DAMA INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & WILSHIRE META-DATA CONFERENCE
May 2-6, 2004 – Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA USA

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Sid Adelman
Principal
Sid Adelman Associates

Sid Adelman is a consultant specializing in data warehouse and strategic data architecture. He co-authored a methodology and project planning tool tailored specifically for data warehouse. Sid is an international speaker at data warehouse and industry conferences. He actively publishes on data warehouse topics and co-authored Data Warehouse Project Management with Larissa Moss. His latest book, Impossible Data Warehouse Situations and Solutions from the Experts has solutions from Joyce Bischoff, Jill Dyche, Doug Hackney, Chuck Kelley, Sean Ivoghli, Dave Marco, Larissa Moss, and Clay Rehm. He is currently co-authoring "Enterprise Data Strategy."

Peter Aiken
Founding Director
Data Blueprint

Peter Aiken is Founding Director of the Institute for Data Research and an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author and co-author of numerous books on XML data management, corporate portals, and service based architectures. His research publications have appeared in the IBM Systems Journal, IEEE Software and many others. He is a member of ACM, and the IEEE (Senior Member), has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999 and received their 2001 International Achievement Award.

David Allen
Chief Executive Officer
Data Blueprint

M. David Allen is the Chief Operating Officer for Data Blueprint, a data management services firm located in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Allen is an author, speaker, and professional specializing in data quality and cleansing, document conversion, semantic data models, and XML. His published works include research on automated data extraction from unstructured sources, data security, and the recent book "XML in Data Management" coauthored with Dr. Peter Aiken.

Scott Ambler
President and Senior Consultant
Ronin International, Inc.

Scott W. Ambler is President and a senior consultant of Ronin International, Inc., a software services consulting firm that specializes in software process mentoring, Agile Modeling (AM), and object/component-based software architecture and development. He is also founder and thought leader of the Agile Modeling (AM) methodology (www.agilemodeling.com) and the Agile Data (AD) method. Scott is the author of Agile Modeling (2002) and many other books. Scott is a contributing editor with Software Development magazine, a contributor to IBM DeveloperWorks, and a columnist with Computing Canada. Scott’s personal web site is www.ambysoft.com where he has a wide variety of white papers.

Marcie Barkin Goodwin
President & CEO
Axis Software Designs, Inc.

Marcie Barkin Goodwin is the President/CEO of Axis software designs, a software training and consulting company specializing in CASE environments, their infrastructures, and the fostering of communication to ensure successful projects. Ms. Goodwin has assisted her corporate clients in the development of efficient development infrastructures across a wide variety of industries. Her consulting expertise includes the creation of customized standards, procedures and best practices for the management of iterative development and shared data. Her quick wit, engaging personality, and vast ‘hands-on’ experience makes her a charismatic and highly entertaining, as well as informative speaker.

Paul Baynham
Senior Systems Analyst
PlanGraphics, Inc.

Paul has 13 years in database design and 10 years in GIS, including application development for ESRI and GIS management for Iridium, the global satellite telephone company. Currently working for PlanGraphics as a GIS and database consultant. Architect for New York City's non-emergency 311 call service's proximity search capability.

James Bean
Chairman and Co-founder
Global Web Architecture Group

James Bean is a respected expert in the fields of Business and Technology, having completed numerous worldwide client engagements for Enterprise Data Architecture, XML, Data Standards, Metadata, Enterprise Integration, Global E-Commerce Strategies, and Database Design. He is the author of many books in this subject area, including "Enterprise Integration Strategies for Data Architects", "XML for Data Architects", "Engineering Global E-Commerce Sites" and "XML Globalization and Best Practices". Mr. Bean has also written over 100 magazine articles for numerous technology journals, and is a frequently requested speaker for regional, national and international technology conferences.

Perry Benjamin
Data Management Specialist
The Boeing Company

Perry Benjamin has over 20 years of experience in software development for the aerospace industry, specializing in database design and data administration for the last 15 years. He has modeled information requirements and designed databases for applications supporting a wide variety of business functions including product definition, enterprise resource planning, supplier management, product support, cost and schedule control, human resource management, and software development. Perry has contributed to the development of industry data/object domain standards including ISO's PDES/STEP and OMG's PDM-Enablers.

Roland Berg
Principal Consultant
ThinkSpark

Roland Berg is a Principal Consultant for ThinkSpark’s. He has over 22 years of experience as a software engineer, project manager and architect. He has worked in both public and private sector environments in a wide variety of business domains. He has presented and national and international conferences on topics including data modeling, architecture, methodologies, business rule-based systems development, XML and Oracle Designer. His experience includes the design and development of a custom business rule engine and implemented a rule-based system using a commercial product. He recently coordinated the ODTUG Business Rule Tool Shootout that used a real world case study to evaluate the capabilities of 4 rule-based development tools.

Davida Berger
Founder
DebTech International

Davida Berger has extensive experience in information technology and has spent the majority of her career focusing on data management. Her experience includes project management and management roles for data centric projects including an enterprise data warehouse and the start up of a data administration function. She is the founder of DebTech International LLC, a training company specializing in information management education taught by well-known industry leaders. Davida has served on the DAMA International Board as VP of Conference Services. Under her direction the DAMA International Symposium has become the world's premier educational event dedicated to data management. She is the recipient of the 2002 DAMA International Individual Achievement Award.

Charlie Betz
Technical Consultant
Best Buy Corporation

Charles Betz heads the Metadata Management Office for electronics retailer Best Buy. He previously worked for Target Corporation (where he built that company's metadata repository), and also for Andersen Consulting as technical architect for ERP solutions. He received his Master of Science in Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota in May 2003; his research topic was "The Convergence of Metadata and IT Service Management.

Ronald Borland
Data Architect
Nationwide Mutual Insurance

Ronald Borland is a Data Architect with a backgorund in application design and data warehousing. His primary areas of interest are in metadata management and data quality improvement.

Michael Brackett
Consulting Data Architect
Data Resource Design & Remodeling

Mr. Brackett has developed many innovative concepts and techniques for designing and managing data resources. He has written six books on the topic of application design, data resource design, common data architectures, and data resource quality. He is the founder of Data Resource Design & Remodeling and is a consulting data architect specializing in developing integrated data resources. He has been the President of DAMA International for the past four years.

Michael Bryan
Director
Nextel Communications

Michael Bryan is responsible for data warehousing at Nextel Communications, the leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications services in the United States. Mr. Bryan has fifteen years of experience in the business intelligence industry. He has consulted extensively for EIS/DSS software vendors and Price Waterhouse’s Business Intelligence practice. For the last ten years, Mr. Bryan has served in IT management roles in the financial services and telecommunications industries. His expertise includes applications architecture, data management and performance measurement.

Susan Burk
Director - Systems Architecture
MassMutual Financial Group

Susan Burk is responsible for promoting best practices for analysis and design in enterprise-wide initiatives at MassMutual Financial Group, with a focus on use-case driven techniques, business rules, object modeling, and object to relational mapping. She has 20 years’ industry experience, sixteen of them working with application development teams and Information Resource Management (IRM) and Object Technology Center (OTC) infrastructure groups as a practitioner, trainer, mentor and facilitator of modeling sessions at Fortune 100 – Fortune 1000 institutions in the US and around the world.

