User:RaymondRS

Robert Raymond is a content strategy project manager for FamilySearch, the largest genealogical organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Before FamilySearch, Robert worked at Ancestry.com for nearly six years. He is the staff trainer at a local Family History Center where he can be found in the trenches every Wednesday night. Robert is the shadow writer for one of the web’s most popular genealogical blogs and is the creator, author, and webmaster of an acclaimed family history website where he has published 1,700 pages of information, including numerous articles, dozens of personal histories, dozens of maps (several of his own creation), and photographs of hundreds of pages of genealogical records. Robert holds over a dozen technology patents and has a masters degree in electrical/computer engineering from Brigham Young University where he was honored as a Kimball Scholar.

= Presentations =


 * Doing Research in Real Time-An Exhilarating Collaboration Experience!
 * Blog Your Way to Genealogical Success
 * How Mature are You (Genealogically)?
 * Understanding Mills Citation Guides
 * Serendipity in Genealogy
 * Blogger Summit 2: Son of Blogger
 * Citations Made Easy
 * The Interoperable Citation Exchange (ICE) Initiative
 * The Genealogy Game Show
 * Visiting the National Archives
 * The Rollout of New FamilySearch
 * Using Footnote.com in a Family History Center
 * Creating a Family History Website

= Online Activity =

RootsWeb

 * WorldConnect Tree
 * Cleve and Anita Raymond Progenitors
 * Historical Sketch of James Hendricks and Drusilla Dorris Hendricks
 * Utah Pioneers from Our Ancestry
 * Council Bluffs, 1846
 * RAYMOND Migrations: Alonzo Pearis RAYMOND
 * RAYMOND Migrations: The Ancestry of Paul RAYMOND
 * Beverly, Massachusetts and Our Raymond Ancestors

Ancestry.com

 * Cleve &amp; Anita Raymond Family Tree
 * Non-connected Raymonds
 * Bristol Vermont Stereoview Photographers
 * Nuclear Physicists

Miscellaneous

 * LinkedIn
 * flickr

= FamilySearch Wiki =

Significant Contributions

 * NGS 2010 Syllabus F308
 * NGS2010 Syllabus Template
 * Mills Style Citations
 * Family Group Records Collection
 * Fraudulent Genealogies

Minor Contributions

 * Canadian Censuses Online
 * Converting Old FHL Film Numbers to Current Numbers/Old film numbers
 * Hampshire County, Massachusetts
 * Latin Genealogical Word List
 * Massachusetts Archives and Libraries
 * Massachusetts History
 * Michigan Periodicals
 * Old microfilm number conversion
 * Wisconsin Census
 * (Recent Contributions)

= Blog Recognition =

Robert anonymously writes a popular genealogy blog. Recognitions include:


 * Family Tree Magazine 40 Best Genealogy Blogs
 * ProGenealogists 25 Most Popular Genealogy Blogs
 * Family Tree Magazine 10 Best Cutting-edge Web Sites (101 Best Web Sites, 2009)
 * The Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence
 * Family Tree Magazine 101 Best Web Sites, 2008
 * Kreativ Blogger from Randy Seaver
 * Genea-Speak for excellence in writing, speaking, and the promoting of good genealogical practices, from DearMYRTLE.

= Employment =

Ancestry.com
November 2002 – July 2008: Sr. Manager of Content Strategy and Analysis

Web analytics, data warehouse, Omniture implementation engineer: Ancestry.com, RootsWeb.com, Genealogy.com and MyFamily.com.

Consulting
2001 – 2003: Genealogy professional, web development, digital imaging, intellectual property

PowerQuest
1993 – 2001: Vice President

Company growth from $0 to $65 million, culminating in sell of company to Symantec. Grew team size from four to 100 consisting of software engineering, project management, quality control, localization and documentation. Managed R &amp; D portion of P &amp; L statement. Architected PartitionMagic.

TransEra
1983 – 1993: Sr. Software Engineer.

Created compilers, interpreters, and device drivers.for UNIX, X-Windows, VMS, DOS, and Windows.

= Education =

Brigham Young University
1987: MS, Electrical Engineering (Computer)

1985: BS, Electrical Engineering (Computer)

Activities and Societies: Spencer W. Kimball Scholar, Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society (treasurer), Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.