Dan Keldsen

Current

Co-founder, Principal, Analyst, Blogger, Educator, Innovator at Information Architected, Inc.

Past

Director, Market Intelligence at AIIM International
Analyst and Consultant at The Innovation Lab of Perot Systems
Analyst, Consultant, CTO at Delphi Group, A Perot Systems Company

Analyst, Consultant, CTO at Delphi Group
Junior Analyst, Consultant, Director of IT at Delphi Group
Mac Expert and IT Support at Delphi Consulting Group
Marketing Assistant and IT Support at Elan Pharma
Marketing Assistant at Arthur D Little
Marketing Assistant and IT Support at E.U. Wurlitzer Music and Sound

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Education

The University of Texas at Austin
Berklee College of Music
Pennsylvania State University

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Recommended

21 people have recommended Dan

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Dan Keldsen’s Summary

Highlighted research:
SharePoint Truth and Fiction - http://bit.ly/RC2a7
Q2 08 Market IQ on Findability report - http://is.gd/11Ms
Q1 08 Market IQ on Enterprise 2.0- http://tinyurl.com/37ex9e
Q4 07 Market IQ on Content Security - http://tinyurl.com/23wbts

I have a LinkedIn group for your viewing pleasure, sign up, and we'll see what we can accomplish:
BizTechTalk: http://tinyurl.com/33xsb2

Paper on Security Event/Information Management: http://is.gd/47RU (2003)
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Business/Technology Analyst with hands-on Consulting experience in high-tech marketing (e-mail, bid-based search, blogging, podcasting, social media and networks), innovation management, and unstructured and semi-structured content systems. Provided strategic, actionable advice, as well as education (1-3 day sessions) tailored to business, technical and executive personnel, around topics of Taxonomy (Organization), Search, Navigation, Content Management. Have been involved in these areas for the last 13 years.

Have been on the 'Net since 1988, and created Delphi's first website in 1994 in the days before spending on e-marketing and infrastructure was the norm.

(I've broken down my career with Delphi/Perot into components below - to best understand the path taken to get to the road I'm currently standing on)

Can your company explain what it does in language your prospects can understand? Do you measure and adapt what you've learned from past experiences to improve the future? Does your business understand the strategic use of IT? Does your technology team understand it's role in strengthening business strategy? Do you need a bridge-builder between business and IT? Struggling to startup or maintain an innovation-capable business? Contact me and let’s talk.

And in the spirit of realizing the power of networks - What's your angle? What can we work on to mutual benefit? Let's connect for a purpose, and see what we can do to ripple the network!

TopLinked, LION.

Dan Keldsen’s Specialties:

ECM, KM, taxonomy, findability, information architecture, enterprise 2.0, web 2.0, marketing 2.0, podcasting, blogging, social software, social networking, blogs, creative problem solving, innovation management, modinfosec, infosec, enterprise search, information security, open standards, usability, danish design, physical architecture, juggling

Dan Keldsen’s Experience

Co-founder, Principal, Analyst, Blogger, Educator, Innovator

Information Architected, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Information Architected is a consultancy focused on the intelligent use of content, knowledge and processes to drive innovation and thrive in a digital world.

What is YOUR Information Architected FOR?
Director, Market Intelligence

AIIM International

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 7 months)

The fun continues! What I'd started while at Delphi Group for 13 years, I've now taken to AIIM International - The Enterprise Content Management Association (www.aiim.org) to continue pushing both the cutting and practical edges of ECM and Enterprise 2.0 related technologies, as well as my year long (and growing) focus on Innovation Management and building an Innovation Architecture via software and solid methodologies.

Need research, analysis, or consulting? I'm still in the game - and will continue to be working with end-users (business or IT) and software companies to drive the successful application of technology. Get in touch, and keep an eye out for expansion on my podcasting, an internet radio show, and more!
Analyst and Consultant

The Innovation Lab of Perot Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Under this newly formed unit of Perot Systems, I continue to deliver the standard services (focused on content management, search, taxonomy, information architecture) we had offered as Delphi Group, but with even more focus on the ‘innovation’ side of our consulting and educational services.

I’m a life-long learner, and this new team provides fertile soil to deliver innovation through combined business and technology strategy, as well as to help sow the seeds of continuous innovation capabilities to our clients.

From IT, I am enamored of the tenets of agile development, and seek to bring the core concepts of those methods to the technology consulting we do. In this case, I believe IT has much to teach business, and to the benefit of everyone involved. Agile thinking dovetails nicely with innovation as well, as the continued refinement, and rapid ability to learn from small mistakes and recover from them, make upward movement much easier to accomplish.

Fail forward faster!
Analyst, Consultant, CTO

Delphi Group, A Perot Systems Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 4 months)

After being acquired by Perot Systems, we encountered the world of much larger accounts, and global outsourcing (or 'Smartsourcing' as we now call it).

