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Peter Aiken Founding Director Institute for Data Research |
Dr. Aiken is the founding director of the Institute for Data Research and an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has more than 20 years of business/information technology experience. Between 1989-1993 he was the Director of a research laboratory at George Mason University where he supervised research into systems and requirements engineering. In 1992 he was recruited by the Department of Defense to work in the Center for Information Management's (CIM) Information Engineering Directorate. From 1992-1997 he held the position of Computer Scientist, most recently with the Office of the CIO. At CIM, he directed a multimillion-dollar DoD-wide reverse engineering program aimed at recovering data architectures. He also participated in the development of a DoD-wide strategic level data model and data engineering efforts. He has assisted a number of organizations with their data management strategies and systems initiatives. These results have been reported in publications ranging from the Communications of the ACM to the IBM Systems Journal to InformationWEEK and five books including Data Reverse Engineering and (with Clive Finkelstein) Building Corporate Portals Using XML (McGraw-Hill 1996/99). Dr. Aiken's achievements have resulted in recognition in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in American Education and other biographical compilations. He is the recipient of the 2001 DAMA International Achievement Award (with Ted Codd). His clear and concise presentation style make him a sought after speaker and he has spoken at numerous foreign and domestic conferences and events.
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- Meta Data Tutorial: XML for Data Managers - An Introduction
- Meta
Data Tutorial: Advanced
XML-based Data Management: Engineering, Quality, EAI, Portals, and
Metadata Recovery/ Management
- DAMA Track 3: XML-based EAI for Data Managers
- DAMA: Opportunities for Data Resource Management: DAMA Panel Discussion
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Ian Barfoot |
Ian Barfoot is a Data Architect with Westpac Banking Corporation a major Australian Financial Institution. He is an accomplished international consultant with over 25 years experience in Information Technology worldwide. He has been involved with IBM's Information FrameWork (IFW) and its models since 1991 having been associated with early development and support of the Financial Services Data Model. The IFW is an adaptation of the Zachman Framework supported by detailed Conceptual, Logical and Physical content models. This role has established Ian as the leading consultant for the IFW worldwide having applied his skills throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australasia. As such he is an acknowledged leader in the development and deployment of enterprise architectures. He recently joined the highly skilled Westpac Information Management team with a specific brief to assist in the rollout of the Information Framework.
Apart from presentations at conferences Ian is an accomplished trainer having designed, prepared and presented courses on the IFW worldwide, as well as being an accredited trainer for the DMR Consulting Group.
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Michael Brackett DAMA International & Data Resource Design & Remodeling |
Mr. Brackett retired from the State of Washington in 1996 where he was the State's Data Resource Coordinator where he was responsible for developing a common data architecture for the State that spans multiple jurisdictions. Mr. Brackett has been in the data processing field for nearly 40 years, during which time he developed many innovative concepts and techniques for designing applications and managing data resources. He is considered the originator of the common data architecture concept, the data resource framework, the data naming taxonomy and data naming vocabulary, the five-tier five-schema concept, the data rule concept, and the business intelligence value chain. He is the founder of Data Resource Design and Remodeling and is the consulting data architect specializing in developing integrated data resources.
Mr. Brackett has written six books on the topic of application design, data design, and common data architectures. His books on Data Sharing Using a Common Data Architecture and The Data Warehouse Challenge: Taming Data Chaos explain the concept and uses of a common data architecture for developing an integrated data resource. His latest book on Data Resource Quality: Turning Bad Habits into Good Practices explains how to stop the creation of disparate data. He has written many articles and is a well-known author, speaker, and trainer on data resource design and data resource quality. He is the President of DAMA International for 2000, 2001, and 2002, and is listed in Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Education, and International Who's Who.
