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David Hobbs guides website transformations, helping clients get control over these challenging undertakings.  Rather than taking a tool-driven or cookie-cutter solution, David uses a pragmatic, independent, and customized approach.  In particular, he looks broadly at the factors that lead to website migration succeess including the team, product management, content, technology, and metadata, and distills complex problems into patterns.  David also helps with purely internal transformations to set up teams for better ongoing improvements.

Over the last couple of years, David’s clients have included the World Bank, BIO, Realtree, Thomson Reuters, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Heritage Foundation, McKesson, and MBC.net. Since starting working professionally in technology almost twenty years ago, David has worked for and consulted to a variety of organizations.  Although David now spends most of his time indoors, previously he lived in a mud hut for a couple years in Chad in Africa working with an association of farmers, water community groups, and a trash collection team.

David is the author of the Website Migration Handbook v2, use “jboye2012″ discount code through May 11th for a $30 discount.