Danny Collier
CEO — Tiseran
Biography
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Danny Collier spent 17 years at George Mason University working on the problem at the center of this session: how large, federated institutions govern and evolve their web presence. As director of technology for the university's largest college, he inherited 25 independent servers, 70+ websites with no governance model and 250 content creators who needed their work to be easier, not more controlled. Over 16 years he led the transformation of that landscape into a centralized, secure infrastructure with a custom CMS that integrated with enterprise systems including Blackboard, Salesforce and Acalog — a system still in operation today. He also chaired university-wide committees on data governance, content management and web strategy, giving him direct experience with both college-level and institution-wide approaches to the problems this session examines.
Before Mason, Danny worked in web technology dating back to 1999, and taught as both a graduate student and faculty member for the University of Maryland Global Campus. More recently he served as a product engineering lead at USCIS, working on systems supporting refugee and asylum case processing, and volunteers as architect and project lead for SkillRX through Ruby for Good, leading a distributed team across five countries building medical education software for low-resource communities.
He is currently CEO of Tiseran, where he works on tools for understanding and governing complex web ecosystems — work that grew directly out of the practitioner experience he'll be drawing on in this session.
Before Mason, Danny worked in web technology dating back to 1999, and taught as both a graduate student and faculty member for the University of Maryland Global Campus. More recently he served as a product engineering lead at USCIS, working on systems supporting refugee and asylum case processing, and volunteers as architect and project lead for SkillRX through Ruby for Good, leading a distributed team across five countries building medical education software for low-resource communities.
He is currently CEO of Tiseran, where he works on tools for understanding and governing complex web ecosystems — work that grew directly out of the practitioner experience he'll be drawing on in this session.