
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Greater Denver Area

Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Greater Denver Area
CBIP Certified Master
DW2.0 Certified Architect
Data Vault Model & Methodology Founder/Inventor
IT industry and DW/BI for the past 20 years, consultant and systems architect, building both OLTP and EDW class systems for federal government and commercial enterprises. Trained in SEI / CMMI Level 5 compliance and governance. Expert in VLDB/VLDW and large scale (petabyte) sized system design and architecture.
I'm honored to blog for Bill Inmon on the BI/DW industry at: http://www.B-Eye-Network.com. Instructor at industry conferences, TDWI, Teradata Partners, Local DAMA, Informatica, and Oracle User groups.
Author: Teradata Magazine, TDAN.com, and Cutter Consortium, TDWI FlashPoint, and Bill Inmons' newsletter. Publication: Data Vault Business Book http://www.lulu.com/content/1371769
Informatica Experience: co-founder of Yahoo! InformaticaDevelopment group, ex-chair of the Informatica Customer Advisory Board, adivsor to Informatica engineering for many years, since it's inception of 15 people in Garauv's and Diaz's garage. Helped Informatica form the DevNetwork. Helped Informatica build their certification tests and program. Have taught (my own custom materials) Informatica courses over 10+ years.
ETL/ELT Experience: Also used Ab-Initio, Teradata scripts, Oracle Loaders, Data Stage, Business Objects Data Integrator, SQL, Talend, and Pentaho in the field.
BI / Reporting Experience: Jasper Reports, Business Objects, Brio, Cognos, and Microstrategy.
Advanced in all DBMS: Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, DB2 UDB DPF, Sybase ASE, MySQL, MS SQLServer.
Please check the following web-sites for more information:
http://www.GeneseeAcademy.com - Data Vault Training and Certification & consulting
http://www.COBICC.com - Daniels College, MS-IT in BI Denver University Board
http://www.B-Eye-Network.com (I host a blog for Bill Inmon)
http://www.DataVaultInstitute.com (home of the Data Vault Data Modeling)
Data warehousing, business intelligence, solving large data problems, performance and tuning, project planning, tracking and oversight, systems design and architecture, SEI/CMM Level 5. Experience with BAM, HR, Manufacturing, Financials, and Contracts. I have been involved with Cycle Time Reduction, lean-initiatives and business best practices. Tools: Business Objects, Informatica, Ab-Initio, Jasper Reports, Talend, Teradata, Oracle, and SQLServer, CBIP Certified Master
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
We offer world class training on a number of subjects. These courses simply cannot be found in the general market place, we have partnered with Bill Inmon, and a number of other industry professionals to bring you one of a kind education and mentoring. On the web at: http://www.GeneseeAcademy.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
We offer the finest in high-level consulting. This company provides only advisory level services for Project Management, Architectural Reviews, Vendor Analysis, and Risk Assessments. We teach you how to fish rather than fish for you. We do _not_ implement systems - leaving us to partner with any and all consulting organizations and customers in the field. http://www.RootOcean.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
I am the CTO/CIO for my new company. I am responsible for the software RapidACE, Rapid Architectural Consolidation Engine which is focused on the Data Vault modeling architecture. I am also responsible for training and certification on the Data Vault. You can find us on the web at: http://www.RapidACE.com
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
This is my holding company for personal growth.