Speaker Biographies

Suzanne Acar - Dept. of Interior

Suzanne Acar possesses over 20 years of experience in the areas of Data Administration and Data Architectures. She has managed various Data Administration and Data Architecture projects for the U.S. Information Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Department of Defense. Suzanne is currently the Enterprise Data Architect for the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and leads the Enterprise Data Architecture initiative. Suzanne is an active participant on the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data and Information Model (FEA DRM) Work Group, and a participating member of an ISO 11179 work group. She is also a member of DAMA.

Suzanne Acar
Office of the Chief Information Officer
Department of the Interior
202-208-3216
Suzanne_Acar@ios.doi.gov

Peter Aiken - Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Peter H. Aiken is an Associate Professor with Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Information Systems and is the Founding Director of Data Blueprint. Dr. Aiken previously held the position of Computer Scientist with Office of the CIO of the US Defense Information Systems Agency.

He has consulted with organizations in dozens of countries helping them to do more with their data. Data problems are one of the key issues facing organizations as the pace of international commerce and cooperation increase around the world. Various initiatives from outsourcing, to "extreme" systems development, to business engineering increasingly rely on good quality data exchanges. Dr. Aiken's research methods, associates, and projects increase the effectiveness with which data assets are focused in support of organizational strategy. He has authored or co-authored six books and many other publications including XML for Data Management (2004 - Morgan Kaufmann).

Dr. Aiken's achievements have resulted in recognition as one of 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century and bibliographic entries in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in American Education and other biographical compilations.

He is the recipient of multiple International Awards. His electronic addresses are peter@datablueprint.com  and http://peteraiken.net.

Shaku Atre - Atre Group, Inc.

Ms. Atre is president of Atre Group, Inc., a consulting organization specializing in business intelligence, data warehousing, and database management systems. She is a member of the board of AtreNet,Inc., a web agency, in Santa Cruz, CA. Before heading her present companies, Ms. Atre was a partner with Price Waterhouse Coopers. During the fourteen years previous to that , Shaku held a wide variety of management and staff positions at IBM, including faculty member of the prestigious Systems Research Institute.

Ms. Atre is an internationally renowned expert and lecturer in business intelligence, data warehousing, data mining, client/server computing, end-user computing, and databases. She has extensive practical experience with database projects, has helped a number of Fortune 100 clients in establishing successful business intelligence systems and data warehouses . She has taught graduate level courses in database technologies at New York University as an adjunct professor for a number of years. She has lectured on these topics to professional organizations in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. Ms. Atre is frequently quoted in Computerworld, Information Week, eWeek, and other influential computer trade publications. She is a syndicated columnist for a number of computer related Webzines. Her articles are also available on the Web site www.atre.com.  She conducts Web-based chat sessions with www.searchdatabase.com  on a regular basis.

She is the author of five books including Data Base: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance and Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition 1988) and Distributed Databases, Cooperative Processing & Networking (McGraw-Hill,1992)

Shaku Atre has a masterÍs degree in Statistics with Summa Cum Laude from University of Poona, India and has done research at the University of Heidelberg, Germany in Applied Mathematics. Ms. Atre can be reached at shaku@atre.com.

Rich Ayuso - Founder, Windsail Technologies LLC

Rich is currently consulting with Fortune 1000 companies and Federal Government Agencies on the execution and implementation of their Customer Relationship Management Information System strategies.

Prior to founding Windsail Technologies, Rich held the position of Assistant Vice President of Customer Systems for the Zurich Financial Services Group where he lead a multi-year effort in the design, development, and implementation of a global Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS). The foundation of CRMS is a central customer information file that was designed and built to efficiently, and effectively, cleanse and consolidate customer-related information from a multitude of systems. Additionally, a comprehensive Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) strategy was implemented that provides data cleansing and standardization services to other application systems pushing data quality back into those systems.

Rich began his career as a nuclear submarine officer in the United States Navy. He holds a B.S. Degree in Marine Engineering from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD as well as an MBA from Marymount University in Arlington, VA.

Rich Ayuso
Windsail Technologies LLC 
Rayuso@windsailtech.com 
410-652-1359

Scot Becker - InConcept, Inc

Scot Becker is a Principal Consultant for InConcept, Inc. - a Minneapolis based consulting and training company specializing in conceptual data modeling and the gathering of business rules. He is also a certified ORM consultant and trainer, a certified Visio Enterprise trainer, and Editor of the Journal of Conceptual Modeling (http://www.inconcept.com/JCM/).

Scot A. Becker
InConcept, Inc.
8171 Hidden Bay Trail N
Minneapolis, MN 55042
scotb@inconcept.com
651.777.8494

John T. Bell - Latitude360

John Bell is a Principal Engineer at Latitude360, a subsidiary of RWD Technologies. His 21 years of software development experience include delivering custom, embedded, commercial and web-based software solutions on a variety of platforms. He has served on the IEEE committee for the IDEF1X₉₇ Object Modeling Standard and has taught courses in Object Oriented Design and Development. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems Management from the University of Maryland. At RWD, Mr. Bell led the effort to integrate UML into the ProVision™ software development methodology. Mr. Bell has supported RWD projects for Media One, Deere, NASD and DaimlerChrysler. He is currently supporting DaimlerChrysler as the lead architect for WebDIAL. WebDIAL is DaimlerChrysler’s Internet solution for conducting business between DaimlerChrysler and Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep dealerships.

David Beulke - Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.

Dave Beulke is an internationally recognized consultant, author and lecturer and President of Pragmatic Solutions. He builds metadata repositories and does performance reviews for many clients. He is the chief architect of Syspedia the metadata repository. Syspedia provides extensive metadata on databases, files, application programs and JCL through an intuitive web interface. He has helped clients with metadata systems on the mainframe, UNIX and Windows environments and has over 22 years experience in numerous industries.

You can reach him through Pragmatic Solutions Inc. at 703-798-3283 or DBeulke@compuserve.com

Joyce Bischoff - Lecturer, consultant, writer

Joyce Bischoff is an internationally recognized lecturer, consultant, and writer with an extensive background in data warehouse, data base design, design reviews, administration, and performance. She has worked with more than 40 warehouses with sizes up to 13 terabytes and specializes in performing data warehouse assessments at any point in the warehouse life cycle. She has been involved in planning, designing, performing design reviews, and/or implementing data warehouse environments in the chemical, pharmaceutical, insurance, banking, financial, credit card, oil refining, publishing, government, and hospital industries.

She is the Lead Author of "Data Warehouse: Practical Advice From the Experts", which was published by Prentice-Hall in 1997 and contributed a chapter to "The Handbook of Data Management", published by Auerbach. She has developed and taught various data modeling, database, and data warehouse classes and started her own consulting/training firm in 1990. She is a member of the IBM Gold Consultants Group, an elite, international group of 50 independent consultants who receive special briefings and provide feedback to IBM.

Lisa Black - Department of Energy

Ms. Black has over 15 years of increasing experience in the programming, development, and management of computer software engineering projects.  Currently she is performing business process analysis, system design and database design for an Intranet to be implemented for the Office of Science within the Department of Energy.

Previously, she implemented the databases and front-ends for the NAVSEA Strategic Sealift Rate Model (SSRM), Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Fuel Supply Center (DFSC) Storage & Distribution (S&D) System and U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA) Global Deployment Analysis System (GDAS).  These three systems are expert simulation models that are data driven and require extensive data relationships and design.  Additionally, she developed procedures to download and normalize data from the mainframe DFAMS system into the S&D database. The four systems above included development and analysis using MS SQL, Paradox, Foxpro, and MODEL 204.

