Everything I Needed to Know About Data Management I Learned in Fire School
Dan Paolini
Director, Data Management Services
State of New Jersey - OIT
March 6, 2007
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Level: Introductory/All Levels
Everything I Needed to Know About Data Management
I Learned in Fire School
This presentation draws upon the author's more than thirty years of firefighting experience to create analogies to proper data management techniques. The challenges faced by emergency personnel and those faced by data managers may not seem to have much in common at first. This presentation will discuss how data managers can better deal with issues like strategic planning, resource management, prioritization, real-world limitations and changing tactical situations by studying lessons drawn from the fire service. This demonstrates how to sell data management to executives through the use of metaphor.
This presentation draws upon the author's more than thirty years of firefighting experience to create analogies to proper data management techniques. The challenges faced by emergency personnel and those faced by data managers may not seem to have much in common at first. This presentation will discuss how data managers can better deal with issues like strategic planning, resource management, prioritization, real-world limitations and changing tactical situations by studying lessons drawn from the fire service. This demonstrates how to sell data management to executives through the use of metaphor.
- What Do These Two Disciplines Have in Common?
- Why Do We Need to Know About Old-School versus New-School Techniques?
- How Do We Develop a Strategic Plan?
- How Do We Develop Support for Our Strategic Plan?
- How Do We Adapt the Plan to Available Resources?
- How Do We Adapt the Plan to Changing Situations?
Dan Paolini is the State of New Jersey's Director of Data
Management Services and first Information Architect. Before returning
to State employment, he co-founded and for six years led a successful
database consulting and training firm that specialized in data warehouse
solutions. He has also served as the Chief Technology Officer for a
public school district and for a State educational institution. He has
led successful data warehousing projects for more than a dozen state
agencies and private sector corporations.
He has presented eight keynotes and more than fifty technical papers at more than twenty conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia on many diverse technology topics, including various aspects of data management. Dan was a contributing editor for a monthly database magazine for three years as well as the technical editor for three database books. He has been an active member of several professional associations including DAMA and The DAMA International Foundation.
Dan has served more than thirty-five years as a volunteer firefighter, recently retiring as chief of his fire department. He has been honored several times for rescues and service. In his spare time he writes music, plays in a wedding band, and coaches youth soccer.
He has presented eight keynotes and more than fifty technical papers at more than twenty conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia on many diverse technology topics, including various aspects of data management. Dan was a contributing editor for a monthly database magazine for three years as well as the technical editor for three database books. He has been an active member of several professional associations including DAMA and The DAMA International Foundation.
Dan has served more than thirty-five years as a volunteer firefighter, recently retiring as chief of his fire department. He has been honored several times for rescues and service. In his spare time he writes music, plays in a wedding band, and coaches youth soccer.