Rawn Shah

Current

Social Software Knowledge Practices Lead at IBM
Author at Self

Past

Community Program Mgr at IBM
Editor, SOA and Web services at IBM developerWorks
Freelance Writer/Editor at Self (Self-employed)

Editor, Writer at Web Publishing, Inc
Vice President at RTD Systems & Networking, Inc.

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Rawn Shah’s Summary

I lead the Center of Excellence investigating best practices and understanding behavior in social software systems in the IBM Social Software Programs & Enablement team.

I used to lead a distributed team at IBM developerWorks that defines strategy on their overall community initiative. My goal was to help build greater social interaction between the developers using appropriate Web 2.0 technologies on the IBM developerWorks site.

I'm created and taught a new course on Managing Online Communities with the Univ. of Arizona, Management Information Science dept. with the goal of training future Community Managers

I co-authored a book with the IBM Asset & Integration Services team titled "Service-Oriented Architectures: Business Value, Planning and Enterprise Roadmap" through IBM Press/developerWorks series. This book has been translated to Russian, Japanese and Korean.

I have been a consultant with broad experience in many aspects of software issues in distributed computing. Direct experience in ISP operations, distributed applications development, project management. Particularly interested in software integration issues such as Web services, service-oriented architectures, grid computing, and component architectures.

I have a personal interest in the theory and practice of swordfighting techniques. Third degree black belt and Sensei in Ryuseiken Battodo (Japanese swordfighting).

Rawn Shah’s Specialties:

Knowledge expert (Community and social software systems, Web services, Linux, Clustering, PC-to-server networking, distributed systems)
Publishing (articles, books, journals), Technology analyst (for VCs)

Rawn Shah’s Experience

Social Software Knowledge Practices Lead

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

As a Practice Lead for the IBM Social Software Enablement team, I help other teams understand how to work with social software and online communities, as well as gather and process best practices and processes, across IBM. I'm also involved in the design of a large-scale social software platform that incorporates these ideas.
Author

Self

(Internet industry)

June 1994 — Present (15 years 6 months)

"Social Networking for Business" (Wharton School Press, 2010) - coming in 4Q09

Co-authored "Service-Oriented Architecture: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap" (IBM Press 2005) - ISBN 0131870025
Co-authored "UNIX and Windows 2000 Integration Toolkit" (Wiley 2000)
Contributor "High-Performance Cluster Computing Vol. 1" (Prentice-Hall, 1999)
Co-authored "The Complete Internet Gamer" (Wiley 1996)
Co-authored "Playing Wargames on the Internet" (Wiley 1996)
Co-authored "Playing MUDS on the Internet" (Wiley 1995)
Community Program Mgr

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 10 months)

Community strategic initiative leader coordinating efforts in Design, Web Applications, Content development, and Marketing teams in IBM developerWorks to create a comprehensive and cohesive Web 2.0 community services plan for our 5 million+ members. Developing strategy for overall community approach as well as individual processes for blogs, wikis, forums, chats, newsletters, etc.
Editor, SOA and Web services

IBM developerWorks

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

August 2000 — May 2005 (4 years 10 months)

I managed the SOA and Web services zone at IBM developerWorks magazine. I helped to create and launch this section of the online magazine to reach and promote the word of Servie-Oriented Architectures and Web services to architects and developers everywhere. We have since won several awards for our Web services site (as well as others for developerWorks).
Freelance Writer/Editor
Self (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1995 — May 2001 (6 years 3 months)

Written over 280 articles for a number of publications including Windows NT World Japan, CNN.com, Network World, Windows Tech Edge, TechStorage, Axxess, Linux Magazine and others. Author and contributor to several books on online games, PC-Unix integration, and Clustering technologies. Technical editor for books on X/Windows, TCP/IP, Linux Clustering.
Editor, Writer

Web Publishing, Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1994 — April 2000 (5 years 6 months)

Author for SunWorld, JavaWorld, LinuxWorld, Advanced Systems, and later Editor for NC World and Windows Tech Edge magazines.
Vice President

RTD Systems & Networking, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

November 1992 — July 1997 (4 years 9 months)

Co-founder of first Internet Service Provider in Tucson Arizona. General carrier for lo-/hi-speed network connections. Project manager for custom Web site development. On design/development team for User Tracking and Accounting billing software package for ISPs sold internationally. Local ISP billing operations management. Author of early articles on Internet business development.

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Rawn Shah’s Interests:

Social computing, people management, project management, Web 2.0, blogs, wikis, forums, online communities Japanese martial arts: iaido, battodo, swordfighting, archery, kyudo, naginata

Rawn Shah’s Groups:

Online Community Business Forum

University of Arizona Alumni
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
IBM Extreme Blue
Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group
IBM co/ex workers independent group
Bear Down Arizona
Community 2.0
Enterprise2.0
Online Community Manager
IBM Research Division
IBM Smart Work
Business Analytics and Optimization