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Profile of Speakers Presenting at the LISA Forum USA
An international businessman with over 25 years experience in the IT sector, Michael Anobile received a Bachelors of Science degree in communications at Syracuse University, and participated in the Masters degree program in political communications at the University of Maryland.
After relocating his family to Switzerland in 1980 to become European Training Manager for Exxon Office Systems, he subsequently held a number of European and Swiss management positions in the IT and language-technology industries, focusing on global business development and marketing.
A founding member of LISA, and the Managing Director from its inception, he is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Association including outreach programs to other standards organizations (E.g., ISO Category A liaison member, IdeAlliance, Unicode, Openi18N, W3C, OASIS, etc.) and government agencies (E.g., US Department of Commerce, the European Union's Directorate General for Translation along with various Asian, Canadian and European language technology and national standards and trade bodies) as well as its international forums, training programs and industry marketing & public relations projects.
David Aponovich is web content management strategist at ISITE Design, a full-service interactive agency based in Portland, OR, and Cambridge, MA. David consults with clients on issues of content management best practices, including web globalization/localization and web marketing, and how a CMS can support their web goals. He previously was marketing director at Ektron, a web CMS software company, and has had online editing and publishing roles at Aberdeen Group and Internet.com (now JupiterMedia), in addition to spending several years offline in the newspaper business.
Hans Fenstermacher is President of the ArchiText division of Translations.com. Born in Germany, Fenstermacher speaks six languages. Over his 25-year career in the language and content industries, he has worked as a translator, interpreter, and case study writer, including stints with the International Olympic Committee, Turner Broadcasting, and the U.S. Department of Defense. He has been involved in nearly every aspect of language services, from authoring to cultural adaptation to multilingual delivery. Fenstermacher has created the patent-pending ABREVE® process, a proprietary English content globalization system, designed to reduce content volume, improve content usability, and maximize content efficiency. Fenstermacher was founding Chairman of the Globalization And Localization Association (GALA) and is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Christie Fidura is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Terminology at SDL International. With over 14 years experience in Global and Pan-European software development, Christie brings a deep understanding of information technology and marketing to SDL. She is now combining these skills with multilingual strategies, helping global enterprises understand the importance of terminology as it fits within the realm of managing global information. She has successfully helped companies develop brand identity and customer loyalty, and launched new software products to a worldwide audience, garnering several awards throughout her career.
Bret Freeman is the Director of JustSystems’ Content Lifecycle Solutions practice. In this role, he consults with clients, recommending tool sets and strategies to solve various business problems. He has extensive knowledge in information models, content management strategies and complex multilingual outputs. Freeman has more than 15 years experience in the information management and publishing industry and is a member of CM Pros. He writes for many trade publications and speaks frequently at numerous industry conferences.
Ian Henderson oversees Rubric and the creation of a better localization experience. Ian combines a deep knowledge of globalization issues with an equally deep knowledge of technology and distributed team management. This combination of skills has been the foundation of Rubric, and has achieved the company's unprecedented 98% customer retention rate and the highest satisfaction ratings in the industry. Ian's opinion is often reported throughout the localization industry and has appeared in Multilingual Computing & Technology and Software Business. Prior to joining Rubric, Ian worked in a variety of management and engineering positions at Siemens (Germany), Expert Software and Phoenix Software (New Zealand) and Berlitz (England). Ian has been with Rubric since the inception of the company in 1994. Ian co-founded Rubric in 1994.
Todd Karnig is a Director in the HP.com Customer Experience Organization, leading the Global Content Acquisition (GCA) group. GCA is focused on establishing a premier content management function within Hewlett-Packard to ensure that HP marketing content is available, accurate and publisher-ready through optimized use of IT infrastructure, resources, business processes and standards. Since he joined HP in 2001, Karnig has steadily helped to build the HP content management initiative into today's integrated, company-wide function that has achieved 30% year-over-year cost-to-serve reductions, while supporting a 50% increase in new product introductions. The program currently provides consistent and reusable content to over 4,000 internal and external web publishers and over 5,000 channel partners. Prior to HP, Karnig was Vice President of eCommerce Business Development at Bank One; he has also held several management positions spanning sales, marketing and operations. Karnig earned his MBA at Arizona State University.
