Senior Staff

Mr. Robert Blatt has over 30+ years of extensive technical and design experience in the content and document management and workflow industries. Starting his career at AT&T Bell Labs in 1979, Mr. Blatt, began working with interactive videodisc leading into content and document management technologies with a strength in storage technologies and process analysis and design. Since then, Mr. Blatt has participated in the analysis, design, project management and implementation of arobert blatt very significant number of large and medium sized content /document management and workflow-based solutions.

A few of the larger international clients such as Petronas Carigali, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Bank of Mexico, Presidential Office of Standards for Dominican Republic, California Secretary of State, along with other organizations including 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 truly vendor neutral content/records management industry analysts. Robert Blatt is frequently asked to develop articles for magazines and to provide guidance and direction throughout the industry and is a frequent speaker on the topics of Trustworthy ECM solutions and overall ECM technologies.

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.

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.

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.

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