Executive
Shannon Ryan
President & CEO
By staying one-step ahead of Internet and technology trends, Shannon sets the vision and future direction for non~linear creations and leads strategy engagements for many of non~linear’s most senior clients. As president and co-founder, he is responsible for building non-linear creations into the multimillion-dollar company it is today. From concept to bottom-line impact, Shannon leverages the potential of the Internet by crafting strategies and solutions in the key areas of portals, intranets, social computing and enterprise search.
Shannon’s unique business experience offers clients more than expertise in web services. In senior roles before non-linear creations, Shannon raised USD $21.5 million in financing for a software analytics company, and recruited teams of developers from Russia and drove sales activities in Siberia for a US based software company in the oil and gas industry.
Shannon holds a B.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from Carleton University and a Masters in International Business from the University of Vienna. An avid world traveler and art collector, Shannon can speak fluent Russian, passable German and restaurant French.
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Randy Woods
Executive Vice President
Randy Woods is the co-founder and Executive Vice-President of NLC. He has over a decade of leadership experience in the development of corporate web strategies and implementation plans worldwide, applying a combination of business acumen, technical knowledge and marketing insight to the challenges faced by his clients.
Randy shares his insights and lessons learned through NLC’s Thought Leadership Series, in which he has published a number of whitepapers, including The NLC Performance Framework, Planning for Success: Best Practices in CMS Governance, and SEO and CMS: Implementing Best Practices. His professional experience includes the position of CEO at Buystream, where he managed the sale of the company’s technology assets and the re-birth of the core company as Western Energy.
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Content Management
Glen McInnis
Practice Area Lead, Enterprise Content Management
Glen McInnis is the Practice Area Lead for Enterprise Content Management at non-linear creations. With an educational background in computer science, Glen’s focus is on leading the non-linear team to deliver the technical architecture for a wide range of content management initiatives. Glen is the author of several non-linear whitepapers on content management including Sitecore Best Practices and Content Structures and Granularity.
Glen’s other contributions to the field include papers and presentations at a variety of conferences: International Association for Management of Technology, UNESCO Forum on Open Source Learning and Content Management Systems, and the Symposium on Semantic Web. Working in content management since 1999, Glen has had the opportunity to work for a wide range of clients and has completed over 30 content management projects. Some notables include web content management deployments of over one million pages, a records management deployment for the national criminal database, and a unified e-learning system deployed across Canada’s six top banks.
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Amanda Shiga
Content Management Team Lead
Amanda brings over seven years of experience in the web industry to NLC. With earlier web application development experience in e-commerce and the financial industry, she now leads the analysis, planning and architecture of web content management system implementations at NLC.
Specializing in Reddot and Sitecore CMS solutions, Amanda has consulted on and launched CMS-managed websites incorporating personalization, search, web analytics, faceted navigation, application integration, single sign-on, and complex customizations and content authoring requirements. She also has a particular interest in the intersection of CMS and social media.
Amanda holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, and is currently completing a M.A.Sc. in Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University. Off hours, she enjoys reading, biking, blogging, and the occasional squash game or Rock Band marathon.
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Marketing & Business Strategy
Susie Ibbotson
Director, Marketing & Channel Management
Susie brings to non~linear over 10 years of experience implementing successful marketing initiatives to IT firms across Canada including Cyberplex Inc., IT World Canada, and Xwave, an Aliant Company.
Susie, having been in the marketing industry for 10 years now, is well-versed in corporate marketing and channel strategy. Before spending four years as the Marketing & Communications Manager at Cyberplex Inc, Susie was the Program Director of the CIO Executive Council, launching the first professional association for Canadian CIOs in partnership with CIO Canada Magazine. She also is one of the founding organizers of the Toronto SharePoint User Group, and oversees its monthly meetings.
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Bruno Roland Del Bosque
Search Engine Marketing Specialist
Bruno has been involved in search engine marketing since 2005. He specializes in SEO, PPC, and Social Media Marketing.
He completed his B.Com in Marketing at the Asper School of Business.
Passionate about real estate online marketing, on his spare time, he works on personal projects such as GuruHomeVisions.com.
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Bruce Meikle
Search Engine marketing Specialist
Bruce has been working developing interactive media since 1997 and has been involved in almost every aspect of building web sites. He has been a developer, a designer, a project manager, a client relations manager and now concentrates on Search Engine Marketing and the general promotion of online properties. His deep interest in the many facets of computer based communications was primed by his time studying in the New Media department of the Ontario College of Art.
Bruce has also worked in architectural visualization, in 3d animation and many years ago was a professional musician. He lives in Toronto.
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Molly Anglin
Senior Information Architect & Web Strategist
As a senior member of the non-linear creations (NLC) Business Performance Group and the head of the NLC Information Architecture & User Experience team, Molly Anglin brings nine years of experience planning and managing large-scale web implementations. Molly possesses extensive knowledge of online marketing tactics, content management, website analytics, information architecture, and user-experience design.
Molly has a BCom, with a specialization in Marketing from McGill University and a certificate in Multi-Media and Web Technology from Algonquin College. Molly is always game for a round of extreme croquet and enjoys playing baroque recorder.
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