Fred Leise, owner and principle of ContextualAnalysis, LLC, offers taxonomy design consulting services and has worked for such clients as Scripps Newspapers, Harpo, Inc. (Oprah.com), Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, Dow Corning, UN ReliefWeb, HP, and Columbia College Chicago.

As a taxonomist and information architect at Argus Associates, Inc., he worked on projects for LookSmart, Morningstar.com and L.L. Bean, among others.

He also led teams codifying Argus's classification scheme and comparative analysis methodologies, and worked with the Vice President of Operations in restructuring the company's information architecture training process.

At Argus, Fred built upon his experience as an indexer for scholarly and trade books and journals for such publishers as the University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press and Columbia University Press.

In addition to his taxonomy consulting, he also continues to index scholarly, trade and textbooks in international relations, the humanities and sciences.

Fred received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland and earned a certificate in the Publishing Program of the University of Chicago in 1994.