Jeff Potts

Current

• Sr. Practice Director, ECM at Optaros

Past

• Vice President at Hitachi Consulting
• Director, ECM at Navigator Systems, Inc.
• Team Lead at ClubCorp

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Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas
• University of Oklahoma

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Jeff Potts’s Summary

Over the years I've managed consulting practices of varying sizes from 4 to over 20. They've had different names but they have almost always revolved around Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies such as content management, web content management, collaboration, workflow, portals, and search.

The key for me seems to be helping business people solve problems with technology, particularly when a human-to-human process is involved. My work also seems to consistently revolve around managing unstructured data--I'm typically working with a "rich content store" rather than a relational database.

For the last several years my technical focus has been on Alfresco and Open Source Content Management. I am a very active member of the Alfresco community, writing extensively on the topic at my blog, http://ecmarchitect.com, and speaking at events around the world. I've done numerous open source content management projects for clients and firmly believe that open source offers a viable alternative to commercial offerings for clients of all size regardless of industry.

In 2007 I received Alfresco's Community Contributor of the Year Award for my work on the blog and other contributions. In 2008 I wrote the Alfresco Developer Guide (Packt Publishing) and won Packt's Author of the Year Award for that work.

Prior to my focus on open source, I specialized on Documentum, but I have also worked on ECM technologies from vendors like IBM, Interwoven, Autonomy, and Lotus Notes/Domino.

Jeff Potts’s Specialties:

Open Source, Alfresco, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) architecture, Java web application development, ECM product selection, intranet migrations, portal implementations, enterprise search implementations, workflow, business process management, collaboration

Additional Information

Jeff Potts’s Interests:

Sailing, camping, hiking, new technology

Jeff Potts’s Groups:

•    Content Management Professionals
•    Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
•    Alfresco Connections

Jeff Potts’s Honors:

2008 Packt Publishing Author of the Year Finalist
2007 Alfresco North American Community Contributor of the Year
2006 Southwest Documentum User Group President