Information Management Group

Richard is the president and founder of IMG, and recognized early on the game-changing potential of SharePoint. He has been consulting and instructing on SharePoint since the first release, and has spent the last year authoring IMG's SharePoint 2007 curriculum, delivering WSS 3 and MOSS 2007 training sessions, and helping clients plan and deploy SharePoint-based solutions. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, and was recently a featured speaker at the Microsoft Office 2007 Launch event in Chicago. His combination of technical knowledge, business experience and communication skills are unique, and make him a great choice for manager and executive presentations. His areas of product expertise include SharePoint 2007 and Dynamics CRM 3.0. His areas of functional expertise includes MOSS 2007 search, enterprise content management, business process and workflow, sales process automation, and business intelligence. Originally from Seattle, he moved to Chicago to attend grad school at the University of Chicago, and currently lives in Winnetka, IL with his family. Richard is an avid skiier and a Sox fan, and you can read and post to his blog at http://beta.imginc.com/blogs/default.aspx.

Todd is a 1984 graduate of ITT Technical Institute/Columbus Business University in Columbus, Ohio with Degrees in Electronic Information Systems and Business Management. He joined The Wallick Companies in May of 1984 and presently serves as Vice President responsible for oversight of the Information Management Group. His duties include oversight of all data and communication systems. Todd also supervises all in-house software development, in-house and third party software implementation and operations, technical assistance, end user training, as well as day-to-day operations.

Marc, a principal with IMG and our director of emerging technologies, is also a Regional Director in the Microsoft Developer Evangelism program. He's also a Microsoft MVP, and a frequent speaker at industry events such as TechEd, PDC, the Advisor series and others. He plays the lead role in IMG's Web Development practice, and has extensive experience with SharePoint application development.

Heath manages the consulting practice at IMG, and is, himself, a senior consultant. He has been with IMG for over seven years. During that time, Heath has taken on a senior role for numerous projects based on Microsoft technologies. As a consultant, Heath's most recent focus is with SharePoint, both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.

Joel is a Solution Specialist with IMG and has been with the company for over six years. He has worn many hats in the IT field, including Developer, Business Analyst and Trainer. Joel focuses on ASP.NET, AJAX, SharePoint and Microsoft Office Application Development. Joel also has a background in ColdFusion Development.

Bob is a Technical Architect with IMG and Team Lead for our developer training business. He has been with IMG for over ten years, and is involved at a senior level in all aspects of our business. During that time, Bob has delivered numerous events for Microsoft Partner Readiness on topics such as WSE - Web Service Enhancements, WSS / MOSS 2007, and Visual Studio Team System.

Carole Goble is a Professor in the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester. She is co-leader of the Information Management Group. She has a leading role in the Semantic Web, e-Science and the Semantic Grid. She applies technical advances in knowledge technologies and workflow systems to solve information management problems for Life Scientists and other scientific disciplines. She was co-PC chair of WWW2006 and is an EIC of the Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. She is the director of the large UK e-Science myGrid/Taverna programme of work for workflow based middleware for Life Scientists. myGrid uses semantic technologies for service and workflow discover and metadata management of workflow-based experiments. myGrid is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK; Carole is the chair of this Institute (of 40+ software developers) which has been funded to harden and support developments from the UK's e-Science programme. She is the co-chair of the Open Grid Forum Semantic Grid Research Group, and the Technical Director of the EU Strep OntoGrid, which has developed the Semantic-Open Grid Service Architecture (S-OGSA) framework for Semantic Grids. Until recently she was the Research Area manager for the EU NoE Knowledge Web, which coordinates Semantic Web research across Europe. The Information Management Group is renowned for its work on ontology languages, reasoning systems and their practical application to real problems. Her work on the application of ontologies to biology and bioinformatics has been especially influential. Carole has over 130 publications in Semantics and e-Science, and is a popular keynote speaker. She gave the opening keynote on the use of Semantic Web for Life Sciences at Intl Semantic Web Conference 2005 and given many keynotes on the Semantic Grid at major conferences including European Conf on AI 2004, the European Grid Conference 2005, the 1^st IEEE e-Science and Grid Computing Conference 2005, EGEE 2006 and Intl Joint Conf on AI 2007. She sits on 15 national and international oversight committees concerning e-Science, Bioinformatics, Semantic technologies and Grid Computing.

Jeff is IMG's IT Professional Training team lead. Besides being a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he is an MCSA, MCSE and has extensive consulting and mentoring experience in addition to training. He specializes in Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure, network management and messaging, and in his "spare" time makes sure that IMG's networks are running smoothly.

Dr Oscar Corcho is working as a Marie Curie fellow at the Information Management Group of the University of Manchester. He has previously worked at iSOCO as a research manager and at the Ontological Engineering Group of Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM). He graduated with honours in Computer Science from UPM in 2000. He obtained his MSc in Software Engineering from UPM in 2001, and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2004. He received the third Spanish award in Computer Science from the Spanish Government (2001) and the PhD thesis award from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (2005). His research activities include the Semantic Grid, the Semantic Web and ontology engineering, including ontology languages and tools, and the ontology translation problem. He participates at the EU FP6 IST project OntoGrid. He has participated in the HALO project (funded by Vulcan, Inc.), and in other EU-funded IST projects: Esperonto, DIP, HOPS, SWWS, Knowledge Web and OntoWeb. He published "Ontological Engineering" and "A layered declarative approach to ontology translation with knowledge preservation", over 30 journal and conference/workshop papers on ontology languages and tools in important forums for the ontology community. Oscar has also been a research visitor at KMI (Open University) and SMI (Stanford University). He chaired the demo/industrial sessions at EKAW2002, co-organised the ISWC2003 and ISWC2004 Workshops on Evaluation of Ontology Tools (EON2003, EON2004) and is the sponsor chair of the ESWC2006 conference.

After graduating from Northeastern University, Dave continued his own co-op program for a few years by alternating additional study with work at Stone and Webster, and United Engineers and Constructors in Boston. His responsibilities included the analysis of environmental data gathered to characterize sites for proposed power plants. Dave initially joined TRC in 1978. He began his career at TRC in the Air Division, managing projects and participating in a number of field studies. Since 1985, Dave has been a member of the Information Management Group. He has primarily served clients at the Environmental Protection Agency and State Environmental Agencies. His responsibilities include managing projects, defining business requirements, and supporting system developers. He has spent the last few years assisting a State Environmental Agency with the successful implementation of their corporate data model. Contact Dave at dcarnes@trcsolutions.com dcarnes@trcsolutions.com or 860-240-5417.