Joe Celko
Professor and VP of Relational Database Management Systems
Northface University

Joe is one of the most widely read SQL authors in the world. He has hundreds of articles and columns in the computer trade and academic press to his credit, including a highly popular series of SQL puzzles and his current column "Celko" in Intelligent Enterprise magazine. He was the winner of the DBMS Magazine Reader's Choice Award four consecutive years. He is the author of five books: including SQL FOR SMARTIES, SQL PUZZLES & ANSWERS, DATA & DATABASES and TREES & HIERARCHIES IN SQL (all by Morgan-Kaufmann)

Donald Chapin
Business Language & Rules Consultant
Business Semantics Ltd.

Donald Chapin is principal of Business Semantics Ltd. (UK). He has been involved with business rules since introducing decision tables to IBM internal application development training in the late 1960's. He has designed four requirements tools where business rules were a key component, as well as defining the rules for those tools. His business rule focus has been on structured business vocabularies and requirements definition for large business information systems as a tools and methods consultant, facilitator, trainer, mentor, quality monitor, and business analysis project manager. Donald is a member of the OMG Business Rules SIG as well as the Business Rules Group, and has played a leading role in Business Rules standards work during the past three years.

Myles Chapman
IS Leader - Data Management
Best Buy Co., Inc.

Currently, Myles Chapman is the Director for Data Management at Best Buy, Inc. The team consists of Data Analysts and Data Base Administrators. The Data Management team is primarily responsible for enterprise data architecture and database design and development. Myles is experienced in defining and deploying an Enterprise Data Architecture via the software development life-cycle. Myles is engaged in his current work (as well as past experience) in the design and build of Transactional Databases, Operational Data Stores, and Data Warehouse (Kimball & Inmon) implementations. Myles has primarily facilitated this work effort for medium to large companies and Very Large Database (VLDB) deployments.

Malcolm Chisholm
President
Askget.com Inc

Malcolm Chisholm has over 20 years of experience in IT, and has worked mainly in the manufacturing, finance, government, and insurance sectors. During all of this time he has been heavily involved in data administration, with particular emphasis on reference data and metadata management. Additionally he has worked extensively in building business rules engines, with techniques that utilize the metadata and reference data captured by data administrators. Malcolm has published a number of articles and two books: "Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases" (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000), and "How to Build A Business Rules Engine" (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). He runs the website Reference Data Portal (www.refdataportal.com).

Fran Clark
President
Arpeggio Technology

Fran Clark has spent the last 20 years on a professional mission: perfecting the secure, speedy and semantic exchange and representation of information both within and between businesses. His quest has taken him through technical leadership positions at Wheelhouse Corporation, Epsilon Data Management, Intel, Boston Gas, University of Vermont, UNUM and John Hancock; and into enterprise projects for clients such as GTE, IBM, and General Electric. Today, Clark defines and builds Swingtide’s core technology infrastructure, including managing a team of developers, programmers and QA professionals. He earned his BS in Biology and Psychology from Boston College.

William Clark
TMDS Team Lead
Tri-Cor

Janie Corbett
Senior Systems Consultant
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

Janie Corbett has managed and consulted in all aspects of information technology for over 35 years spending the last six years in stewardship. Janie is currently a Senior Systems Consultant in Information Stewardship for Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Southeast Region in Richmond, VA and an Adjunct Professor of Information Technology at Rappahannock Community College in Glenns, VA. Janie was very instrumental in the creation of the Information Stewardship program at Anthem. Janie has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Management Information Systems and a Master of Science in Business Management.

Christine Craven
Customer Insight Development Programme Manage
Abbey

I have worked at Abbey for 14 years in IT, programme management and information management. Before that I worked for the Mars Group. The last 4 years of my career have been devoted to Information Management within Abbey and as a result the organisation now has a customer information architecture, information management control framework (including information ownership) and a robust and in depth view of all customers holding relationships. I received an Abbey 'Special Achievement' award for these deliveries in 2001 and won a 'Wilshire Meta Data Award' in 2003 (the only organisation outside the US to receive one)

Chris Date
Independent Author, Lecturer, Researcher and Consultant

Chris Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database technology. He is best known for his book An Introduction to Database Systems (seventh edition published in 2000), which has sold well over 650,000 copies and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide. He is also the author of many other books on database management, including most recently Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto (2nd edition, coauthored with Hugh Darwen); The Database Relational Model: A Retrospective Review and Analysis; WHAT Not HOW: The Business Rules Approach to Application Development (all published by Addison-Wesley in 2000); and Temporal Data and the Relational Model (coauthored with Hugh Darwen and Nikos A. Lorentzos, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2003). Mr. Date enjoys a reputation that is second to none for his ability to communicate complex technical subjects in a clear and understandable fashion

Marie DeRatto
Senior Information Management Analyst
Merck &Co., Inc.

Marie DeRatto works in Research Information for Merck Research Laboratories. She is presently doing work both as an information architect and as a steward for a large document management system. Marie has extensive experience in the area of content management, having managed several projects involving the design and installation of document management systems for pharmaceutical companies. She is also familiar with regulatory issues and has worked with regulatory and legal departments to ensure system compliance with both internal and external regulations, as well as meeting user and technical needs.

Simon Dunford
Customer Business Improvement Executive
Rolls-Royce
Defence

Simon is a member of a small UK Industry/UK Ministry of Defence Task Force that is responsible for facilitating phases 1 and 2 of the Secure Collaboration Framework work. Simon is President of the UK Chapter of DAMA, as well as being an e-business integration executive for the UK military division of Rolls-Royce.

Jill Dyché
Vice President and Partner
Baseline Consulting Group

Prior to co-founding Baseline, Jill worked for technology luminaries Teradata and Computer Associates. She helped grow Baseline into an international systems integration and management consulting firm. Jill has helped develop customer information strategies at notables like Verizon, American Express, Bank One, and The Gap. Jills first book, e-Data (Addison Wesley, 2000) has been published in six languages. She is a co-author of the book Impossible Data Warehouse Situations: Solutions From the Experts (Addison Wesley, 2002), and her work has been featured in major publications such as CIO Magazine, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, Intelligent Enterprise, Oracle Magazine, and Information Week. Her latest book, The CRM Handbook (Addison Wesley, 2002), is the bestseller on the topic.

Larry Dziedzic
Technology Manager
Johnson & Johnson

Larry Dziedzic is a Technology Manager with Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, NJ. Larry is responsible for supporting global data standardization, as well as consulting on process and modeling standards for the worldwide Consumer group. This includes supporting data standardization of global ERP applications, defining data stewardship functions and interfacing with the worldwide Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices and Diagnostic groups. Larry has presented papers at both DAMA International and DAMA US events last year. He has also presented internationally at the Enterprise Data Management Conference in Sydney, Australia.

Gordon Everest
Professor
University of Minnesota

Gordon Everest is a professor of MIS and DBMS in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota since 1970. He is the author of the text "Database Management: Objectives, System Functions, and Administration" (McGraw-Hill). Besides teaching, he has conducted research on various approaches to database design, and helped many organizations and government agencies design their databases. His approach transfers expertise to professional data architects within those organizations by having them participate in and observe the conduct of database design project meetings with the subject matter experts.

