Richard E. Barry
Rick
Barry is an internationally known
management consultant who lives with his wife, Linda Cox, in the Washington D.C. suburb of Arlington, Virginia. He is Principal of Barry Associates where he
brings to bear interdisciplinary skills in information management, information
technology and archives and records management. His bio (“About Rick”), along with recent and other papers and
those of guest authors and other related resources are available on his
website: www.mybestdocs.com,
which is used extensively by other consultants and by university graduate
programs internationally.
His work has been the subject of other authors in The Year in Computing 2000, PC World, Beyond Computing, CIO Magazine, David
Rothman’s Silicon Jungle, etc. (See the News & Media Section of
the website.)
Barry Associates:
His consulting and workshop clients span North
America, Europe, Africa, Australasia, Latin America/Caribbean, including:
Accenture (Andersen Consulting); ARMA; International Finance Corporation;
Smithsonian Institution; UN, Department of Justice; Indiana University
(Electronic Records Project); International Federation of Red Cross & Red
Crescent Societies; Inter-American Development Bank; International Records
Management Trust; National Academies, Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board's Committee on Digital Archiving and NARA;
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (as advisor to
several grant projects), New York State Archives and Records Administration
(Partnerships Project); Queensland Rail; Records Management Association of
Australia; South Carolina Department of Archives and History (Outreach
Project); Tower Software; University of Pittsburgh (Functional Requirements for
Evidence in Recordkeeping Project); Virginia Electronic Commerce Technology
Center (VECTEC); World Bank; and the national archivists of
several countries, including Australia, UK and US. Recent publications: "Technology and the Transformation of the
Workplace: Lessons Learned Traveling Down the Garden Path" (and
SAA-Review);
“Report
on the Society and Archives Survey-1/03”.
Since 1960, Rick has held senior IM&T posts in
the Federal Government, private sector and at the:
World Bank:
q Senior systems advisor
q Chief officer, integration
of human/facility/technology factors: construction of city-block headquarters
q Chief, office systems:
standards/customer services
q Chief, information services:
directed information/archives/records management functions integration;
initiated electronic records program (1987)
q Projects: action research;
change management; business systems analysis/modeling; computer modeling
(long-range strategic real estate planning); integration of information/facility
management strategies; workplace-of-the-future
q Led interdisciplinary UN
project: Managing Electronic Records: Issues and Guidelines (1990)
Elsewhere:
q Directed and co-wrote the Electronic Records in the New Millennium video production (1995) for University College London/British Library
q
Served
on Virginia Legislature commission drafting privacy legislation
q
Served
on a National Research Council committee on Federal computer procurement
q
Civilian
manager for information science/technology in Office of the Secretary of the
Navy
q Executive secretary of subcommittee under President’s Science Advisor’s Committee on Scientific and Technological Information (COSATI) coordinating Federal IT R&D
q Education Director and consultant, Computer Command and Control Company
As a US Naval aviator:
q Awarded Air Medal, combat service (Vietnam)
q Specialist in command/control/communications/intelligence systems, beginning in 1960 with leadership of the first automation of Joint Chiefs of Staff Operational Reporting (JOPREP) system
q Participant in the design of the Joint Chiefs of Staff National Military Command Center
q Led computer installation for the Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC)
q Participated in CINCPAC Airborne Command and Control Center project.
Education and Professional Affiliations:
Graduate of American International College (1954—English/Psychology), US Naval Postgraduate School (MS-Management (1963—Organization Theory)); member of: Society of American Archivist, Association for Information and Image Management; Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (past board member); and former member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Society for Information Management; International Facility Management Association.