SchemaLogic Appoints New Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.REDMOND, Wash. -- SchemaLogic, a leader in enterprise metadata and taxonomy taxonomy: see classification. taxonomy In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, management software, today announced that it has appointed Michael Rudy as vice president (VP) and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . Rudy brings more than 20 years of operational management experience to SchemaLogic, most recently serving in several executive positions for Stellent (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : STEL STEL Short Term Exposure Limit STEL Stellent, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) STEL Short Time Exposure Limit STEL Standard Telecommunications ), one of the leading enterprise content management vendors. As VP and general manager of Canadian operations and VP of Stellent Alliances and Services, Rudy was responsible for developing successful business relationships with BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , SAP and other software vendors. In addition, his services organization produced more than $4 million a quarter in revenues, and delivered and supported enterprise solutions such as the website for SONY Pictures. "Michael brings years of technology and operations experience that will be extremely beneficial to our team as we continue to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the growing demand for enterprise metadata and information integration solutions," said Jeff Dirks, president and chief executive officer of SchemaLogic. "With our unique combination of leadership, technology, partnerships and growing customer base, including Raytheon, IBM and Abbott Laboratories Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is a diversified pharmaceuticals and health care company. It has over 65,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, a neighborhood of North Chicago, Illinois. , we are prepared for great things at SchemaLogic. We look forward to Michael's contributions to the ongoing success of our company." Prior to Stellent, Rudy served as chief executive officer of Hypertree, a software startup focused on information structure management. He also worked in various executive, director and managerial roles at Workgroup Technology Corporation, a document and product content solutions provider, and ELDEC, a leading supplier for the aerospace market. At Workgroup, Rudy led a product team that helped grow revenue from $200,000 to $10 million in just two years, culminating in a successful initial public offering in 1996. During his 11 years at ELDEC, he led the corporate initiatives for paperless design and manufacturing, successfully implementing an enterprise product data management system integrated to all design and manufacturing systems. Rudy earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from The Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. . "I couldn't be more energized by the opportunity to work with the SchemaLogic team as we capitalize on this rapidly emerging marketplace for metadata management solutions," commented Rudy. "More and more, organizations are recognizing the need to better manage the increasing amounts of intellectual property and knowledge found throughout their corporate information repositories. SchemaLogic offers an innovative solution for a complex technology challenge and continues to gain attention from many of the largest, most recognizable companies in the world. The company has a strong executive team with deep enterprise software operating experience, a wonderful product and an enviable market position." About SchemaLogic SchemaLogic (www.schemalogic.com) provides metadata management and taxonomy reconciliation that helps organizations unlock silos of unstructured information across the enterprise improving findability for knowledge workers throughout the organization. By managing the context of information, SchemaLogic's solutions help organizations increase their business agility through greater ease of information integration, improve the collaboration between information architects and business stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. , and implement stricter governance by enabling advanced classification and control of corporate documents. SchemaLogic is a private company with headquarters in Redmond, Wash. For details see www.schemalogic.com, email info@schemalogic.com or call 1-425-885-9695. |
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