Monetizing Data Management
Peter Aiken is acknowledged to be a top data management authority. As a practicing data manager, consultant, author, and researcher, he has been actively attempting to improve this area for more than 25 years. His expertise has been sought by some of the world's most important organizations, and his achievements have been recognized internationally. In addition to examining more than 500 data management practices, he has spent multi-year immersions with organizations as diverse as the US DoD, Deutsche Bank, Nokia, Wells Fargo, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. As President of DAMA International (dama.org), his practice leadership is unquestioned. He has been a member of the Information Systems Department at Virginia Commonwealth University's Business School since 1993 and jointly owns, with the University, Data Blueprint(.com) an award-winning, data management/information technology consulting firm. His latest book is The Case for the Chief Data Officer: Recasting the C-Suite to Leverage Your Most Valuable Asset.With over 30 years of broad experience in the public, private and academic sectors, Juanita Walton Billings is a pragmatic, ISO-certified business professional who specializes in analysis, design and auditing of enterprise architectures. Beginning her career as a clerk-typist for a mortgage banking firm, she worked her way up through positions requiring a more sophisticated and technical skill set. She went on to earn a BBA/MIS at James Madison University and an MS/IS at Virginia Commonwealth University. Employed by CMU/SEI to conduct a comparison of the pivotal Zachman Framework and the then-evolving Department of Defense Architecture Framework, she was introduced to enterprise architecture.Since then, she has established a proven track record based on experience and knowledge gained at the Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia and various commands, services and agencies of the Department of Defense, in addition to that acquired in privately held legal, health care, banking, not-for-profit, insurance and bonding, retail and construction organizations. She served on the Department of Defense Data Metamodel working group, and she is a published author as well as a former entrepreneur and instructor in the field of management information systems. Her self-proclaimed most-valued professional assets include a keen eye for detail and the ability to act as a bridge between technical staff and business users.