Where We Have Been:  Gwen Thomas, Columnist/Editor
Gwen Thomas bio
Where we've been
Go ahead, quote me...

Developing a Data Governance Program to support BASEL II compliance for Wachovia Banks - Fall - Winter 2005.
Developing a Data Governance Program at NDCHealth Information Management - throughout 2005.
Sarbanes-Oxley: A Data Perspective - Presentations to the Data Management Association in Orlando, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Phoenix, and St. Louis throughout 2005.
One-on-one Sarbanes-Oxley educational sessions, various Fortune 500 companies located accross the U.S. (Detroit, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Denver, St. Louis, Atlanta) 2004 - 2005.
Media Representative, Sarbanes-Oxley: A Focus on IT Controls, symposium sponsored by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association® (ISACA®), Dallas, Texas, June 2004.
Lecturer, Outsourcing, Off-shoring, and Sarbanes-Oxley, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, February, 2004.
Presenter, Hidden Streams of Information in Today's Software Projects, presentation with Martha Dember at International Professional Communication Conference The Shape of Knowledge sponsored by IEEE PCC (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Professional Communication Society), 2003.
Presenter, Identify the Seven Deadly Wastes in Knowledge-Based Systems, at The Delphi Summit: Building An IT/Business Architecture, 2003.
Presenter, Integrated Taxonomies: The Connection Between Menus, Navigation, Search Optimization, Personalization, and Data Warehouses, Usability Progression presentation, Society for Technical Communications international conference, May, 2003.
Author, Using KM Tools to Reduce Risk in Professional Services Engagement, article, Innovapyme Knowledge Library (Spanish national project), www.innovapyme.org, 2003.
Judge, International Online Communication Competition (IOCC), 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
Board of Advisors for University of Central Florida’s Technical Writing Program, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
Presenter, What Technical Communicators Should Know About Metadata, to Society for Technical Communications international conference, May, 2002.
Presenter, Information Architecture Topics: What Technical Writers Should Know About Metadata, at Currents conference, May, 2002.
Presenter, Reducing Risk In Consulting Projects: A Knowledge Management Approach, full-day post-conference workshop at Society for Technical Communications international conference, May, 2001.
Author, Using Knowledge Management Tools to Reduce Risk in Professional Services, article in The Data Administration Newsletter, www.tdan.com.
Presenter, Reducing Risk In Consulting Projects: A Knowledge Management Approach at Interchange conference, Boston, October, 2000.
Provided end quote for Eight Things That Training and Performance Improvement Professionals Must Know about Knowledge Management by Saul Carliner, Ph.D., Bill Communications.
Presenter, Structuring a Knowledge Management Program, half-day pre-conference workshop at the Interchange conference, Boston, 11/99.
Presenter, Knowledge Management for Technical Communicators, at the Interchange conference, Boston, 11/99.
Presenter, The Role of Communicators in Knowledge Management Programs at the Hot Trends conference, Phoenix, 11/99.
Presenter, Understanding Knowledge Management at the Portals of Communication conference, Winnipeg, 11/99.
Presenter, Writing for Documentation Databases as part of the Writing and Editing Trends Panel at the 46th STC Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 4/99.


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