Deborah L. Brooks - The MITRE Corporation

Deborah Brooks is a Principal Information Systems Engineer with the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org).  She has 25 years of data architecture and data management experience in the private sector, both in the U.S. and abroad, as well as with the U.S. government. Ms. Brooks was an early implementer of centralized Enterprise Data Management and has authored chapters in Auerbach Publications' Handbook of Data Management and High-Performance Web Databases. She has also published several articles in data management periodicals and has been a repeat speaker at International DB2 User's Group (IDUG) conferences. As former CIO of a financial services company, Ms. Brooks is experienced in all aspects of IT management, from strategic to operational, and was responsible for the development and implementation of a 3 terabyte Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Jim Carpenter - Able And Willing International Education Foundation

Jim is Treasurer and Chief Geek for Able And Willing International Education Foundation (http://AbleAndWilling.org), a private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting education and development in areas of the world where access to education is limited.  The first project of Able and Willing was to build a school in southern Dem. Rep. of Congo while developing low-cost, bio-friendly construction methods and and organizing local participation.  The school now has about 400 students in elementary through technical education, is entirely self-sufficient, and is training students who will build and staff more schools to be initially funded by Able and Willing.  Jim has been traveling to the Congo since 2002 to set up a computer learning lab for the school and assist in other projects.  Able and Willing has donated nearly 100 computers to schools in Africa and Latin America and makes presentations to various organizations in the U.S.

Jim is the past president of DAMA-NCR.  During his two year term as president, Jim introduced significant changes which have revived the spirit and finances of the chapter.  In addition, he created the DAMA-NCR web site, which he still maintains, served on the Program Committee of the DAMA International 2000 conference, and co-chaired the Metatopia 2001 Symposium. 

Jim worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics for nearly 30 years where he has evaluated a range of technologies for the bureau.  His first assignment at BLS, as a mathematical statistician, was to help design the International Prices Survey.

Jim has served as a member of the ANSI NCITS & ISO metadata standards groups, serving as co-editor of ISO 11179, Part 2.

Jim served over three years on 3Com's "3Wizard Advisory Committee", a unique and varied international group of 12 opinionated technocrats who met in four marathon sessions each year to review 3Com's software and hardware development projects (including   OS/2 and LAN Manager, the precursors to Microsoft NT).

He served on the board of the Washington Statistical Society during the 70’s and co-authored the first comparative review of statistical packages published in Byte Magazine and elsewhere.

Jim earned an MS degree in Statistics from the University of Michigan and BS in Mathematics, from Indiana University.

Jim Carpenter
http://AbleAndWilling.org

Rajan Chandras -- CSC Consulting

Rajan Chandras is a consultant and practicing data architect with CSC Consulting. He has about 14 years of experience in the software and consulting industry, in areas of Technical Project Management, Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Development Team Leadership and Testing/Validation. He has published with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) as well as with industry publications, and has presented at the annual worldwide CSC Technology & Business Solutions Conference. He has a M.S. degree in Physics from the University of Poona, India and M.S. in Information & Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Rajan Chandras
Senior Consultant
 CSC Consulting 
(973)243-0023x8381
 rchandra@csc.com or
rchandras@hotmail.com 

David Colpitts -- Research and Program Management Group, LLC

Over his twenty-five year career, David Colpitts has held leadership roles in numerous data management assignments in private companies as well as in government agencies. His consulting assignments have provided opportunities to observe examples of effective Data Governance, as well as situations where effective data sharing (and Data Governance) has seemed an elusive goal.

Recently, he worked with the Enterprise Architecture planning office of the Department of Homeland Security (Customs). Later he supported the Data Governance initiative at the same agency. He has also worked with the award-winning Data Governance practice of Pinkerton Computer Consultants.

He is the former Vice-President for Programs for the Data Administration Management Association (DAMA) Chapter in the National Capital Region (DAMA-NCR).

David Colpitts
 dccmc@cox.net

Philip Cooper -- Kalido, Inc

Before transferring to Kalido, Inc., Philip spent 4 years within Shell IT working in a number of areas including data warehouse consultancy, database design and business development. Philip was part of the Kalido consulting team working in Europe, Australia, and the US on several award-winning data warehouse projects. Today Philip plays the dual role of senior consultant and technology evangelist. Philip graduated with a Masters degree from Cambridge University, and he's also a supporting member of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI).

Art DeMaio -- Evoke Software

Art DeMaio, Vice President Technical Sales Support for Evoke Software, has extensive functional experience with the implementation of data migration projects. DeMaio has held HR and Payroll management positions in the transportation, entertainment, and financial service industries. At CSX Financial Services, he was responsible for the technical implementation of PeopleSoftÍs HRMS product, and managed a staff of 23 people with a budget of $2 million annually. In addition to consolidating the data and processes from 3 distinct departments into one system, he supervised the movement of personnel and equipment into new facilities. Prior to working at CSX Financial Services, DeMaio was the Manager of HR Systems at Sea-Land Service (a subsidiary of CSX) and was accountable for all data used by Human Resources, which included, data maintenance, reporting, and systems integration. This position laid the foundation for the People Soft HRMS project. Prior to his career at CSX, DeMaio was an AVP and Director of payroll departments at Merrill Lynch and Sony Music and was responsible for the implementation of hierarchical systems from sequential systems for both organizations. These, and other similar experiences, have provided him with an understanding of the challenges organizations encounter when attempting to move their legacy data to new systems or to determine the current quality status of that data.

Over his four years with Evoke, DeMaio has been involved in many different types of projects. He has been involved in the data analysis phases of Data Warehouse, Quality Assessment, ERP, Merger and Acquisition and Application Integration projects at many of Evoke SoftwareÍs customers. DeMaio brings a unique business view to these projects with the full understanding of the technological and methodological issues that may be encountered.

Mike Douglass -- Sequoia Software Corporation

For more than 15 years, Mike Douglass has been articulating technology-based opportunities for US Government organizations, including interactive computer graphics, geospatial information strategies, and knowledge management tools.

Mike Douglass, Federal Sales Manager
Sequoia Software Corporation
410-715-0206 x5357 office
410-952-9286 mobile
MDouglass@sequoiasoftware.com

Connie Dowler - Stanley Associates

Ms. Dowler has worked in the Information Technology field for such organizations as the National Weather Service, Hughes STX, and American Management Systems.  Currently, she works for Stanley Associates on the Development team of the Information Management for the Office of Science project at the Department of Energy in Germantown, Maryland.  She is in charge of database issues, spanning five separate projects; these issues include data conversions, data modeling, and data analysis

Thomas R. Finneran - CIBER Custom Solutions Group

Tom Finneran is a veteran information architect, consultant, and executive manager. He is a Principal Consultant at the CIBER Custom Solutions Group.  He has developed various architecture and methodology approaches for a number of companies in a number of industries, including telecommunications, pharmaceutical, oil and chemical, banking, manufacturing, insurance, and government. He has been a business data analyst, Manager of Standards & Education, Manager of Data Administration, Manager of Corporate Data Strategy, Director of Management Information Systems, Managing Consultant, and Principal Consultant. He has been published a number of time and has presented to a number of international groups, including DAMA International Conferences in 1997 and 1999.

A patent lawyer, he resides in Princeton Junction, NJ, with his wife, with whom he works, part time, with inventors and small business entrepreneurs.

Thomas R. Finneran, Prinicpal Consultant
ciber
Custom Solutions Group
3421 US Highway 22
Somerville, NJ  08876-6026
908-725-4000
tfinneran@ciber.com
http://ciber.com/

John R. Friedrich, II - JRFII, Incorporated

Dr. Friedrich received his doctorate in High Energy Physics from the University of Texas, and has bee working in the computer field for over 15 years. He has managed many software development and data administration efforts for the Air Force Medical Support Agency, the OASD(HA) as Manager of the Health Information Resources Service Project, and in support of other Government and State Agencies.

John is currently President and CEO of JRFII, Incorporated, which specializes in development of tools to support Data Administration efforts, to support development of World Wide Web Portals into corporate data, and support in applying these and other tools (notably from Meta-Integration Technologies• , Inc.) to problems involving movement of data and system integration.

jrfried@msa1835.brooks.af.mil

Ron Forino - DMR Consulting Group

Ron has been in the industry for over 20 years as a technician, analyst, architect, project manager and director. An MBA in Information Management, Ron is Director of the Competency Center for Data Warehousing of DMR Consulting Group where he established the corporation’s Data Quality practice area.