Robinson Kelly, founder and CEO of Clay Tablet Technologies, brings to the company a 15-year track record of starting up and working with a wide variety of hi-tech firms. Kelly has held positions from front-line Sales Representative to Channel Management and Director of Sales and Marketing at both software and professional services firms. He has worked both in Canada and the U.S., spending a year helping launch a Silicon Valley content management firm. Clay Tablet Technologies is his fourth technology start-up.
Kelly holds a BAA in Communications from Ryerson University, an equivalency degree from Brown University and regularly undertakes additional coursework at the Schulich School of Business.
Kenneth (Sandy) McKethan, Jr. is a Globalization Project Manager with IBM based at Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. He is a foreign language professional with over 30 years’ experience in various facets of the language industry: as a translator and interpreter; in recruiting, sales, marketing, and international business development; vendor management; as well as project management.
He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP©) and a German-government certified technical interpreter and translator (Staatlich geprüfter Dolmetscher und Übersetzer für die englische Sprache [Technik]). Major languages are German and Russian. Sandy is a licensed glider pilot and holds the rank of Lt Col in the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary (Civil Air Patrol).
Ross Mayfield is the CEO and co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Ross Mayfield is CEO & Co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 2,000 customers with Software-as-a-Service, Appliance and Open Source solutions. Mayfield partnered with Dan Bricklin, the creator of the first spreadsheet visiCalc, to co-develop and distribute SocialCalc. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures and Omidyar Network. Previously, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. Mayfield served as the marketing director of the largest privately held telecommunications group in Eastern Europe and was the internal lead manager of their Initial Public Offering. He also founded an ISP, a web-design company, and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high tech startups. Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business. He resides in his hometown of Palo Alto with his wife and two children.
Jed is the Engineering Lead of the Content Management Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. Jed is responsible for the platform that manages and delivers global web content to consumers of Sun's web properties. Previously, Jed was a Senior Consultant at Interwoven focused on delivering web content management solutions to enterprise customers.
Curt has over 18 years of experience in the high tech industry with over 13 years of upper-level management experience. Curt played an integral part in designing and managing WordPerfect’s international development organization - one of the first in the world to produce software products simultaneously in over 30 different languages. In 1995 Curt began his own consulting firm that helped clients achieve the highest possible ROI from their international markets. During his five years as a professional consultant, Curt worked with dozens of companies to help them achieve a 30% to 60% higher return on investment from their international markets. More recently, Curt served as President and CEO of 10x Marketing – an internet marketing firm focused on helping companies realize more visitors to their website, converting those visitors into new customers, and thereby generating greater revenue from the internet. In his current position as Senior Vice President of Marketing for MasterControl, Curt has merged his international experience with the latest breakthroughs in global internet marketing. In his spare time, Curt enjoys teaching classes on business strategy for the Small Business Development Center based on a book he authored, The Basics of Business.
Youngmin Radochonski is a globalization architect for Sun Engineering team at Sun Microsystems. She has been with Sun since 1993, working on various localization projects as an engineer and also as an project manager. Recently Youngmin has implemented a global management system that provides a centralized and automated localization workflow tool and can setup country websites automatically through subscriptions.
Rebecca Ray is a highly accomplished Globalization Consultant and Author with a very successful track record of turning international expansion dreams into reality. Throughout her 27-year career, she has been a pioneer in managing worldwide product design, localization, marketing and distribution for successful products sold internationally by such companies as IBM, Netscape Communications, Symantec and Sun Microsystems.