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- DAMA Tutorial: Common Data Architecture - Sharing a High-Quality Data Resource
- Joint Chair Introduction
- DAMA INTERNATIONAL Keynote: FRAMEWORKS AND ARCHITECTURES: THE ULTIMATE STABILITY
- DAMA: Opportunities for Data Resource Management: DAMA Panel Discussion
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Stephen Brobst |
Stephen Brobst is the CTO for NCR's Teradata Division. His expertise is in the identification and development of opportunities for the strategic use of technology in competitive business environments. Over the past sixteen years Stephen has been involved in numerous engagements in which he has been called upon to apply his combined expertise in business strategy and high-end parallel systems to develop frameworks for data warehousing and data mining to leverage information for strategic advantage. Clients with whom he has worked include leaders such as Office Depot, Fidelity Investments, General Motors, British Airways, Wells Fargo Bank, Wal*Mart, MCI Telecommunications, Metropolitan Life Insurance, VISA International, BSkyB, Blockbuster Entertainment, Nationwide Insurance, American Airlines, Sears Roebuck, and many more.
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- DAMA Track 3: Best Practices in Enterprise Data Warehouse Deployment
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Donald Chapin |
Donald Chapin has pioneered methods for defining data, structuring knowledge, and expressing business rules in the language of the business since the beginning of his career. Having co-founded a manufacturing company with responsibility for its organization, processes, management system and recordkeeping, he proceeded to bring that business orientation to the design of IBM's first training program for business application development. His work co-designing DBDA, IBM's first database design tool, started with business people naming the data on their forms and reports in their own business language, so the tool could bridge from the business to the database design. He helps clients to bridge work and systems with the language of their business as a tools and methods consultant, workshop facilitator, trainer, mentor, and quality monitor. Donald is a member of the Business Rules Group, and co-editor of its new "Organizing Business Concepts" standard under development.
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Joe Danielewicz |
Joe Danielewicz is the manager of Data Administration for Motorola, SPS in Tempe, Arizona. Mr. Danielewicz has worked in Information Technology for 25 years, the last 15 years in data administration and data architecture. Joe Danielewicz is a member of the Motorola Technical Ladder since 1993.
Mr. Danielewicz is a past president of the Phoenix Chapter of DAMA, and served as Vice President of Communications for DAMA International in 1993. Mr. Danielewicz received his BA degree in Liberal Arts from Northeastern Illinois University majoring in philosophy and minoring in linguistics.
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- META DATA: Using Meta Data For Web Portals, And EIPs
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Ray de Winter |
Ray de Winter’s career began in information systems development and progressed from there through to project and line management. He has spent the last 16 years in management consultancy dealing mainly in IS strategy, project and programme management and information management. His major contributions to information management have been for the UK Ministry of Defence.
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- Information Quality: Data Quality at the Ministry of Defence: Leading by Example
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Harry Ellis |
Harry Ellis is senior consultant within the Directorate of Information of the British Army. In this role for the last nine years he has provided the technical lead in the development of the Army's new modeling language (CBML) and associated developments. He was one of the early pioneers of entity modeling and was the main inspiration behind the modeling style and conventions promoted by Oracle for Designer 2000. He has a wealth of practical experience in all aspects of data management as corporate information systems manager at Smiths Industries (1965-1971), Manager of Data Handlings Software and Methods and Chief Database Consultant at ICL (1971-1981) and as an independent consultant since 1982.
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Larry English |
Larry English, President and Principal of INFORMATION IMPACT International Inc. Brentwood, TN, is an internationally recognised speaker, teacher, consultant and author in information management. He specialises in analysing trends for effective implementation of IM and he is actively involved in all aspects of IM, including planning, organisation, modelling and methodology implementation.
Larry has provided advisory services and educational seminars widely across North America, Europe and Australia. He was Vice-President of an international consulting company and data administrator in a large publishing company, where he implemented an integrated approach to database application development.
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- Information Quality Tutorial: ABCs of Information Quality
- Joint Chair Introduction
- Information Quality Keynote: THOSE WHO MISS THE INFORMATION QUALITY REVOLUTION WILL LOSE - WHAT TO DO TO WIN
- Information Quality: INFORMATION QUALITY Q & A SESSION PLUS CONFERENCE CHAIR WRAP UP
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Dr. Martin Eppler |
Martin J. Eppler, Ph.D., is the Vice Director of the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he teaches in the undergraduate, MBA- and PhD-programs (see www.mcm.unisg.ch). He is also a guest professor of information quality and knowledge management at the University of Lugano. He has published four books and over forty articles on topics ranging from information overload and knowledge work to information quality management. He studied communications and business administration in Boston, St. Gallen, Geneva and Paris. Prior to joining academia, Martin J. Eppler has worked in the media industry and in consulting. His present clients include the Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS, DaimlerChrysler, and Swiss Re.
