Uche Ogbuji

About

Engineering leader nurturing diverse teams to drive data innovation and systems architecture. History as consultant, founder & CTO. Electronic/Computer Engineer by education (in Nigeria and the US). Expert and pioneer in data architecture, distributed systems and open source software. Over 300 tech articles in industry journals. Contributed to Python's initial XML implementations. Also a poet, spoken word performer & DJ with 2 award-winning poetry books; work fusing Igbo culture, European classicism, American Mountain West setting, Hip-Hop and afrofuturism. Born in Calabar, Nigeria, settled near Boulder, Colorado after much world wandering. Snowboarding, longboarding, coaching & playing soccer, listening to & making music, dancing.

Experience

• Vice President & Principal Architect · EBSCO Information Services03-01-2020 – 03-01-2023

  Engineering & architectural leadership in Bibliograph, a high-scale (dwarfing all of Wikipedia) SaaS platform for transforming library catalog formats into Linked/Knowledge Graph Data on the Web, and a wide variety of microservices & analytics over the resulting data.

• Chief Technology Officer · Zepheira06-01-2007 – 03-01-2020

  Practice & engineering leadership in services helping organizations apply advanced data/web tech to organize, share and enhance information in hybrid automated/human-directed problem solving. Work with multiple clients to deliver solutions. Executive steering in strategy, marketing, sales, HR, etc. Small sampling of projects: Cisco Systems, Inc.—prototyped internal, globalized metadata management system; professional assessment on content strategy for Cisco sites (marketing and customer support) US Library of Congress—built ViewShare.org, large-scale collection management/visualization platform for digitized assets. Developed next-gen library records standard (bibframe.org) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)—built public web identifier & x-referencing engine (purl.org). Strategized incorporation of Google Knowledge Graph into records management Lilly/Quintiles Transnational/Semio—prototyped an information platform/data warehouse to accelerate drugs development. Built a semi-structured Web health portal World Health Organization (WHO)—built a collaborative platform for the Health Information Standards initiative (ICD plus other data & statistics for Millennium Development Goals)

• Practice Manager, Chief Technology Officer & Founder · Fourthought LLC02-01-1998 – 06-01-2007

  Practice & engineering leadership in enterprise software architecture solutions. Pioneered integration of web tech advancements with traditional business systems. Designed & implemented open source and commercial XML, Web Services, Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph applications Small sampling of projects: Sun Microsystems—Enterprise content management platform unifying product & marketing information company-wide. Semantic Tech integrated with RDBMS & Java middleware Phillips Petroleum—Application of geo-coded metadata to natural resources exploration G.E. Access—XML AssessmentSM process to assist in migration of EDI, ERP and order-entry client-server systems into enterprise data bus iWitness—Distributed data store for secure electronic transactions. Adapting CORBA with Oracle, XML messaging, declarative business rules management and LDAP enterprise directory

Education

• Milwaukee School of EngineeringBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
• University of Nigeria, Nsukka3 Years of Study, ELectronic Engineering

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