Most recently, I have been working on expanding our training and consulting into innovation management, which is an intriguing area of work. Helping individuals, teams, and organizations break out of stagnant thinking and creating or re-inventing business opportunities, is quite rewarding. You may feel that innovation is a buzzword that means nothing, and in many cases that is true, but if that’s where you leave it – good luck to you in this new millennium. This is an area of huge concern to companies looking to embrace outsourcing - how to outsource without dropping innovation on the floor. We can help to prevent that to happen.
Analyst, Consultant, CTO

Delphi Group

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — December 2003 (4 years )

As a result of my morphing role, I began providing 1-3 day educational sessions to our clients (a 1-day on Intranets, Extranets, and Business on the Web, which we turned into the 'Complete Intranet' 2-day seminar in multiple cities – a new, instantly money-making seminar that lasted 2 years; Document Management and the Web (early days as DM vendors began providing functionality through limited web interfaces); and for the last 5-6 years, our Proving Ground on Information Architecture and Taxonomy - a 'group consulting' meets education experience - which brings together foundational material for business and business leaning technical people to understand the issues underlying successful content management and portal projects - most fundamentally known as information architecture, and the key components of taxonomy (categorization/classification), search in it's many variations, and information governance strategy.
Junior Analyst, Consultant, Director of IT

Delphi Group

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

May 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 8 months)

Simultaneously (see previous position), roughly 2 years into Delphi, I started the journey which I now seek to infect others with – for me this began as a parallel career as a presenter, analyst and consultant, bringing IT to the table to support the business (not simply ‘keep things running’) and perhaps even, god forbid, improve and expand the business! I had an epiphany and the consulting work that our company did and does finally snapped into place as understandable information. I broke through the ‘IT is the world’ barrier (which is in place from the business side as well, BTW) that we see time and time again in our consulting work, and my working world has not been the same since.
Mac Expert and IT Support

Delphi Consulting Group

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1994 — May 1996 (2 years 1 month)

Began work at Delphi Consulting Group as a "pure" behind the scenes IT guy, doing infrastructure support, and worked up through solution analysis, design, budget responsibilities, and on to managing a team of four IT and web personnel. These were the days when I was a typical (perhaps above average) IT guy, believing that fixing things and incremental improvement was what IT was all about.

The want ad stated 'Mac Expert Wanted' - which seemed a clear enough call to me, and little did I know what an interesting and lengthy ride I would be in for with this organization. From 'pure' IT to...
Marketing Assistant and IT Support

Elan Pharma

(Public Company; Pharmaceuticals industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year )

Supporting network of N. America salesforce via marketing and technical support
Marketing Assistant

Arthur D Little

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

Did freelance work in support of the consulting squad, to support the creation of high-quality strategic consulting deliverables.
Marketing Assistant and IT Support

E.U. Wurlitzer Music and Sound

(Privately Held; Music industry)

1989 — 1992 (3 years )

Worked with EVP/COO in supporting internal Macintosh and mini network/systems, as well as supporting in-store marketing materials, physical mailings, and newspaper/magazine/catalog press work.

Dan Keldsen’s Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Masters of Fine Arts , Music Composition , 1992 — 1993

Began pursuing an MFA in Music Composition straight out of Berklee, and re-evaluated after determining that 8 semesters back-to-back, going into another x years for a Master's seemed like a sure road to burnout. Austin is a great city though, met some great people, and gave me an excuse to see a bit more of the country while driving to/from Boston and Austin.
Berklee College of Music

BFA , Dual Bachelor's in Music Synthesis (Production) and Songwriting , 1988 — 1992

Graduated Cum Laude, Won the Peter Gabriel Award for Music Synthesis Production (with scholarship), Won two Songwriting awards for Best Songs (co-written), and two other songs have been featured in the Lyricwriting coursework at Berklee.
Pennsylvania State University

1987 — 1988

In my senior year in high school, I did half-days at Penn State, studying Electrical Engineering and Mathematics as topics beyond what the local high school could offer.

Additional Information

Dan Keldsen’s Websites:

Dan Keldsen’s Interests:

Information Architected, ECM, innovation management, ideation, thinking tools, modinfosec, business process management, business process automation, six sigma, rfid, bluetooth, presence, social software, social networking, infosec, usability, information architecture, IA, six degrees, blogging, RSS, ATOM, RDF, metadata, portals, knowledge management, KM, taxonomy, content classification, content security, e-mail management, digital rights management, enterprise rights management, semantic web, ontology, ontologies, del.icio.us

Dan Keldsen’s Groups:

AIIM, CMPros, Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture, AIfIA, The IA Institute, SANS GSEC, UPA, Usability Professionals' Association, KM Cluster, Life, Innovation Fiends, Crazed Danes, Enterprise 2.0 Mavens, Boston Area Technologists, cmf2007