VisualCV

eLearning

I am a co-founder and the Director of Education at eLearningCurve, a company that is dedicated to delivering high-quality, on-demand business and technical training via the internet. I continuously seek the top practitioners and educators in the fields for which we offer courses. Current curricula include Data Quality, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Governance, and Data Modeling. Planned curricula in coming months include Agile Development, IT Governance, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Enterprise Architecture.

Consulting, Teaching, Writing & Speaking

I am a consultant, mentor, teacher, and author in the field of Business Intelligence (BI). I bring to every endeavor a unique and balanced perspective about the relationships of business and technology. This perspective – refined through a career of more than thirty-five years that encompassed business and technical roles – helps to align business and information technology in the most effective ways. I focus on strategic, functional, and organizational alignment as the keys to building and sustaining valuable and high-impact BI cultures and systems.

Every successful consulting engagement includes knowledge transfer and ends with self-sufficient clients. I perform strategic consulting in these areas:

• BI Program Planning and Program Management

• BI Program Assessment and Revitalization

• Business Analytics Design, Definition, and Deployment
• BI Architecture encompassing Business, Data, and Technology
• Requirements Gathering for BI, Analytics, and Data Warehousing
• Group Facilitation, Team Building, Conflict Resolution, Consensus Building
• Data Quality Assessment and Improvement
• Data Analysis and Design including Relational and DImensional Modeling

I am a frequent speaker at industry events ranging from international conferences to local group meetings (DAMA, CIPS, TDWI Chapters, etc.) and web seminars. Some of the popular recent topics include:

• The Changing Face of Business Intelligence
• People First! - Creating a Business Intelligence Culture

• Putting the Business Back in Business Business Intelligence
• Applied Systems Thinking for Business Analytics
• Bringing Business and IT Together - A BI Imperative
• Modeling Business Domains - Getting the Big Picture

As an author I write custom articles and papers to meet specific communication and publishing needs. Email me to learn more about the topics listed above, or to discuss a presentation, article, or white paper tailored to your interests.