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Ms Manjula Ambur Information Management Branch Chief, Office of the CIO, NASA Langley Research Center |
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Ms. Manjula Ambur has over 25 years of experience in information and information technology management , with 20 years at the NASA Langley Research Center. Currently Ms. Ambur leads the Information Management Branch, within the Office of Chief Information Officer at Langley, which is responsible for developing and providing Center wide information systems and services for finding, discovering, sharing, storing and archiving scientific and technical data and information. She is also currently leading NASA Enterprise Search prototype and NASA Digital Library initiatives, and represents Langley on the NASA-wide Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management Teams. Prior to her current position, as IT Project Manager, Ms. Ambur successfully led many Center-wide initiatives such as web communications portal, document management system, financial information system, and Y2K, and NASA-wide on-line catalog. She has also led the development of NASA Langley Knowledge Management plan and represented Langley in the development of Agency eNASA plan and Inside NASA portal implementation. Ms. Ambur has Master’s degrees in Computer Information Systems, Library and Information Science, and Biology.
Nikkia Anderson Senior Information Specialist, Information International Associates, Inc. |
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Nikkia Anderson is a Senior Information Specialist for Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa). She has worked in the information management field for over 7 years with specialized expertise in terminology development, metadata structures and analysis, digital conversion, preservation, and repository development. She has a BS in Computer Science from Bowie State University and a MLIS in Digital Information Management from Drexel University. She has supported work in terminology development for government agencies and private organizations. Nikkia has delivered presentations on the development and implementation of enterprise-wide metadata frameworks in the sciences, including use of taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies. She is currently the co-chair for Taxonomy Tuesday, an ad hoc group of terminology developers in the Washington DC area.
Tatiana Baquero Principal Knowledge Management Analyst, Project Performance Corporation |
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Ms. Baquero has ten years of experience in the development and implementation of Web-based content management portals and other corporate information systems for clients in the U.S. government, multilateral organizations and commercial sector. Ms. Baquero has extensive experience with portal strategy and taxonomy design for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) portals. She excels at designing and conducting taxonomy workshops and training sessions for systems end-users to effectively manage corporate content. Her project management and bilingual skills have allowed her to successfully lead and implement projects in the U.S. and Latin America. Ms. Baquero is an active board member of the Washington, DC Knowledge Management Institute.
Dr. Denise A.D. Bedford Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management, Kent State University |
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Dr. Denise Bedford is currently a Senior Information Officer at the World Bank in Washington DC. At the World Bank she serves as practice lead for Business Architecture, is a core member of the Operational and Knowledge Systems Program and the Enterprise Search team, and is a certified Enterprise Architect. Her responsibilities include development of the Bank’s core metadata and content type strategies, management of ontologies, taxonomies and the World Bank’s multilanguage topic thesaurus, and development and operationalization of the Bank’s semantic analysis technologies. In addition to the World Bank, she has held positions at NASA, Intel Corporation, Stanford University, the American Mathematical Association, the University of California, University of Michigan and University of Southern California. She is adjunct faculty at Georgeotown University, Unversity of Tennessee, and Kent State University where she teaches a variety of courses in information architecture, knowledge management, systems and project management, and semantics/semantic applications. She is a member of several professional associations including ASIST, ACM, AIIM, SLA, ALA and AAAI. Her educational background includes a B.A. in History, Russian Language and Literature, and German Language and Literature; an M.A. in Russian History; an M.S. in Librarianship and a Ph.D. in Information Science. In January, 2010 Dr. Bedford will be retiring from the World Bank to assume the Goodyear Professorship at Kent State University. In this new position she will focus on teaching and research in the areas of knowledge management, architecture and engineering, communities of practice, and semantic web and semantic search applications.
Adriaan M. Bloem Analyst, Real Story Group |
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Adriaan Bloem is analyst at the Real Story Group. Based in The Netherlands, he covers web content management, social software, and enterprise search technologies. Before joining the Real Story Group, he was an independent consultant, advising large organizations on both technical and organizational aspects of content management. Adriaan was developer, webmaster, coordinator, and project manager for a host of legal knowledge management, e-learning, and web content management projects for the decade prior to joining the Real Story Group.
