Gil Yehuda

Current

Industry Analyst and Web Strategist at GilYehuda.com (Self-employed)

Past

Senior Analyst at Forrester Research
Director at Fidelity Investments
Director of Architecture at Fidelity Investments

Senior Developer, Product Manager at Fidelity Investments
Consultant at Cambridge Technology Partners
Knowledge Engineer at Xerox Corp.

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Education

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland State University

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Gil Yehuda’s Summary

Web Strategy Consultant helping organizations with Intranet, Collaboration Technology, and Knowledge Management techniques and behaviors.

Industry Analyst helping clients achieve business goals by leveraging social media and collaboration behaviors and technology.

Experienced enterprise architect, technology director, public speaker, teacher, motivator, and mentor.

Gil Yehuda’s Specialties:

Enterprise 2.0, Social Computing and Social Networks; Knowledge Management, Intranets, Portals, and Enterprise Collaboration technology; Strategic planning and research, Corporate and educational event production; Technology Management and IT Governance

Gil Yehuda’s Experience

Industry Analyst and Web Strategist
GilYehuda.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

I provide strategic consulting and insight to clients who are looking to improve business results by using social computing techniques. I perform and sell custom research about the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace and deliver workshops, executive briefings, and provide consulting for individuals and companies who want to leverage new social internet technologies to achieve business success in personal or corporate branding, knowledge management, and intranet collaboration design.
Senior Analyst

Forrester Research

(Public Company; FORR; Research industry)

May 2008 — February 2009 (10 months)

Published research providing pragmatic advice to Information and Knowledge Management professionals on enterprise collaboration topics.
• Published research reports, received average customer rating score 9.1 on scale of 10.
• Delivered lectures, briefings, and workshops at industry events in the US and UK.
• Prepared custom research and delivered consulting services to dozens of Forrester's global clients in many industry verticals, including financial services, government, banking, healthcare, retail, telecom, and manufacturing.

Publications include these, which are available on Forrester's client site
• Forrester TechRadar For I&KM Pros: Enterprise Web 2.0 For Collaboration
• Seven Steps To Selecting A High-Value Enterprise Wiki
• Enterprise Innovation Needs A Game Plan
• Internal Blogging: Value Outweighs Risk If You Address Management Concerns Early

Plus many blogs, podcasts, lectures, workshops, and media citations on these and related topics.
Director

Fidelity Investments

(Privately Held; FMR; Financial Services industry)

December 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Produced live-broadcast events promoting strategic initiatives, creating communities of interest.
• Increased annual programs from 18 to 24, increased annual employee participation from 5,800 to over 15,000

Established enterprise vision for Wikis, Forums, Blogs, and Social Networking.
• Implemented an information architecture for enterprise wiki content. Trained groups on wiki, forum, blog, and virtual world collaboration techniques. Published enterprise blog for 3 years.
• Advised HR management effectiveness, communications, and senior management advisory groups on blogging and wiki use.
• Spearheaded the use of wiki, blog, and discussion forums across 4 business units. Consolidated enterprise wikis in both Mediawiki and Confluence. Moderated discussion forums in Jive and SharePoint.

Published and presented strategic technology research on Virtual Worlds, Collaboration, Blogging reputation management, Wiki best practices, Technology Readiness, and XBRL.
Director of Architecture

Fidelity Investments

(Privately Held; FMR; Financial Services industry)

August 1999 — December 2006 (7 years 5 months)

Managed technology architects in 10 business units to coordinate design and support of shared .NET infrastructure. Managed shared code and standardization initiative for .NET infrastructure. Created and managed .NET Center of Competence, internal consultancy community for over 1000 developers worldwide. Coordinated training, support, and vendor management for .NET technologies.
• Implemented shared infrastructure for 25 applications in the first year. Reduced development costs by $10 million per year. Reduced code failures and operational costs in second year.
• Developed and managed IT Governance communications program and Technology Directions wiki coordinating the selection of over 200 technology vendors and versions for all business units.
• Authored performance guidelines and security policies for .NET application development. Published performance data and technical whitepapers on .NET, Web Services, SOA, XML, Tuxedo, Java, and UNIX and Windows Server operating systems.
Senior Developer, Product Manager

Fidelity Investments

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FMR; Financial Services industry)

September 1993 — August 1999 (6 years )

I was a Technology Consultant for a CRM initiative; the Product Manager for a workflow processing system that handled the processing 60,000 customer mail items per day; and I developed C++/Unix and Windows imaging systems used by 4000 customer service phone representatives.
Consultant

Cambridge Technology Partners

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1993 — September 1993 (8 months)

• Data Design consulting for Michigan Department of Transportation.
• IT Strategy and Planning consulting for a military engineering client in New Hampshire
Knowledge Engineer

Xerox Corp.

(Public Company; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1989 — February 1993 (3 years 8 months)

• Saved Xerox an estimated $600 million in excess inventory within two years though the deployment of an application in 11 manufacturing centers in six countries that helped planners make fact-based manufacturing decisions. This earned me a “Circle of Excellence award” that is awarded to the top 50 IT employees in the company every year.

• International work experience includes projects in England, France, and the Netherlands for Rank Xerox, a division of Xerox Corporation.

• Developed artificial intelligence learning systems for the knowledge-based system competency center in the central applied research division.

Gil Yehuda’s Education

Case Western Reserve University

Scholars BS , Artificial Intelligence , 1986 — 1989

Activities and Societies:

Accepted into the undergraduate scholars program (UGSP). Developed the Artificial Intelligence major for the university. Graduated with a Scholars degree, and with honors cum laude
Cleveland State University

1985 — 1986

Activities and Societies:

Attended CSU while a senior in high school in order to get a jump-start on higher education.

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Gil Yehuda’s Interests:

Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Twitter, Social Computing, Microsharing, Wikis, Information Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management, Intranets, Collaboration, Second Life, A Capella music