Ray is the co-author of the book, Doing Business in the USA: Marketing and Operations Strategies for Success. She is currently Managing Editor for the Globalization Insider. Ray is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
As Executive Producer for VeriSign, Inc., Anna Schlegel has been managing the international web and localization teams since 1994. The teams have grown to oversee web and localization operations for Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Schlegel combines her globalization expertise with a deep knowledge of CMS and distributed team management. Before joining VeriSign, she was a Program Manager for Translation for Cisco and a Globalization Manager for Xerox. She is the author of the Spanish-English Telecommunications Dictionary, published by Cisco. Schlegel is a native of Catalunya and has a Masters Degree in German Linguistics from Humboldt University in Berlin.
Professor Nitish Singh heads the Localization Program at California State University Chico. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing and International Business from Saint Louis University, USA. Most of his undergraduate and post-graduate (MBA and MA in Marketing) work was done in India and the U.K. Singh is the author of the book, The Culturally Customized Web Site. He has published or presented more than 60 studies in the areas of global e-commerce, e-marketing and cross-cultural consumer behavior in publications such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research and International Marketing Review. Singh teaches and consults in the area of global e-commerce and international business.
Scott Abel is a technical writing specialist and content management strategist whose strengths lie in helping organizations improve the way they author, maintain, publish, and archive their information assets. Scott's website, TheContentWrangler.com, is a popular resource for writers, editors and publishers interested in making the move to content management. Scott is a founding member of Content Management Professionals (CM Pros) and currently serves as director of marketing for the organization. Scott is an active member in the Society for Technical Communication (STC), where he focuses on educating members of STC Special Interest Groups about the role of technical communicators in content management.
Magan Arthur a technology veteran, is a world leading expert on Digital Content Management. Mr. Arthur worked in different roles for WebWare (now ClearStory Systems), the legendary pioneer of Digital Asset Management on web based platforms, before founding the consulting company ACG (Arthur Consulting Group). He is currently the principal solutions consultant for Infosys Technologies Ltd. Media and Entertainment Practice. He led the implementations of large-scale digital asset management systems at Global 1000 companies and has worked with the Universities in the US and Europe on knowledge management and e-learning solutions. Today he is advising media and entertainment companies on digital strategy and the future of the Digital Media Enterprise. He studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm's University in Bonn, Germany as well as at the Humaniversity in Egmond an Zee, Netherlands.
Rahel Anne Bailie is a managing partner of Strategy A Consulting Group, a multi-disciplinary consultancy, and president of Intentional Design, a content management consultancy focusing on requirements and content analysis for small- to medium-sized organizations. Rahel comes from a technical communication background, where her relentless drive to improve content performance drove her to content management. She is active in Content Management Professionals Association (CM Pros), a founder of the Canada West CM Pros chapter, and other key industry affiliations including the Information Architecture Institute, Usability Professionals’ Association, IEEE Professional Communications Society, and Society for Technical Communication.
Geoffrey Bock is the Lead Analyst for the Gilbane Group's Collaboration Consulting Practice, which covers a broad range of collaboartion technologies, including enterprise applications of wikis, blogs and other "social media', and focuses on business strategies for content management and collaboration. An analyst and author with over twenty-five years industry experience, he tracks how organizations create, organize, and manage business information to sustain profitable relationships. He advises software companies, end-user organizations, and government agencies in areas of business planning, technology innovation, and operational excellence.
Asheesh Birla currently is the Executive Director, Strategic Production Technology at the Thomson Corporation located in Belmont CA. Asheesh has been working towards transforming Thomson’s print publishing business to an electronic publishing business through the use of open source tools, XML, metadata, and advanced content management solutions. Additionally, Asheesh has been a key player in developing Thomson electronic solutions for business partners through partnerships with 3rd-party partners and content service providers primarily based in Asia. Prior to joining Thomson, Asheesh founded idea2net, inc and its offshore subsidiary. idea2net, inc provided electronic publishing services to the financial, insurance, automotive and retail industries. Asheesh is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he studied Economics and Computer Science.