Joseph A. Busch is the knowledge leader for taxonomy and metadata and Senior Principal for Information Management at Project Performance Corporation (PPC). Founder and a principal of Taxonomy Strategies. He works with large companies, government agencies, and international organizations in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. Before this, he was the founder and a principal of Taxonomy Strategies and held senior positions at Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information Institute, and Pricewaterhouse. Mr. Busch is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and a former member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Board of Directors.
Gary Carlson Principal, Gary Carlson Consulting |
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Gary Carlson brings over 20 years of experience as a taxonomist, consultant, product manager, and information strategist working for small to Fortune 100 companies. The past twelve years have been spent leading information and knowledge management projects and products spanning Taxonomy Tools, Search, SharePoint 2010, Auto-categorization, Expert systems, Content Management, and Governance. Gary is currently focussed on helping companies develop their information infrastructure to meet enterprise goals. He is currently involved in customer facing e-commerce, social media and semantic web technologies.
Jeff Carr Senior Information Architect & Search Consultant, Earley & Associates |
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Jeff is a Senior Information Architect and Search Consultant with Earley & Associates specializing in user centered information design. With a strong multi-disciplinary foundation across information architecture, content management, enterprise search, taxonomy, metadata, search marketing and business analysis, he has been involved in the design, development and integration of web-based solutions from intranets and extranets to public facing websites for a variety of large enterprises across a wide range of industries.
Mr Dave Clarke CEO, Synaptica International |
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Dave Clarke is CEO of Synaptica International, the worldwide distributor of the Synaptica taxonomy management software application. His previous roles include co-founder and CTO of Synapse Corporation and Global Taxonomy Director at Dow Jones. He is the principal architect of the Synaptica software and the creator of Taxonomy Warehouse. He served on the NISO committee responsible for the 2005 version of the US national standard for controlled vocabularies - ANSI/NISO Z39.19.
Lisa Dawn Colvin Independent Consultant |
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Lisa Dawn Colvin has been developing large-scale ontologies and semantic-based applications for over 15 years. At TopQuadrant, she developed data architecture standards for naming, identification and metadata for the NASA Constellation Program. Prior to TopQuadrant, she provided knowledge applications services for Genentech, fought spam at Inktomi / Yahoo!, and was Product Manager for VerticalNet’s Ontology Builder. Her interest in ontologies began with her work as a computational linguist on the first attempt to formalize common-sense knowledge in a multi-contextual knowledge base, the CYC project at Cycorp. She received her M.S. in Technology Commercialization from University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Linguistics also from UT-Austin, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Tufts University.
Christine JM. Connors Principal, TriviumRLG LLC |
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Ms. Connors has extensive experience in taxonomy, ontology and metadata design and development. Prior to forming TriviumRLG Ms. Connors was the global director, semantic technology solutions for Dow Jones, responsible for partnering with business champions across Dow Jones to improve digital asset management and delivery. Ms. Connors also served as business champion for the Synaptica® software application and supported Dow Jones consulting practices worldwide. Prior to joining Dow Jones Ms. Connors was knowledge architect at Intuit, and metadata architect at Raytheon Company. Ms. Connors holds a master of science degree in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College, Boston, MA.
Michael Crandall Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Washington Information School |
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Michael Crandall is Chair of the Master of Science in Information Management program and Senior Lecturer in the Information School of the University of Washington. He has served on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Board of Trustees since its inception in 2001, managed the Knowledge Architecture Group in Microsoft Information Services, and worked on information management and information architecture at the Boeing Company.
Seth Earley President, Earley & Associates Inc. |
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Seth has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 14 years and has been in the technology field for 20 + years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at Northeastern University, where he taught graduate courses in Knowledge Management Infrastructure and E Business Strategy. He was 2009 Co-Chair of the Metadata Committee, NDIIPP Education and Outreach for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Seth has developed search, content and knowledge strategies for global organizations and has developed underlying taxonomies for a diverse roster of Fortune 1000 companies. He is a popular speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout North America speaking on intranet design, knowledge management, content management systems and strategy, taxonomy development and other related topics.
