What I Do

I have a broad range of practical experience, particularly in software. I’m smart, honest, and I love helping teams work through complex challenges. I’ve worked in a wide range of roles over the years, from programmer to architect to executive. I can help you to improve your ways of working (WoW) in your approaches to software and data.

Training

I currently offer these interactive workshops:

• • Practitioner Workshop: How to Deliver Continuous Enterprise Data – This is a two-day workshop for data practitioners who want to learn how to build and evolve a continuous enterprise data pipeline.
  • Leadership Workshop: How to Enable Continuous Enterprise Data – This half- to one-day workshop is for people who lead, govern, or work with enterprise data teams.

Coaching & Consulting

As a consulting methodologist I work with people to help them to improve their ways of working (WoW) and ways of thinking (WoT) around their approaches to software and data. I do this by:

• • Facilitating strategy sessions, working through your current ways of working and ways of thinking and helping you to identify an improvement strategy
  • Coaching executives, both remotely and in-person, particularly in agile data strategies
  • Coaching practitioners, both remotely and in-person, particularly in applying agile data techniques
  • Assessing your current WoW and then working with you to develop an improvement plan

Keynote Presentations

I am an international keynote presenter, having spoken at hundreds of conferences, hundreds of user groups, and hundreds of organizations since the mid-1990s. I have done so both in-person and remotely. Here are some of my more commonly requested talks:

• • Building a Continuous Enterprise Data Pipeline: Enabling Data-Informed Decision Making and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • DataOps: How to Bring Databases into DevOps
  • Fix Data Quality Problems at the Source: How to Realistically and Permanently Pay Down Data Debt
  • Techniques for Improving Data Quality: The Key to Machine Learning

As a keynote presenter, here are the roles that I currently take on:

• • Conference keynote speaker. I currently give keynotes about transforming your data organization to become more agile, organizational transformation, and the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI).  I also give presentations about continuous data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI), data quality, and developing AI-based solutions.
  • Corporate speaker. I am often hired to speak at internal conferences or meetings within organizations. I will often reprise one of the public presentations I give at conferences, appropriately modifying it for the customer organization. I sometimes develop a presentation on a topic specific to the customer, so don’t be afraid to ask.
  • User group/chapter presenter. I am often asked to speak to user groups, including both PMI and DAMA Chapters. I prefer to do so remotely, but am also willing to travel if the situation is right.