Linda Burman is President of L A Burman Associates Inc., a recognized leader in the content industry. The consultancy provides: information strategy, project leadership, market/technology analysis/RFP development, business development and training to: tool vendors, standards organizations, the investment community and companies who are implementing digital asset (DAM) and enterprise content management solutions (ECM). In 1999 Ms. Burman founded and chaired the PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) Working Group and drove adoption into the industry (prismstandard.org). The PRISM specifications enable sophisticated search and navigation across disparate content repositories, digital rights tracking, automating processes and interoperability. She has held senior marketing, product/business management and technical roles in leading knowledge management, publishing and networking firms including Apple Computer. She is also co-author of Mastering XML & Mastering XML PRO (Sybex, 1999, 2001) and has been a lecturer at the University of Toronto. She has spoken, chaired tracks, developed conferences and delivered tutorials at many industry events including AIIMOnDemand, The Seybold Seminars, Henry Stewart DAM Conference and the Gilbane Conference.
Tony Byrne is Founder and Principal of CMS Watch (www.CMSWatch.com), a vendor-neutral technology evaluation firm. A former reporter, publisher, international educator, Byrne previously headed the Engineering and Production groups at an Internet consulting firm. He is the author of The CMS Report, now in its 9th Edition, and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Records Management Report, and the Enterprise Search Report.
Leonor Ciarlone brings over 15 years of experience analyzing, designing, and developing content-centric applications in a variety of industries including manufacturing, insurance, and software development. She served as an analyst and information architect from 1986 to 1999 for companies such as FM Global, Commercial Union Insurance, EMC Corporation, Inso Corporation, Intellution, Inc., and General Cinema Corporation. From 1999 to 2003 Leonor was a Senior Consultant with InfoTrends/CAP Ventures, a worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industries. In this capacity she provided personalized market research and strategic consulting to companies that invest in, provide, or implement content-driven technologies and solutions. Her deliverables included market trends analysis, competitive intelligence, strategic and tactical marketing services, and technology assessment services to a variety of vendor and corporate clients. Leonor has provided numerous presentations on XML and related standards for various technical communication conferences, written articles for magazines and organizations including EMedia, eContent, and IEEE, and has judged local and international technical documentation competitions. She is a past president of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication and has won multiple awards from chapter competitions. She earned a B. A. Degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
A business and technology enthusiast, David has been involved in software companies for ten years including work as a software engineer for IBM in RTP. Through hard work and determination, David continues to guide Hannon Hill in an effort to provide powerful XML web content management systems with an emphasis on personal service. David has published articles on O'Reilly's XML.com and OnJava.com in addition to popular web development sites like SitePoint.com. He has given presentations at the Silicon Valley Web Guild, for Silicon Networks, and the I.C.C.A. David taught entrepreneurship courses at Duke University and an Internet technologies course at the Duke Fuqua School of Business. As for programming languages, he has written code for commercial applications in Java, PHP, ASP, and Visual C++. He is Chairman of the Board of the Technology Association of Georgia Content Management Society. David is from Tallahassee, Florida and graduated from Duke with a B.S. in Economics and did course work at the London School of Economics.
Seth Earley is the founder or Earley & Associates, Inc, a consulting firm specializing in knowledge, content and document management systems with a focus on taxonomy development and workflow design. With 20 plus years in the technology field, he has been involved in knowledge and content management processes for the past 12 years. He has taught graduate courses in KM and is co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He host monthly conference calls on search, content management and taxonomies and has founded communities of practice supporting a world wide network of professionals in those fields. Seth advises senior management teams at global organizations in technology selection and implementation and is a popular presenter at business and technology conferences.
Ms. Falkow has created effective internal and external communication strategies for both large and medium sized enterprises for 25 years. Since 1999 Ms. Falkow has translated her extensive experience in communication to the Internet and is now recognized as one of the leading web site and Internet marketing strategists in the U.S. Her main interest is in the shift in media consumption and how new technology is affecting the practice of public relations. Her web audits and internet marketing strategies using RSS feeds, blogs and optimized press releases have kept our clients on the forefront of technology. She is certified as an Accredited Public Relations Practitioner by the Public Relations Society of America and has authored several books on website marketing strategies and the use of new technology in PR. She has lectured in Communication Theory, Public Relations Strategy and Consumer Behavior at the University level. She is in demand as an expert speaker on online news, blogs and RSS are influencing online PR and marketing.
