
Search & Discovery Implementation Expert
Asheville, North Carolina Area

Search & Discovery Implementation Expert
Asheville, North Carolina Area
Information architect with considerable experience solving business problems with enterprise search, content management and related information technologies. Specializes in bringing different groups together to solve problem at hand, often acting as an interpreter among the different groups so needs are better understood and met. Particularly interested in methodologies that indicate information architecture's success in meeting business goals, such such as ROI.
Information management-related skills include:
- Internal search analysis and tuning; information retrieval and discovery analysis
- Information architecture, taxonomy, and metadata development
- Content and document management, analysis and evaluation
- Content integration
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
OmniFind Discovery Edition (ODE). Version 8.4
- Experienced lead Omnifind architect and developer for ODE with WebSphere Commece (WC)
Work includes
- Installation, configuration and application development
- Analyzing of client needs/goals, available information/data sources and developing metadata strategy and supporting application framework
- Integration of search results page module and site-wide faceted navigation module into single WebSphere Commerce stores and extended sites.
- Modification of OmniFind Layout Editor User Interface for WC
- Mentoring of developers building OmniFind applications
Design and implement enterprise search and text analytics solutions
Project management and eCommerce site developer
- WebSphere Commerce
J2EE Solutions Developer
- WebSphere Application Server,
- Rational Application Developer
IBM Authorized Instructor for ECIS
- Rational Application Developer Core curriculum.
- Websphere Application Server Core curriculum
(Information Services industry)
August 1993 — July 2005 (12 years )
Information Management Consultant to companies and organizations requiring efficient and effective access to digital and paper-based information assets.
- Served as a GIS developer, graphic design, data modeling to automate the linking of photographic images, city directory information in directories, and geospatial points, and then how to display this information at the appropriate locations on historical and modern maps.
- Built XML data models to regularize and organize raw data for a research organization.
- Co-authored Introduction to Archival Organization and Description a book and web-publication sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Information Institute.
- Led collaborative effort to coordinate information technology strategies across multiple organizations for a Southwestern organization
- Course developer and instructor for the Society of American Archivists on access points and intellectual access to collections.
(Religious Institutions industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
(Libraries industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
(Libraries industry)
1991 — 2000 (9 years )