George Flanagin
Partner
Bright Crayon

George Flanagin is the CIO of buySAFE, and a partner in Bright-Crayon, LLC. He is a technology professional with 25 years of experience in the design, delivery, and business management of IT products. He has developed and managed the production of several well known commercial software products, and his career includes major periods of employment with Boeing Defense and Space Group and Hewlett-Packard Labs. Mr. Flanagin is the author of more than a dozen articles and papers on IT subjects, and he is a frequent speaker at international conferences.

Joshua Fox
Sr. Software Architect
Unicorn Solutions Inc.

Joshua Fox serves as Senior Software Architect at Unicorn Solutions. Fox works on the Unicorn System, a platform for enterprise information management. Prior to Unicorn, Fox was Senior Software Architect at VocalTec Communications, where he designed and developed large-scale distributed Internet servers. Fox has filed six patents and frequently writes and speaks on software and enterprise data.

John Friedrich
President
JRFII, Inc.

Dr. John Friedrich is President and Chief Technology Officer of a small information management consulting company. He has over 15 years of experience accross the board in programming, information systems project management, information management, metadata management, software engineering, modeling, simulation, business process improvement and capability maturity.

Lowell Fryman
President
Metrics Consulting Corp

Lowell Fryman is the Principal of Metrics Consulting Corp., a Colorado firm specializing in training and services for the data warehousing industry. Lowell is a Certified GIF Architect and has been recognized by Bill Inmon as a contributor to a number of his books. Lowell was published articles in the field of data architecture, meta data, data warehousing and data quality, has participated in over 100 warehousing projects and been a speaker at over 40 international conferences over that last decade.
Lowell is a member of the Curriculum Advisory Board for Data Warehousing, Daniels College of Business, Denver University and guest lecturer for the program. Lowell is currently implementing the enterprise meta data program for the Center of Excellence at a major international automotive firm. He is a member of PMI, TDWI, and DAMA.

Jim Fulton
Associate Technical Fellow
The Boeing Company

Dr. Fulton is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company, specializing in the development and integration of computing application. A key player in Boeing’s selection of standard integration technology, he now supports several integration projects in applying that technology. Instrumental in bringing computer-aided software-engineering (CASE) tools into Boeing in the early 1980’s, he represented Boeing in several CASE standards activitiesincluding IDEF (ICAM (Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing) DEFinition language), CDIF (CASE Data Interchange Format), KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format), EXPRESS (the modeling language of the STEP product data standard), as well as ANSI committees on the Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) and Conceptual Schema Modeling Frameworks (CSMF).

Sean Goggins
Principal Consultant
Ciber, Inc.

Sean Goggins is a journeyman software and data management professional with 15 years of very diverse experience. Mr. Goggins has defined metadata management and data integration strategies for product development and manufacturing system integration in the medical device and consumer products industries. He has also worked with computational biologists on the definition of logical data models to support the mapping of the Bovine and Porcine genomes. In addition, Mr. Goggins is an Active member of St. Louis DAMA, the ACM and, almost sheepishly, the IEEE Computer Society.

John Gonzales
Data Quality Manager
Toyota Motor Sales

Mr. Gonzales has been with Toyota for 25 years, and has 37 years of experience in the IT industry. He began his career wiring boards on the old IBM Accounting Machines, and worked in other EAM Machines such as the IBM Card Sorter, Interpreter and Reproducer, as well as Key Punch Equipment. He also worked as a COBOL Programmer, Operations Scheduler and Assistant to the Director Of Data Processing at Mattel Toys in the early 60's.

Michael Gorman
President
Whitemarsh Information Systems Corporation

Michael M. Gorman has been involved in data processing, database and DBMS for 35 years. He has been secretary of the ANSI NCITS H2 Technical Committee on Database for over 22 years. He was the Federal Database Product Manager for the Computer Sciences Corporation. Mike authored Yourdon's database project and database administration courses. He also was a member of The MITRE Corporation's technical staff and the conference and program manager for MITRE's Data Management conference. Mr. Gorman has published articles for IDC, Auerbach, Computer World and several ACM journals. He has published database and DBMS books through Q.E.D. Information Sciences and John Wiley and Sons.

Paul Grant
EB/KM Deputy Director
Dept of Defense

David Grube
Senior Information Management Analyst
Merck &Co., Inc.

David Grube is an information architect for Merck Research Laboratories. David has extensive experience in data and database analysis, design, and implementation across the telecommunications, media, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries. In addition to his industry experience, David holds the MS in Computer Science degree from Lehigh University, and is an Adjunct professor in the Information and Computing Sciences.

Terry Haas
Director, Customer Analytics
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Terry Haas is responsible for managing customer data and providing analysis of sales and profitability information worldwide for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Prior to assuming this role Mr. Haas led the reengineering of the two primary customer contact centers for the company and then managed each. He managed Chemicals Customer Service and Inside Sales for five years and the Gases Group Customer Service and Logistics center for seven years before assuming the current global role. He is a frequent speaker at customer service and logistics conferences including the national conventions of the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) and International Customer Service Association (ICSA).

Terry Halpin
Professor and VP (Conceptual Modeling)
Northface University

Dr. Terry Halpin is Distinguished Professor and Vice President (Conceptual Modeling) at Northface University. After many years in academia, he worked on data modeling technology at Asymetrix Corporation, InfoModelers Inc., Visio Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation, before returning to academia to develop data models and curricula to facilitate application development using a business rules approach to informatics. His research focuses on conceptual modeling and conceptual query technology. His doctoral thesis formalized Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM). He has authored over 100 technical publications and five books, including Information Modeling and Relational Databases and Database Modeling with Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects.

Brian Hay
Research Programmer
University of Alaska Fairbanks

David Hay
President
Essential Strategies, Inc.

Dave Hay has been producing data models to support strategic information planning and requirements planning for nearly seventeen years. He has done strategic planning and requirements analysis (using a variety of modeling techniques) in many industries, including, among others, power generation, clinical pharmaceutical research, oil refining, forestry, and broadcast. He is President of Essential Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to helping clients define corporate information architecture, identify requirements, and plan strategies for the implementation of new systems.

Deborah Henderson
Data Architect
INERGI LP

Deborah Henderson, B.Sc., M.L.S., P.M.P, chairs the DAMAI Curriculum Committee and is Vice President Data Management International (DAMAI) Education and Special Projects. 1999 -). Deborah is Data Architect at INERGI LP, a subsidiary of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Canada. She has many years experience in consulting to many different business functions in EIS/DSS, Knowledge Management, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Portal and On-line Analytical Processing design, with an extensive background in information management (process modeling, data modeling and data dictionaries) and associated architecture development.

Steve Hoberman
Global Reference Data Expert
MasterFoods USA

Steve Hoberman is a global reference data and design expert for MasterFoods USA. He is the author of the book Data Modeler's Workbench, Tools and Techniques for Analysis and Design. Steve specializes in data modeling training, design strategy, and in creating techniques to improve the data modeling process and deliverables. He enjoys reviewing data models and is the founder of Design Challenges, a discussion group which tackles complex data modeling scenarios.

Bill Hopton
Systems Consultant
Manulife Financial

Bill Hopton has been with Manulife Financial for 23 years, developing systems for many different areas of the company. For the last 10 years he has been in the Investments Division, involved in Enterprise Application Integration and many other projects.

