Mark Schneider has over 30 years experience in successful technology leadership, specializing in strategic technology planning and governance. He is a gifted communicator who is able to simplify complex issues into understandable action items that get various stakeholders “on the same page.”He was chief enterprise architect and technical negotiator for a successful $500,000,000 IT outsourcing project. He has served as contributing author for a number of publications, most recently including the newly-released Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Microsoft Press. He has provide taxonomy and governance planning for Special Operations Command, The California Legislative Data Center as well as numerous Fortune 500 corporations. He is President of VitalSkill LLC, a provider of technology strategy, governance, and taxonomy workshops. Mark can be reached at his blog site www.sharepointplan.com.