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- Information Quality: Managing Information Quality in Knowledge-Intensive Processes
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Neal Fishman |
Neal Fishman is an Enterprise Architect with Equifax. He has over 20 years of experience in IT. He is involved in the architecture and design of e-commerce applications. He serves as a member of the Business Rules Group and the IEEE IDEFobject Standards Committee. He is a former Associate Editor for the Business Rules Journal. He is a Practising Member of the WWISA, and a former board member of the DAMA Atlanta Chapter. He has delivered presentations in North America, Australia, and Europe. He has been published in various technical magazines.
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- DAMA Track 2: Implementing the Zachman Framework
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James Forsythe |
Dr. Forsythe, directs research on quality of care initiatives for the Veterans Health Administration, and the Department of Defense, National Quality Management Program. He is also directing research in support of the CMS and U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging’s evaluation of nursing home care in the United States.
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- Information Quality: Methods for Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Abstracted Medical Records
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Patrick Gannon |
Patrick J. Gannon is President and CEO of OASIS. In addition to serving on the OASIS board, Mr. Gannon was also recently appointed to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, where he chairs a team which advises governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic business. He has worked for BEA Systems, where he served as Senior Vice President in the E-Commerce Integration Division. Prior to BEA, Mr. Gannon served as Vice President of Marketing and Industry Programs at Netfish Technologies and as Vice President of Strategic Programs for the CommerceNet Consortium, directing research and development efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as XML. Mr. Gannon is co-author of the book: "Building Database-Driven Web Catalogs," and is an international speaker on electronic business. He was the President and CEO of Internet Shopping Directory Inc., which he co-founded in 1996 to bring advanced electronic catalog techniques to the online consumer marketplace.
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- META DATA: OASIS Standards Process
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Udo Grimmer |
After a few years of practical experience from the fields of mechanical engineering and air conditioning, Udo Grimmer completed his studies at the polytechnic, Ulm. He received his degree in electrical engineering in July, 1990.
Following, he joined the DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology Center where he initially participated in research projects on software quality measurement. In 1994, he joined the data mining research group. During the following years, he has mainly been involved in the project “Data Mining Using Machine Learning”. The application of data mining technologies for measuring and evaluating data quality aspects has been his main area of interest over the last three years. Currently, he is project leader of three related research projects at DaimlerChrysler.
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- Information Quality: Data Quality: Mining for Efficient Data Quality Management
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John Hall |
John Hall is a principal in Model Systems, a consulting company with offices in London, UK and Seattle, WA, USA. John has more than 30 years IT experience, with major emphasis on data modelling, object behaviour modelling, database design, application architecture and methodology. Some people may remember him as the original architect and co-developer of SSADM, which during the 1990s became the most widely-used IT development methodology in Europe. Over the past 10 years John has been engaged more and more in business requirements and business process and, since the mid-1990s, in rule-based and intranet/extranet solutions.
John is a charter member and past chairman of the Business Rules Group. He is technology editor, and co-editor of the BRG Dispatches column. John lectures and teaches internationally, and has written some 15 books and reference manuals, mostly on and around SSADM. He has degrees in Mathematics and Statistics (St. Andrews University) and Computer Science (University of London).
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- DAMA Track 1: Business Rules, Business Plans and Workflow
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Tom Haughey |
Tom is one of four originators of Information Engineering in America. He is currently CTO for Pepsi Bottling Group after being Pepsico’s Director of Enterprise Data Warehousing. He was formerly President of InfoModel, Inc., a consultancy in Data Warehousing. His courses have been delivered to companies around the world. He has worked on the development of seven different CASE and wrote his own in 1984. He formerly worked for IBM for 17 years. He is the author of many articles on DW and IE. He was VP of Technology for Silverrun Technologies. He is working on a book, "Designing the Data Warehouse - The Real Deal". Tom earned a BA in English.
