Monday, January 2, 2012 at 08:59AM I'm wrapping up my project with Thomson Reuters FindLaw early January 2012, and will be available to begin new projects February 1, 2012. Please reach out to discuss your opportunities, and while I do prefer working in the Northern CA Bay Area, I can travel nationally and internationally if the project terms are a match. Happy New Year!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 02:22PM My new project will be in Silicon Valley, with Thomson Reuters, supporting their legal business offerings. I’ll be working with Thomson Reuters to review and confirm enterprise business objectives will be addressed with their current and future technologies and processes.
There will be an evaluation of commercial Enterprise Content Management systems, a socialization effort to feature the breadth and depth of ECM vendor systems, a reevaluation of existing systems, and design and development of various prototypes to present business and technology solution recommendations. A Pros and Cons-type recommendation will also be made presenting the risks and benefits associated with choosing Commercial Off the Shelf solutions, vs. Open Source solutions, vs. the option to build custom solutions in-house.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 08:20AM I just wrapped up a vision project in the Midwest and am back home in the Northern CA Bay Area. I'm thinking I'll take a little time off and enjoy the beautiful summer here while talking with organizations about new projects we might share with a start some time around September 1, 2011. Enjoy your summer everyone!
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 10:04AM A $35 Billion year company who engages in building efficiency, automotive experience, and power solutions business worldwide.
Shared future technology capabilities and business strategies to create a Social Enterprise environment loaded with competitive advantage capabilities for the company’s globally disperse business interests and workforce. Concepted and designed a set of futuristic solution prototypes and an enterprise roadmap for business solutions and innovations.
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 09:59AM 
I'm happy to be joining Susan Kampe and her expert consultancy, Zang Consulting LLC, in a partnership to build and grow her ECM/Portal/Search & Mobility practice. I will work with Susan and her clients to deliver vision, strategy, design, and deployment methodologies in these areas. More info to come shortly...
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 11:30PM I wrapped a short investigation with Pacific Gas & Electric in Northern CA this December, and am considering new projects for February 2011 that focus on executive and senior leadership strategies around ECM, portals, information access and search, Web 2.0, Social Media, and Mobility solutions and web experiences.
Please contact me directly, here, or via LinkedIn to discuss your projects and what you'd like to accomplish in 2011.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 04:29PM 
I'm very excited and honored to be given a Board Member position with the Alameda County chapter of Women's Initiative, a Bay-Area non-profit agency whose mission is to build the entrepreneurial capacity of women to overcome economic and social barriers and achieve self-sufficiency.
I've been watching and engaging with WI's events, activities, and entrepreneurs for a little while now, and it's so inspiring and successful I can't wait to pitch in in a more formal capacity.
Please check out Women's Initiative (http://www.womensinitiative.org) and learn how they're using micro-financing, a huge womens' expertise network, and a very purpose-driven effort to propel women into business ownership and success. Check out one of their statistics:
"By assisting women-owned businesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area at our seven training sites, Women's Initiative directly contributes to the economic growth of communities. Our graduates have started and expanded over 1,600 businesses from photography studios to catering companies and mechanic shops. In 2006, 301 new jobs created by our graduates."
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 02:34PM 
Elicit, align, and converge Enterprise Application Strategic Planning and Architecture vision with Portal Center of Excellence Development Team vision to define and select a single presentation layer technology to support rapid development of business solutions for the enterprise.
The new technology will need to be user-friendly for developers, utilize programming languages for which there are many resources available, and require little to no architecture changes of existing frameworks or systems.
The tool should provide Ideation, Design, Development, and automatic Code Deployment tools for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to support solution development for the general public, customers, employees, partners, vendors and regulatory agencies.
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 01:42PM After concluding my engagement with NetApp, I'm spending a few weeks discussing new opportunities in the Northern CA Bay Area and am hearing about quite a few interesting initiatives going on here locally.
I really like the ideas being whipped up here in the Bay, and look forward to discovering my new project team(s) :).
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 12:40AM 
After a brief break, a few advisory projects, and better weather in the Bay Area, I will be joining NetApp in Sunnyvale to build strategy and programs to support their ECM, Search, and Portal initiatives for their Extranet, Internet, and Intranet properties. I'll be joining them late June after wrapping up a few smaller projects and look forward to being part of a great project that's starting from the ground up with Oracle's 11g Suite.
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 10:04PM Genentech's year-long Commercial Portal project was recently frozen, so I am available for new projects beginning May 1, 2010. Please reach out to discuss your portal and ECM challenges to see if we might be a match.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 12:07PM 
Worked with Genentech’s Commercial Portal Team to determine vision, strategy, 
information access and search, content integration requirements, business collaboration opportunities, and social media tools to drive secure, profiled content through the portal and iPhone applications. Prepared for Proofs of Concept, vendor pilots and demos, technology reviews, and determined a methodology for proving cost benefits associated with adoption of Web 2.0 technologies. Vendors included Vignette portal and Content Management systems, Autonomy’s IDOL Pan-enterprise Search and Web2.0 and Social Media Services, OpenText’s LiveLink, Jive’s Social Business Software, and the iPhone Application framework.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 12:21PM I'm beginning to network and interview for my next intelligence project, preferably in the Northern CA Bay Area, but if you have an interesting project that's out of the area, please don't hesitate to reach out for a discussion. Happy Holidays Everyone.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 07:00PM 
Working in the Collaboration Business Technology Delivery Team, collaborating with Enterprise Collaboration Platform (The New Collaboration Platform ™) product teams, User Experience Design, ECM IT, to determine vision, strategy, and business transition options to the new collaboration platform. The objective being the ability to surface contextually relevant social and enterprise content, to individual users, deriving actionable information transactions using semantic web, social networking, and rich presence.
Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 11:22AM Change happens faster than you expect. With this thought, I begin again, to search and interview for new projects as my role with VMWare was put on hold 8 days into the initiative.
They definitely win for the shortest project ever! I wish them well and hope to collaborate again as they continue their amazing growth and innovation in the virtualization and cloud computing space.
There are many interesting projects going on around the Bay Area right now and I look forward to joining a new team sometime in early September. Please contact me to discuss opportunities - I look forward to hearing what you have going on.
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:39PM 
My recent contract was with VMWare in Palo Alto, CA working to assess architecture, security, business, and content state of 29 separate, business-critical portals, then gather executive, business leader, vendor/partner, and customer requirements for the Next Generation ECM intelligence platform utilizing Oracle’s 11g E2.0 WebSuite, in a virtualized environment. Conduct gap analysis, and define implementation strategy to migrate optimized content, business process and services, into a single, Oracle 11g WebCenter Interaction (WCI) instance.
The project was put on hold soon after I arrived, so I am looking and interviewing for a new project again to begin the first week of September 2009. Please contact me to discuss opportunities.
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 05:06PM I'll post more info as I'm updating and redesigning stephaniehayden.com and building the new website for my corporation - Innovation Architecture, Inc. For now I wanted to let you know what I've been working on over the last couple of months...
A Leading Publication House
Authoring and Publishing a Book for Cross-promotion in Professional & Technology Series
April 2009 – June 2010
Company Profile: This publisher’s Professional/Trade (P/T) business serves professionals and consumers alike, producing books, subscription content, and information services, in all media, in targeted categories. Subject areas include business, technology, architecture, professional culinary, psychology, education, travel, health, religion, consumer reference, pets, and general interest.
TITLE = Author & Illustrator
Assignments: Author a professional How To manual, tailored for executives and senior management citing 13 years of personal, professional consulting experience with Fortunes 1-500 organizations, to help correct jack-knifed Enterprise Content Management initiatives. Providing real-world, proven, methodologies, programs, and solution patterns, this guide covers general to very specific topics including failed portal deployments, stalled content management systems, rampant taxonomic breakdowns, security matrix omissions and intelligence breaches, intelligence graveyards, and somewhat useless information access and intelligence search efforts. Focusing heavily on Enterprise 2.0 vendor product solutions, business process changes, improved utilization of existing technologies, and collaboration tools, this guide can help any enterprise get back on track, or make news ones, by inspiring talent to cooperate and collaborate toward define enterprise business objectives. Expected release Summer 2010.
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 04:04PM During a break between projects I attended the Masters Program with AIIM up in Toronto, Ontario. My primary reason for attendance was to calibrate what I've been doing for many years now, with a global associations' opinions and practices to ensure I'm inline with internationally recognized leaders in Enterprise Content Management. I'm happy to say it was an excellent experience, and apparently I'm right on track!
I highly recommend their courses to anyone who is beginning, restoring, or investigating an Enterprise Content Management effort. Excellent teachers, great subject matter covering a huge amount of information in a very elegant manner, and hey some of the courses are in Toronto, and you can hit Niagra Falls helicopter tours while you're in town!
Association of Images and Information Management (AIIM)
Master Certificate Program Enterprise Content Management
Toronto, Ontario Canada
www.aiim.org
April 2009 – expected August 2009
Company Profile: As a neutral and unbiased source of information, AIIM is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information.
For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM is also known as the enterprise content management (ECM) association.
AIIM is international in scope, independent, and implementation-focused. As the industry's intermediary, AIIM represents the entire industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel.
TITLE = Master Certificate Candidate for Master of Enterprise Content Management confirmed expert in lifecycle enterprise content and intelligence management systems, expert in implementation of solution systems, expert in leading Commercial Off the Shelf and Open Source vendor solution offerings.
Assignments: Comprehensive study of all tools and methodologies, and best practices related to the capturing, managing, storing, preserving, and delivering all content and intelligence to any user in any environment. A Masters Thesis written after study is used to attain certification of Masters ECM3 – ETA August 2009.
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 05:04PM 
CalPERS (California Public Employees' Retirement System) is the largest public pension system in the country, with $244 billion to invest on behalf of current and future retirees in the state of California, providing retirement and health benefits to approximately 1.6 million public employees, retirees, and their families and more than 2,500 employers.
*Assignments: Define and design overarching strategy and implementation plan for agency portal, Enterprise Content Management, information access, and enterprise secure search services for; a) 1.6 Million customers providing health coverage, insurance, pension, and investment service tools; b) 2500 internal employees offering self service HR, administrative, IT, and operational services; c) 3500+ partners and vendors enabling complex transactions between agency and external customer information systems; and d) services connecting State of CA government agencies with CalPERS for financial transactions.
Part of this effort will include vendor product stack reviews with leading Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) vendors including Adobe, Attivio, Autonomy, EMC Documentum, EMC, Endeca, Fast Search, Google Search Appliance, IBM WebSphere, Interwoven, Microsoft MOSS, OpenText LiveLink, Oracle WebCenter, SAP, SUN, and Vignette to provide the business and Enterprise Architecture Teams with vendor selection recommendations.
*Contract update: I will be available for full time contract work in the Northern CA Bay Area beginning March 2009.
Click here for more detail on the CalPERS project.
News Monday, January 7, 2008 at 09:29PM 
Working in the Corporate Information Technology department at Genentech, I lead a team of about 40 cross-functional business owners, technologists, and information managers in DNA's (NASDAQ) effort to migrate out of an older enterprise document management system into a new knowledge management system using OpenText's LiveLink EDMS.
Go here to read more about the project at Genentech
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