Shawn Fielding Knowledge Management Specialist, Pew Research Center |
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Lori Finch Thesaurus Coordinator, USDA, National Agricultural Library |
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Lori Finch works for the National Agricultural Library, which is part of the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. For over 20 years, Lori has worked with controlled vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies and classification systems. Her projects include Nutrition.gov, Agriculture Network Information Center, USDA website, and various NAL information centers. Lori's current interests are developing a Spanish agricultural thesaurus, Tesauro Agrícola, with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), automated indexing, ontologies and linked open data.
Jarrod Gingras Analyst, Real Story Group |
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Jarrod Gingras is an Analyst covering enterprise information including multi-channel publishing, web CMS, and ECM.
Jarrod is a ten-year veteran of the content technology industry, starting his career as a web developer and information architect. Prior to joining The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch) in 2007, Jarrod worked as a user interface designer at a systems integration firm, where he developed user-focused content management strategies and solutions for clients in the financial services, retail, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing industries.
Since joining The Real Story Group (
www.realstorygroup.com), Jarrod has contributed to research across the enterprise information landscape, with a special focus on the end-user experience for the technologies we evaluate.
Heather Hedden Senior Analyst, Project Performance Corporation |
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Heather Hedden is a senior analyst providing taxonomy consulting with Project Performance Corporation and is author of The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., 2010). She has developed taxonomies for SharePoint document management at First Wind, for search integration at the software developer Viziant, and for periodical indexing at Gale. She has also worked as a taxonomy consultant and indexer for her own business, Hedden Information Management. Heather teaches online workshops in taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Russell Heimlich is the sole in-house web developer at the Pew Research Center where he builds tools for organizing, publishing, and disseminating content at
pewresearch.org. He specializes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, XML, and WordPress. He blogs semi-regularly at
http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog and you can follow him on Twitter
@kingkool68
Marjorie M.K. Hlava President & Chairman, Access Innovations, Inc., Data Harmony My blog is TaxoDiary |
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Marjorie Hlava, Chair-SLA-Taxonomy-Division, President-Access-Innovations, www.taxodiary.com blog covers news-trends-opinions in the taxonomy and metadata space, created over 50 thesauri and taxonomies and worked with more than 200. Standards development including Z39.19/2005-Controlled-Vocabulary, Z39.84-Dublin-Core and the NISO-Content-Board for NISO, research areas include productivity-of-content-creation, information-access-governance-layer through automated-indexing, thesaurus-development, taxonomy-creation, natural-language-processing, machine-translations, and knowledge-organization-systems (KOS http ://www.accessinn.com/about_us/Management_team.html
August Jackson is a competitive intelligence and strategy professional, technology pundit and social software evangelist currently working for Verizon. Mr. Jackson regularly speaks and writes about strategic analysis, competitive intelligence and how organizations can leverage Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for competitive advantage and growth. He produces the Competitive Intelligence Podcast and has interviewed thought leaders in competitive intelligence. His blog discusses competitive intelligence, the technology industry and new business models and scenarios faced by modern business.
As a principal with Dysart & Jones, Rebecca focuses on facilitating clients' planning processes, problem-solving, and project management. These are all skills she honed during eight years with Imperial Oil Limited, where she was involved with many innovative information management and human resource initiatives. An early advocate of integrating information services into business processes, Rebecca restructured discrete records and information functions into one client-focused service unit. She also launched and led one of the company's first self-managing teams and directed its computing skills team. Rebecca is known for having long advocated the application of business savvy to information services and knowledge management. She teaches professional development courses with the University of Toronto's iSchool Institute. Her services as facilitator in decision-making and problem-solving processes are enlisted by many organizations and focus groups.
