Michael C Andrews

Michael C Andrews is an American IT consultant with a special interest in content strategy and metadata. He is also the author of Metadata Basics for Web Content (2017). Andrews started working with online metadata as a technical information specialist at the US Commerce Department in the 1980s, and was among the first wave of people whose full-time job responsibilities focused on using the Internet to access and manage published content. For the past two decades he has worked as a consultant in the fields of user experience and content strategy. He’s worked as a senior manager for content strategy with one of the world’s largest digital consultancies, and has advised clients such the National Institutes of Health, Verizon and the World Bank. He has lived and worked in India, UK, New Zealand, Italy, as well as the US. Andrews has an MSc in human computer interaction from the University of Sussex in England, and a Masters with a specialization in international finance from Columbia University in New York. He also has a certificate in XML and RDF Technologies from the Library Juice Academy.