Baden Hughes
Senior Research Associate
University of Melbourne

Baden Hughes is a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has tertiary qualifications in linguistics, natural language processing, information technology and computer science. His research interests are primarily in the field of language technology - the application of computational tools and techniques to natural language data and enabling basic linguistic research through software development. More specifically, his research extends to distributed systems, markup standards, metadata, language archives, linguistic annotation, morphological parsing, query languages, text-processing, text summarization and web-enablement of language resources.

Michele Johnson
Deputy Chief, Data Integration Branch
United States Air Force

Captain Johnson is the Program Manager for the Table Management Distribution System (TMDS), a unique, on-line information system that supports the centralized control, maintenance, and distribution of reference data, thereby ensuring the integrity and consistency of corporate data throughout AMC. In addition, Captain Johnson is responsible for managing the integration of AMC command and control systems with United States Transportation Command assets and establishing data standardization and integration policy and procedures.

Denis Kosar
VP Data Architecture
Citigroup

I have been in IT for over 31 years and have held various management positions in the areas of applications development, Systems Programming and Data Management. I have held the Positions of VP Data Architecture, for Chase Manhattan Bank, Prudential Healthcare and currently Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup. Some of my initiatives have been the development and implementation of an Enterprise Data Model, Wholesale Profitability Data Warehouse and Data Quality programs.

Frank Kowalkowski
President
Knowledge Consultants, Inc.

Mr. Kowalkowsk has over 30 years of management consulting and industry experience in manufacturing, distribution, insurance and financial services. He has been involved with projects on e-commerce, application integration, ERP and supply chain management, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, business performance measurement, data warehousing and process improvement. He is the author of the book on Enterprise Analysis (Prentice-Hall) and over fifty papers.

Clyde Laakso
President
Lake, Vesta and Bright

Clyde Laakso is President of Lake, Vesta, and Bright Consulting Group, a professional services firm established in 1998 specializing in management reporting and data warehousing. He has over 20 years of industry experience in both management and technical roles.

John Ladley
President
KI Solutions

John Ladley is a well-known information management practitioner and a popular speaker on information and knowledge management. John is widely published and has several regular columns. Prior to founding KI Solutions, John was Senior Program Director of Data Warehouse strategies and a Research Fellow at Meta Group. Mr. Ladley is an authority on information architectures, business performance measurement architectures, collaborative applications, and information resource management. He is currently working on a new book, “Knowledge Logistics™ – Managing the Value of Information and Knowledge”

Gladys S.W. Lam
Principal
Business Rule Solutions, LLC

Gladys S.W. Lam is Principal of BRS and co-founder of Business Rule Community. She is the co-creator of the BRS Business Rule Methodology, ProteusTM, and leads numerous large-scale companies in adopting the business rule approach. She manages business rule projects that focus on the capture, analysis and management of business rules.

Doug Lenat
President
Cycorp

Dr. Douglas Lenat, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and expert systems, focuses on applying large amounts of encoded knowledge to information management tasks. As head of Cycorp, an Austin-based corporation, Dr. Lenat leads groundbreaking research in an array of computer software technologies, including the formalization of common sense, a multi-contextual knowledge base, and an efficient inference engine. Doug was a principal scientist at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, where he led the CYC project. He is a former professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. Doug is a prolific author and was one of the original fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Evan Levy
Senior Partner
Baseline Consulting

Evan Levy is EVP and co-founder of Baseline Consulting. With over 20 years of IT experience, he has consulted with scores of companies worldwide, specializing in helping both practitioners and executives deliver technology solutions that improve business performance. Evan has written articles about information-driven organizations in a range of leading publications, and has spoken about his range of customer delivery experiences at key industry and technology conferences. He is the author of Baseline’s acclaimed Return on Investment calculator, and is currently writing a book about ROI.

Daniel Liu
Senior Technical Consultant
First American Real Estate Solutions

Daniel Liu is a senior Oracle Database Administrator at First American Real Estate Solutions in Anaheim, CA and co-author of Oracle 10g New Features (http://www.rampant-books.com/book_2003_2_oracle10g.htm) by Rampant TechPress. His expertise includes Oracle database administration, performance tuning, Oracle networking, and Oracle Application Server. Prior to First American RES, he has worked at companies such Allant Group (formally EMS), Automatic Data Processing, Commonwealth Edison and CNA Insurance.

As an Oracle Certified Professional, he taught Oracle certified DBA classes and IOUG University Seminar. Daniel has published articles with DBAzine, Oracle Internals, and SELECT Journal. Daniel has received SELECT Editorial Award for Best Article in 2001. He has also given presentations at IOUG-A Live, LAOUG, OCOUG, NoCOUG, Oracle Open World, Oracle World, and Oracle Technology Day. Daniel has served as panelist on Oracles of Oracle at Oracle World and IOUG-Live. Daniel holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Northern Illinois University.

Karen Lopez
Principal Consultant
InfoAdvisors, Inc.

Karen López is a principal consultant at InfoAdvisors, Inc., a Toronto-based consulting firm. She has 17 years of experience working with modelling tools on large, multi-project programs. She also moderates several IRM-related discussion groups, including several on leading modelling tools. She is a former president of the IRM Association of Canada (IRMAC) and serves as the Director of Professional Standards of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS).

David Loshin
President
Knowledge Integrity, Inc.

David Loshin is the president of Knowledge Integrity, Inc., which helps organizations create ongoing data quality improvement programs. David is the author of “Enterprise Knowledge Management – The Data Quality Approach,” (Morgan Kaufmann) which describes a revolutionary strategy for defining, managing, and implementing business rules affecting Enterprise-wide information compliance, as well as the technical reference book “Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager’s Guide” (Morgan Kaufmann). David is recognized as an expert in Information Quality, serving on the Editorial Board of DM Review magazine, and contributing periodic columns for DM Review, and various online publications.

Christine Mandracchia
Manager - Data Administration
American ReInsurance Company

Christine Mandracchia has been an active participant on an object-oriented project using the RUP methodology for about 2 years. Prior to assuming her current position, Christine was a consultant for many years, specializing in data analysis and logical data modeling, enterprise modeling, CASE and repository tool evaluations, and data quality assessment. She has provided significant meta data management support for the data administration and data warehousing environments of major corporations. Her meta data emphasis has been on requirements identification, mapping of those requirements to the meta data tool(s), integration of varying requirements and meta data content, and the development of the associated standards and procedures.

She has published a chapter on Integrating Information System Data Models for the Handbook of Data Management by Auerbach Publications (1993); a meta data tool framework in "Heart of the Warehouse" published by Database Programming & Design (November 1996); and was recently quoted regarding meta data management principles in an article titled "The Metadata Conundrum Carries On" in Application Development Trends (October 2001). She has previously presented on the topics of dimensional modeling, and Operational and Informational Subject Areas, to NJ DAMA audiences, as well as on Enterprise Meta Data Management at the Platinum/Logic Works annual User Conference. She has almost 25 years of experience in the information systems field.

David Marco
President
Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc.

Mr. Marco is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of data warehousing, enterprise architecture and business intelligence, and is the world’s foremost authority on meta data. He is the author of several books including the up coming book "Universal Meta Data Models" (John Wiley & Sons, March 2004) and the widely acclaimed book "Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository" (John Wiley & Sons). Mr. Marco has published over 100 articles and is a regular columnist for several technology magazines. Mr. Marco is a highly sought after speaker, has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and DePaul University, and is the founder and President of Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc.

