Voting for the 2010-11 DAMA-PS Board begins May 25th and will close June 9th. All members will have received a ballot e-mailed through SurveyMonkey. Please feel free to review the bios and interest statements of candidates here. Please vote!!
Deborah Arline is a Software Consultant in the Pacific Northwest since 1981; with clients like the Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon, to fortune 500 companies like Boeing and Microsoft; and most recently for the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since 1984, Deborah has served in Standards Administration; and is persuasive to the IT staff to create modular, re-usable code; and maintain qualitative, consistent documentation. She leads efforts in Enterprise Data Governance toward Data Quality, and evangelizes Best Practices to add value in Information Management. Deborah's life-time pursuits are in Art, Computer Science and Business Administration. Deborah would like to apply her background and skills to assist DAMA-PS in the position of Co-VP Programs and Education and to bring in speakers that meet the interest and needs of the DAMA-PS membership.
Jeffrey Fromm has always wanted to contribute to the growth and future of Data Management Association of Puget Sound. With VP of Marketing he would be able to do that. Those who know him can tell you he is passionate and driven for our DAMA chapter and what our chapter has to offer to the community. His diverse background, outgoing personality, and strong drive make him a great fit for this position.
He graduated from Eastern Washington University with Human Resources and Management Information Systems. Jeffrey has two years BI and six years in IT experience. His current position at Premera Blue Cross as a Data Warehouse & BI Quality Assurance Analyst he has learned the business through the data, works directly with a variety customers and IT professionals, and develops solutions to data quality issues.
Jeffrey brings extensive work background from being raised in family that own businesses to having worked a wide verity job positions. His diverse background allows him to develop creative ideas and solutions. From Information Specialist & Training Coordinator for the Better Business Bureau to Public Relations and Promotions for a Salsa Nightclub Jeffrey has strived to teach, promote, and improve whenever the opportunity has presented it.
Tom Jamieson is the owner of Jamieson Enterprise Consulting LLC, based in Seattle, whose mission is to improve the conversation between the business and IT organizations of the enterprise. He brings with him a wisdom reflecting 30 years of practical experience in a number of IT positions at Swedish Medical Center, Washington Natural Gas, and Microsoft. He has served as a systems analyst, data modeler, and enterprise information architect, participating in many diverse OLTP and data warehousing projects as an individual contributor, team leader, and management advisor.
Tom has built a solid reputation as an original, insightful thinker, unafraid to challenge managers and colleagues alike to reflect on their own experiences and question even the most revered 'best practices' in search of genuine personal and team excellence.
Tom wants to be your next VP of Membership. He believes that the key to understanding the true needs of the data management professional community may lie untapped, close to the surface among those members who have recently joined DAMA and those who have recently quit, for it is they who most visibly are searching for something. They join, hoping to find part of the answer to their question. They leave, having lost hope. In addition, Tom believes that the community is under-represented by the DAMA-PS Chapter. Six corporate memberships account for half of the current membership. Some familiar local names have virtually no presence. Tom would find out why and how to turn that around, for the benefit of the membership and the community. Finally, Tom is concerned about the 90% of the membership who opt out of the monthly meetings. He wants to make sure the Chapter meets their needs as well, and will work with the rest of the Board to bring about
integrated improvements, in enterprise-fashion.
Dan Root entered the MIS industry in the early 90's working in Operations at Associated Grocers Data Center located in Seattle/Tukwila and never looked back. He loved the technology sector for its ability to organize data and form it into useful business information used for making decisions. Born and raised here in the greater Seattle area, he tried to always work for local companies such as AG, Safeco and now, Community Transit (Currently as a Data Program Manager). He learned early on the importance of data integrity, modeling and maintaining the established structures and processes for those who will one day follow one's work. He has kept himself updated on the latest methods and technologies through formal education and organizations such as DAMA. Over the years, he has become a little less technical and more directive and managerial, but "my hands are still very involved in the day-to-day data processes."
Dan would like to contribute his experience and knowledge to the members of DAMA-PS as Co-VP of Communications. He would like to see the informative and interesting monthly lectures continue and expand so all DAMA members can keep in touch with the latest trends in DATA Management. His goals are to help increase membership and promote involvement in our organization through timely communication and he looks forward to the opportunity to serve on the Board.
Micheal Schwartz has been active in IT data management for 12+ years. His interest in data management began as a team member and later as lead scientist on grant-funded research an national program evaluations. As a Senior Principal Consultant with Oracle Corporation, he developed expertise in data warehousing, BI and enterprise data architecture. As Corporate Data Architect and Supervisor of the Data Resource Management Unit for Seattle Public Utilities, he contributed to the development of SPU’s corporate data architecture. As an independent contractor he recently worked with Starbucks Corporation providing data profiling and data integration services on the Global Business Systems Solutions project. Micheal is currently serving as an enterprise data warehouse Application Architect with Nordstrom. Micheal has a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Montana and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University with specialization in quantitative social research methods and statistics.
He has served DAMA-PS for two years as the VP of Programs and Educaton and for the last two years as President. He would like to serve another year as President to lead the transition of new Board members and to re-engineer the delivery of services from DAMA-PS to its membership, including more workshops, better networking and job sharing opportunities as well as possible vendor presentations.
Sanjay Shirude is President of SOCIAL SOLUTIONS COM INC, whose mission is simplifying Information Technology Business Integrations. Sanjay has more than more than 20 years of experience in the areas of data management, metadata management, and enterprise architecture. In previous roles, he served as Senior Developer for Aerospace and Defense product development at Baan ERP system and Chief Information Officer at Wartsila Diesel India. Sanjay has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Sanjay has served as Visiting Faculty for Technical College for courses in Data Management and Data Quality.
Sanjay has an educational background in Statistics (M.Sc.), business (MMS), and management (Ph.D.). Sanjay has outstanding expertise in Business Intelligence, Virtualizations, and Master Data Management. He is currently writing a book on the Yogic Philosophy in Data Modeling.
Sanjay is interested to work on behalf of DAMA-PS as Co-VP of Programs and Education
Connie Taylor has been managing data from the business side for over 20 years. She is currently Data Steward for Procurement/Plant Maintenance data at Weyerhaeuser company, working on business process improvement through better data. She has served in various capacities on both sides of the thin line between IT and business, including the last 10 years in software project design, training, implementation, and change management. Connie has a BS in Forestry, MBA in Finance, and certificates in Software testing and Construction project management, all from the University of Washington Seattle.
She joined DAMA last year, and as a new member, would like to participate as Co-VP of Operations. "I bring experience as a Board Member of varied organizations including the Crisis Clinic of Thurston/Mason Counties and Oregon Women for Timber, as well as long active participation in professional societies in the forest products industry. I look forward to contributing to the continuation of the interesting meetings I've been attending!"