Ron’s recent work includes implementing corporate data quality programs for major financial institutions in the New Jersey area. He has also worked to establish Data Archeology, Knowledge Management and Architectural Methodologies in support of Data Warehousing initiatives.

Ron is currently the Vice President of Marketing for DAMA-NJ. His other activities include being an Assistant Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America.

Director of Business Intelligence
DMR Consulting Group
333 Thornall St
Edison, NJ 08837
Phone: (732)549-4100 x-8292
Fax:  (732)549-5682
rforino@dmr.com  or  RonForino@AOL.com
http://WWW.DMR.com

Jerome M. Garrett - U.S. Census Bureau

Jerome Garrett is a graduate of Lincoln University with a B.A. in Mathematics. He has a Computer Specialist with the US. Census Bureau since 1985. During this time he has developed production systems in support of the Demographic, Decennial, Economic, Field and Information Technology directorates.

Since 2000, Jerome has been the leader of the Metadata team of the Systems Support Division. In this capacity Jerome is charged with implementing a Corporate Metadata Repository to service all Census Bureau programs.

Todd Goldman - Exeros

Mr. Goldman comes to Exeros with over 15 years experience as a general manager and marketing executive. Before joining Exeros, Mr. Goldman was Vice President of Marketing for ScaleMP, a venture-funded company supplying enterprise middleware software to OEM computer manufacturers.  Previously, he was Vice President and General Manager at America Online/Netscape where he oversaw the company's Shop@AOL, Netscape Search, and Netscape Small Business services. Mr. Goldman joined AOL as part of its acquisition of Netscape where he was Director of Product Marketing for the Netscape Directory and Security products. Before joining Netscape, he held various marketing and management positions at Hewlett-Packard working on products such as HP OpenView for Telecom and HP OpenMail/X.400. Todd has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.S.E.E. from Northwestern University.

Todd can be reached at: 408-919-0191 x1115
Web site: www.exeros.com

Marcie Barkin Goodwin - Axis software designs

Marcie Barkin Goodwin is the President/CEO of Axis software designs, a software training and consulting company specializing in modeling environments, their infrastructures, and the fostering of communication to ensure successful projects. She has provided training and consulting services to Fortune 500 companies as well as to the government for over 10 years.

Ms. Goodwin has assisted her clients in the development of efficient modeling infrastructures. 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.

Marcie Barkin Goodwin
www.axisboulder.com

Michael M. Gorman - Whitemarsh Information Systems Corporation

Michael M. Gorman has been involved in data processing for over 40 years. Mike has been Secretary of the ANSI Database Committee for over 28 years. He co-authored all the SQL standards.

Mike has worked for System Development Corporation which, with MITRE and Lincoln Labs invented data management. Mike worked for MITRE during the early 1990s.

Mike was a Federal Systems Manager and brought Database Management Systems into Federal Agencies including the Army, Navy, Air Force, EPA, HUD, Commerce, and Agriculture.

During the past 25 years Mike has delivered data management consulting and training to a number of Fortune 100 companies, as well as State and local governments.

Mike owns Whitemarsh Information Systems Corporation which provides consulting, methodologies, books, courses, workshops and CASE/Repository software.

Mike has authored numerous books and publishes regularly on The Data Administration Newsletter. Mike has taught at a number of Universities, at Data Management Association Chapters, and at their International Conferences 2000 through 2006.

Mike's most recent book, Data Interoperability Community of Interest Handbook, sets out a very practical, step by step process for building interoperable data and process specifications within communities of interest. The book also sets out all the necessary bureaucracy required to stand-up and effectively operate communities of interest.

Michael M. Gorman
Whitemarsh Information Systems Corporation
2008 Althea Lane
Bowie, Maryland 20716-1518
Phone: +1.301.249.1142
FAX: +1.301.249.8955
mmgorman@wiscorp.com 
http://www.wiscorp.com/ 

Ted Griffin - Department of Energy

Mr. Griffin has worked 26 years with the Department of Energy Headquarters supporting information management.  For the first 23 years, he worked for the Chief Information Officer organization leading various functions such as computer services, computer center operations, telecommunications center operations, budget formulation and execution, personnel, general administration, computer security, DOE information management collaboration, helpdesk, and teleprocessing.

For the last 3 years, he has been working for the Office of Science information management organization supporting their strategic planning and architecture function.  Recently he became responsible for leading their operations, systems maintenance, and helpdesk functions as well.

Seth Grimes - Alta Plana Corporation

Seth Grimes is a principal of Alta Plana Corporation, a Washington-area  consultancy specializing large-scale analytical computing systems. He also writes a  decision-support column for Intelligent Enterprise magazine where he is a contributing editor. 

Mr. Grimes is expert in management and analysis of demographic, economic, and financial statistics and in information systems architectures, design, and development. He has built databases and Internet systems for leading governmental and private organizations.

Mr. Grimes has created technology strategies and analyses covering application of analytical tools in customer relationship management (CRM), marketing automation, supply-chain management, time-series management & analysis, and Web data dissemination.

Seth served from 1998 to 2002 as team lead for data-product production on the Census Bureau's Data Access & Dissemination System (DADS) project, responsible for designing and building the US 2000 census tabulation system.  Seth specializes in management and analysis of scientific and  statistical data. He previously worked as a consultant at the  International Monetary Fund, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation  and Development, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and  NASA. He has also worked on data-driven Web sites for private companies  including FedEx, Kellogg's, National Geographic, and Radisson Hotels.

Seth earned a master's degree in mathematics from the Univ. of Washington and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and in philosophy from Wesleyan Univ.

Seth Grimes   
grimes@altaplana.com    
http://altaplana.com 

Ford Goodman - Certive

Ford Goodman is the founder and president of Certive.  He brings to Certive over twenty years of high tech experience in general management, sales and marketing. Prior to founding Certive, he was CEO of Relevance Technologies, an Internet text modeling technology firm, which was acquired by Documentum in 1998. Earlier positions included CEO of CE Software, a publicly traded software company best known for QuickMail for the Macintosh; and VP America Sales for Informix. Ford began his career as an information systems consultant with Andersen Consulting. Ford has also been an investor, mentor and board member to a number of high technology concerns in the Western United States. Ford holds a BSE in Civil Engineering / Architecture from Princeton University. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, coaches Little League and has recently founded Center Fields, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing educational and athletic opportunities to inner city parks and fields.

Elizabeth Haddad ¿ US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information

Ms. Haddad is a Quality Program and Regulatory Program intern for The Washington Center assigned to the USEPA Office of Environmental Information, Office of Planning, Resources, and Outreach, Policy and Program Development Staff.  In her tenure as an intern, Ms. Haddad participated in developing the innovative and interactive web-based OEI quality system, supported quality and information policy development, assisted in implementing the OEI quality system, and analyzed Agency policy to facilitate potential integration.  Ms. Haddad presented a summary of Agency information policy and policy development processes at EPAÍs 25^th National Annual Conference on Managing Quality Systems. Ms. Haddad is a graduate of Tufts University where she double-majored in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies.

Terry Hardgrave - Pearson Federal

W. Terry Hardgrave holds a doctorate (1972) in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).  He is currently a Principal Solutions Architect with Pearson Government Solutions and is part of the Enterprise Architecture team at Federal Student Aid (FSA) within the US Department of Education. 

Dr. HardgraveÍs data management experience began while he was a systems programmer at the Computation Center at UT Austin and his dissertation was concerned with the mathematical semantics of applying Boolean query languages to tree-structures. In his systems programming career, he has built, used and re-engineered several large data-related systems.

In addition to systems programming, Dr. Hardgrave has served on the faculty of two universities, University of Maryland, College Park and George Mason University, served as a Federal employee, participated in several high-tech start-ups and served as a consultant to both private sector and government entities.

