Administration: March 2009 Archives

In case you missed yesterday's announcement, I am happy to announce that Neal Hannon has joined us as Senior Consultant, XBRL Strategies. XBRL has been coming for a while, but with mandatory XBRL reporting requirements now kicking in, companies really need to get serious both with reporting requirements and internal use of XBRL. XBRL requires more than XML expertise, and Neal's financial background and involvement in XBRL provide deep domain expertise, and are a great complement to our existing XML strengths. Neal will be working with Bill as part of the XML Practice. Neal's bio is posted at: http://gilbane.com/consultant_bios.html#nhannon

Neal's email is: neal@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 155.

Welcome Neal!

I am happy to announce that Larry Hawes has joined us, starting today, as Lead Analyst, Collaboration & Enterprise Social Media Practice, along with Geoff. This has been an important area of coverage for us since we started writing about enterprise use of wikis and blogs over 4 years ago - it is hard to believe how unusual such a thing was then. Not so now, and it is great to have Larry aboard to help IT and business managers understand the role of social media tools in corporate and government applications.

Larry has most recently spent 6 years with IBM Global Business Services as a Consultant and Program Manager in collaboration and knowledge management, focused largely on public sector clients. Larry also spent 3.5 years at Delphi Group as an analyst and consultant where he worked with both vendors and enterprise customers. Larry's bio has not been posted on our site yet, but can be found at: http://lehawes.wordpress.com/about-larry-hawes/, and of course on LinkedIn.

Larry's email is: larry@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 154. You can follow Larry on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/lehawes

Welcome Larry!

I am happy to announce that long time SGML/XML expert consultant Barry Schaeffer has joined us officially as a Senior Analyst, XML Strategies & Content Management. Barry joins our XML Practice, and has already posted the XML blog.

Barry sold his company, X.Systems Inc., to XyEnterprise last year, and has had extensive experience with large and complex SGML/XML projects, including a number for federal, and state governments over the years. I don't remember exactly when I met Barry but it was in the early 80s and he was already involved with SGML projects. Mary, Bill, and Dale have also known Barry for some time. Our XML practice has some serious critical mass, and Barry's experience with government, NGO, and enterprise consulting add considerable depth to the team. Barry's bio has been posted.

Barry's email is: barry@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 213.

Welcome Barry!