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A veteran of the Information Industry since the days of punched cards, paper tape, and teletype machines, Dave Hay has been producing data models to support strategic information planning and requirements planning since the mid-1980’s. He has worked in a variety of industries, including, among others, power generation, clinical pharmaceutical research, and all aspects of oil production and processing. He is the founder and 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.
A pioneer in the use of standard data models for standard business situations, he is the author of the book, Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought, published by Dorset House. He is a member of and has spoken at several international data management societies.
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- DAMA Track 2: Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture
- META DATA: A Schema For A Meta Data Repository
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Ho-Chun Ho |
Ho-Chun Ho is the president and founder of HoTech Corp. He has over 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture planning and IT management. He held several leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies in the areas of e-commerce, enterprise data architecture, data warehousing, corporate metadata management and data/ database administration.
Ho-Chun has published and lectured about leading edge technologies such as data warehousing, meta data management, CASE, etc., in many national and international conferences. He was a keynote speaker at DAMA Australia, 2000. Last year Ho-Chun presented at 2001 DAMA International Symposium and local DAMA Chapters- NJ, NYC Philly, Up-State NY, Business Rules Forum and META DATA Conference Europe 2001 as a key note speaker. The topics include upcoming trends of meta data management, XML, business rules engine technology, e-commerce data design and his current implementation of rule-based B2B e-commerce applications.
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- DAMA Track 2: Roadmap to Federated Data Architecture
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Kathy Hunter |
Ms. Hunter has eight years experience working with a major U.K. telecomms company, more than half of that time involved in information quality. She now works as an independent consultant, helping companies get their information quality initiatives underway. She is a popular speaker at conferences and seminars including the Information Quality Conference in London, 2000.
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- Information Quality: Selling your Information Quality Programme to Senior Management
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Carol Knight |
Carol Knight is an independent data management consultant. She has over 20 years experience in a variety of roles within the data management arena including implementing data management functions; managing DBA and DA staff; evaluating data management tools; creating logical data models; facilitating JAD sessions; designing data management programs, policies, and procedures; and applying methodology to processes. Carol has been a conference speaker on data management topics and an avid supporter of the Atlanta chapter of DAMA.
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Jean Knight |
Jean Knight is Head of the Information
Quality department within Abbey National. She has been involved with
Information Quality for three years. Jean has implemented several initiatives
within the role and has set up a team providing metadata on customer information
and consultative support to many areas of the business.
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- Information Quality: Abbey National-Information Quality Principles in Practice
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Cliff Longman CTO Kalido |
Cliff is Chief Technology Officer at KALIDO Ltd. He is responsible for product strategy and overall product architecture. He has 25 years experience in the IT industry, specializing in large database systems.
Cliff was involved with research over 10 years ago that led to KALIDO. He established the development group, software product architecture and all aspects of development standards. He was also instrumental in the business planning and formation of the management team which lead KALIDO's spin-off from the Shell group of companies.
Prior to this, Cliff has 5 years as an independent consultant and 10 years with Oracle in the UK where he was the lead architect for Oracle’s software designers toolset (now Designer 2000).
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Karen Lopez |
InfoAdvisors is an Information Resource Management Consulting firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Karen López, I.S.P. is InfoAdvisors' principal consultant. Ms. López has 16 years experience consulting to organizations initiating large, multi-project information systems programs.
She moderates several IRM-related user-to-user discussion groups at infoadvisors.com, including groups on data modelling, ERwin, Casewise, ERstudio, DBArtisan, Visible Analyst, and Advantage Repository
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- DAMA Tutorial: If I Were King of the World: Designing the Perfect Tool
- DAMA Track 3: Software Engineering and Data Management
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David Marco President Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc. |
Mr. Marco is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of data warehousing, e-business, XML, and business intelligence, and is the world’s foremost authority on meta data. He is the author of the book “Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository” (John Wiley & Sons, July 2000). This groundbreaking book has been broadly endorsed by many of the largest companies software companies in the industry and by several major magazines. In addition, he is coauthor of the soon-to-be-released “Impossible Data Warehouse Situations and Solutions From The Experts” (Addison-Wesley). Mr. Marco also serves as the editor of Real-World Decision Support a widely read electronic newsletter focusing on business intelligence and e-business topics (www.EWSolutions.com/newsletter.asp). Mr. Marco has published over 80 articles and is a columnist for Application Development Trends, Database Trends, and DM Review magazines. Mr. Marco has been selected as a judge in their 1998 - 2002 DM Review World-Class Solutions, 2002 TDWI Pioneering Solutions and 1999 – 2002 Microsoft Industry Solutions awards. In addition, Mr. Marco was a finalist for the 2000 DAMA Individual IT Achievement award.