Since the 1990s, Evan Gerber has created innovative solutions for unique business problems through technology. With a background in ethnology, information architecture, content management, and client side design and development, he specializes in conceiving and creating organized, cogent, and intuitive web applications. Always an avid technophile, Evan’s career began when he sold his successful start up business and took a job with USWeb/CKS. While there, he developed and deployed the user interface for one of the very first B2B implementations of J2EE, for Parametric Technology Corporation. He also worked with a team of designers, information architects, and technologists to generate a comprehensive set of specifications documents for the largest student tour company in the world. He then led the production team which organized content, integrated functionality, and built out the entire site. Evan also researched and made recommendations on the then nascent field of content management. Later, working for IBM, he designed and developed applications to test the integrity and usability of Lotus Notes 1.0 Application Environment for wireless platforms. Evan has worked at Molecular on a number of large-scale content management, e-commerce, and internationalization projects, in which he created innovative solutions to unique business problems for such clients as Gillette, John Hancock, and Inverness Medical. With a background in information architecture, content management, and client side development, he specializes in conceiving and creating logically-organized, highly-intuitive Internet applications. In his current role, Evan utilizes his expertise in internationalization and localization, as well as architecting front-end user interfaces and content management solutions for corporate, external and internal web sites, integrating content and technology, and designing business processes. Prior to accepting tenure at Molecular, he acted as Information Architect for Bridgeline Software, developing a packaged content management system. He assisted such clients as John Hancock, the National Education Association, and Woodmen Financial Services. In this role, Evan collaborated with clients to create a comprehensive list of business and user goals, and then implemented browser based content managed solutions to meet these requirements. Evan has also acted as Project Lead for the development and implementation of enterprise wide content management tools for such companies as Inverness Medical and First Albany Companies. His responsibilities included such tasks as designing taxonomies, directing content aggregation and implementation, and supervising the development of sites, portals, and applications. Evan is a recognized speaker having presented at the IA Summit, KM World, Web-Com Toronto, and the Internationalization & Unicode Conference. He graduated BA in anthropology from Brandeis University with high honors, and received a certificate in French Language from the Université Paul Valery in Montpellier, France.
Ms. Goodman is the founder of the Neologos Group LLC. Prior to this she worked at Deloitte Consulting where she was the Enterprise Content Management, Global Practice Lead. She is based in San Francisco, CA. With over 14 years of management consulting experience, including 12 years building content-based infrastructures, Shuli provides executive leadership in building organizational, content and technical infrastructures for digital business creation and business transformation. Her specialization lies in identifying and capitalizing upon market opportunities to develop new businesses, drive operational efficiencies and sustained revenue. Ms Goodman has developed and formalized a methodology and approach to ECM for document, web and digital asset management as well as knowledge and intellectual property management. The Competency Maturity Model (CMM) for content operations emerged as a framework for understanding both the success and the failure of organizations as they pursued strategic planning and the alignment of business objectives. Her content frameworks (information architecture, metadata, governance, process design, brand and user experience guidelines) for Global 100 clients have evolved from years of experience with global content service operations. She has a master's degree in psychology and has been trained in systems-centered thinking. She is currently pursuing an MBA in sustainability and business management from Presidio World College.