Susan MacLean Information Manager, AED |
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Aline Martinez Taxonomist / Search Lead, Earley & Associates, The Prospective Group |
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Aline has been managing highly visible, large scale, cost-effective enterprise search and content management strategies for the last 15 years. This includes defining search strategies, identifying functional requirements, developing governance plans, implementing both search tools and metadata specifications, and auditing outcomes. She trains and provides instructional materials to raise awareness on how taxonomies work and on optimizing search services. Her focus is on integrating end user needs and business requirements to provide effective user-centered resources.
Christopher McNulty Practice Lead, KMA |
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Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET. Chris also holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and Corporate Finance. Chris is a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate, MCC and MVTSP programs, and holds both MCSE and MCTS certifications. A frequent speaker and author, he wrote the "SharePoint 2010 Consultant's Handbook", published in 2010.
Karin Michel Architecture Specialist - Taxonomy, Global Information Technology, Information & Application Architecture, SNC-Lavalin |
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Karin Michel M.I.S is the Taxonomist at SNC-Lavalin. Ms Michel is an archivist, librarian, and is specialized in the management of digital information. She also has ten years of experience in network management and three years as a competitive information analyst in the field of local economic development . She is particularly interested in the organization of digital information that would potentially have high added value in terms of knowledge sharing.
Denis Normand Director, Information Management and Security, SNC-Lavalin |
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Denis Normand is Director of Information Management and Security at SNC-Lavalin Mr Normand has over 20 years of experience in the field of information technologies and he has been, for the last 8 years, director of information management and security at SNC-Lavalin. In this capacity, he oversees the development and the evolution of the information management and security frameworks at the strategic and tactical level for the organization. Prior to that he was an independent consultant and trainer in IT Architecture, Telecommunication and Information Security.
Mitesh Patel Technical Lead / Software Engineer, Amentra, Inc. |
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Mitesh Patel is a software engineer with extensive experience in building knowledge management systems utilizing software development methodologies such as agile and RUP. He worked for a government contracting firm to design and build operational ontologies using open source technologies such as Protégé and Hibernate. Using these technologies his team created a system to transform domain specific ontologies into relational databases. Mitesh continues to work with information systems and is currently is leading development efforts at a financial regulations authority, where the demand for knowledge discovery platforms is at an all time high.
Mr. Michael Pendleton Terminology Services Program Manager, Office on Environmental Information, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
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Michael Pendleton manages U.S. EPA’s Terminology Services program. Terminology Services provides tools and supporting services to ensure quality terminology are available to foster better understanding of EPA's business lines, as well as using terminology to support discovery and access to its information assets.
Michael Piccorossi Director of Digital Strategy and IT, Pew Research Center |
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Michael Piccorossi is the Director of Digital Strategy and IT at the Pew Research Center where he works with teams of researchers, programmers, designers and journalists to develop innovative methods for managing, presenting and disseminating content and data online. Prior to joining the Pew Research Center, he was the Director of Online Operations at U.S. News & World Report and held positions with Arlington County Public Schools and George Mason University.
Wendi Pohs Chief Technology Officer, InfoClear Consulting |
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Wendi Pohs is CTO at InfoClear Consulting, a company that specializes in taxonomy management and toolkit integration. Her clients include a major news media company, a major computer vendor, several corporate health care clients, and leading consumer Web sites. Previously, she was a consulting IT specialist on IBM's intranet user experience team. Wendi is the author of a book about knowledge management methodologies, Practical Knowledge Management: The Lotus Knowledge Discovery System, published by IBM Press. Wendi's past experience includes search and taxonomy work at the American Mathematical Society and at Lotus Development Corporation. She received her BA and MILS degrees from the University of Michigan.
Tom Reamy Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS Group |
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Tom Reamy is currently the Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, taxonomy, and eLearning consultants.
Tom has 20 years of experience in information architecture, intranet management and consulting, and education and training software.
Tom’s academic background includes a Master’s in the History of Ideas, research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and a strong background in philosophy, particularly epistemology. He has published articles in various journals and is a frequent speaker at knowledge management conferences.
When not writing or developing KM projects, he can usually be found at the bottom of the ocean in Carmel taking photos of strange creatures.
