Robert Blatt, President

Mr. Robert Blatt has over 30+ years experience in the content and document management and workflow industries. Starting his career at AT&T Bell Labs in 1979, Mr. Blatt, worked on interactive videodisc, content and document management and CD technology beginning with design through the implementation project phases. Since then, Mr. Blatt has participated in the analysis, design, project management and implementation of a significant number of content/document management and workflow-based solutions. These include large clients such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Bank of Mexico, Presidential Office of Standards for Dominican Republic, California Secretary of State, County of Tuolumne, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Insurance, County of San Mateo, Housing Authority of Alameda County, Northern California UFCW Trust Funds, California Contractors State License Board, California Department of Corporations, CalState University, Southern California UFCW/Food Fund,  Conrail, UFCW/Drug Fund, EPCOT Center, 1984 Olympics, US Stamp and many others.

Mr. Blatt is the founder and Principal Consultant at Electronic Image Designers, Inc. which is one of the industry's leading document management and workflow consulting organizations. Robert Blatt, in 1995, was inducted into the AIIM Company of Fellows (#173), which is the highest and most coveted award within the Content Management Industry. There are only a total of 191 people, world-wide, who have received this recognition since 1963.

EID has been recognized by the industry as being one of the industry’s oldest technology specific organizations and the leading vendor neutral ECM consulting within the document imaging/management/workflow industry. Robert Blatt is frequently asked to develop articles for magazines and to provide guidance and direction throughout the industry.

Mr. Blatt has a law enforcement background and has participated in numerous large national forensic investigations over the past several years, primarily focusing on Electronic Document Forensics. These investigations have included data and pattern analysis, data recovery from enterprise systems, and technical guidance to regulatory/enforcement counsel throughout several cases along with other technical forensic services. Mr. Blatt is a member of the International Police Chiefs Association, the American College of Forensic Examiners and Certified in Homeland Security - Level III..

Virginia Jo Dunlap, Esq. , Sr. Legal SME Consultant

Joining EID in 2009, Virginia Jo Dunlap brings two decades of legal and business experience to EID.  She provides consulting services from her legal and business risk perspective on the issues of evaluating and/or developing trusted ESI systems.  Ms. Dunlap also provides litigation support and forensic assistance in evaluating the level of compliance with discovery orders or subpoenas.

She provides client solutions to the current ESI issue,  as well as legal expertise to the AIIM and ISO efforts to describe best practices in the U.S. involving a “trusted system” for storing electronic information.

Ms. Dunlap first confronted ESI issues as a litigator heading the Enforcement Division of the California securities department.  She pioneered investigations focused almost exclusively on ESI, developing methods to determine if all subpoenaed information had been produced.  She has successfully organized effective content management of hundreds of thousands of documents.

In the private sector as General Counsel for a non-profit agency and more recently as a Global Operational Risk Manager for an international consulting firm, Ms. Dunlap continued to handle issues involving ESI.  She provided her C-suite team members with assessment of existing systems and recommended changes to the processes and procedures to more effectively address ESI solutions.  Uniquely positioned as a legal and business adviser, Ms. Dunlap’s solutions considered both the legal and business risks as well as the non-tangible impacts to the organization, e.g., the potential effects of any change management process necessary to implement the solutions.

Ms. Dunlap is a graduate of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law (J.D. magna cum laude) and the University of Nevada (B.A. in Journalism).  She is admitted to practice in California and several federal courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.  She is currently an inactive member of the Nevada bar and a former member of the Colorado bar.

 Mr. Alan Linden, Sr. Technology Consultant

Al Linden brings more than 30 years of technical expertise in Electronic Content Management, electronic imaging analyses, workflow, and document and records management systems.  He has worked directly with many enterprise class content/document management technologies through all project phases.

Mr. Linden has significant experience managing implementation teams and performing detailed analyses of business operations to evaluate what aspects of ECM are needed to address required technology-based changes.  Additionally, he has worked closely with client organizations to identify where non-technology-based changes would be appropriate. 

Mr. Linden managed the design and implementation of several large enterprise content/document management projects for the Federal Government, including the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress, the Joint Technical Committees of the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Government Printing Office, and the Library of Congress for Word Processing and Micrographics.

Mr. Linden possesses an in-depth understanding of the U.S. Department of Education (“ED”), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation (“OSERS”) grants process, ED systems and infrastructure, and ED/OSERS requirements.  He served as Technical Architect for other large enterprise content/document management solutions and as Task Manager for the Personnel and Budget System for the OSERS Executive Office.  He was also Project Manager for the Freedom of Information Act selection study for ED’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, and for the OSERS Grants and Contracts Services team.  This included oversight responsibility for cataloguing hundreds of grants applications into a database for large-scale document migration/conversion into the ECM solution used by OSERS grants personnel.

He is a frequent speaker for the Association of Information and Image Management (“AIIM”) and actively participates in the development and implementation of AIIM standards.  Elected a Fellow in 1994 to the AIIM Company of Fellows for outstanding contributions to the industry, Mr. Linden was awarded the AIIM Award of Merit (AIIM's highest honor) in 2009 and elected Chairman of the Company of Fellows in 2010.
 

 Richard Blatt, Senior Technologist

Richard Blatt has been involved in the document management industry since 1996.  He has worked closely with clients during the analysis, design, planning, and implementation phases.  His projects, include the northern California United Food and Commercial Workers union, California Contractors State License Board, Department of Corporations, County of San Mateo, and the Southern California Drug Fund.  His expertise in business process analysis is complemented by his technical system design and administration skills.  He has extensive training and experience in process analysis, document management design, and technical system administration.  Mr. Blatt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University.

Don Barbier, Senior Consultant

Don Barbier utilizes the guiding principles of Change Management to help all levels of an organization understand how technology and process re-engineering can assist and benefit their business.  Mr. Barbier combines technical and business experience, enabling organizations to embrace new technologies and business practices.  .  He holds the ECM^p and ECM^s certifications from AIIM and is active on the ANSI/AIIM C27 Document Management and AIIM Implementation Guidelines committees.

In addition to more than 20 years of working with diverse large and small companies, Mr. Barbier has Masters Degrees in Business Administration and Arts from the University of Southern California.  This combination of understanding technology and business issues positions Mr. Barbier to work closely with end-user organizations through all ECM project phases.