Speakers :
Scott Ward
Director of Records Management, General Counsels Office
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
Scott has been immersed in the technological, legal, and operational changes in the Record and Information Management industry for twenty four years.
Scott is the Director of Records and Information Management for Ameriprise Financial, Inc. He continues to lead the new RIM team this year they are adding to RIM guidelines, enhancing the new Record Coordinator role, creating and posting more informative and valuable RIM documents on their internal web site, and facilitating a company wide file clean-up initiative. In 2007 he led a corporate-wide record inventory and retention schedule development project to a successful conclusion while developing a compliant RIM Program. Previously he served as a Record Management Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Corporate Records Management Office of Wells Fargo. While there he lead or contributed to several key projects including the development and implementation of the first enterprise-wide: Record Management Program, RIM Policy, Procedure, Retention Schedule, Record Preservation Order Procedure, establishing metadata standards for indexing all records, implementing the RIM software solution, developing and, indexing the inactive records in all storage locations.
He has RIM leadership and SME experience in several industries including nuclear power, manufacturing, government, software development, self-employment as a consultant, and currently the financial services industry. His positions have included, Records Analyst, Document Control Supervisor, RIM Manager, Director of Software Products, Business Owner, Corporate RIM Consultant, and Director of Record Management..
Scott earned his Certified Records Manager (CRM) designation in 1994, while at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. He maintains his CRM designation through continuing education about the rapidly changing information technology and regulatory environments.
Scott has presented over 40 times in the last two years on several RIM topics including: eRecord and Physical Record Destruction and Compliance, RIM Program Components, Electronic Record Challenges and Opportunities, Ethics in RIM, Establishing a Record and Information Management Program, and Compliance with the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.