Harry S. Hertz - National Quality Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dr. Hertz has responsibility for the National Quality Program which administers the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Prior to becoming Program Director in 1996, he served as the Program’s Deputy Director from 1992-1996. Dr. Hertz has been with the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1973, originally as a research chemist, and then in a series of management positions including Director of the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory. He has made presentations to a wide variety of audiences on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, its criteria for measuring performance excellence, and on health care quality improvement. He is the author or co-author of over 50 publications and holds 1 patent. He serves on advisory committees for the Conference Board, the United Way of America, and the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Dr. Hertz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received numerous awards including the 1986 Arthur S. Flemming Award as one of ten outstanding civil servants under age 40. He has a B.S. in Chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. Following graduate school, Dr. Hertz spent two years as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Munich.

Dr. Harry S. Hertz
Director, National Quality Program
NIST
http://www.quality.nist.gov
harry.hertz@nist.gov

Pamela W. Hopkins - DataSource, Inc.

Pamela Hopkins is president and CEO of DataSource, Inc., a Maryland-based software development company. With more than 18 years of experience in the commercial and government IT arenas, she recognized a need for a real commitment to quality in IT services and founded the company in 1994. Under her leadership, DataSource has been recognized for its software development processes and managed exceptionally high levels of growth. In 2000, the company was ranked number 12 on the INC. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies and received an Arthur Andersen Global Best Practices Award. Ms. Hopkins also was named a 2000 Ernst & Young¬ Entrepreneur of the Year in the state of Maryland. Her dedication to providing high-quality services has propelled DataSource to become qualified as an SEI CMM¬ Level 3 company. Ms. Hopkins firmly believes that the application of CMM¬ processes, along with corporate-wide Software Quality Assurance procedures, is the most reliable method of guaranteeing project success and customer satisfaction. Her current focus is set on leading DataSource to becoming a company with a core business of complementary products and services.

Ms. Hopkins has a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from North Carolina State University and hails from Greensboro, North Carolina.

Francis Hsu - Dept of State

Francis Hsu is a student of history and technology. HeÍs designed and implemented data systems for large organizations. Prior to joining the US government, he consulted in Fortune 50 organizations. One of his primary roles has been a data architect.

Francis Hsu
Dept of State
IRM/OPS/SIO/API/Data Management
703-875-6089

Douglas S. Jones - Public Sector Manager, Business Objects

Doug has 18 years of experience in data management, data quality, data enhancement and the integrated systems that maintain data throughout the enterprise.  For over 11 years Doug spent time building and modeling data for the largest corporate data bureau and their Global 2000 clients.  DougÍs experience was focused on Risk evaluation, Supply Chain evaluation and Marketing database creation.  Today Doug works specifically with large commercial clients and the Federal agencies in order to standardize data to their requirements and in order to match and consolidate information into the proper formats and groups.  He holds a BachelorÍs degree in both Economics and English with concentrations on International Economics and Linguistics.

Kevin Kail - XMLSolutions

Kevin Kail is XMLSolutions' President. He has more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience in the data warehousing and repository industry and has generated more than $100 million in revenue. Before co-founding XMLSolutions in 1999, he was Alydaar Software Corporation's Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development worldwide, where he created a sales organization of 40 professionals in 10 months. He has also held executive positions at InfoSpan, ADPAC, MSP Corporation and Reltech. At PLATINUM Technology, he managed all repository and information warehouse product sales in the Western United States. Kail has a BS in Accounting from the University of Texas A&M. 

Kevin Kail
XMLSolutions.com 

Kapil Khanduja - Data Foundations

Kapil Khanduja heads the data management practice at Data Foundations. His 10-year experience includes roles in business consulting in Standard Data for global companies such as Pepsico, and as Marketing Manager at an insurance software vendor. He has led teams for developing and supporting large data warehouses and enterprise reporting systems, and is very familiar with the issues surrounding data disparity and quality. He has spoken at industry events such as the Enterprise Data Forum and Metatopia. Kapil holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Data Foundations, The Standard Data Authority
(201) 227-1700 x118
www.datafoundations.com

Mark Knecht - Sytel, Inc.

Mark Knecht leads Sytel's commercial business activities. Sytel provides consulting and implementation services related to eBusiness infrastructure (www.sytel.com). Mark has over 25 years of IT industry experience, working at both startups and large companies such as NCR and AT&T. Mark has extensive experience with Internet infrastructure including enterprise portals, content management, enterprise directories, messaging and other key technologies. Mark is a native of Indiana, attending University of Indianapolis, and later worked like a slave to receive an MBA from Wichita State University.

Mark Knecht
VP of Commercial Business
Sytel, Inc. 
Bethesda, MD
MKnecht@SYTEL.COM 

Allan Kolber  - Business Rules Group; ConcentrX

Allan Kolber has 27 years of experience in IT, focused primarily on data. In 1989, he created and led a GUIDE project on Modeling Extensions, where the importance of business rules as extensions to data modeling was clarified. He followed this up with the creation of the GUIDE Business Rules Project, which published "Business Rules: What are they really?" in 1995 and subsequently updated. He was one of the founding members of the Business Rules Group, which published "Organizing Business Plans: The Standard Model for Business Rules Motivation" in November of 2000. He is now working with the BRG on "Organizing Business Concepts" and working with the Business Rules Working Group of the OMG to develop a common standard based on Model Driven Architecture. As a consultant, he has been using the Zachman Framework for over 15 years in doing Structured Assessments and has used the work of the BRG to improve the methodology for column 6 analysis. He is currently working on the U.S. Customs Service Modernization Program as a Senior Enterprise Architect in Enterprise Architecture Engineering.

Allan B. Kolber
Business Rules Group; ConcentrX
4 Albemarle Rd., East Brunswick, NJ 08816-4213
(h) 732-6131538 (c) 732-672-3691
AllanBKolber@yahoo.com

Jason Kruse - Department of Energy

Mr. Kruse has worked 14 years in systems development and architecture from support staff, junior engineer, database administrator, and most recently, enterprise architect for DOE Office of Science.  He has worked with databases throughout his career for DOD and civilian systems trying to implement the standards and integrity needed to "keep the data clean."

Jason worked eleven years with Stanley Associates, Inc.

Les LaJoie - Concentrix, Inc.

Les was the Vice President at ATI (Ahuja Technologies) where he is responsible for building the practice from the ground-up.  Les provides oversight management leadership and technical expertise to guide and direct the ATI’s Practice Team.  Les LaJoie has a proven track record of hands-on data warehousing mentoring and leadership support throughout the entire sales and delivery life cycles.  Prior to coming to ATI, Les was the CEO of RDT Corporation for eight years.

 Les has participated on numerous successful data warehouse projects, functioning in technical and project management roles on many of these projects.    Les’s experience designing and implementing data warehouse strategies and providing executive support for numerous Fortune 500 companies has given him insight and wisdom into what it takes to be successful in the highly competitive Data Management consulting services industry.

For several years, Les has functioned in a Senior IT Architect role assisting companies which are implementing new data warehouses or enhancing existing data warehouses.  He has participated in all aspects of the data warehouse life cycle, including interviews, requirements gathering, data design, tool design / selection, data extracts, network selection, hardware selection, and training. 

Les worked in the Telecommunications Industry to implement a new neural net/fuzzy logic design on an existing Oracle Data Warehouse system. He has also worked to integrate Oracle, SAS, Informix, and Legacy systems for easy data queries in an OLAP Web environment deployed via an Intranet and Dial-up system. Les has combined technologies from SAP, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft to achieve results as requested by customers. 

Les is a member of the Data Warehousing Institute and is a frequent lecturer at business seminars and conferences.  He holds numerous patents in Artificial Intelligence for digital microprocessors.

Juan-Carlos Martinez - Avellino

Juan-Carlos Martinez has over fourteen years of experience in the enterprise software industry. He has been instrumental in developing, launching, marketing and selling complete enterprise solutions for Global 1000 companies and organizations world-wide. These solutions have encompassed Data Quality and Integration, Business Intelligence, Web Technology, CRM and ERP systems.