Frank Gilbane is President & CEO of Gilbane Group, Inc., (formally Bluebill Advisors, Inc.) organizes the Gilbane Conferences on Content Management Technologies. Frank is also a Managing Partner at Lighthouse Seminars LLC, a producer of educational events for enterprise software. Frank serves on the board of directors of APT (Art Plus Technology), a Boston-based firm specializing in communications strategies, information delivery, and document processing solutions for the financial industry. Before founding Gilbane Group Inc. Frank was with the market research and consulting firm CAP Ventures, Inc., an Inc. 500 company in both 1997 and 1998. Frank joined CAP Ventures as a corporate officer and member of the Board of Directors in 1994 when CAP acquired his company. Frank was the founder and former president of Publishing Technology Management, Inc., a founder of the French firm TechnoForum SARL, co-founder of the Documation conferences in the U.S., Canada, France, the UK, and Switzerland, and founder of the Gilbane Report. In the early eighties he held various positions in software development, marketing, and senior management at Texet Corporation and Quadex Corporation. Frank was a founder and former member of the board of the Content Management Professionals Association (CM Pros). He was also a founding member of the Board of Advisors to SGML Open (now OASIS), is a past member of ANSI, ISO, and CALS Standards Committees, the Graphic Communications Association (now IDEAlliance), the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Advisory Board of the MIT Press journal Markup Languages: Theory & Practice, served on the advisory board of the University of Washington iSchool Content Management Systems (CMS) Evaluation Lab, and a recipient of the GCA's TechDoc award. Mr. Gilbane has a Bachelors degree from Boston University and a Masters degree from Tufts University in Philosophy.
Seth Gottlieb leads the Content Management and Collaboration Practice of Optaros, a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software. With 10 years of IT and technology experience in both software and professional services, Seth has helped numerous companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their content management and publishing processes. Seth has written articles on content management and is a member of the 2005 Board of Directors of Content Management Professionals a membership organization of practitioners, consultants, and representatives from the software industry that fosters the sharing of content management information, practices, and strategies.
Bryan House is the Group Product Marketing Manager, responsible for Knowledge Management and Collaboration products as part of the EMC Documentum Content Management and Archiving product portfolio. Previously, Bryan has held numerous product and solutions marketing roles within EMC Documentum. Bryan has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before entering business school, Bryan was a professional brewer for eight years and has a Degree in Brewing Technology from the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL.
Under Jim’s leadership since its founding in 2000, CrownPeak has become the market leading company in the content management software services sector. In the past four years, CrownPeak has experienced explosive growth, with over 90% year-to-year CAGR. CrownPeak has also sustained over 93% customer retention over four years. Among the companies in the CrownPeak client roster today are Trek Bikes, Honeywell, Crain Publishing, New Century Mortgage, Hyundai Motors, and the State of Virginia. Jim’s professional background combines extensive startup experience with years of software development and professional services delivery and management. He has spent the past ten years working with web content management and search technologies. Jim previously held senior executive positions in professional services management, sales, and operational management with companies such as USWeb, MarchFIRST, and successful startup, W3-design. Jim was named by CMSWatch as one of the 20 People to Watch in Content Management for 2005.
Mary Fletcher Laplante manages Gilbane Group Vendor and Enterprise consulting and services. She brings broad information technology marketing experience to the task of helping companies introduce new products. Ms. Laplante is a Partner Fastwater LLC, and was the first Executive Director of the industry consortium now known as OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). OASIS provides a forum for the development of open e-business standards, typically built around XML. Before helping in the creation of OASIS, Ms. Laplante developed and managed her own consulting practice providing marketing and technical expertise in publishing-related applications and technologies. She has held executive and senior positions at several publishing software companies; she was President and Chief Operating Officer for Cygnet Publishing Technologies, Incorporated; Vice President of Marketing for Avalanche Development Company; and Vice President and Senior Product Manager at Scribe Systems, Inc. Prior to forming Fastwater, Ms. Laplante was a Director in the Document Software Strategies Group at CAP Ventures, Inc., a strategic consulting and research company that covers the markets for document echnologies. Ms. Laplante is a frequent speaker at industry events like The Gilbane Conferences, Internet World, The Seybold Seminars, and the Gartner Group Internet Electronic Commerce conference.
