Donna Burbank, is a recognized industry expert in information management with over 20 years of experience in data management, metadata management, and enterprise architecture. She currently is Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, an international data management consulting company. Her background is multi-faceted across consulting, product development, product management, brand strategy, marketing, and business leadership. Prior to this role, Donna was the Global Practice Director for Information Management at an international consulting company, EAC Group, providing consulting and thought leadership for key clients worldwide. She has served in key brand strategy and product management roles at CA Technologies and Embarcadero Technologies for several of the leading data management products in the market. As an active contributor to the data management community, she is a long time DAMA International member and is the President of the DAMA Rocky Mountain chapter. She was also on the review committee for the Object Management Group’s Information Management Metamodel (IMM) and a member of the OMG’s Finalization Taskforce for the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). She has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks regularly at industry conferences.

She has co-authored two books:  Data Modeling for the Business and Data Modeling Made Simple with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8.

Reach out to Donna Burbank at donna.burbank@globaldatastrategy.com and you can follower her on Twitter @donnaburbank.

About the Guest Speakers

Michael Blaha

Consultant, Modelsoft Consulting Corp

Michael Blaha is a consultant and trainer who specializes in conceiving, architecting, modeling, designing and tuning databases. He has worked with dozens of organizations around the world. Blaha has authored seven U.S. patents, seven books, many articles, and two video courses. His most recent publication is the Agile Data Warehouse Design video course from Infinite Skills. He received his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, and is an alumnus of GE Global Research in Schenectady, New York. You can find more information with his LinkedIn profile or at superdataguy.com.

Norman Daoust

Principal Consultant, Daoust Associates

Norman Daoust helps organizations produce better project results by utilizing data modeling and UML modeling among other techniques. His consulting clients of Daoust Associates include startups, healthcare providers, healthcare software vendors, large national government organizations, and a large international software company. His book on UML modeling is UML Requirements Modeling for Business Analysts. He was a major contributor to the healthcare industry standard data model, the Health Level Seven Reference Information Model (HL7 RIM). Norman is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences including the Data Modeling Zone. He has served on the board of directors of the New England Chapter of the Data Management Association (DAMA) for more than ten years. For some reason Norman thrives on modeling and integration projects and tasks that most other people avoid!