Mr. Martinez holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published many articles and presentations in Europe and North America.

martinez@avellino.com

Robert P. McDonald-Walker - Institute for Defense Analyses

Dr. Walker has been a member of the research staff in the Systems Evaluation Division of IDA since 1986.

Dr. Walker earned his BS in Mathematics at the University of Maryland PhD. and his PhD. in Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  

Previously, Dr. Walker served as Associate Director at the System Planning Corporation (1979-86), Associate Professor of Mathematics and Acting Director of Management Information Systems at Bowie State College (1976-79), Professor of Mathematics and Chairman, Department of Mathematics at Talladega College (1973-76), Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Director of Summer Institute at University of North Carolina (1968-73), and as Mathematician for Aerospace Technology at Goddard Space Flight Center (1961-65).

Dr. Walker is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Military Operations Research Society.  He has authored or contributed to over 100 publications.

Robert P. McDonald-Walker
rwalker@ida.org
Institute for Defense Analyses
http://www.ida.org 
4850 Mark Center Drive
Alexandria, VA 22311-1882
703-845-2462

Bob Maksimchuk -- Rational Software Corporation

Bob Maksimchuk has over 20 years experience in hardware and software development spanning such varied technology domains as aerospace / defense, industrial control, financial systems, telecomm, publishing, business systems, development tools, and other commercial software development.  For over a decade Bob has focused on using his object-oriented expertise to help numerous companies employ OO techniques to solve their development problems. Bob is the Data Modeling Evangelist for Rational Software, a member of DAMA and IEEE, and is currently co-authoring a book on Database Design with the UML.

Robert A. Maksimchuk
Rational Software Corporation
E-mail: Rmaksimc@rational.com
Phone: 610-940-2124

Thomas E. McCullough - Lockheed Martin Information Technologies, Inc.

Mr. McCullough is currently employed as a Principal Architect for Software Systems for Lockheed Martin and works onsite for a client presently in Alexandria, Virginia.

Mr. McCullough has over three decades of experience throughout the entire systems development life cycle covering data management and information architecture, project and program management, software engineering and development. He has directed, managed, consulted, and assisted projects in a wide variety of roles covering data modeling, data base administration, data administration, data warehousing, business intelligence/decision support, programming, project management, and business development. He has worked for Eastman Kodak Company as a Systems Designer and DBA at the Kodak Park Plant, a Lead Data Base Analyst for The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C., Principal for Emhart/ATI (now Northrop Grumman), Technical Manager for CSX Professional Services, Inc., Vice President of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for Zurich Financial Services, Inc., and as a Program Director and Sr. Data Architect for SI International prior to working for Lockheed Martin.

In addition to being a "Past Soccer & Lacrosse Dad," for two lovely daughters, Mr. McCullough is married and has been a member of DAMA-NCR continuously since 1988 and served the DAMA-NCR Board of Directors as a Special Advisor for one year, as VP of Program Planning for DAMA-NCR for three years, and as President of DAMA-NCR commencing with the 2003-2004 program years. He earned an MBA from the University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration and a BS Summa cum Laude in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh. Tom is a Certified Computing Professional and a Certified Data Management Professional with a Certified Specialty in Data Warehousing. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the IEEE Computing Society, a past member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society, a 32Á Scottish Rite Mason, and is an avid Panther booster for Team Pittsburgh.

Thomas E. McCullough
tom.mccullough@us.army.mil 
(703) 325-0959

Ray McGlew - PJM

Ray McGlew is a member of DAMA ¿ Central Pennsylvania and DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley. He is a data and metadata consultant and Lead Faculty Practitioner at the University of Phoenix.

He has devised and implemented data management strategies at medium and large companies. He has established and managed data management functions, including the creation of enterprise data models and metadata repositories.

While at IMS Health, the leader in providing pharmaceutical sales and marketing data, he developed the rationale to implement a Data Administration function, hired, and managed the team. He directed the development of the international Common Data Model, which described the data that IMS Health sold under multiple product lines in many countries. To support the implementation of the model, he also led the efforts to develop logical and physical database standards. While at IMS his team analyzed the requirements for, and implemented a metadata repository that is used for easy access to database catalogues from three DBMSÍs, dissemination of consistent names and definitions, and impact analysis.

Ray has presented at DAMA Philadelphia; DAMA International; Enterprise Data Forum; and New York Data Management Forum.

Ron McLeod - Dell, Inc.

Ron McLeod has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years as a project manager and practice manager in the areas of mapping, transportation systems, and document management systems. He has experience in both the public and private sectors.

Ron is well versed in the practical application of IT service delivery processes and practice management processes. He has designed and operationalized development and delivery processes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Unisys, Kodak, Intergraph and Dell. He has deep knowledge in the areas of software process improvement and software project management. He has developed and analyzed software development methodologies.

Ron has degrees from San Diego State University.

Ron McLeod
rgmcleod@austin.rr.com

Laila Moretto - MITRE Corp.

Ms. Moretto is currently employed as a Senior IT advisor and Software Engineer with the MITRE Corporation, Mclean, Virginia. The MITRE Corporation is a Federally Funded Research Corporation (FFRDC), a not-for-profit company. Ms. Moretto supports the Department of Defense (DOD) FFRDC within MITRE.

Ms. Moretto has over fifteen years of experience throughout the entire software engineering lifecycle development. She has directed, managed, consulted, and assisted projects in a wide variety of roles covering data modeling, data base administration, Requirements analysis, and strategic management. Currently, Ms. Moretto supports the Army CIO office Information Infrastructure Modernization Division.  She is involved in various enterprise level initiatives that are being considered for implementation across the Army.  Before working for the Army CIO office,  Ms. Moretto supported the Defense Systems Information Agency (DISA) Global Combat Support System (GCSS) program where she provided data engineering and management.

Along side her professional experience, Ms. Moretto proudly served as engineering officer in the United States Army Reserves.  Her most recent assignment was as a security manager managing over 350 personnel.

Ms. Moretto serves as a member of DAMA-NCR Board of Directors and as a VP of publicity.  She is also the program chair for Business to Government (B2G) committee with Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC).  Ms. Moretto is also a voting member of Oasis Business Centric Methodology (BCM) Technical Committee (TC) and a member of Women in Technology (WIT).

Ms. Moretto holds a Masters degree in Information Technology from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington.  She is currently pursuing a CIO certification from Carnegie Mellon University.

Laila Moretto
Lmoretto@mitre.org
Voice: 703-883-5903  

Craig S. Mullins - NEON Enterprise Software

Craig S. Mullins is the Corporate Technologist for NEON Enterprise Software. As a data management strategist Craig has extensive experience in the field of database management and data architecture having worked as an application developer, a DBA, and an instructor with multiple database management systems. Craig also has worked in technology planning and operations with BMC Software and PLATINUM technology, as well as having been a research director for Gartner Group.

Additionally, Craig has worked with DB2 since Version 1, is an IBM gold consultant and has written two books: DB2 DeveloperÍs Guide and Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures.

Craig S. Mullins
www.neonesoft.com 

Judith Newton - Ashton Computing and Management Services, LLC

Judith Newton is a consultant in the area of metadata standards and registry development.  She was previously employed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Her standards experience includes ANSI and ISO committee experience, with both technical and management contributions over many years.

She was co-chair of Metatopia 2001 Symposium, Program Chair of the NIST Year 2000 International Symposium, and president of the Data Administration Management Association (DAMA) National Capital Region Chapter (DAMA-NCR). She continues to serve on the Executive Board of DAMA-NCR.

She is a graduate of Temple University.

