Heather Hedden is a senior analyst providing taxonomy consulting with Project Performance Corporation and is author of The Accidental Taxonomist  (Information Today Inc., 2010). She has developed taxonomies for SharePoint document management at First Wind, for search integration at the software developer Viziant, and for periodical indexing at Gale. She has also worked as a taxonomy consultant and indexer for her own business, Hedden Information Management. Heather teaches online workshops in taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.