Instructors
Peter Aiken is
an award-winning, internationally recognized thought leader in the area
of organizational data architecture and engineering. As a practicing
data manager, consultant, author, and researcher, he has been actively
performing and studying these areas for more than twenty-five years.
His sixth book is titled XML in Data Management and is co-authored with
David Allen. He has held leadership positions with the US Department
of Defense and consulted with more than 50 organizations in 17 different
counties. Dr. Aiken's achievements have resulted in recognition in Outstanding
Intellectuals of the 21st Century and bibliographic entries in Who's
Who of Emerging Leaders in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering,
in addition to other recognitions. His entertaining, but clear and concise,
insights make him a sought after speaker, lecturer, and consultant. He
is an Associate Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's Information
Systems Department and the Founding Director of datablueprint.com.
Malcolm Chisholm,
Ph.D. has over 25 years of experience in enterprise information
management and has worked in a wide range of sectors. He specializes
in setting up and developing enterprise information management units,
master data management, and business rules. His experience includes
the financial, manufacturing, government, and pharmaceutical industries.
Malcolm writes numerous articles and is a frequent presenter at industry
events. He runs the websites www.refdataportal.com and www.bizrulesengine.com.
George Kelly Flanagin is a software architect with over 20 years of experience in the design, delivery, and business management of IT products. He has managed the production of several well known commercial products, served on the Board of Directors of a multi-national corporation, and is the author of several articles and papers on a variety of technological topics. George also teaches the C++ curriculum for the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering.
Jonathan G. Geiger is
executive vice president at Intelligent Solutions, Inc. Geiger has been
involved in many corporate information factory and customer relationship
management projects within the utility, telecommunications, manufacturing,
education, chemical, financial and retail industries. In his 30 years
as a practitioner and consultant, Geiger has managed or performed work
in virtually every aspect of information management. He has authored
or co-authored numerous articles and three books, presents frequently
at national and international conferences, and teaches several public
seminars.
Marcie Barkin
Goodwin is President and CEO of AXIS software designs,
inc., a software consulting, training and development company.
Marcie transforms software training into a positive learning experience
through solid expertise and a humorous approach.
Her classes produce ‘tool jockies’ equipped with an understanding of
the critical issues associated with analysis, modeling, and corporate
standards as well as the skills needed to successfully implement projects.
With ten years in-the-trenches experience in analysis, design and CASE
administration, complimented by a six-year training career, Ms. Goodwin
is a seasoned veteran who brings expertise and flair to the art of knowledge
transfer. Clients include Johnson & Johnson, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air
Force, Fireman’s Fund Insurance, Deutsche Bank, World Bank, M&M Mars,
Coca Cola, Premera Blue Cross of Washington and Alaska, PSC, Norwest
Financial, Seagate and many others.
Tom Haughey is
considered one of the four founding fathers of Information Engineering
in America. He is currently President of InfoModel, Inc, training
and consulting company specializing in practical and rapid development
methods. His courses on data management, data warehousing, and software
development have been delivered to Fortune 100 companies around the world.
He has worked on the development of seven different CASE tools, over
40,000 copies of which have been sold to date. He was formerly Chief
Technology Officer for the Pepsi Bottling Group and Enterprise Director
of Data Warehousing for Pepsico. He was also formerly Vice President
of Technology for Computer Systems Advisers, who market the CASE tools
called POSE and SILVERRUN. He wrote his own CASE tool in 1984. He formerly
worked for IBM for 17 years as a Senior Project Manager. He is an author
of many articles on Data Management, Information Engineering and Data
Warehousing.
Claudia Imhoff,
Ph.D. is a thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the
rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy
– Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. is a popular and dynamic speaker and internationally
recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence, and the
infrastructure to support these initiatives – the Corporate Information
Factory (CIF Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly-regarded and popular
books on these subjects and writes monthly columns (totaling more than
60) for technical and business magazines. She has served on the
Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA
organizations to receive the 1999 Individual Achievement Award. She
is an advisor and a faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute
and serves as an advisor for several technology and commercial companies. Dr.
Imhoff delivers keynote addresses at conferences sponsored by software
companies and their user groups, The Data Warehousing Institute, The
Economist, COMDEX, and many international organizations. She has appeared
repeatedly on World Business Review, Microsoft’s Getting Results programs,
and web casts sponsored by DM Review, Better Management, and several
technology vendors. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Daniels
School of Business at the University of Denver and is on several technology
companies’ advisory councils. Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., is the President
and Founder of Intelligent Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of customer-focused
technology and strategy.