Judith J. Newton
Principal,
Ashton Computing and Management Services, LLC
P.O. Box 53, Ashton, MD 20861
Voice: 301-774-0929
Fax: 240-218-0069
jnewton@ashcomp.com
http://ashcomp.com

Jack Olson - NEON Enterprise Software

Jack Olson has worked for 35 years in developing commercial software. He has held a variety of software development capacities for IBM, BMC Software, Peregrine Systems, and Evoke Software. He is currently Chief Technology Officer for NEON Enterprise Software. Over his career he has made important contributions to technology in database, database management, and data quality areas. Jack has several patents attributed to him, published several technical articles and authored a book entitled "Data Quality: The Accuracy Dimension" from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Jack has a BS degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Bonnie O'Neil - Project Performance Corporation

Bonnie O'Neil is Senior Technical Consultant at Project Performance Corporation, and is an internationally recognized expert on business meta data, data architecture and business rules. She is a regular speaker at many conferences, and has also been a workshop leader at Meta Data/DAMA Conference, Oracle ODTUG, and the Business Rules Forum; she was the keynote speaker at an international conference on Data Quality in South Africa . She was a founding member of the Guide Business Rules Project (a standards group for business rules) and also the ODTUG Business Rules Summit. She has been involved in strategic data management projects in both Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, and her expertise includes specialized skills such as data quality, profiling, semantic/data integration and migration. She is the author of two database books including Oracle Data Warehousing Unleashed, as well as over 40 articles and technical white papers. She is a Certified CIF/GIF Architect by Bill Inmon, the Father of Data Warehousing, and is a certified trainer for Mr. Inmon. She is currently working on her third book, co-authored by Mr. Inmon, on Business Metadata.

Fabian Pascal - Author, Editor, Cofounder of Database Debunkings

Fabian Pascal has a national and 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, has taught and lectured at the business and academic levels, and advised vendor and user organizations on data management technology, strategy and implementation. Clients include IBM, Census Bureau, CIA, Apple, Borland, Cognos, UCSF, IRS. 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 (Chris Date is a senior contributor). Author of three books, he has published extensively in most trade publications, including DM Review, Database Programming and Design, DBMS, Byte, Infoworld and Computerworld. He is author of the contrarian columns Against the Grain, Setting Matters Straight, and for The Journal of Conceptual Modeling.His third book, PRACTICAL ISSUES IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT serves as text for his seminars.

Fabian Pascal
editor@dbdebunk.com 
www.dbdebunk.com 
searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tips/

Andres Perez - Advanced Practices Consultant, IRM Consulting Ltd. Co

Andres Perez is an Advanced Practices Consultant with Information Impact International, specializing in information resource management and data architecture, information quality management, data repository and meta data management, requirements management, and data modeling.

Prior to consulting, Andres worked for USAA for 19 years, most recently as IT Architect, Enterprise Data Integration Strategy. In this position, he applied TIQM» information quality principles to USAAÍs information management, data architecture and data warehouse, including management processes, technical architectural direction, data standards, information policies, data definition and data modeling as well as guidance on data archeology, data discovery and data transformation management and control. At USAA he conceived and implemented an information stewardship program called ñData Certification.î

Andres is a regular speaker at many conferences, including DAMA International, Information Quality, ZIFA (Zachman Information Framework Architecture), IAA (Insurance Application Architecture) Customer Conferences in the US and Europe and DAMA Chapter Conferences. His presentations encompass information resource management, including information quality management, data management, data integration, information stewardship and enterprise data architecture and data modeling. He is current member and past President of the Heart of Texas DAMA Chapter, a past member of the Board of Directors of the IAA Customer Group, and former representative to the Object Management Group.

Andres provides consulting in methodologies and tools in the disciplines of Information Quality Management (TIQM»), Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, and Customer Relationship Management.

Andres has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico and is fluent in both Spanish and English.

Andres Perez
andres-perez@msn.com
IRM Consulting Ltd. Co.
12415 Stable Wood
San Antonio, Texas 78249-4621
Phone: (210) 413-1481
FAX: (210) 699-3234

Terry Quatrani - Rational Software Corporation

Terry Quatrani is the Rose Evangelist for Rational Software Corporation and is responsible for successfully training and transitioning many Fortune 500 customers to object technology.

She is author of a number of OO courses including Object Oriented Analysis and Design and Using Rational Rose. In addition, she is the co-author of the book Succeeding with the Booch and OMT Methods and the author of the best selling book Visual Modeling with Rational Rose and the UML. She has over nineteen years experience in the development and deployment of large software systems.

Prior to joining Rational, Ms. Quatrani, worked for General Electric, where she was one of the founding consultants of the GE Advanced Concepts Center. While at GE, she designed client server systems; developed applications in MODSIM II an object oriented simulation language; and designed a number of large relational database applications.

Ms. Quatrani has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Joseph's University.

David Rice -- EA Frameworks, LLC

Mr. Rice is the President of EA Frameworks, LLC a small company located in the Washington D.C. area. Mr. Rice has over 18 years of Enterprise Architecture related experience. His experience includes teaching and performing consulting engagement using the DoD Architecture Framework and the Zachman Framework. Mr. RiceÍs experience in Enterprise Architecture is broad as well as deep. Prior to the existence of the C4ISR Architecture framework (the predecessor to the DoD Architecture Framework) Mr. Rice utilized the IDEF0, IDEF1X, IDEF3 Date Flow Diagramming and many Object-Oriented methods including UML to aid in Business Process Reengineering, Organizational Redesign and software and systems development.

Mr. Rice has taught over 200 classes on the methodologies and modeling methods of various Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. Additionally, Mr. Rice has extensive experience using and customizing modeling tools for the production of architecture artifacts. As a Principal Consultant for Popkin software from 1995 to 2002 one of his primary responsibilities was to teach students best practices and techniques for using modeling tools to build Architecture Framework work products.

As President of EA Frameworks, LLC Mr. Rice works with various DoD and civilian government clients training and mentoring them in the use of various frameworks, including the DoDAF, FEAF, Zachman and TEAF, and tools for addressing their enterprise architecture needs.

Mr. Rice continues to work with DoD thought leaders in the development of the DoD Architecture Framework and methods for using the framework to achieve integrated architecture for decision making and improvement of the DoD.

Dedra Robertson ¿ Defense Information Systems Information (DISA)

Ms. Robertson is currently employed as a Computer Scientist for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Ms. Robertson has over fourteen years of experience throughout the entire software engineering lifecycle development. She has directed, managed, consulted, and assisted several projects, providing support in program management, requirements analysis and management, data base development and administration, and systems engineering.

Currently, Ms. Robertson is the Data Engineering Team Lead for the Global Combat Support System (GCSS) program. In this capacity, Ms. Robertson provides management of the Programs Data Engineering development and processes to include API development, data store design and development, access controls to information within the application and cross domain security to information.

Ms. Robertson earned a Bachelors degree in Mathematics with a Minor in Computer Science from Xavier University of Louisiana.

Dedra Robertson
robert2d@ncr.disa.mil
Voice: 703-882-0560

 Roy S. ("Rick) Rogers - Founder and CEO Fenestra Technologies Corporation

As founder and CEO, Mr. Rogers is the visionary and project leader for Fenestra's work with the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Since 1992, he and his team of software developers have helped digitize the Economic Directorate of the Bureau, by adding new features and functionality to existing systems. Rick also served as team leader for the federal CIO Council's "E-Forms for E-Gov" pilot project in '03.

Rick began his career with the Data Interchange Standards Association as a database manager, and represented a United States technical position at an EDIFACT (United Nations) meeting in Geneva. He was eventually hired as the Director of Software Development at Washington Publishing Group (WPC) where he designed and implemented five commercial-grade software applications and constructed a data-driven Internet web site. While at WPC, he acted as the chief technical manager for two United States Census Bureau electronic surveys. The software used in these projects represented the first full-scale production-quality electronic surveys at Census, which integrated the electronically reported data into their internal data processing systems.

 Education/Training: B.A., Carleton College

Fenestra Technologies Corporation
www.fenestra.ocm
 301/916-8800 x206
20410 Century Blvd. #230
Germantown, MD 20874

Jerrold Rosenbaum - The Rose Tree Group, Inc.