Michael Maziarka has over 18 years of product management, marketing, and consulting experience in the document and electronic publishing market. As Director of the Dynamic Content Software Strategies (DSS) and the Image Scanning Trends (IST) services at InfoTrends, he provides research and consulting services to software suppliers, investors, and corporate users who need accurate, objective, and unbiased information and advice on document software technology. Prior to joining InfoTrends, Mr. Maziarka was a Product Marketing Director at Xyvision and held several corporate and product marketing positions at the Datalogics Division of Frame Technology. Recognized as an industry expert, Mr. Maziarka has chaired numerous Seybold Enterprise Publishing Conferences and Content Management & Collaboration Forums for the Internet World conferences. During his tenures at InfoTrends, Xyvision, Frame Technology, and Datalogics, Mr. Maziarka was active in industry consortiums and industry standardization initiatives. He held the Chair position on the Board of Directors for OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (formerly SGML Open). He was also active in the development of the CALS electronic publishing standards, and has participated in J2008 and ANSI committee work. Mr. Maziarka holds an M.B.A. Degree from DePaul University and a B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.
Lynda Moulton is the Lead Analyst in the Gilbane Group's Enterprise Search Consulting Practice where she also manages the Enterprise Search blog (http://gilbane.com/search_blog/). Lynda founded LWM Technology Services, a management consulting practice dedicated to leveraging organizations’ knowledge. In 1980 she founded Comstow Information Services, which developed BiblioTech software products, forerunner of today’s content management systems. In 1999 she sold BiblioTech to Inmagic, Inc. For over 25 years she has been a thought leader in corporate knowledge management, speaking and writing on the role of professional competencies and business strategies. In 1993 Greenwood Press published her book Data Bases for Special Libraries: A Strategic Guide to Information Management. As a consultant she has worked on leveraging automation technologies, guiding taxonomy development and facilitated search interfaces. Among her clients are defense organizations such as Raytheon, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Northrop Grumman, and MIT. Lincoln Laboratory, biotech and pharmaceuticals such as Pfizer, Biogen, Novartis and Gilead Sciences, and law firms such as Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, Greenberg Traurig, and Goodwin Procter. Ms. Moulton is an active leader in the Boston KM Forum, a contributor to the publications and programs of The Gilbane Group, and a past leader in divisions and chapters of the SLA where she co-authored the original document Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st Century.
Theresa Regli applies over twelve years of experience in content management and multi- channel publishing to her work as a consultant, analyst and writer. Recently, Theresa joined CMS Watch, an analyst firm that provides an independent source of buyer's advice on content management, portal and search technologies. Previously, she was Director of Content Management at Molecular, a technology consulting and services firm. In the last year, Theresa shared her expertise at over a dozen leading industry conferences (including AIIM Expo) while advising clients such as Harvard Business School Publishing and Hewlett-Packard. Her specializations include taxonomy, content strategy, and business process engineering.
Reinacker is the Founder and CTO of NewsGator Technologies. Greg's background includes technical consulting work for companies such as Galileo International, as well as several commercial software ventures with companies such as McGraw-Hill. Greg is recognized as a thought leader in the weblog and RSS arenas, publicly speaks about RSS, and is a vocal proponent of business uses of RSS and syndication technologies. Greg holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Ann Rockley is President of The Rockley Group, Inc, a consultancy that has an international reputation for developing content management strategies with a focus on unified content, and information architecture for content management. Rockley is a frequent contributor to trade and industry publications and a featured speaker at numerous conferences in North America and Europe. She has been instrumental in establishing the field in online documentation, single sourcing (content reuse), enterprise content management, and information architecture for content management. Rockley is President of Content Management Professionals, a member organization that fosters the sharing of content management information, practices, and strategies. Rockley is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and has a Master of Information Science. Rockley is the author of the best-selling book “Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy” with TRG Senior Consultants Pamela Kostur and Steve Manning, New Riders Publishing ISBN 0-7357-1306-5.
