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Executive Director

ORCID is a community-driven non-profit organization that aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications.

Non-profit CEO, digital product management executive and technology strategist with unique experience building and operating ground-breaking online information and analytics services. Proven track record in delivering multi-million dollar projects from inception to production, on time and on budget. Respected as a thought leader in the industry with deep experience leading strategic partnerships and community-wide innovation. I am an excellent communicator and a good coach and developer of people. I am a strategic thinker able to bridge the business/technology divide, while combining this with strong analytical skills. I am execution focused with the operational management experience to take ideas and see them through to successful implementation. I am highly organized and relish working to tight deadlines in goal-driven environments, with experience of setting and working to eight-figure budgets. Specialties: Non-profit leadership; Platform strategy; Persistent identifiers; Identity and Access Management; Federated authentication; Big-data analytics; Content management systems and standards; Semantic technologies; Web architecture; APIs; Digital publishing systems; Search technology; complex cloud-hosted environments; Program management; Roadmap planning; External collaboration; Agile methodologies; setting and working to multi-million dollar budgets