Dr. Rosenbaum received his doctorate from Columbia University and has been working in the computer field for over 30 years. He has extensive experience as a practitioner as well as a teacher in many areas of data architecture and enterprise architectural planning. Clients have included government agencies, banking, insurance, utilities, manufacturing, aerospace, and communications industry. He is currently working for The Rose Tree Group., as President and Principal Enterprise Architect.

Dr. Rosenbaum is serving a two year term as Vice President of Programs for DAMA-NCR. He was President of DAMA-NCR, until May of 2003.  He has served DAMA-NCR in several other positions, including Programming Chairperson for a two year term which ended in May, 2000 and then chair of special programs until May 2001.  He served as Co-chair for the DAMA International 2000 conference.  

Voice 410-764-1843
Fax 410-764-2445
Mobile 443-253-6054
jrosenba@ix.netcom.com  

Ronald G. Ross  - Business Rule Solutions, Inc.

Mr. Ross is Senior Editor of the DataToKnowledge Newsletter. The Newsletter, formerly known as Data Base Newsletter, provides leading-edge ideas and practical techniques for IS development. Mr. Ross has been editor since 1977.

Mr. Ross is Principal of Business Rule Solutions, Inc. BRS provides workshops, consulting services and publications, and has recently produced the BRS Business Rule Methodology. BRS also publishes the DataToKnowledge Newsletter.

Mr. Ross provides state-of-the-art seminars and services. Specialties include business rules, data modeling, business analysis, requirements development, and IS methodology. Mr. Ross is the creator of coordinated techniques emphasizing business-driven architecture. He is the author of a half-dozen professional books, including:

• Business Rule Concepts (1998) providing an easy-to-read, non-technical explanation of business rules.
• The Business Rule Book (Second Edition, 1997) presenting a new and revolutionary approach to modeling business rules in declarative form.

Mr. Ross received his M.S. in information science from Illinois Institute of Technology, and his B.A. from Rice University.

Ronald G. Ross
Business Rule Solutions, Inc.
3127 Amherst, Bldg. B
Houston, TX 77005
(713) 665-0025
FAX (713) 668-5676
info@brsolutions.com
http://www.brsolutions.com

Austin Russ - Robbins-Gioia

Austin Russ is presently the Chief Enterprise Architect for Robbins-Gioia and has over 20 years of experience in change management disciplines including balanced scorecard/ performance management, enterprise architecture, information security, information technology investment management, process engineering and solution delivery.

Prior to joining Robbins-Gioia, Austin held enterprise architecture positions with Federal Reserve Information Technology and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and has applied EA to address a variety of business challenges including acquisition/divestiture, outsourcing, data center consolidation, system retirement and replacement, certification and accreditation, information sharing, and vendor/licensing consolidation.

He is an active member of the Industry Advisory Council Enterprise Architecture Shared Interest Group. Austin earned an M.B.A. from William and Mary and a B.S., Management from Virginia Tech.

Austin Russ
Chief Enterprise Architect
Robbins-Gioia LLC
11 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.548.7006
austin.russ@robbinsgioia.com

Michael Scofield - author and speaker on data management, data quality, data warehouse design, as well as satellite imagery interpretation and emergency communications

Mr. Scofield is a popular speaker in topics of data management, data quality, data warehouse design, as well as satellite imagery interpretation and emergency communications. His career has included education and private industry in areas of data quality, decision-support systems, data warehousing, and data management. He is Manager of Data Asset Development at ESRI in Redlands, California. He also holds an adjunct faculty position at Loma Linda University in the Department of Health Information Management. He was a 2007 nominee for the DAMA (Data Mgmt. Assn.) Award for Professional Achievement.

His articles appear in DM Review, the B-Eye Newsletter, InformationWeek magazine, the IBI Systems Journal, and other professional journals. He has spoken to over 120 professional audiences for organizations such as Data Management Assn chapters (16), European Metadata Conferences (4), information quality conferences (3), The Data Warehousing Institute (6), Oracle User Groups (9), Institute of Internal Auditors, Assn. of Government Accountants, Quality Assurance Association chapters, Assn. for Computing Machinery and other professional and civic audiences. He has humor published in the Los Angeles Times and other journals.

Michael Scofield
PO Box 2612
Anaheim, CA 92814
(714) 828-1348 voice
NMScofield@aol.com

John Sharp - Sharp Informatics, Inc.

Dr. John Sharp is the principal consultant for Sharp Informatics. He specializes in consulting and training in information system design using Natural Language Modeling. He worked for Sandia National Laboratories for 18 years, where he held staff and management positions in all areas of information technology, including analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, data administration, and information technology research. He is the creator of a mathematically precise procedure for performing information analysis. He was an editor for an international standard for the exchange of conceptual schemas and writes regular columns for the Journal of Conceptual Modeling, which is located on-line at http://www.inconcept.com/JCM. You are invited to try his analysis problem in the current issue.  He has co-chaired two international conferences on natural language modeling and he has presented numerous papers and seminars at professional conferences.

John K. Sharp
Sharp Informatics
1604 Vassar SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
phone (505) 243-1498
fax (505) 248-0345
jksharp@sharp-informatics.com
http://www.sharp-informatics.com

Ron Shelby - XMLSolutions

Ron has recently become the Chief Executive Officer at XMLSolutions. 

The former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of e-GM, he headed General Motor's web development and the global rollout of GM BuyPower, their award-winning vehicle shopping site. Before that, as GM's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), he led the strategy of using XML for system-to-system integration.

Ron started his 23 years in information technology in Toronto as project manager at Travelers Insurance (Canada) in 1976. He established Travelers Canada data management function in 1980, and led the rollout of their nationwide office automation effort. Later, he moved to consulting as a Principal with American Management Systems. While at AMS he helped American Express, Ameritech Publishing, the Environmental Protection Agency, Illinois Bell, Ameritech Services, Mobil Corporation, and the US Department of the Treasury, architect and deliver new information systems aligned with their businesses. 

At Connecticut Mutual, Ron lead the implementation of the companyÍs ñOne Imageî database environment, as well as managing the information systems development for the companyÍs investment and finance functions. The systems work of Connecticut Mutual was recognized in 1994 when business sponsor Janice Scites was awarded the Carnegie-Melon Golden Globe Award for excellence in managing information technology. 

Prior to moving to General Motors, Ron was Vice President of Data Warehousing for American Express Corporation. At AMEX he led the implementation of a global data warehousing environment supporting US and European business units. 

Ron was co-founder of NCR DAMA Chapter, and later served as President of DAMA International. He has also served as President of the IRM Association of Canada, and was a member of the International Standards Organization's working committee on programming languages that authored the SQL database language standard. Ron speaks from time-to-time at information systems conferences across the United States and Canada, and has been featured in training videos by James Martin Institute and the Computer Channel.

Ron Shelby
www.XMLSolutions.com 
Ron.Shelby@xmls.com

Graeme Simsion - Simsion Bowles and Associates

Graeme is Managing Director (President) of Simsion Bowles and Associates, an Australian consultancy employing some 50 staff in 3 cities. Like Graeme, Simsion Bowles started by specialising in data management, but now consults in a wide range of areas, from business planning to project management. He recently led a study of current practice in Electronic Service Delivery to support the State Government's objective of delivering all government services on line by 2001.

Graeme is the author of numerous papers and of the book Data Modeling Essentials, and Principal Author of the Australian Computer Society's postgraduate course in IT Strategy and Management. He is a regular presenter at conferences, and numbers amongst his achievements persuading 300 accountants to join in group gospel singing.

Graeme Simsion
Simsion Bowles & Associates
1 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Tel:  (03) 9650 9757
Mobile: 04 1982 1982
gsimsion@sba.com.au
http://www.sba.com.au  

Anne Marie Smith - EWSolutions

Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D. is Director of Education and Principal Consultant at EWSolutions ( http://www.ewsolutions.com ). Anne Marie has over 20 years experience in information management for several corporate entities and has successfully led the development of data resource management departments within corporations and consulting organizations.

