User:RaymondRS

Robert Raymond is a deputy to FamilySearch Chief Genealogical Officer, David Rencher, helping increase genealogical soundness of FamilySearch products and improving relationships with the genealogical community. Additionally, Robert helps set FamilySearch record acquisition and publication strategy.

Robert is a popular speaker and writer. He has presented at numerous national, regional, and local conferences. For a decade he authored (pseudonymously) an award-winning blog. He published his own website with hundreds of digitized genealogical records, histories, articles, and maps.

Robert is a genealogy technologist who worked for more than 30 years in software engineering and has worked professionally in genealogy since 2002. Before FamilySearch, Robert worked at Ancestry.com and before that was vice president of an award winning technology company. Robert holds over a dozen technology patents and earned a masters degree in electrical (computer) engineering from Brigham Young University where he was honored as a Kimball Scholar.