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- Meta Data Tutorial: Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository
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Daniel Moody |
Dr. Daniel Moody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (visiting from School of Business Systems, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia). He is the Australian President of the Data Management Association (DAMA) and Australian World-Wide Representative for the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA). Daniel has held senior data management positions in some of Australia's largest commercial organisations, and has consulted in information management to a wide range of organisations in Australia and overseas. He has held academic positions at a number of Australia's leading universities, including the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Queensland. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Melbourne and his research interests include data modelling, information resource management, information economics, data warehousing and knowledge management. He has published over 50 papers in the IS field, in both practitioner and academic forums, and has chaired a number of national and international conferences.
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- DAMA Tutorial: From Enterprise Data Models to Dimensional Models: A Structured Method for Data Warehouse and Data Mart Design
- DAMA Track 3: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Data Managers
- Information Quality: Measuring the Value of Information: An Asset Valuation Approach
- DAMA: Opportunities for Data Resource Management: DAMA Panel Discussion
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Larissa Moss |
Ms. Moss is founder and president of Method Focus Inc., a company specializing in improving the quality of business information systems. She frequently speaks at Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, CRM, and Information Quality conferences around the world on the topics of information asset management, information quality, source data analysis and data modeling, project management, and organizational realignment. She lectures worldwide on: data warehouse development, data modeling, project management, as well as data audit and control. Her articles are frequently published in The Navigator, Analytic Edge, TDWI Journal of Data Warehousing, Cutter IT Journal, and DM Review. She co-authored two books: Data Warehouse Project Management, Addison Wesley 2000, and Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Lifecycle, Addison Wesley, summer 2002. Ms. Moss is a member of the IBM Gold Group, a senior consultant at the Cutter Consortium, a contributing member of ExperNet, a consulting service provided by Giga Information Group, and Ask The Experts on DM Review. She is a lecturer for DCI and MIS Training Institute. She is also a member of the Data Administration Management Association (DAMA) Los Angeles chapter, and a frequent speaker at various national DAMA chapters.
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- Information Quality Tutorial: Roadmap For Building Quality BI Applications
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Patti Munier |
Patti Munier is a Senior Data Analyst and Manager in the UPS Information Resource Management group where she managed the company’s Corporate Metadata Repository for 10 years. Patti is currently a project team member evaluating Data Warehouse metadata tools and manages the beta project to document and load selected UPS Business Rules in the Metadata Repository.
Patti has presented at the CA World Conference\Platforum in New Orleans in July 1999, the International DAMA/Metadata Conference in Arlington, VA in February 2000, participated in panel discussions at CA World Conference in Orlando, Florida in July 2001, and at local DAMA meetings in New Jersey and New York. Patti has served on the Board of the New York City Repository User Group.
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John Oxton |
John has worked in the IT industry for 25 years. For the last 20 of those years he has concentrated on data administration and design. He has worked as a DBA designing for several DBMSs including IDMSX, Tandem Relational, Teradata, DLI full function and Fastpath and DB2.
Applications covered include customer operational data stores, account and transaction processing systems and data warehouses.
For the last 7 years he has concentrated on Data Architecture within Barclays retail and business banking environments. Since May 2001, he has had the responsibility for implementing a data architecture across the whole Barclays group. The work involves obtaining funding and gaining buy-in from very senior management, technical staff and business users. Therefore he has presented extensively to audiences with differing backgrounds and knowledge levels.