Anne Marie is active in DAMA ( http://www.dama.org  ), serves on the board of directors of DAMA International, and is an advisor to the DM Forum. She has been an instructor of Management Information Systems (MIS) with Philadelphia, PA area colleges and universities. Anne Marie has taught topics such as: data stewardship and governance, data warehousing, business requirements gathering and analysis, metadata management and metadata strategy, information systems planning and data warehouse project management. Anne MarieÍs areas of consulting expertise include metadata management including data stewardship and governance, information systems planning, systems analysis and design, project management, data warehouse systems assessment and development, information systems process improvement and information resource management/data resource management.

Anne Marie holds the degrees Bachelor of Arts and a Master's of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from La Salle University; she has earned a PhD in MIS at Northcentral University. She is a certified logical data and process modeler and holds project management certification.

Anne Marie can be reached at amsmith@ewsolutions.com.

Laura Squier - SPSS, Inc.

Laura Squier is a senior technical consultant with SPSS Inc.  Ms. Squier provides technical guidance and support for the SPSS Business Intelligence Public Sector group. She is well versed in data mining, forecasting, survey design, market segmentation, textual analysis and statistical modeling and is familiar with numerous databases and analytical packages. In the last year, Ms. Squier taught a data mining seminar at the National Defense University and served as a session chair at the AFCEA data mining symposium. She regularly makes training and consulting appearances at federal, state and local revenue agencies where she addresses data mining and data management issues. Before joining SPSS, Ms. Squier spent two years with the Department of Veterans Affairs as a technical information specialist where she provided analytical support including trend analysis and prediction for budgeting and reporting needs. She earned a Master's degree in Mathematical Economics from West Virginia University in 1995.

Laura Squier 
lsquier@spss.com 
http://www.spss.com 

Elaine Stricklett - Acton Burnell, Inc

Ms. Stricklett has over twenty years experience in the field of information management. She has led many strategic business and information management, planning, and implementation projects. She is experienced in data and process modeling; developing and implementing information and metadata management standards, policies, and procedures; as well as systems development projects for many organizations.

She recently led a project team that was successful in achieving Level 2 of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Her team achieved this distinction for Acton Burnell in a six-month time frame instead of the usual 30-month time frame projected by the SEI.

Ms. Stricklett also develops enterprise data warehouse strategies; assists organizations in assessing their cultural, technical, and political readiness for data mart and enterprise data warehouse approaches and tools, evaluates data warehouse and data mart tools and toolsets, and manages implementations.

In addition, Ms. Stricklett has in-depth expertise with data extraction/transformation, data quality audit and cleansing, data base design, and on-line analytical processing (e.g., business reporting and queries.)

Director
Acton Burnell, Inc.
1500 N. Beauregard St., Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone (703) 671-0700, ext. 129
Fax        (703) 671-8938
estricklett@actonb.com
http://www.actonb.com

Phil Teplitzky - Mibrary

As Chief Technology Officer at Mybrary, Phil is responsible for system development, deployment and operations. Mr. Teplitzky brings 25 years of systems design, management and integration experience to bear on building and deploying the Mibrary digital library management system. He possesses specific experience in developing and operating ecommerce and financial web sites, two critical areas of expertise to the company's success. 

In 1999, he joined the publicly traded VitaminShoppe.com as Chief Technology Officer responsible for all aspects of designing, building and operating the site. For five years before that, he was Vice President of MIS at Citibank. His last assignment at Citibank was as Data Architect at CITI FI, Citibank's fully integrated Internet bank. In the mid-1970's though the 1980's, Mr. Teplitzky served with several leading consulting firms meeting a variety of technical challenges. He has served as the National Director of Database Architectures at Coopers & Lybrand. At Price Waterhouse he served as the Senior Manager in the MIS Consultancy. He was a consultant in the Advanced Technology Group at Peat Marwick Mitchell.

Graham Thompson - Delos Technology

Prior to joining Delos Thompson held the position of vice president of sales with InCert Software Corporation, an enterprise application management provider, where he lead the company through a period of unprecedented growth, landing contracts with such blue-chip clients as Charles Schwab, Prudential, Vanguard, Pacific Bell and Fidelity. Earlier at InCert, he set up distribution channels in eight countries. Prior to that, in his capacity of vice president of marketing he led the company's development of TraceBack, InCert's agent-based product designed to maximize the availability of mission critical applications.

Prior to InCert, Thompson was with Global Software, a Y2K vendor providing an inventory, detection and impact analysis tool targeted at the century date problem. While there, he more than quadrupled revenues, landing brand-name clients that included American Airlines, US Air, NASA, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers. As sales and marketing director, he positioned the company's Y2K product as an industry leader.

Previously, Thompson was CEO of R&O: The Repository Company, a provider of client/server repository products and services. During his tenure, the company experienced 50% annual growth, tripling its staff, to position ROCHADE, the proprietary company product, in Gartner Group's leadership quadrant. During his tenure at R&O the New York DAMA Chapter awarded Thompson their Life Time Achievement award for his contribution to repository technology.

Thompson started his career at Shell Oil as a systems and business analyst. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, England.

Cynthia Walker - WalkerBurr, Inc.

Technical Director of Enterprise Data Management at Pinkerton Computer Consultants, will provide expert analysis and commentary on mission-critical enterprise data management and data governance strategies and execution. Ms. Walker is an industry leader in the field of enterprise data management, with over 20 years of experience in support of dozens of customer organizations improving the quality and availability of their enterprise data resources, including large, private corporations and federal government agencies. In her role at Pinkerton Computer Consultants Ms. Walker provides technical direction to PCCI's delivery of world class enterprise data management services to help federal agencies achieve absolute data confidence - the certain knowledge that their data assets are active, assured, and available.

Cindy Walker
Technical Director, Enterprise Data Management
Kforce Government Solutions, formerly Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc. 703.245.7409
703.245.7560 fax
www.kforce.com

Hal Williford - CIBER Inc.

Hal is a senior database analyst with 12 years experience in designing; modeling; developing and analyzing database systems for commercial and government clients.

Hal is a member of the Data Administrators Management Association Washington D.C. Chapter, SQL Server World Wide Users Group, SQL Server Users Group – Virginia and NT Server Users Group – Virginia.

Hal has a BS degree in CIS from the College of St Mary and BA in Psychology, from the University of Miami and is currently pursuing the Microsoft Certified Data Base Administrator certification.

Hal Williford
Senior Database Analyst
Ciber Inc.,
Voice: 703-527-9898
hwilliford@hotmail.com

Jeffrey Worthington ¿ US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information

Mr. Worthington is the Director of Quality for USEPAÍs Office of Environmental Information in Washington, DC. Previously, Mr Worthington served as the Director of Quality for USEPAÍs Office of Research & Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) in Cincinnati, Ohio and as the Director of Quality Assurance for TechLaw, Inc. in Denver, Colorado.

He is an American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Manager and ASQ Certified Quality Auditor. Mr. Worthington is a Senior ASQ member, founding member of ASQÍs Government Division, the Past-Chair of ASQÍs Energy and Environment Division, the designated mentor to ASQÍs Information Integrity Special Interest Group, and participates on the ASQ Division Affairs Council. He is a founding member and past member of the Board of Directors for the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ). Mr. Worthington served as Editorial Board member for Quality Assurance, Science, and the Law, the Journal of Environmental Forensics, Environmental Laboratory magazine, and Environmental Testing and Analysis magazine.

He has been with the Federal Government since 1994. Mr. Worthington led a team authoring the combined quality and management system for EPAÍs Environmental Technology Verification program. He co-led the EPA team developing EPAÍs Information Quality Guidelines and participated in the development of the AgencyÍs draft Data and Information Quality Strategic Plan. Mr. Worthington co-authored a peer review journal paper receiving USEPAÍs Science and Technological Achievement Award, Level III for equating EPA policies and procedures to U.S. Supreme Court Sound Science Criteria (2002). He has published and presented at national conferences on the subjects of quality management, audit management, information quality planning and assessment, data authenticity, data quality, and data integrity.

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