Kimberly Martin
Sr. Data Administrator
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Kimberley 'Kim' L. Martin has 8 years of information technology experience inclusive of Quality Assurance, Application Development, and Database Design. She is currently employed by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Southeast Region in Richmond, VA as a Lead Data Architecture Analyst. Kimberley served as the Project Lead for Anthem's Information Stewardship Pilot program. She is very active in the development and implementation of Information Stewardship strategies and best practices. She has a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems and a Master of Science in Administration.

Robert Mattison
CEO
Excellence In Telecommunication

Rob Mattison is considered one of the world's leading authorities in Telecommunications Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Data Modeling. As an experience DBA with over 18 years experience building databases for telecommunications providers from around the world (Deutsche Telecom, ATT, NTT, India Mobile etc.) his breadth and depth of experience in data management is unprecedented.

Dave McComb
President
Semantic Arts

Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts, has been designing and managing enterprise integration projects for 26 years, 13 with Andersen Consulting and 13 independently. He was the project manager and lead designer of the “Organic Architecture” at Velocity.com, which was perhaps the first completely meta level application architecture. McComb is the lead inventor on three software patents, has written and spoken widely and is the author of "Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide" published by Morgan Kauffman in 2003.

Duncan McMillan
Enterprise Architect (Information)
Westpac Banking Corporation (NZ)

Duncan is presently Enterprise Architect (Information) with Westpac. He has also been the Team Leader for Information Resource Management, and an Information Management Consultant in the organisation. Prior to Westpac, he worked for a management consultancy, management services arm of a software house, a government department, and has been a member of academic staff at University.

Dawn Michels
Senior Data Architect
Guidant Corporation

Dawn Michels is a Sr. Data Architect for Guidant Corporation a leading manufacturer of Cardiac Rhythm management devices. She works in the Customer Relationship Management Group, concentrating on the Global view of Guidant’s Customers. Prior to joining Guidant Corporation she was the lead data architect for the Arden Hills Software Development team of Fair Isaac, Inc. She has 16 years experience in relational database design, including DB2, Redbrick, Oracle and NT SQL Server. Dawn is active member of DAMA-MN and was VP of Chapter Services of DAMA International for two years. She is an active member and ATM-Bronze of the Fair Isaac Toastmaster’s Club. Dawn is also an adjunct faculty member at The College of St. Catherine, teaching courses in Business Applications, Database Management and VB.Net.

Michael K. Miller
Manager, Data Management Group
Cardinal Health

Michael K. Miller is the Manager of Data Management in the Cardinal Distribution IT organization. His background is in general business management, computer systems development, systems analysis, and IT architecture. He has practical experience with all phases of architecture, methodologies, tools, process management, and data management. In his career, he has had important roles including chief architect, chief data architect, technology architect, methodologist, senior consultant, and development manager.

Ann Moore
Data Governance Chairperson
Nationwide Mutual Insurance

Ann Moore is the chairperson of the Nationwide Insurance Data Goverance Committee, with a background in both technical and business environments and a commitment to improving data quality.

JP Morgenthal
Chief Services Architect
Software AG

JP Morgenthal is Chief Services Architect of Software AG, Inc. In this role, he explores and manages the design of complete professional services solutions based on Software AG technology and partner products in existing and emerging industries. Mr. Morgenthal is an internationally prominent authority on XML with more than 15 years of experience designing, developing and analyzing software and technology. Prior to joining Software AG, Inc., Mr. Morgenthal was CTO of two highly visible startups in the Northern Virginia area, including Ikimbo and XMLSolutions. Mr. Morgenthal is credited with more than 100 articles published across a variety of leading industry publications and regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world.

Terry Moriarty
President
Inastrol

Ms. Moriarty, president of Inastrol, an information resource management consulting firm, has enjoyed a diverse career in Information Systems, over the last 30 years, from application programmer to business analyst to information strategic planner and data architect. She has developed a methodology that integrates business rules analysis with the meta-data management environment to address major business concerns, such as Customer Relationship and Product information management. Her dynamic business models have been used as the basis of customer models for companies within the financial services and telecommunication industries. Ms. Moriarty is the co-chairperson for the annual International Business Rules Forum. She has written articles for publications including The Data Administration Newsletter (www.TDAN.com), Intelligent Enterprise and Database Programming and Design and regularly speaks at industry conferences.

Kris Morris
Specialist IT Design - Enterprise Information Management
3M Company

I have been with 3M for 30 years and have had the opportunity to work in many areas of the company. I have experience in the plant environment, customer service, manufacturing, logistics and most recently IT. I have a passion for data, accurate data, and the sharing of knowledge that surrounds data.

Craig Mullins
Director, Technology Planning
BMC Software

Craig S. Mullins is a Director of Technology Planning for BMC Software. He has worked as an application developer, DBA, and instructor with multiple DBMS products. Previously, Craig worked as a Research Director with the Gartner Group covering the field of database administration. Craig is a popular columnist, speaker, and book author as well.

Kara Nance
Professor of Computer Science
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dr. Nance is the PI on the IDACT project funded by NASA under the Advanced Information Systems Technology Conference. She is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a certified Project Management Professional, and has been active in data systems research and development for over 20 years. She is the chief scientist for two international environmental data centers and regularly publishes and lectures on information assurance and data systems topics.

Paul Nettle
Data Cleansing Manager
UK Ministry of Defence

Mr Nettle is a leading authority on data cleansing within the UK Ministry of Defence. Mr Nettle is leading a data cleansing Team’s work on all of the MOD’s logistics systems. Mr Nettle has worked in Central Government IT for over 20 years, starting as an analyst programmer before moving into IS Audit, Business Analysis and Project Management. Before joining TCP, Mr Nettle was part of the team that created the MOD’s first central metadata repository, which collects and contains data from over one thousand MOD systems.

David Newman
Senior Director of Enterprise Data Management
Radio Shack

David Newman leads the overall initiative for managing RadioShack’s data assets as a strategic resource. Throughout his 20-plus year career, David has helped many organizations improve their data management capabilities. His strategy for RadioShack’s EDM program addresses the following themes: 1) to reduce the costs associated with widespread data redundancy; 2) to establish a “single version of the truth”; 3) to enable the organization to build applications faster; 4) to become more operationally efficient while satisfying key governance initiatives. His career in data management includes leadership position with such organizations as KPMG Consulting, EDS and The Feld Group. Over the years, he has written articles on data architecture for such publications as Data Management Review and others. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Judith Newton
Computer Specialist
NIST

Judith Newton has been employed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1979. She is currently a member of ANSI INCITS L8, Metadata, and Chair of the Task Group for Technical Development. She is a delegate to the International Standards Organization Subcommittee for Data Management and Interchange (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32), and editor of the ISO Standard Metadata Registries: Naming and Identification Principles (ISO/IEC 11179-5). She is editor of the newly published Technical Report on Procedures for Achieving Metadata Registry Content Consistency (ISO/IEC PDTR 20943-1). In a consultant capacity, she has advised several agencies on metadata usage, among them EPA, DoD (DISA), and Navy.