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- DAMA Track 2: Barclays Data Architecture
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Graham Rhind |
Graham Rhind is an acknowledged expert in the field of data management, and has specialised for over 12 years in international address and postal code methodologies. He gained his knowledge by working with international data from both the marketing side and the technical side, giving a unique insight into the needs of all aspects of international data management. He is now an independent consultant and owner of GRC Database Information, helping customers as diverse as postal authorities, customer care centres and Internet mapping companies to understand and manage international data. His researches have led him to publish three books, "Building and Maintaining a European Direct Marketing Database" (1994) , "Global Source Book for Address Database Management"(1998, updated bi-annually) and "Practical International Data Management - A guide to working with global names and addresses" (2001). He is a regular speaker at conferences in both Europe and the United States, and has developed a range of software for optimal international address data standardisation, formatting, validation and de-duplication.
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- Information Quality: Employing Quality Principles with Global Customer Information
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Peter Rivett |
Pete Rivett is CTO of Adaptive, a company specializing in the application of metadata and repositories to enterprise modeling and bridging the gap between business and IT. Pete has spent his career in modeling and the development of repository and metadata management software - including at ICL, N&P Building Society and Adaptive which he co-founded in 1997. He works with customers on leading edge projects and is a regular conference speaker.
He is active in the Object Management Group (OMG) where he sits on the Architecture Board. He is directly involved in producing standards such as Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) and Software Portfolio Management Facility.
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Rosemary Rock-Evans |
Rosemary is currently recognised as one of Europe's leading authorities on tools and methods. She has a considerable number of successful and widely acclaimed books to her credit and is frequently a keynote speaker on conferences and seminars all over the world. Rosemary has well over 20 years experience in the computing industry, developing systems and providing consultancy in tools, methods and metrics.
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Alec Sharp |
After a stint as a systems programmer and DBA, Alec caught the modeling bug after building his first data model in 1979. He founded his consulting business in 1981, and went on to assist clients with establishing Data Administration functions, developing large database applications, and applying model-driven requirements definition techniques. Recent assignments have included helping a leading provider of enterprise applications depict their applications using business modeling techniques, leading a process redesign effort, rescuing e-commerce projects that zeroed in on technology but forgot the business process, and of course, coaching project teams in the successful application of use cases.
Alec is a past president of the British Columbia DAMA chapter, and his presentations at DAMA symposia and chapter meetings consistently receive excellent ratings. He conducts workshops on topics such as Data Modeling (introductory and advanced,) Workflow Process Modeling, Use Cases, and Facilitation & Presentation Skills throughout North America, and in Europe and Asia. His book “Workflow Modeling” (co-authored with Patrick McDermott) was published by Artech House in February 2001, and is the best-selling book on the topic.
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- DAMA Tutorial: Developing Useful Use Cases - How to Avoid the "Useless" Case Phenomenon
- DAMA Track 1: The Seven Deadly Sins of Process Modelling
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Janet Siebert |
Janet Siebert is a data architect with over 15 years of industry experience. She has worked on data conversions and data warehouses in telecommunications and health care. As a former educator, she enjoys making complex concepts pleasantly understandable. Always looking for the next challenge, she strives to automate repetitive tasks, thus freeing up resources for more interesting activities. She shares her innovative ideas at national and international conferences.
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- DAMA Track 1: Data Analysis Patterns
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Christopher Simons |
Chris Simons has been working in the IT industry in the UK and world-wide in a variety of fields, ranging from real-time to the public and private sectors of industry. Chris also has taught object-orientation, development process and software engineering at a number of UK universities. Now as a Senior Consultant with Aonix, Chris now helps organizations to specify and realize service-based solutions within multiple tier, distributed component architectures.
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- DAMA Track 3: Role of Data in Web Services
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Graeme Simsion Senior Fellow University of Melbourne |
Graeme Simsion recently joined the University of Melbourne after 20 years as CEO of Simsion Bowles and Associates, a consultancy which ultimately employed some 60 staff in three states, before being acquired by Tier Technologies in 1999. Simsion Bowles was established as a specialist data modelling and data management practice, later broadening to cover systems planning and specification and business process design.
