Our Consultants
Meet our records management experts
Meet our records management experts
Mark Kifowit MA has seventeen years’ experience performing & administering Records Management policy, as well as Public Disclosure. Mr. Kifowit was Director of Public Disclosure for the Washington State Department of Corrections (2012 thru 2014). In this position, he performed Public Disclosure in response to Public Records Requests (PRR). This was followed by Director of Records Management for the Washington State Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises (2014 thru 2018). In this position, he created records management policies and records management training systems for staff development and use.
Previously consultant to Washington State Archives, Mr. Kifowit’s Masters of Arts thesis publication was: Disaster Recovery in Times of War and Terrorism.
As Consultant Level 1 at FreeDoc ®, Mark conducts Records Assessments and Records Inventories. He also provides clients with contract Records Management services. For development of processes in support of public disclosure for PRR, please contact us. These services are available in select cases.
Specializes in:
Records Assessments • On-call Records Management Services
Ms. Turner is a Certified Records Manager and Certified Public Records Officer. She is also credentialed for Information Governance, and Enterprise Records Management. Ms. Turner has twenty years’ experience administering Records Management policy. Public Records Disclosure Officer for Department of Ecology, Records Management Consultant for Washington State Archives, Ms. Turner joined FreeDoc® Consulting in 2017.
Prior to Washington State Archives, Leslie was a Public Records Manager for the Department of Ecology. In this role, she successfully processed 7,000 Public Disclosure requests submitted from across 12 Western Washington counties.
In 2015, she served on the WA State ECM selection committee. In this role she established a consensus requirement for all public ECM’s to be certified compliant with DoD 5015.2. This level of protection is what resulted in selection of Laserfiche to the WA State ECM master contract.
Specializes in:
Records Assessments • Scan and Toss • Training
Dr. William Saffady performs top level analysis of information management policies and practices. As a worldwide authority and expert on records & information management, Dr. Saffady’s work examines the technical and system requirements for Enterprise Content Management systems (ECM).
An accomplished author of over 100 publications on information management and Professor of Library Sciences for institutions of higher learning (Long Island University, SUNY, Vanderbilt University), Dr. Saffady is dedicated to the study and application of Records Management.
Since 1976, Dr. Saffady has provided consulting services and training to government agencies, not-for-profit entities, cultural institutions, corporations, and other organizations.
Services include:
As Consultant Level 3 at FreeDoc ®, Dr. Saffady consults on records assessments, analysis and formation of ECM strategy. He conducts needs assessments, gap analysis, system requirements gathering, training and governance plans for the enterprise.
Specializes in:
Policy & Gap Analysis • Training
FreeDoc ® has the skill and experience to meet your records management project. Contact us today. Arrange for a project consultation, or request more information. Be sure to register for our on-line Records Management training resources.