Mike Nicewarner
Data Analyst
John Deere Credit

Mike Nicewarner is a data management professional with almost 20 years of experience in IT from developer, to DBA, to Data Administration. He is a volunteer with TeamSybase to help support the PowerDesigner user community. However, he also lends his advise to other modeling tool vendors in an effort to help them improve their products. The ultimate goal is to provide a better toolbox to the analyst in the field.

Barbara Nichols
Principal
Metaview360, Inc.

Barbara founded Metaview360 after a successful, 25-year career in developing innovative data and meta data solutions. She has assisted dozens of international businesses implement 'best practice' data management. Barbara has frequently presented seminars with industry luminaries, such as Bill Inmon, the 'Father of Data Warehousing', and David Marco, world-renowned authority on business intelligence and meta data. Barbara Nichols writes for the Meta Data section of the DSXchange (www.DSXchange.com)

Maggie O'Hara
Assistant Professor of MIS
East Carolina University

Maggie O’Hara is an Assistant Professor of MIS at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Maggie's main research interests are: data excellence, the impact of technology on the organization, distance education and e-learning.

Bonnie O’Neil
President
Westridge Consulting

Bonnie O’Neil is one of the first business rules pioneers; she was one of the early members of the GUIDE Business Rules Project, and has been involved in business rules work since 1989. She has worked on projects and given presentations on business rules, data quality, and data warehousing all over the world. Her clients include major international banks, investment firms, government agencies, software development firms, and energy companies. She has served as “Data Quality Czar”, data warehouse designer, data migration analyst, data “sleuth”, and database designer (both logical and physical). She has won various speaker awards (including CTM from Toastmasters) and is the author of two books, the latest on Oracle Data Warehousing.

Daniel Paolini
Director, Data Management Services
State of NJ Office of Information Technology

Dan Paolini is the State of New Jersey's first Director of Data Management Services. In this role, he leads the database administration, data administration, data warehousing and data integration efforts for both agency-specific and enterprise-wide information technology projects. Prior to this position, he was the State's first data architect. He co-founded and led a successful database consulting and training firm for six years, and has served as the Chief Technology Officer for a public school district and an educational institution. He is a former contributing editor for a monthly database magazine and the technical editor for three database books. He has presented seven keynotes and more than forty technical papers at over twenty conferences in North America and Europe.

Burton Parker
Principal
Paladin Integration Engineering

Burt Parker is solution-oriented consultant with over 35 years experience. His experience focuses on enterprise data management, process improvement, metadata management, data standardization, and metadata registries. He is a member of ANSI sponsored committee for Metadata and was the editor of the current ANSI standards for time and date. Mr. Parker is past member of the Data Management Association – International Board of Directors, with over four years service on the Board.

Fabian Pascal
Analyst, Editor & Publisher
Database Debunkings

Fabian Pascal has an international reputation as an independent technology analyst, consultant, author and lecturer specializing in data management. He was affiliated with Codd & Date and for 20 years held various analytical and management positions in the private and public sectors. He is founder, editor and publisher of DATABASE DEBUNKINGS, a web site dedicated to dispelling persistent fallacies, flaws, myths and misconceptions prevalent in the IT industry. Together with Chris Date he has recently launched the DATABASE FOUNDATIONS SERIES of papers. Author of three books, he has published extensively in trade journals and is the author of the contrarian columns Against the Grain, Setting Matters Straight, and for The Journal of Conceptual Modeling. His third book is PRACTICAL ISSUES IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT.

Kevin Phelps
Data Analyst - Specialist
American Century Investments, Inc.

Kevin Phelps is a Data Analyst Specialist at American Century Investments, headquarterd in Kansas City, Missouri. He helped establish the Data Administration team as a new department within Data Services in 1998. Kevin has over 6 years of data administration experience, 11 years at American Century - coming up through the application development areas, and 20 years in the financial services I.T. community.

David Plotkin
Data Quality Manager
Well Fargo Bank Consumer Credit Group

David Plotkin has been implementing both procedural and object-oriented systems for over 15 years, and built Metadata management environments in three companies, including the implementation of several corporate repositories. He was recently involved in the complete recreation of Longs pharmacy system using object-oriented technology, including CASE tools, code generation and database generation from models, synchronizing the effort with a third-party software package, and implementing the Metadata management initiative. The effort includes a business rules-driven approach, with the capture of business rules, as well as the automated implementation of parameter-driven business rules. He also worked on Longs’ Drugs E-CRM initiative, which included an operational data store, electronic bus, XML messaging and data cleansing.

Terry Quatrani
UML Evangelist
IBM

Terry Quatrani is the UML Evangelist at IBM Corporation. Terry travels the world preaching the visual modeling gospel according to Grady, Jim, and Ivar. She is the co-author of the book Succeeding with the Booch and OMT Methods and the author of the best selling books Visual Modeling with Rational Rose and UML, Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML and Visual Modeling and Rational Rose 2002 and UML.
Prior to working for IBM, Terry was employed by Rational Software Corporation where she was the UML Evangelist and General Electric Company where she was a founding member of the GE Advanced Concepts Center as well as a programmer and analyst.

David Raab
Partner
Raab Associates

David M. Raab is a Partner in Raab Associates, an independent consulting firm specializing in the evaluation of database marketing technology and vendors. A recognized authority on marketing systems, he writes monthly columns in DM News and DM Review. Mr. Raab is principal author of The Guide to Customer Management Systems and The Guide to Customer Matching Systems, independent, comprehensive analyses of the major database marketing and customer matching systems. In addition, Mr. Raab frequently consults on marketing technology issues with industry vendors including service bureaus, software developers and advertising agencies.

Neil Raden
President
Hired Brains, Inc.

Neil Raden is the founder of Hired Brains, Inc., ( www.hiredbrains.com ) consultants, systems integrators and providers of syndicated and custom research in the field of business intelligence including high-performance data warehousing, data mining, closed loop decision support systems, Performance Management (EPM/CPM/BPM), and real-time analytics. Hired Brains uses a "business first" approach to the adoption of technology, implementing only those initiatives that have clear and achievable outcomes with positive effects on work, performance and the bottom line. Mr. Raden is a practicing consultant and implementer, as well as an author, speaker and industry leader. His articles appear in Intelligent Enterprise, DM Review, TDWI Flashpoint, Information Week and many others.

Robert Randall
Senior Consultant
The Intoinfo Consulting Group

Robert Randall specializes in Information Management, business transformation, and electronic governance. Prior to joining Intoinfo, Robert consulted for the public and private sector organizations in British Columbia and Japan. Robert holds an MBA from the University of Victoria, and a Masters in European Business Degree with a specialization in business strategy and e-government from the École des hautes études commerciales (EDHEC) Business School in Lille, France. Previously, Robert has published articles on client relationship management and human resource management for CIO Governments’ Review.

Michael Reed
Principal Consultant
Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc.

Michael Reed is Principal Consultant with Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, a Chicago-based systems integrator and strategic consulting partner. Mr. Reed has over 25 years of IT experience and has been specializing in data warehousing and metadata management for over 10 years. He also has extensive experience as a consultant and speaker. He has published over 100 articles, many of which can be found on CNET Enterprise, ZDNet TechUpdate, and TechnologyEvaluation.Com, and his data warehousing articles have been syndicated world-wide.

April Reeve
Associate Director
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare

April Reeve has spent most of her information technology career on application/data architecture assignments and new technology implementation project management. Currently she manages the Data Architecture for Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, a division of the Wyeth pharmaceutical firm. Her responsibilities include database administration, data modeling, and strategic planning for the organization.

