Vice President Enterprise Solutions at Stilo International
Ottawa, Canada Area
- Current
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- Vice President Enterprise 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
- Education
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- Royal Roads University
- University of Oxford
- Queen's University
- Connections
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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, XML Technologies, Service Oriented Architectures, Business Development, Communities of Practice, Technology Solution Design and Implementation, Requirements Engineering, Technology Management, Business Communications, Technology Marketing.
Joe Gollner’s Experience
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Vice President Enterprise Solutions
Stilo International
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2004 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Responsible for the definition and deployment of the Enterprise Solutions strategy for a company with robust proven technology used for 'content processing' as a fundamental dimension to the application of technology to the management of knowledge.
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President and Founder
XIA Systems Corporation
(Privately Held; 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 under the tagline "Content Solutions for the Smart Enterprise". This venture brought together a stellar group of people who became leaders in this emergent field and it was acquired by Stilo International late in 2004.
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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 it was calculated that given the long hours I worked and my low salary as a junior officer, my hourly wage, if it were calculated that way, would have come out to less than $2 an hour. But the lessons I learned from some of the old guard have paid recurrent benefits ever since.
