[Rdap] ANNOUNCEMENT: Mike Conlon Appointed VIVO Project Director

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
*=apologies for cross postings=*

March 9, 2015

Read it online: http://bit.ly/1BYrUk6
Contact: Dean B. Krafft, (dean dot krafft at cornell dot edu
<dean.krafft at cornell.edu>); Jonathan Markow, (jjmarkow at duraspace dot org
<jjmarkow at duraspace.org>)

*Mike Conlon Appointed VIVO Project Director*
*From the VIVO Steering Group*

We are pleased to announce that DuraSpace and the VIVO Steering Group have
appointed Dr. Mike Conlon, University of Florida and member of the
DuraSpace Board of Directors, as the new VIVO Project Director. He will
begin in his new role immediately, working closely with the community and
steering group to set the long term roadmap for VIVO <http://vivoweb.org/>,
the open source semantic web platform that provides an integrated view of
the scholarly work of an organization.

As VIVO Project Director, Dr. Conlon brings key relevant experience and
skills to the challenge of leading the community through implementation of
the 2015-2016 VIVO Strategic Plan <http://www.duraspace.org/node/2479>. As
Co-director of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science
Institute, his responsibilities include strategic program development,
development of medical informatics, expansion and integration of research
and clinical information resources, and strategic planning for academic
health and university research. Previously, Dr. Conlon served as PI of the
VIVO project from 2009-2012, leading a team of 120 investigators at seven
schools in the development, implementation and advancement of the VIVO open
source, semantic web application for research discovery. Dr. Conlon has
served as Chief Information Officer for the University of Florida Academic
Health Center, Co-Lead for the implementation of PeopleSoft at the
University of Florida, and as collaborator and biostatistician on hundreds
of research grants and projects.

He earned his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Florida,
undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Bucknell
University, and is the author of over 200 scholarly publications and
presentations.  His current interests include enterprise change,
organizational issues in the adoption of information technology, and the
development of research capacity across the translational spectrum.

The DuraSpace and VIVO project teams would like to extend a warm welcome to
Dr. Conlon in his new role as the VIVO Project Director, and look forward
to his contributions to the broad, collaborative VIVO movement that will
shape the future of research discovery and collaboration.

DuraSpace and VIVO will further add to the project’s staff by hiring a
dedicated Technical Lead for the project to help meet the goals articulated
in the VIVO Strategic Plan. The Technical Lead search will be announced in
the coming days and the job posting will be made available through
community lists and web sites.
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