Lee Romero Program Manager, Deloitte |
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Mr Romero has worked with technical systems supporting knowledge management solutions for more than 10 years now, including significant focus on taxonomy management and managing and implementing enterprise search solutions. Most recently, he has been the Portal Program Lead for the Global Consulting Knowledge Management organization within Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Mr. Paul M Rosenburg Corporate Taxonomist, GEICO Insurance |
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Paul Rosenberg is a member of the Knowledge Management Team at GEICO Insurance. He employs skills in taxonomy, search, XML-based publishing, and lexicography to develop better ways to deliver information within the organization. He has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, and an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland. He proudly asserts that his knowledge is a mile-wide and an inch-deep. Before joining GEICO, he was an independent consultant serving (among others) the Department of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secret Service, and the Washington Post.
Lt Col David Sanchez Deputy Program Manager, USAF Pilot Physician Program |
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David Sanchez is an Air Force Reserve Officer attached to the 711th Human Performance Wing where he is responsible for integrating KM, IM, and RM design strategy while leveraging both the USAF IT portfolio and enterprise business processes. Working with the Air Force Medical Service and AF Space Command as a member of the USAF SharePoint governance team he gathers requirements for and designs information categorization schemes based upon enterprise vocabulary sets, document types and business processes while delivering both secure collaboration and task management accountability into the Human Weapons System Reporting and Analysis Process.
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Bethany Holroyd Sehon Vocabulary Service Manager, PwC |
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Bethany Sehon is Vocabulary Solutions Manager at PwC, where she provides the global network of PwC member firms with comprehensive, tailored plans to improve information management through the use of vocabularies. Bethany oversees the Vocabulary Management Service which delivers enterprise vocabulary standards and consultative services including infrastructure and support necessary for creating and managing vocabularies, vocabulary development and/or maintenance as well as cost-saving tools and proven approaches. Prior to her Vocabulary Management role, Bethany was part of the Content Standards Group, a team responsible for the creation and maintenance of standards and guidelines for PwC's knowledge sharing solution. Bethany holds a masters degree in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University.
Bob St. Clair Director of Industry Solutions, SchemaLogic Inc. |
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Bob has 17 years of experience designing metadata models and controlled vocabularies (taxonomies, thesauri, etc.), and leveraging those structures in a wide range of Enterprise Content Management, Search, and Auto-categorization systems. He has lead teams of information scientists and software developers to develop comprehensive information retrieval solutions for many software systems for many customers using software systems such as IBM content management, search, and auto-categorization systems, Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, FAST Search and Transfer, and many others.
Bob's past experience includes Product Management and Product Development roles. He spent many years at Corbis, a pioneer in online access to digital photography, where he designed and implemented the systems and information models used to describe photography and make it findable to millions of businesses and consumers worldwide.
Bob holds a Masters of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Washington.
Mr. Thomas A Stewart Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer, Booz & Company, Former Editor & Managing Director, Harvard Business Review |
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One of the pioneers of knowledge management, Thomas A. Stewart is Chief Marketing and knowledge officer of Booz & Company. He is the former Editor and Managing Director of Harvard Business Review and the author of Intellectual Capital: the New Wealth of Organizations and The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the 21st Century Organization.
Kyle Strand Knowledge and Learning Specialist, Knowledge Management Division, Inter-American Development Bank |
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Kyle Strand is Knowledge and Learning Specialist with the Inter-American Development Bank’s Knowledge Management Division, where he is coordinating the development of the Bank's Institutional Knowledge Repository. He focuses on issues of knowledge visibility and accessibility, vocabulary and metadata, virtual collaboration and sharing, and integration. Kyle has lived and studied in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Michael Uschold Ph.D. Independent Consultant |
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Michael Uschold is an internationally recognized expert in ontology and semantic technology with 30 years of academic and industrial experience. Two seminal papers document his work in co-pioneering the field of ontology engineering. Michael is a regular invited speaker and panelist. He is on the editorial boards of two academic journals and has sat on numerous advisory boards and review panels.
