Expert: Ren Pope

Ren Pope is the chief IA at Industrial Medium Software based out of Washington, DC. He has over 20 years of leadership and vision in the information science field. Ren is a veteran of the US Air Force where he served in a wide variety of positions to include command, flight simulation, and speech writing. He was a key developer of one the first web-based knowledge management portals in the Air Force.

Ren transitioned into industry where he now focuses his passion for information sciences, and provides consulting for senior leaders of the US government and industry. Ren works to perfect modeling content and information so that people and organizations can better share information. He has studied and strives to perfect the use of taxonomies, ontologies, concept maps as well as overall information modeling. Ren enjoys writing and speaking about the theory and practice of the information sciences; and in his free time, he likes running around in the outdoors, pushing buttons and turning knobs to make music, and throwing things into barrels to age them.