About
DataStrategy Consulting
DataStrategy offers technology consulting for investors and small businesses, including patent strategy, competitive analysis, and product development. DataStrategy’s specialty areas focus on data and content. The DataStrategy team draws on nationally recognized experts with experience as Chief Technologists, CEOs, cutting-edge researchers, and M&A specialists.
Dr. Sharon Flank,
Principal, is a technology strategistspecializing in advanced technology
applications. She is a computational linguist, an expert in natural language
processing (NLP) and information retrieval.From 1998 to 2002, she worked
for eMotion, Inc. where she rose to the position of CTO & Vice President
of Technology. She is a co-holder of the patent on eMotion’s natural
language-based multimediasearch engine(and has six other patents pending).
From 1988 to 1998, Sharon worked at SRA International in NLP, including
requirements analysis, system design, syntax, semantics, discourse, and
morphology. She designed and developed software for PNI, now PictureQuest,
which SRA spun off in 1993. She also served as Director of Digital Library
Technology, locating and developing business opportunities in the areas
of information management, bioinformatics, and multimedia archiving, search
and retrieval. Sharon received her A.B. from Cornell University and her
Ph.D. from Harvard in linguistics. She has taught at Georgetown, Harvard
and Pace University, and has authored over 30 academic papers and presentations.