Susan R. Jacobs is the former Vendor Relations Manager for eCommerce at Capital One, where her responsibilities included offshore development in India with Infosys. Her technological interests are in email marketing, spam, and data sampling for marketing tests. Her professional background is in organizational psychology and sociology, and she has research interests in the problems of teamwork among introverts in the IT workplace.
Dr. Pamela Kiecker is an internationally known expert on consumer behaviour, and she is the Executive Director of the Interactive Marketing Institute. In addition to multiple publications, her current research interests are in design of web sites for special demographic groups, and the perceptions of confidentiality and privacy among consumers on the Internet. Dr. Kiecker is currently on sabbatical from her position as Professor of Marketing at Virginia Commonwealth University.
John Ladley is
a Business Technology Thought Leader with 30 years experience in information
asset management and successful implementation of information systems.
He is widely-known as a data warehouse pioneer and a recognized authority
in the use and implementation of business intelligence, information architectures
and Enterprise Information Management. He is widely published and frequently
writes and speaks on a variety of technology and enterprise information
management topics. He co-authored “Data Warehouse, Advice from the Experts”
in 1996 and has had regular columns in various publications. His Information
Management experience is balanced between strategic technology planning,
project management and practical application of technology to business
problems. Mr. Ladley is an authority on enterprise information management,
data architectures, data governance, and risk management and assessment
of data. John is currently President of IMCue Solutions, a new firm
focused on ensuring organizations maximize value and minimize risk associated
with their information assets.
Lisa Loftis is
a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Business Intelligence (BI)
expert with 15 years experience in assisting organizations to adopt a
customer focus. Ms. Loftis has worked with numerous large organizations
in North America, South America, Europe, and the United Kingdom on all
aspects of successful Relationship Management. She specializes in combining
the technology necessary to support true CRM and BI business strategies
with the organizational structures, executive leadership, and cultural
factors required to migrate an organization toward customer orientation.
Ms. Loftis has a strong background in the application of CRM and BI principles
and cross-functional business strategies in the Banking, Investment,
Insurance, Telecommunications, Catalog Retail, Utilities, Entertainment,
Manufacturing and Distribution, and Automotive Roadside Assistance industries.
Lisa speaks frequently at national and international CRM conferences,
and has co-authored the book Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise,
with Claudia Imhoff and Jonathan G. Geiger (John Wiley & Sons, 2001).
David Loshin is
the president of Knowledge Integrity, Inc, a consulting and development
company focusing on customized information management solutions including
information quality consulting, information quality training, business
intelligence solutions, metadata management, data standards management,
and business rules solutions.
David is widely recognized as an expert in Information Quality, frequently
contributing to Intelligent Enterprise, serving on the Editorial Board
of DM Review magazine, started writing a monthly column for DM Review
in October 2002, is a quarterly featured columnist for the Data Administration
Newsletter (www.tdan.com),
and is the channel expert of the B-EYE-Network's Information Quality
and Data Integration channel.
David's most recent book, "Business Intelligence:
The Savvy Manager's Guide" was published in June 2003, and
has been hailed as a resource that allows readers to "gain an understanding
of business intelligence, business management disciplines, data warehousing,
and how all of the pieces work together." David is also the author
of "Enterprise Knowledge Management - The Data Quality Approach," (Morgan
Kaufmann, 2001) which describes a revolutionary strategy for defining,
managing, and implementing business rules affecting Enterprise-wide knowledge
management and information compliance.
In addition, David was invited to create and teach a graduate-level course
on Data Quality at New York University, has been asked to create courses
for The Data Warehousing Institute (www.tdwi.org), has presented at the
annual DAMA/Meta Data conference, and has taught tutorials on data quality
at a number of Information Quality Conferences. David is often asked
to speak at vendor events and web seminars, and also frequently serves
as a judge for numerous industry best-practices awards.
John N. Pastore, Jr. is the former CTO of Capital One. John has over 30 years in IT, with solid experience in finance, manufacturing, and operations. He is a present and past member of several academic and industry boards, and is an internationally recognized futurist and technology strategist. John pioneered non-traditional marketing techniques such as Information Based Decisioning during his 19 years as an executive with Capital One and Levilor.
