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Expert has thirty years professional experience in private, consulting and government organizations. Throughout his career, he has focused on helping organizations develop business rules, manage knowledge, and develop more intuitive scientific, technical and business visualizations to better control and understand the sometimes chaotic business process. In addition, a Master's degree in Organizational Management helps Expert bring a robust set of formal tools to your unique problem.

Expert has had a personal and professional interest in both the art and science of communication throughout his life. As an expert in multimedia tools such as Powerpoint, Inkscape, Premier and Protools, and GIS software, combined with a career in science, he has the technical skill and real world experience to develop professional presentations of complex subjects. He has used virtual office environments for over ten years. As a teacher and lecturer, he has developed public speaking skills for communicating to different levels of audiences, from technically trained to the public, presenting complex technical and scientific concepts. Combined with a thirty year career as a scientist and technologist, his motto has become, "Communication is Power!"

His current interests include emergent systems, social networks and the use of these types of tools to harness creativity more effectively. In addition, from his mapping and GIS expertise, he has developed a strong interest in how people absorb information and the role that social knowledge plays in effective information transfer.

Beginning in 1993, Expert has worked with geographic information systems (GIS) until the present. In addition to the industry leading softwares, he has also developed several fully functional GIS, document management, content management and physical inventory control systems in open standards of Extensible Markup Language (XML), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and JavaScript.

Although he has strong technical experience in these tools, he also has a keen interest in how people learn from maps, addressing issues such as what types of colors and shapes best convey a message.

As a mapmaker and GIS expert, Expert has spent many years culling information from flat files and relational databases. Over the last several years, his interests have turned to extensible markup languages (XML) and the possibilities of the semantic web via RDF and OWL. His expertise lies more knowledge retrieval, but in order to work with digital knowledge, it is necessary to have an above average skill in managing databases of all types, including hierarchical.

Knowledge is Expert's primary expertise. Expert's professional title is knowledge manager. Over many years of dealing with databases of chemical analyses for environmental remediation projects combined with map-making skills of GIS, he has gained significant experience toward understanding how people learn from information. His has substantial experience and expertise related to moving from text and data tables to more meaningful forms of information delivery, leading toward collective knowledge. The great work done by an organization is only as effective as that organization's ability to tell its story, to turn data and information into knowledge that can be utilized by the intended audience.

Building on expertise gained from years of work as a field geologist, followed by moving into project management and gaining GIS skills provided Expert with more than enough data and reports. Over time, he learned that creating reports and tables is a far different operation than creating useful and usable knowledge for the organization. Unless all that data is distilled into packages that can be used by the intended audience (the elevator message is significantly different than the speech to the technical division, even though they are both about the same product), the promise of great works will go unfulfilled.

By effectively managing and organizing organizational knowledge, a secondary benefit of institutional memory is created. This provides the organization with a robust and useful knowledge base that continues to grow over time and prevents brain drain, especially as Baby Boomers retire.

Expert has been a professional scientist and technologist in a variety of settings for thirty years. In addition, he has lectured at several universities and acts as a mentor on a variety of subjects. He very much enjoys teaching and sharing knowledge. He has the luck of being both technical and extroverted.

Over nearly twenty years, Expert has developed technical skills at all types of multimedia presentations, including Powerpoint, GIS softwares, Adobe Premier video editing and ProTools sound editing softwares. In addition, he has been a semi-professional musician for well over thirty years. He has developed hundreds of graphics and mapping presentations and delivered over one hundred technical talks at conferences. Combining his interest in Knowledge Management with his technical and personal presentation skills provides Expert with a strong foundation for analyzing and recommending multimedia kits for all types of purposes.

Thirty years of experience delivering technical presentations, combined with technical skill and training in graphics such as Powerpoint, GIS tools, Premier video editing, ProTools sound editing, provides Expert with significant expertise in all phases of multimedia, particularly technical and scientific visualizations.

Prior to transitioning to a technology career, Expert began his professional career as a field and laboratory geologist. While the geology remained an interest, the constantly changing technologies became a passion. Expert has been fortunate enough to ride the crest of the technology wave throughout the 1990s and until the present. His employment as a research technologist has provided ample opportunity to research technologies, design implementation plans including strong stakeholder participation, develop costing plans, marketing and training materials.

Expert has spent his entire career in some form of research and development. Although these projects have generally been funded internally, the need to develop many forms of the same information is just as great. In fact, Expert can easily wear the term "entrepreneur". This arrangement has required development of all types of documentation from cost estimates to schedules to the text of proposals.

Expert has spent essentially all of his career as a researcher and developer of some type. As a lab geologist, he worked to develop a system to remove hazardous wastes from soil. As a field geologist, he was involved in the development of new form of "pump testing" for groundwater. As a technologist, he has managed projects to bring virtual office tools to large organizations; worked with open standards, XML, SVG JavaScript and AJAX applications; wikis and blogs; social networking; emergent and chaotic systems, both physical and social. As a project manager, he has worked to develop probabilistic approaches to sampling heterogeneous systems. As a researcher, his interests lie in Shannon's Information Theory and binary and Baysian statistical modeling; knowledge visualization - how people learn from maps of all kinds.

Having played guitar for nearly forty years, and working intermittently in studios for the last ten or so, he has developed a very practical set of skills related to sound recording and mixing. He is more interested in the basic types required for podcasting, but also enjoys the musical side of the house.

Expert's primary job function throughout his career has been technology management. From working as a field geologist during the 1980s to working as a knowledge manager, Webmaster, GIS manager, Web 2.0 manager and technologist for a large company focused on environmental restoration throughout the 1990s, Expert gained a wealth of experience relating to managing both the technology and the people that run and use the technology. During his career he has taken formal training Software Configuration Management, Managing GIS and Premier video development among many other management and technology classes. He also earned a Master's degree in Organizational Management in 2005.

Don't even think of asking his opinion about technology unless you are prepared to hear the answer, "Technology does not matter. People do." Whether a particular technology succeeds or fails has little to do with the technology. Success or failure is a direct result of the level of true involvement for all stakeholders.

Developed and deployed an AJAX application that adds geospatial intelligence to the "weekly report" for a large organization. The tool displays the region and adds location marks to indicate where activities have occurred that week. The tool was developed with open standards resulting in a cost only of the development. By reusing previously developed applications, the entire application was built and deployed in six weeks.Added web conferencing facilities to four conference rooms for a large organization. The installation includes video, remote control of computers, recording the sessions, magic boards and audio.