Marie Roemer
Project Manager
Metlife Insurance Company

Ronald G. Ross
Principal
Business Rule Solutions, LLC

Ronald G. Ross is known as the "father of business Rules". His company Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com) provides workshops, consulting services, publications, and methodology supporting business analysis, business rules, and rule management. At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops ProteusTM, its landmark business rules methodology, which features numerous innovative business rule techniques. Mr. Ross also serves as Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship on-line publication, Business Rules Journal.

David Schlesinger
Intel Data Policy Governance Manager
Intel Corporation

David Schlesinger has 17 years experience in technology communications, 7 years experience in Information Systems quality methodology, and 5 years experience in security management,. Using a systemic approach, he developed a metadata -content driven security management system that is being used at Intel Corporation, and which has been submitted for a patent. He has a Masters in Organizational Management. He is a member of DAMA as well as the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) uniting his interest in Data Management and Information Technology Security.

John Schley
Senior Data Administrator
Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc.

John Schley has nearly ten years experience in the field of data management, designing solutions for life insurance, finance and mortgage, and compensation systems. John is the president of DAMA-Iowa chapter and previous presenter at local and national DAMA events. He earned a Certificate of Data Resource Management from the University of Washington in 2002 and received his FLMI designation in 1998.

Michael Scofield
Assistant Professor
Loma Linda University

Michael Scofield is a popular speaker and consultant in data quality and data management. He is an Assistant Professor in Health Information Management at Loma Linda University. He has held numerous posts in data architecture, data quality, and data management. His articles on data architecture and data quality techniques have been published in Information Week, IBI System Journal, Data Management Review, the Cutter IT Journal, and the Database Newsletter. He also writes humor, published in the Los Angeles Times and other journals.

Robert Seiner
President & Principal/Publisher
KIK Consulting & Educ Services/TDAN.com

Robert S. (Bob) Seiner is the President and Principal Consultant of KIK Consulting & Educational Services (KIKconsulting.com). KIK focuses on consulting & educational services including knowledge transfer of best practices in the areas of meta-data programs, data stewardship / governance programs and knowledge management. Mr. Seiner is also the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), an internationally awarded publication that celebrated its 6th anniversary and 25th issue in July of 2003.

John Sharp
Principal Consultant
Sharp Informatics

John Sharp is the founder and principal consultant for Sharp Informatics. His primary clients have been government agencies including the Departments of Commerce, Defense and Energy and the National Institutes of Health. Project topics vary from enterprise architecture, high-tech export control to foreign travel. Before founding Sharp Informatics, he was employed by Sandia National Laboratories where he held staff and management positions in many areas of information technology; including analysis, design, implementation, information architecture, data administration, and information technology research. Dr. Sharp developed the Natural Language Modeling analysis procedure. This procedure converts the usual (imprecise and inaccurate) statements and examples from a subject area into validated fact types.

Alec Sharp
Consultant
Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd.

Alec Sharp has operated a successful consulting and education business for over twenty years. Typical assignments include facilitating planning sessions, integrating business process redesign with application development and data management initiatives, and applying model-driven techniques (e.g., workflow modeling, use cases, and data modeling) to new development and the implementation of purchased applications. Alec’s roots are in data management - he is a past-president of the DAMA chapter in Vancouver, BC. His book “Workflow Modeling” (co-authored with Patrick McDermott and published by Artech House) is currently the best-selling book in the workflow arena.

Janet Siebert
Data Architect
Data Pantheon

Janet Siebert is a data architect with over 20 years of industry experience. She has worked on data conversions and data warehouses in telecommunications, health care, and financial services. As a former educator, she enjoys making complex concepts pleasantly understandable. Additionally, she is passionate about seeking ways for knowledge workers to be more effective and more satisfied. She shares her innovative ideas at national and international conferences.

Len Silverston
President
Universal Data Models, LLC

Len Silverston is an author, consultant, lecturer, and pioneer in the field of data management. He has devoted the last 20 years to helping organizations effectively manage, integrate and utilize information by developing quality data models, data warehouses and databases. He is the author of “The Data Model Resource Book, Volumes 1 and 2” (Wiley) which describe over 230 reusable data models. Many of these universal data models are now licensed worldwide by Microsoft and included in SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Mr. Silverston has been an invited speaker at many international conferences and has contributed dozens of articles to publications such as Data Management Review. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal Data Models, provides consulting, training and software to jump-start data modeling and data warehouse design efforts while increasing design quality and facilitating data integration. DAMA International has awarded him their Individual Achievement Award for 2004.

Graeme Simsion
Senior Fellow
University of Melbourne

Graeme Simsion founded Australian consultancy Simsion Bowles & Associates in 1982, after working as a DBA for a major insurance company. Over 20 years he grew the business from a one-person operation specializing in data modeling to some 70 staff in three states, offering consultancy in data management, information systems, and business process design. Graeme sold Simsion Bowles in 1999, and is currently a Senior Fellow with Melbourne University’s Department of Information Systems. Throughout his career, he has been a regular publisher and presenter and is the author of the widely used text, Data Modeling Essentials.

Brad Skiles
Director, Data Services and Administration
Purdue University

Brad Skiles has 15 years of progressive IT experience as a developer, LAN Administrator, DBA, Project Manager, and Director. Brad is an avowed data geek and a staunch advocate of data quality, firmly believing in the maxim that data quality is free. It is all of the non-quality processes and architectures that organizations introduce and implement that cost money. At Purdue University, Brad is in the midst of a rare opportunity to entirely revamp the University's data architecture and to introduce the concept of data being a core asset of the institution. In addition to his technical background, Brad Skiles has received more than 100 awards for public speaking, including state and national championships.

Anne Marie Smith
Practice Director
Staccato Consulting Group, LLC

Anne Marie Smith is the practice director for the Educational Services and Information Management practices of Staccato Consulting Group, LLC. (http://www.staccatocg.com) and is a frequent contributor to the Data Administration Newsletter (http://www.tdan.com) and IT Toolbox (http://www.ittoolbox.com). Anne Marie is a reviewer of textbooks and reference books for several publishers and is active in the information resource management (IRM) community. In addition to her consulting work, Anne Marie is an instructor of Management Information Systems (MIS) with Philadelphia, PA area colleges and universities. Anne Marie holds the degrees Bachelor of Arts and a Master's of Business Administration, both from La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. Anne Marie is completing a PhD in MIS at Northcentral University. She has served on the Board of DAMA International, and serves on the board of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA).

Doug Stacey
Area Leader, Allstate Data Management
Allstate Insurance Company

Doug Stacey has been in the IT Industry for over 20 years, primarily in database management. He has published several articles on data related topics and served for four years on the International DB2 Users Group Board of Directors. He currently holds the position of Team Lead for Metadata Infrastructure Support at Allstate Insurance Company.

R. Todd Stephens
Director
BellSouth

Todd Stephens is the Director of the Metadata Services Group for the BellSouth Corporation. Todd has served as the director since 1999 and is responsible for setting the corporate strategy and architecture for the development and implementation of the Enterprise Metadata Repositories, which include metadata, data transformation, component, XML, content, documentation, UDDI, messaging, metrics, interfaces, and the Enterprise Information Portal using XML technologies. Todd writes a monthly online column in DMReview and has delivered keynotes, tutorials and educational sessions for a wide variety of technology conferences. He has been awarded seven U.S. pending patents in the field of Metadata with one more in the process.