Now an independent consultant, for most of 2008 and 2009, Michael was a senior ontologist at Reinvent Inc., an internet domaining company in Vancouver, CA. His team created a commercial grade contextual advertising system using large scale ontologies, linked open data, natural language processing and machine learning. A/B testing showed significant revenue increases.
From 1997-2008, Michael was a research scientist at The Boeing Company. His early work on semantic interoperability among product design tools laid the foundation for production software. From 1983-1997 he worked for The University of Edinburgh both as a senior member of technical staff in the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute and as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Artificial Intelligence.
He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh in 1991, a M.S. in computer science from Rutgers University in 1982, and a B.S. in math and physics at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1977 .
Thomas Vander Wal Principal, InfoCloud Solutions, Inc |
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Thomas Vander Wal is an analyst, strategist, advisor, and popular speaker. He focusses his work on increasing value and optimizing social tools inside, through, and outside the firewall. He works with organizations of all sizes and focus (non-profit and education to Fortune 500) to help them better understand the values and hidden considerations in building, implementing, and optimizing these social tools. He has a broad and deep background covering more than 20 years of experience in project/product/program management, application development, and user experience.
Thomas puts the focus on improving use and reuse of shared information in the services and tools. He deeply understands the tensions and need to focus on: The people using the tools as they need: the difference of collaboration, community, & collective services; and Implementing and maintaining these services on individual as well as across various services and tools.
Thomas has a strong focus on meta for machine use, but also for people finding information and refinding it. He coined the term "folkonomy" to differentiate the shared terms people apply for their own use as well as others. He also helps develop the integration of folksonomy with taxonomy for the best results.
Thomas helped found the Boxes and Arrows online magazine, helped found the Institute for Information Architecture, and has been a member of the Web Standards Project Steering Committee.
Zachary R Wahl Director of Information Management, Project Performance Corporation |
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Mr. Wahl is the Global Director of Information Management at PPC, encompassing all of the organization's Knowledge Management, Taxonomy, Governance, Knowledge Transfer, Content and Document Management, and Strategic IT services. He is an expert and frequent speaker on the topics of Taxonomy Design, Knowledge Management, and Information Governance. He focuses on the design and deployment of information managment technologies and systems including portals, collaboration tools, wikis, and other social computing products. In addition, Mr. Wahl has designed his own series of workshops on the topics of Portal Best Practices, Taxonomy Design, and eGovernance. Mr. Wahl has managed the deployment of over 70 information management systems in both the public and private sectors. He also sits on the board of the Washington DC Knowledge Management Institute.
Rachael Wang Sr. Manager Sales Consultant, Oracle |
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As Director of Solutions Consulting at Earley & Associates, Paul Wlodarczyk helps clients compete by improving their content lifecycles - business processes and workflows that span the collection, collaboration, authoring, assembly, styling, review, localization, publishing, reuse, management, and search of unstructured content. Paul brings over 25 years' experience in content lifecycle operations, consulting, and software development, with expertise in the areas of enterprise content management, knowledge management, content classification, technical publishing, localization, collaboration, user interface design, learning technologies, and information worker productivity.
Paul works with services providers and manufacturers in the life sciences, high tech, aerospace, retail, energy, capital equipment, and publishing industries. Paul is a frequent speaker at industry events and contributing writer for various publications. Paul earned an MBA from the William E. Simon School of Business, and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He maintains a blog as The Content Guy at thecontentguy.net
Sunny Yoon Taxonomist, Goldman Sachs |
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Sunny Yoon works in the financial industry building taxonomies that help to precisely define, easily integrate and effectively retrieve core data used across the firm. Her expertise in linguistics led her to work in semantic web-based search technologies where she discovered her passion for structured information. As a an academic librarian at NJIT, NYU and the City University of New York, she established and managed institutional repositories, a digital archive for capturing and preserving the intellectual and creative output of university. Prior to her current position, she was employed as a taxonomist at Morgan Stanley in the Enterprise Data Group. Sunny holds an MA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley as well as an MLIS from Rutgers.