Gary Carlson Consulting

Gary Carlson , Principal

Gary Carlson brings over 20 years of experience as a taxonomist, consultant, project manager, product manager, and information manager working for small to Fortune 100 companies. The past ten years have been spent helping organizations boost revenue, customer satisfaction and efficiency via well executed information and knowledge management initiatives.

He has worked extensively on major information and knowledge management projects and products spanning taxonomy tools, search, auto-categorization, SharePoint 2010 implementations, expert systems, content management, governance and overall information infrastructure. Gary is currently focused on helping companies develop their information infrastructure to meet enterprise requirements. Find out more about our services.

Additionally Gary has lectured and taught classes at the University of Washington, University of Toronto, University of Wisconsin, and University of North Carolina. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops.

Carol A. Hert, Ph.D – Senior Taxonomist and Business Analyst

Carol has over 25 years experience as an information professional with specific expertise in taxonomies, semantic modeling, business analysis, user experience and usability methodologies, and technical training. Prior to joining Gary Carlson Consulting she was a Senior Consultant at SchemaLogic Inc. where she was responsible for post-sales customer engagements with a focus on data modeling, taxonomy development, management, and governance. Previously she has also been an independent consultant specializing in metadata system research and design. In this context she developed XML metadata application profiles and taxonomies, and designed and executed a wide variety of research studies designed to inform metadata system design. She has also been on the faculties of both Indiana University and Syracuse University as an assistant professor of information science. Recent projects include content strategy and metadata design at for a health care company, taxonomy development for a marketing application for a large pharmaceutical firm, and a taxonomy assessment project for a enterprise wide content management system at the FDA.

Michael Rudy, Senior Consultant and Account Manager

Michael brings over 25 years of experience delivering practical production solutions to complex information problems. As COO at SchemaLogic, a provider of enterprise taxonomy and metadata software, he led the delivery team for IBM, Reed Business, Disney, AP, and others. Michael has also served as VP Alliances and Services for Stellent (now Oracle Content Management); and VP Technology for Workgroup Technology (one of the first content management companies). Earlier in his career, Michael was Director of IT for ELDEC, an aerospace manufacturer, where he had the opportunity to pioneer an enterprise, digital art-to-part manufacturing system. He received his BA in Computer Science from Ohio State University.