Who We Are

Laurinda Alcorn is a Taxonomist and Information Architect, focusing on methods that optimize operations while making the customer experience excellent. Ms. Alcorn has worked on improving the customer experience in a wide variety of settings where she has applied the FAIR principles to ensure that information is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
She has worked with major corporations, including AT&T and IBM, premier universities such as Harvard, well-established small firms such as Fuld & Co., clinical and medical practices, start-ups through the SCORE network, municipal organizations, and nonprofits. Laurinda Alcorn earned a Master’s of Science in Library and Information Science from Simmons University and a Certificate in User Experience Design from General Assembly.

Joseph Busch is Taxonomy Strategies’ founder and principal consultant. Mr. Busch is an authority in the field of information science, with an emphasis on helping organizations develop metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies to ensure that content realizes its highest value through reuse and repurposing.
He has extensive knowledge and experience developing content architectures consisting of metadata frameworks, taxonomies and other information management methods to implement effective information management applications such as search engines, portals, web sites, content management systems, digital asset management systems, document management systems, knowledge management systems, e-government.

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Amanda Jobbins, PhD Department of Computing (Computational Linguistics). Experience includes big data, data mining, data analysis, taxonomy, metadata and controlled vocabularies. Her roles include Senior Information Scientist, Senior Taxonomist and Senior Member of Technical Staff. She now primarily codes in Python with past experience in Java, JavaScript, SQL, GATE, C++, C and many other technologies. Other professional experience includes both the healing and creative arts.

Ms. McClarnon is a metadata professional with an eye on the big picture, experienced in building scalable processes using cross-functional stakeholder input, and working in multiple domains to create standardized vocabularies. She has 12 years of experience developing indexing vocabularies based on best practices, descriptive metadata frameworks including logical modeling and architecture, standards, and automation. Maureen McClarnon earned a Master’s of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bonnie Taylor is a knowledge management professional, specializing in taxonomy and text analytics. For 8 years as part of the Taxonomy and Indexing team at Bloomberg Industry Group, Bonnie played a key role in managing a 3400-topic taxonomy and shifting the workflow from live tagging of news stories and other documents to a rule-based autocategorization system. She uses Python to automate processes wherever possible and also holds a certificate in XML and RDF-Based Systems from Library Juice Academy. Bonnie earned a Master’s of Science in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and a Juris Doctor from Stetson University.