Contact:
Yvonne M. Baho
Director, Onsite Education
Phone: 978.582.7105
Email: ybaho@tdwi.org
TDWI instructors are carefully selected, rigorously qualified, and routinely measured and observed to ensure that we achieve and sustain the highest standards for professional education. We require that our instructors have extensive BI experience and demonstrated teaching skills. In addition, all instructors are current BI practitioners who bring their real-world experience to every class. Onsite instructors are the same instructors that teach at TDWI World Conferences.
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Dean Abbott Senior Consultant, |
Dean Abbott is a senior consultant with The Modeling Agency: a data mining training and consulting company for the data-rich, yet information-poor. Mr. Abbott has more than 20 years of experience applying advanced data mining, data preparation, and data visualization methods in real-world data intensive problems. In addition, he has developed and evaluated algorithms for use in commercial data mining and pattern recognition products and has consulted with data mining software companies to provide critiques and assessments of their current features and future enhancements. Mr. Abbott is a seasoned instructor, having taught a wide range of data mining tutorials and seminars for a decade. He possesses a unique talent to explain concepts in language readily understood by a wide range of audiences. Participants’ feedback consistently reinforces how Dean’s energy and enthusiasm for data mining is contagious.
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Chris Adamson Data Warehouse Specialist and Founder, |
Chris Adamson, a data warehouse specialist, has been an active participant in the database and data warehousing industry for more than fifteen years. An expert on star schema design, his customers have included Fortune 500 companies, large and small businesses, government agencies, and data warehousing software vendors. He has written two books on star schema data warehousing—Data Warehouse Design Solutions and Mastering Data Warehouse Aggregates. Both books are published by Wiley, with forwards by Ralph Kimball.
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Maureen Clarry President and CEO, |
Maureen Clarry is the founder and president/CEO of CONNECT: The Knowledge Network (CONNECT), a consulting firm that specializes in helping IT people and organizations to achieve their strategic potential in business. CONNECT was recognized as the 2000 South Metro Denver Small Business of the Year, and has been listed in the Top 25 Women-Owned Businesses and the Top 150 Privately Owned Businesses in Colorado. Maureen also participates on the Data Warehousing Advisory Board for The Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and was recognized by the Denver Business Journal as one of Denver’s Top Women Business Leaders in 2004. She has been on the TDWI faculty since 1997, has spoken at numerous other seminars, and has published several articles and white papers. Maureen regularly consults and teaches on organizational and leadership issues related to information technology, business intelligence, and business.
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Frank Dravis Senior Consultant, |
Frank Dravis is a senior consultant at Baseline Consulting where he works with clients on data governance, business intelligence, MDM, and other projects. Frank has more than 20 years of experience in data management, including data quality implementation and consulting. Prior to joining Baseline, Frank served as VP of enterprise information management strategy at Business Objects/SAP. Prior to Business Objects, Frank held such positions as VP of development and VP of information quality at Firstlogic, Inc. where he led the strategic data quality consulting program. He is a frequent writer, blogger, and industry speaker on data management topics. He holds an MBA and BS degree in computer science.
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Jonathan Geiger, CBIP Executive Vice President, |
Jonathan Geiger, CBIP, is an executive vice president with Intelligent Solutions, Inc. Jonathan has been involved in many Corporate Information Factory projects in many industries. He presents frequently at national and international conferences, has written more than 30 articles, and is a co-author of three books: Data Stores, Data Warehousing and the Zachman Framework: Managing Enterprise Knowledge;, Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise; and Mastering Data Warehouse Design.
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Michael Gonzales, CBIPIndependent Consultant |
Michael L. Gonzales, CBIP, has been a Chief Architecture and Solutions Strategist for over a decade. Mr. Gonzales specializes in the formulation of BI Strategy for competitive advantage, risk management and valuation for BI, and conducts research into industry best practice and product assessment. He is an independent consultant, PhD candidate at the University of Texas, and a successful author; his most recent paper is Risk and IT Factors that Contribute to Competitive Advantage and Corporate Performance.
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Jennifer Hay, CBIPProfessional Development Specialist, |
Jennifer Hay, CBIP, is a career guide. She combines knowledge of business intelligence with an understanding of career dynamics to help individuals plan and shape their BI careers. As a professional development specialist, Jennifer works with people to develop study plans, and to achieve a variety of career goals including new roles, new responsibilities, expanded credentials, and certification. She advises people about career strategies and helps them make their own right decisions. With a disciplined approach to assessment, planning, action, and measurement, Jennifer's career planning methods provide a systematic path to career growth.
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Steve Hoberman, CBIP President, |
Steve Hoberman, CBIP, has worked as a business intelligence and data management practitioner and trainer since 1990. He is a certified business intelligence professional (CBIP), having achieved mastery level certification in data analysis and design. He is a popular and frequent presenter at industry conferences, both nationally and internationally. Steve is a columnist and frequent contributor to industry publications, as well as the author of Data Modeler’s Workbench and Data Modeling Made Simple. He is the founder of the Design Challenges group, inventor of the Data Model Scorecard, and a recognized innovator and thought leader in the field of data modeling.
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Deanne Larson, CBIP President, |
Deanne Larson, CBIP, is the president of Larson & Associates. She has more than 16 years of data warehousing and business intelligence experience. Deanne has launched several successful business intelligence initiatives at large telecoms over the last 10 years and is focused on implementing best practices. She has been instrumental in building award-winning data warehouses, and she lectures nationally and internationally. Deanne is currently pursuing a doctoral degree with a focus on data warehousing and business intelligence.
