Contact: john.lucas@
comcast.net

Instructor for:
Career Convergence: Information Technology, Records Management, and Archiving in a Corporate Environment

In a 311year career at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation and Hewlett-Packard, John Lucas has been an instructional designer, a technical writer, an electronic publishing expert, an ISO 9001 quality manager, a master IT architect, an archivist and a records manager as well as earlier being a polymer chemist. He has written courses and books on operating systems internals and application design, and taught courses and seminars on four continents. Since 1988, he has focused on the long-term management of files and other electronic records. In 2006, John became the first Electronic Records Manager for Hewlett-Packard with global responsibility for setting policies and practices governing electronic records and electronically stored information (ESI). He also serves on the corporate eDiscovery Task Force, as a consultant to the Corporate Archivist, and as the lead for two subdomains in the IT Enterprise Architecture.

John is co-chair of the RIM Policies Working Group of the Corporate eDiscovery Forum, a consortium of Fortune 200 corporations sharing experiences in records, IT, and eDiscovery. In addition to the CeDF, John belongs to SAA, ARMA and AIIM.

John's hobbies include genealogy and photography, and he is the coordinator and archivist of the Global British Comedy Collaborative, a world-wide internet group dedicated to collecting and preserving broadcasts of the spoken word (especially the BBC since WWII).

John recommends the following text for people trying to bridge the gap between professions like legal, IT, and records management: Kahn, Randolph A., and Blair, Barclay T. Information Nation Warrior—Information Management Compliance Boot Camp. Silver Spring, MD: AIIM, 2005.

  Curriculum Vitae (PDF)