Graeme has continued to combine consulting work with his management responsibilities and has advised many of Australia’s largest private and public sector organisations on data management strategies and practices. He is one of Australia’s best-known presenters on information systems topics, and the author of numerous publications, including the book "Data Modeling Essentials – Analysis, Design and Innovation", recently updated with Graham Witt."
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- DAMA Tutorial: Data Modelling - Essentials and Beyond
- Meta Data Keynote: REINVENTING DATA MANAGEMENT
- DAMA: Opportunities for Data Resource Management: DAMA Panel Discussion
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Donald J. Soulsby |
Mr. Soulsby is Director, Architecture Strategies for Computer Associates and is based in Toronto, Canada. As a member of the Information Management Organization, he acts as an industry liaison specializing in strategic and technical architectures for meta data management, data warehousing and business intelligence. He has an extensive background in systems architecture and planning, business requirements definition and data modeling methodologies. He has over 20 years of experience in the development of operational and decision support applications.
Mr. Soulsby speaks regularly at international industry events, DAMA functions, the Bill Inmon Seminar Series and at CA World (annual users conference). He is also listed as a framework resource of ZIFA - Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement.
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- META DATA: META DATA As An Agent Of Change
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Stephan Stadelmann |
Stephan Stadelmann has over 15 years of experience in the financial information industry in Asia, USA and Europe. Advising and consulting in data strategies, architectures, designs and management for data vendors, exchanges and financial institutions in the market data & securities processing industry.
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- DAMA Track 3: Data Strategy: Global Design for Local Content
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Lt. Col. Noddy
Stafford Ministry of Defence |
Lt. Col. Stafford is a soldier with 22 years' experience of front-line service in the British Army. He moved into the acquisition world four years ago, joining the Unmanned Vehicles Project Team, based in Bristol. He subsequently became Military Assistant to Director General Commercial in the Defence Procurement Agency. He now leads The Cleansing Project in the Defence Logistics Organisation. This project, starting in late-2000, is taking data from some 800-plus legacy systems in the organisation and cleansing it prior to its migration to new, tri-service systems that are about to enter service. As team leader he has overseen remarkable progress and the demonstrable results achieved have generated interest from other UK Government departments, from foreign Governments and from industry.
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- Information Quality: Data Quality at the Ministry of Defence: Leading by Example
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Anthony E. Treadwell |
Tony Treadwell has been a practitioner in the field of Data Resource Management for over twenty years across both public and private sectors. Tony embarked on his global travels in the mid 70's since when he has lived and worked in several countries across both North America and Europe. Tony was instrumental in establishing a Data Management Special Interest Group within the Canadian Information Processing Society (Edmonton Chapter) in 1984.
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- DAMA Track 2: Data - Enterprise Infrastructure or Project Cost
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Rick van der Lans |
Rick F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer specialising in Internet, XML, data warehousing, and application integration. He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide on defining their Internet, client/server, and data warehouse architectures. Rick van der Lans is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last twelve years, he has been presenting professionally, and has lectured in many of the European countries, South America, the USA, and in Australia. He has presented many keynote speeches at international events.
He is chairman of the Database Systems Show (organised annually in The Netherlands since 1984), he is columnist for two major newspapers in the Benelux, called Computable and Corporate.Net. Additionally, he is advisor for magazines such as Software Release Magazine and Database Magazine. His popular books, including 'Introduction to SQL' and 'The SQL Guide to Oracle', have been translated into many languages and have sold over 100,000 copies. Recently, he has published a very successful book on presentation skills.
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- DAMA Tutorial: Everything You Need to Know About Web Services
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Graham Witt |
In Graham's 30+ years of industry experience, he has developed specialist expertise in system specification, user interface design, data modelling, 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. He is the co-author, with Graeme Simsion, of the second edition of the seminal text "Data Modelling Essentials"
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- DAMA Tutorial: Data Modelling - Essentials and Beyond
- META DATA: Developing An Enterprise Object Class Hierarchy
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John Zachman |
John A. Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table" of descriptive representations for Enterprises. He is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM’s Information Strategy methodology as well as to their Executive team planning techniques. Mr. Zachman retired from IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organization dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business Zachman International.
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