John Sykes
Manager
The Vanguard Group

John Sykes is responsible for Logical Data Engineering and the development of Vanguard's Enterprise Data Model. John has a BS in Computer Science from Penn State, an MBA from Villanova University, and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He has over 25 years of IT experience ranging the spectrum of the system develpment life-cycle, including development and testing, project management, systems programming, and data base administration. He has been engaged the last five years at the Vanguard Group, championing Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Data Modeling to the benefit of Vanguard's Shareholders.

Ali Tafreshi
Data Architect
Nextel Communications

Ali M. Tafreshi is responsible for the enterprise data architecture at Nextel Communications. He has consulted in various roles on data warehouse and DSS implementations. He has held IT management roles in the pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods industries. His experience includes application development, data management and performance and tuning. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in nuclear engineering from University of Maryland. He has published articles in various technical journals on the thermal sciences subject and data management.

Janice Tyson Wolf
Information Technology Specialist
Dept. of HUD

Janice Tyson Wolf has been in Data Management at HUD since 1993. She has been instrumental in pushing several stategic projects to the forefront to include a Data Quality Control Board. She is currently HUD's Registrar and is implementing a simplicity approach to metadata management. She has co-founded the Federal Data Registries Users Group with Diana Young.

Wilfred Ulmer
Data Architect
WCB Alberta

Wilfred is the Data Architect for the WCB Alberta and has over 27 years in data processing. He worked with metadata repositories and metadata management strategies since the mid 70’s and has implemented metadata repositories for companies in the telecommunications, Railway, utility and insurance industries. Last year the WCB Alberta was a finalist for the Wilshire Conferences’ 2003 Best Practices Award for Meta Data Management.

Richard Weimar, Jr.
Senior Consultant
State of Michigan

He was formally educated in Physical Organic Chemistry and has an MBA. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Information System Management. He worked in areas of pharmaceuticals, polymers, medical packaging, custom chemicals, civil engineering and construction. From 1988 to 1991 at the DuPont Co. he created implemented and managed a computer center serving 1,200 user at five locations. He also computerized one location of 300 users. With no one in DuPont to explain the data issues, he became a Data Architect. Since 1989 he has been designing and implementing data systems. He has numerous published articles and presentations on Data and Information Architecture. Since joining the Baseline Consulting Group, Inc. in Jan., 2000 he has worked with Verizon Wireless, Toyota and has worked with the State of Michigan over three years. He is responsible for developing, implementing and managing Michigan’s first meta-Data Repository for the Family Independence Agency.

David White
Lead Architect, Metadata
BellSouth Corporation

Mr. White's professional experience includes twenty-three years in professional services; executive management; strategic and tactical planning; project and programming management; operations management; functional and technical consulting; engineering; ERP implementation; training; database design and implementation; and application analysis, design, development, and implementation. He has worked in a wide range of corporate settings, including international environments, manufacturing and distribution environments, sales and marketing environments, and capital investment environments. For the last three years Mr. White has consulted as Architect and Lead Developer for a metadata and repository-based knowledge portal at BellSouth in Atlanta. His website is www.exosomatic.com.

Graham Witt
Independent Consultant

In Graham's 30+ years of industry experience, he has developed specialist expertise in system specification, user interface design, data modeling, relational database design, data quality, the use of metadata repositories and CASE tools, and information management. As well as completing a number of successful projects in these areas for major clients in such industry sectors as education, health, finance, transport, logistics and utilities, he has a reputation as an effective educator in these disciplines, and has published in the information management press.

Jonathan Wu
Senior Principal
Knightsbridge Solutions

Jonathan Wu is a senior principal with Knightsbridge Solutions, the largest independent professional services firm specializing exclusively in the business intelligence and data warehousing space. Wu has extensive experience designing, developing and implementing information solutions. He initiated and supported development of the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Certificate Program at the University of California, Berkeley Extension where he is also a lecturer. Prior to Knightsbridge, he was the chairman and co-founder of BASE Consulting Group (acquired by Knightsbridge in 2003), an advisory business services manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a senior accountant at Ernst & Young.

Gregg Wyant
Chief Data Architect
Intel Corporation

With over 15 years at Intel, Gregg’s career spans architecting Intel’s first desktop PC solutions, to designing early Pentium processor notebook solutions, to driving software vendors to optimize their code for Intel’s latest microprocessor architecture enhancements, to authoring the Ziff-Davis book How Microprocessors Work. (This book was translated into seven languages and serves as a basic primer for Intel technology)

Prior to joining Intel’s e-Business Group, Gregg worked in Information Technology driving enterprise data management strategies across the corporation including establishing data management tools and resources that improved the content and function of Intel’s master data solutions. He was a founding member of the Data Quality Program Office and now leads the Enterprise Data Architecture team as Intel’s first Chief Data Architect.

Tom Yanchek
Manager-Corporate Repository/Architecture
United Parcel Service

Tom Yanchek is actively involved in developing architectural solutions for corporate repositories within several business subject areas. An integral part of his role at UPS included the development of a business rule capture procedure and he has recently defined a business rule management approach. Tom has over 30 years of application development and enterprise architecture development experience. He has also taught data modeling, relational database design and has spoken at various seminars/conferences and written articles on business rule capturing techniques and business rule management approaches.

Hans Yeager
Partner
SH Group

Mr. Yeager has 15 years of experience in the information technology industry. The last seven years have been spent in the software industry, working with products ranging from databases, data mining, ETL, data quality, business intelligence, to budgeting and planning software. His success has been due in part to his translation of the solution benefits to a hard dollar return on investment and the ability to outline the most critical functionality delivered by the various software products. Hans is Vice President of Communications for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Data Management Association. He teaches classes on ROI modeling and the software products of the data warehouse industry at the University of Denver, Daniels Graduate School of Business.

C. Lwanga Yonke
Manager, Information Delivery and Quality
Aera Energy LLC

C. Lwanga Yonke is responsible for Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Quality. Lwanga currently specializes in all aspects of information quality. In previous assignments, he led multiple development and operations projects in petroleum engineering. Lwanga earned an MBA Beta Gamma Sigma from California State University, and holds a bachelor of science in petroleum engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. An ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, he has conducted numerous workshops and seminars on TQM strategies, and has authored and presented several technical and IRM papers.

Diana Young
FAA Data Registrar
Federal Aviation Administration

Diana Young is the Data Registrar for FAA and is responsible for the agency's data management program. In addition to the challenges of the agency-wide program, she's an active member and sub-committee co-chair of Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) / International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Common Taxonomy Team that has been chartered with standardizing aviation safety data. Prior to joining FAA, Ms. Young established an extensive background in Data Management, Information Quality and Information Stewardship.

John Zachman
President
Zachman International

John Zachman is the author of the "Framework for Information Systems Architecture", which has received broad acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for managing change in Enterprises and in the systems that support them. He travels nationally and internationally, teaching and consulting, and has facilitated innumerable executive team planning sessions. As a conference speaker, John known for motivating messages on information issues. John Zachman is a member of the International Advisory Board of DAMA International; and a member of the International Information Resource Management Advisory Council of Smithsonian Institution.

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