Alec Sharp founded
his consulting practice in 1981, now Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd.,
and went on to assist many clients with initiating data management programs,
developing large database applications, and applying model-driven requirements
definition techniques. For the past ten years, he has also been heavily
involved in process redesign initiatives, some of which were disguised
as ERP implementations or e-Business projects. Interesting recent assignments
have included reverse-engineering conceptual models from purchased and
legacy applications so clients could understand the business impacts
of their systems, helping an insurer establish a business process architecture,
conducting a process review of the dialysis programs at a regional hospital,
and rescuing e-commerce projects that zeroed in on technology instead
of looking at the business process.
Alec is a past president of the British Columbia DAMA chapter, and in
1983 was a founding member of its predecessor. He is a popular conference
presenter, and has spoken for DAMA on many occasions, including the DAMA
International Symposium, various DAMA Regional Symposia, and numerous
chapter meetings. Alec conducts workshops on Data Modeling (introductory
and advanced), Workflow Process Modeling, Use Cases, and Application
Logic Modeling at large organizations throughout North America and abroad.
His book “Workflow Modeling” (co-authored with Patrick McDermott) was
published by Artech House in February 2001, and is currently the best-selling
book on the topic
Robert (Bob) S.
Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational
Services and the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com).
In 2007, TDAN.com celebrated its 10th anniversary and attracts close
to 150K visitors every month. In 2007, KIK Consulting celebrated its
5th anniversary and focuses on knowledge transfer and consultative
mentoring.
Bob was awarded the 2007 DAMA Professional Award for significant and demonstrable contributions to the data management industry and chaired the 2007 Wilshire Award for Meta-Data Best Practices. Bob specializes in non-invasive data governance, data stewardship, and meta-data management solutions and has successfully assisted and mentored many notable organizations
Len
Silverston is an author, consultant, and speaker with over
25 years of experience helping organizations integrate their information
and systems. He is the best-selling author of "The
Data Model Resource Book" series, which describe over
230 reusable, holistic data models and which was rated #12 on the Computer
Literacy Best Seller List. Mr. Silverston has published numerous articles
sharing his insights about re-usable models and information integration.
He has been a columnist for Data Management Review and
has been a frequently invited speaker at many international conferences.
He has delivered many seminars on politics and human dynamics, providing
inspirational and empowering thoughts and ideas. His most recent book,
which provides universal data models for various industries has been
translated into Chinese. He is the winner of the DAMA (Data Administration
Management Association) International Professional Achievement Award
for 2004 and the winner of the DAMA International 2006 community award
for his work in resolving conflicts and developing positive relationships
in the data management community. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal
Data Models, provides models, consulting and training to help
integrate information, systems and people.
Graeme Simsion has
over twenty five years experience as a consultant and CEO of a successful
consultancy. After working as an internal consultant, managing a technical
team, he founded Simsion Bowles and Associates in 1982. He built the
consultancy to some seventy staff in three capital cities, selling to
a US company in 1999, and then working as a business unit manager within
that company for a further two years. Since then he has continued to
consult and to deliver education in Australia, North America and Europe,
drawing on his experience to help consultancies and consulting teams
to perform better. His one-day consulting skills workshop has regularly
been voted “best presentation” at major conferences in the UK and the
US, and he is the developer and presenter of the postgraduate course
in Professional Consulting at the University of Melbourne. Graeme’s technical
background includes business and information systems planning, business
process design and data management. He is the author of two books on
data modelling and holds postgraduate qualifications in both information
systems and business administration and is a popular presenter at industry
and academic forums.
Gwen Thomas is
President of The Data Governance Institute, which provides consulting,
executive mentoring, training, program development, and information services,
including the web’s largest data governance resource, at www.datagovernance.com.
Gwen has personally designed Data Governance programs or helped existing
programs become more mature at companies such Washington Mutual Bank
(WaMu), Sallie Mae, NDCHealth/Wolters Kluwer, Wachovia Bank, Disney,
and Coors. She has worked with other large and mid-sized public, private,
and governmental organizations in the areas of data strategy, data integration,
search technologies and search engine optimization, data warehouses,
taxonomy development, portals, content management, document management,
Master Data cleansing/standardization, and metadata collection/repository
development.
Gwen is a frequent presenter at industry data events and contributor to IT and business publications. She is also author of the book Alpha Males and Data Disasters: The Case for Data Governance.
