I'm happy to be rejoining Genentech, working to deliver a collaborative business portal
with ECM capabilities to support Genentech employees, doctors, and patients in support of the integration with Roche through 2010.]]>I'm happy to be rejoining Genentech, working to deliver a collaborative business portal with ECM capabilities to support Genentech employees, doctors, and patients in support of the integration with Roche through 2010.]]>
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
]]>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.
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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.
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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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I just wrapped up a 15 month contract at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores, and enjoying the work very much. I worked with the Director of Piracy Protection, the CIO's office, Project Management Office, and Worldwide Mastering Labs to discover, design, and deploy new functionality into their custom Java IP Security and game distribution system.
Go here to read more about the project at Electronic Arts
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