of other institutions, as well as government agencies spanning the full gamut of federal and state governmental functions. As a consulting firm, William G. Smith & Associates enjoys an outstanding reputation as an innovative, value-oriented, efficient, and professional organization.

William G. Smith & Associates is dedicated to the proposition that any modern enterprise must manage information (stored data, the programming used to manipulate and use it, and the hardware/network used to store, access, and move it) as a critical enterprise resource, just like it manages any of its other critical business resources (employees, materials, equipment, financial capital, and facilities) if it is going to succeed in today's information-intensive marketplace. Information resources (data, applications, and technology) must be well-architected, built, managed and exploited as enterprise assets, not as piecemeal, redundant, disintegrated systems patched together randomly. The information resources of the enterprise must assist it to work like a well-oiled machine whose parts operate in concert, not in opposition; shared information is the key to collapsing information float, waste, time, and unproductive effort within enterprises, and to integrating and strengthening relationships with customers and suppliers.

As a professional data modeler, Bill has assisted clients through simple and sometimes very complex requirements ranging from data models supporting typical business processes (marketing, sales, order filling, shipping, purchasing, manufacturing, planning, financial management, human resource management, facilities management, etc.) to untypical requirements such as storing complex molecular structures, genome structures, rail car movements, complex parts explosions, chemical reactions, etc.

Bill is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. He began his career as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps before moving into the private sector. He has occupied a wide gamut of technical and managerial positions in corporations, and brings unusual depth and variety of experience as well as common sense to his practice as a consultant and educator. He is a popular and compelling public speaker, consultant and teacher.