Vice President Enterprise Publishing Solutions at Stilo International
Ottawa, Canada Area
- Current
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- Vice President Enterprise Publishing Solutions at Stilo International
- Past
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- President and Founder at XIA Systems Corporation
- Principal Consultant and General Manager at Euclid Consulting Group
- Project Officer at Department of National Defence
- Artillery Gunner / Officer at Canadian Armed Forces
- Education
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- Royal Roads University
- University of Oxford
- Queen's University
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Joe Gollner’s Summary
I could fairly be described as someone who is seriously "into" content. While I have played a rather unsettling range of roles over the years, from analyst through to manager and entrepreneur, a majority of these roles have focused to a large extent on understanding what content is, how it can be managed effectively and why this has become so important. My first encounter with content technologies was in 1987 when I was introduced to SGML and a number of applications intended to support academics working with complex text collections. It could be said that at the time, as a reader in the Bodleian Library, I was swimming in content so the potential benefits of this line of innovation effectively entranced me. Since that time I have managed to find ways to use, some might say mis-use, SGML and its offspring HTML and XML, in many, many different ways.
Perhaps more important than an early infatuation with this family of technologies is the fact that I was typically tasked with deploying these tools within highly demanding environments. The ensuing project experiences were as far from "academic tinkering" as can be imagined and some of those projects represent content management implementations on a monumental scale. All this explains why I am bald and why my project case studies generally leave audiences feeling that their projects suddenly don't seem that bad after all.
I have had the privilege to work with many world-class organizations over the years and I count myself lucky to be supported by a network of colleagues who, taken as a group, represent the world's most capable team of implementers in advanced content management. My most recent projects are getting even more extreme because I just know that my colleagues are not only up to, but look forward to, any challenge.
Joe Gollner’s Specialties:
Knowledge Management, Enterprise Content Management, Project Management, Procurement Facilitation, Acquisition Reform, XML Technologies, Information Architecture Design, Business Development, Communities of Practice, Technology Solution Design and Implementation, Intelligent Content, Electronic Publishing Systems, Requirements Engineering, Technology Management, Business Communications, Technology Marketing.
Joe Gollner’s Experience
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Vice President Enterprise Publishing Solutions
Stilo International
(Public Company; LSE:STL; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2004 — Present (5 years )
In this position, I lead a great Ottawa-based team in the design, development and delivery of enterprise solutions for customers all over the world. These solutions universally leverage open standards, intelligent content and advanced content processing technologies.
In this capacity, I also get a chance to meet a great many people who are passionate about improving the ways in which teams and organizations manage and leverage the content that in many ways makes their world go round. Whether as clients, colleagues, contributors, or even as critics and competitors, I take a great deal away from my exchanges with this community - and hopefully give something back.... -
President and Founder
XIA Systems Corporation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1998 — November 2004 (6 years 7 months)
Founded and then managed the growth of a niche technology services company that specialized in the design, development and deployment of XML-enabled solutions. Operating under the tagline "Content Solutions for the Smart Enterprise", XIA undertook a bewildering array of projects in a wide variety of industry sectors. The projects ranged from building an XML-based software design and code-generation system to constructing a secure content interchange framework for the defense sector.
This venture brought together a stellar group of people who became leaders in this emergent field. The network of people remains in many ways intact years later. XIA was acquired by Stilo International late in 2004. -
Principal Consultant and General Manager
Euclid Consulting Group
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1991 — April 1998 (7 years )
Founded a venue through which to conduct work as a contracted resource but this entity grew, somewhat unexpectedly, into a specialist consultancy consisting of a number of people all juggling numerous engagements. Areas of activity included project management, business development support, early work in electronic commerce, SGML solution design and implementation management, exploratory application development, business process design, technical information management and organizational consulting. The extensive client network and wide-ranging experience gathered during these years prepared the way to forming a larger venture - XIA Systems Corporation.
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Project Officer
Department of National Defence
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
August 1989 — April 1991 (1 year 9 months)
Returning to Canada and intentionally stepping outside the cloistered world of Academia, I could not have found a better "first job". I worked as a project officer in the Directorate of Computer Systems Engineering and Maintenance (DCSEM). It was something of a baptism by fire because this group managed a massive volume of technology acquisition projects and its mandate covered engineering, project management and procurement. I was fortunate enough to work in this "crucible" when the management layer was populated by "old school" veterans from the days of cold war technology advancement.
While I calculated that, given the long hours I worked and my low salary as a junior officer, my hourly wage would have come out to less than $2 an hour, even then I had no regrets. The lessons I learned from some of the old guard have paid recurrent benefits ever since. -
Artillery Gunner / Officer
Canadian Armed Forces
(Government Agency; Military industry)
January 1981 — April 1991 (10 years 4 months)
As an adjunct to my university education, I was a member of the Royal Canadian Artillery, initially as a Gunner and Bombardier, and then, upon completing the Officer Training Program in delightful Gagetown, New Brunswick, a Lieutenant. As is customary in the military, the vast majority of my time was directed to being trained to perform a wide array of functions. The experiences accumulated during this time are something that I now see as irreplaceably valuable even if they were not always pleasant. Perhaps my fondest memory came from the summer of 1986 when I stepped in as the course officer for a Combat Leaders Course and had to learn as quickly and as much as I was teaching...
Joe Gollner’s Education
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Royal Roads University
Graduate Certificate , Knowledge Management , 2004 — 2005
Of the various "graduate" certificate programs that I have found myself sampling recently, this offering was by far the best. The focus area was interesting (Knowledge Management) and it afforded a wide range of inquiries starting with intellectual property management, exploring the many facets of communities of practice, and diving into the rapidly emerging phenomenon of social media. Its blended delivery model, where a residential period anchored an extended period of intensive online collaboration, was also shown to be exceedingly potent. Most noteworthy of all was the seniority and intelligence of my colleagues with this making the program all the more memorable.
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University of Oxford
M.Phil. , Literature, History, Philosophy , 1987 — 1989
This adventure in learning in fact began in late 1986 as the program that I was fixing upon required a substantial amount of preparatory work. Once I officially launched into the effort, I spent a probably unhealthy amount of time in various libraries, and especially the Bodleian, and an equally bewildering amount of time pursuing topics only tangentally related to my main research area (with these inquiries ranging from economics to computing). Happening upon my records from this time, I was recently reacquainted with just how much I read during these years and, more disturbingly, how much I wrote. My main research focus in these years fell upon English literature, history and philosophy from the period 1660 to 1800 - with these studies zeroing in on what we might call the "publishing revolution". My secondary focus settled upon what we might call "critical theory" and methodologies of historical interpretation.
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Queen's University
B.A. , Literature, History, Mathematics , 1982 — 1986
My undergraduate studies might be called by some wide-ranging and by others mercurial. I believed then, and believe now, that an initial degree should be foundational and therefore provide context. Or perhaps I should say that it is one educational path among several that might be legitimately chosen. I tended to gravitate to seminars that featured intensive interaction and in this domain I gained something of a reputation as an "intellectual thug" (or so I was branded) who was as apt to spar with professors as with students or with innocent bystanders. I recall toiling over a series of presentations on the then novel, and only beginning to be feared, topic of Deconstruction - its philosophic roots and its practical uses - and then being pleased to have attendees appear from across many disciplines.
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TIMAF - The Information Management Foundation
