Distinguished Engineer and Product Manager of IBM's OmniFind Search Product
Greater New York City Area
Distinguished Engineer and Product Manager of IBM's OmniFind Search Product
Greater New York City Area
Twenty-nine years in the computer industry with experience in both personnel and project management of teams of over 60 people. Expert in publishing, hypertext, text retrieval, text analysis, and knowledge management. Frequent conference speaker, holder of five patents and co-author of best-selling book on search marketing called Search Engine Marketing, Inc. and author of a new book on Internet marketing called Do It Wrong Quickly. A certified marketing professional also proficient in managing individual customer engagements. One of just 400 IBM Distinguished Engineers. Member of Search Engine Marketing Council if the Direct Marketing Association and charter member of its Internet Marketing Advisory Board. Writes the search marketing column for Revenue magazine and the Biznology newsletter and blog available at mikemoran.com which is syndicated by WebProNews.
Search technology, search marketing, Internet marketing, Web content management, Web personalization, Web metrics, markup languages, IT business cases
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)
OmniFind is IBM's enterprise search and text analytics software product and Mike is responsible for the technical strategy for the entire OmniFind portfolio.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Internet industry)
January 2006 — October 2006 (10 months)
One of fewer that 400 IBM Distinguished Engineers among the 200,000 technical employees at IBM, an executive level technical position one level below IBM Fellow. As Manager of Web Experience, responsible for the 65 technical architects, information architects, graphics designers, and Webmasters for IBM's customer-facing Web site, ibm.com, which has ten million pages in over 90 countries.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Internet industry)
May 1998 — January 2006 (7 years 9 months)
Responsible for the technical strategy for IBM's customer-facing Web site, ibm.com, which has ten million pages in over 80 countries. Manages the team that makes technical architecture decisions for search, content, management, Web metrics, personalization, and other projects.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Internet industry)
August 1978 — May 1998 (19 years 10 months)
Began as computer operator with positions in programming at IBM Research, Lotus, IBM Software Group and other organizations. Managed groups of over 60 people in software product development and marketing.
BS, Accounting, 1976 — 1980
Graduated with honors