Conleth O'Connell, Ph. D is chief technology officer at Vignette Corporation. Dr. O'Connell is responsible for driving new technology and innovation within the company. Dr. O'Connell joined Vignette in 1996 as one of the company's first engineers and helped develop Vignette's initial product offering.
Prior to becoming CTO, Dr. O'Connell held multiple engineering and architect roles and influenced the company's support for open standards by participating in various standards committees including W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), OASIS, and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability).
Dr. O'Connell joined Vignette from HaL Computer Systems where he led product development efforts and participated in the Davenport Group, a consortium that created an SGML distribution format for online documents called the DocBook DTD. Prior to that, Dr. O'Connell spent time as a director of an Industrial Consortium, where he supervised graduate students who produced an integrated software architecture and later co-authored a book on the architectural design of the project.
Dr. O'Connell was recently honored as a Distinguished Alumni by Ohio State University where he holds a master's degree and Ph. D in computer information systems. Dr. O'Connell holds several patents for innovation in content management and delivery. |