A recognized XML pioneer and content management industry expert, Mr. Severson has over twenty years of experience in the technology field, ranging from hands-on product development and consulting to senior management roles in engineering and marketing. Mr. Severson is currently Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of Flatirons Solutions Corporation, where he leads a consulting and systems integration practice specializing in content management and XML-based publishing. Prior to joining Flatirons in 2001, Mr. Severson was Chief Technology Officer for eConvergent, a software vendor specializing in correlating customer data across disparate databases and applications. From 1996-1999, he was an Executive Consultant for IBM Global Services, where he focused on content management and XML, and was a principal developer of IBM’s XML certification test. Before joining IBM, Mr. Severson served as Vice President and Chief Strategist for Interleaf, Inc., and was co-founder and CTO of Avalanche (a pioneer SGML/XML software company). A frequent conference speaker on DITA and other XML-related subjects, Mr. Severson has been directly involved in key DITA designs and implementations performed by Flatirons. Mr. Severson is also a past President of OASIS, currently on the board of IDEAlliance, and a past board member of the AIIM Document Management Alliance. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, and completed Ph.D. coursework in Computer Science at the University of Colorado. Mr. Severson is a frequent conference speaker and contributor to the Gilbane CTO blog.
Russell Stalters is the Chief Technology Officer, Portals & Collaboration at Applied Information Sciences, Inc. He specializes in assisting organizations implement document, records, content and business process management solutions that require compliance with global content and records management standards. A recognized subject matter expert for SharePoint 2007 based solutions; he brings practical experience, thought leadership and technical expertise into every solution. He was the president of TrueArc, a world-leading records management software firm which was acquired by Documentum 2002. An innovator and patent holder, Stalters designed the patented product, AutoRecords, which automatically determines if a piece of content is a record and where it should be stored within the system. A regular industry speaker, noted author, and thought leader, he presented at Microsoft sponsored conferences, AIIM 2002-2006 conferences, The Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government 2006, and ARMA 2002. Russell Stalters is the Chief Technology Officer, Portals & Collaboration at Applied Information Sciences, Inc. He specializes in assisting organizations implement document, records, content and business process management solutions that require compliance with global content and records management standards. A recognized subject matter expert for SharePoint 2007 based solutions; he brings practical experience, thought leadership and technical expertise into every solution. He was the president of TrueArc, a world-leading records management software firm which was acquired by Documentum 2002. An innovator and patent holder, Stalters designed the patented product, AutoRecords, which automatically determines if a piece of content is a record and where it should be stored within the system.
Craig St. Clair is a partner at TKG Consulting, a small consultancy focused on knowledge, information, and content management strategy. Craig has over 12 years of experience devising ways to make structured and unstructured content more accessible, particularly focusing on content modeling, taxonomy development and content delivery mechanisms. He has designed and deployed enterprise taxonomy, content management and knowledge management solutions for a number of Fortune 1000 companies, first as the manager of corporate collections at Digital Equipment Corporation, as a senior consultant for Gemini Consulting and Sapient Corporation, and as associate director, electronic communications at Genzyme Corporation. At Genzyme, Craig focused on content management design and rollout, web strategy, and portal design and rollout. In 2005 Craig’s consulting work at TKG has included portal and CMS design for Genzyme and Brazil's Central Bank, content management strategy for Coca-Cola, taxonomy development for the National Association of Stock Dealers (NASD), and KM strategy for Environment Canada.
David has a BSc. Economics (Hons) from the University of Wales, and is a technology business veteran, bringing more than 20 years of sales, marketing, consulting and business experience to Hot Banana, from both the client and agency sides. He has worked with dozens of start ups, at all stages of growth and financing, several while going public, and many of the largest technology companies, including senior marketing consulting engagements with SAP, Macromedia, EDS, Fujitsu Consulting, Hyperion and CIBC Electronic Banking. At Hot Banana, David is in charge of hitting the sales objectives, growing the sales team, and developing strategic accounts and partnerships. He also directs the company's comprehensive marketing and lead generation program, press relations, brand-building and product marketing campaigns.
Lisa Welchman is founder and principal consultant of Welchman Consulting. Her firm provides web operations management consulting services to companies and government agencies. Lisa is also host of the CMSAdvisor podcast series which addresses issues related to content management system implementations.
