1
Optimizely CMS 12 provides a Dynamic Data Store for custom storing of data, but how do we unit test a repository using the Dynamic Data Store?
A Robots.Txt Handler for Optimizely CMS 12
A new robots.txt handler that has been built for use with Optimizely CMS 12.
Optimizely Search Wildcard Queries and Best Bets
Implementing Wild Card search in Optimizely CMS 11 Search and Navigation.
Setting Up Search & Navigation in .NET 5.0
A brief guide to setting up Optimizely Search and Navigation in the .NET 5.0 world.
Custom Admin Pages in Optimizely 12
In an Optimizely 12 .NET 5.0 world, the GuiPlugIn attribute has been removed, Here I describe how to reproduce this functionality with Menu Providers.
Unit Testing Optimizely CMS 11
A solution for Unit Testing Custom Criterion for visitor groups in Optimizely CMS 11.