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Larissa Moss President, |
Larissa Moss is president of Method Focus Inc. She has 28 years of IT experience, with a focus on data warehousing for 20 years. She frequently speaks at conferences worldwide on the topics of data warehousing, business intelligence, project management, development methodologies, data governance, and information quality. She co-authored the books Data Warehouse Project Management, Impossible Data Warehouse Situations, Business Intelligence Roadmap, and Data Strategy. Her articles are frequently published in DM Review, Teradata Magazine, TDWI’s Business Intelligence Journal, and the Cutter IT Journal.
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Kim Nevala Senior Consultant, |
Kimberly Nevala is a senior consultant at Baseline Consulting, a technology and management consulting firm specializing in data integration and business analytics. As a specialist in data governance and data management issues, Kimberly leads key Baseline clients in MDM and CDI program planning and implementation, and helps design and launch data governance initiatives using both top-down and bottom-up approaches. She is co-author of the TDWI publication, Ten Mistakes to Avoid when Launching a Data Governance Program.
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John O’Brien, CBIP President and Executive Architect, |
John O’Brien, CBIP, is president and executive architect of Zukeran Technologies, a firm specializing in data warehouse systems architecture and strategy. John’s 18-year career in IT and engineering is made up of in-depth engagements that provide unique insight into data warehouse evolution. He has extensive hands-on knowledge of all phases of IT projects and architectures, particularly related to the architecture and management of ongoing growth and evolution of large-scale, real-time systems and processes. John holds a BS in engineering and an MBA.
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Mark Peco, CBIP Partner, |
Mark Peco, CBIP, is an experienced consultant, educator, manager, analyst, and team builder. He holds a graduate degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo and has led numerous consulting and software development projects helping clients to adapt to fundamental shifts in business models and requirements. His experience includes strategy development, business intelligence, data warehousing, compliance, analytics, mathematical modeling, and application development. Mark’s industry experience includes the energy, metals, and financial sectors.
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Thomas Rathburn Senior Consultant, |
Thomas A. (Tony) Rathburn has more than 20 years of experience in the business utilization of predictive analytics technologies. Mr. Rathburn taught MIS and statistics while an instructor in the College of Business at Kent State University. He also served as vice president of applied technologies for NeuralWare, Incorporated, a neural network tools and consulting company. Mr. Rathburn is a senior consultant with The Modeling Agency—a Pennsylvania company that provides guidance and results for those who are data rich, yet information poor.
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Laura Reeves Principal, |
Laura Reeves, co-author of first edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, has more than 22 years of experience in end-to-end data warehouse development focused on developing comprehensive project plans, collecting business requirements, developing business dimensional models, database schemas (both star and snowflake designs), and development of enterprise data warehouse strategies. As StarSoft Solutions co-founder, Laura has implemented data warehouses for many business functions for private and public industry.
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Lorna Rickard Chief Workforce Architect, |
Lorna Rickard has more than 15 years of experience in organizational development, instructional design, and facilitation. Most recently, she served as director of culture and communications for ING Re. As a member of the senior management team, she was instrumental in changing the culture and market position of ING Re, moving industry ranking based on revenue from number four to number one. At CONNECT she assesses and advises client systems on cross-functional collaboration and team and organizational effectiveness.
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Todd SaundersExecutive Vice President of Customer Solutions |
Todd Saunders has been building systems and organizations for nearly 20 years and has been involved in building specifically data warehouses, business intelligence solutions, and database marketing systems and launching the organizations to implement and operate these solutions for the last 12. Before joining CONNECT, Mr. Saunders worked at various consulting and marketing firms including McKinsey & Co., Coopers & Lybrand, Braun Consulting, and DoubleClick.
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James Thomann, CBIP Principal Consultant, |
James Thomann, CBIP, is a principal consultant with DecisionPath Consulting and is a TDWI Fellow. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on data warehousing, object-oriented methods, and business process analysis. Dr. Thomann’s experience in the IT field spans nearly 30 years. He has provided data warehouse consulting and training services to numerous organizations worldwide in the areas of data warehouse organizational readiness, project management, development methodologies, data modeling, tool evaluation, and implementation.
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David Wells, CBIPBI Consultant, Mentor, and Teacher |
Dave Wells, CBIP, is consultant, mentor, and teacher in the field of business intelligence (BI). He brings to every consulting endeavor a unique and balanced perspective regarding the roles of technology in business. This perspective—refined through a career of more 35 years that blended business and technical roles—helps to align business and information technology in the most effective ways. Dave focuses on strategic and organizational alignment as the keys to building and sustaining valuable and high-impact BI cultures and systems.
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Nancy Williams, CBIP Vice President and Principal Consultant, |
Nancy Williams, CBIP, is DecisionPath's vice president of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW). With more than 20 years of business and technical experience, Nancy has provided BI and DW expertise to leading companies such as Marriott International, Legg Mason, and Stewart Title, as well as public sector organizations such as the U.S. Social Security Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Nancy is a regular speaker at industry events and has authored and co-authored numerous publications in the fields of BI and business performance management, including the recently released book, The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence. Nancy earned her MBA at the Darden School, University of Virginia; her bachelor's degree is also from the University of Virginia.
