Biography of Derek Strauss - CEO & Founder of Gavroshe

Derek Strauss is the CEO, President and Principal Consultant of Gavroshe USA Inc. He has 25 years of IT industry experience, 16 years of which were in the Information Resource Management (IRM) field.  He established Data Resource Management, Architecture and IRM Functions in several large Corporations using the Zachman Framework as a basis and participated in several Application Development Projects from beginning to end of the Systems Life Cycle.

Derek established and managed numerous enterprise programs and initiatives in the domains of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Quality Improvement and IRM. Bill Inmon's Corporate Information Factory and John Zachman's Enterprise Architecture Framework have been the foundational cornerstones of his work. He is an active member of DAMA (The Data Management Association) and TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) and is currently serving as VP of Programs for DAMA SW Ohio.

Derek is specialized in IT Systems Reverse Engineering and Re-engineering Methods, Tools and Techniques, and their inter-relationship with Business Process Re-engineering and Corporate Repositioning Method-sets. He uses most of the popular Methods (including Tetrarch, Method/1, IEM, Spiral Methodologies) and CASE Tools (Plan/1, Design/1, IEW, IEF, ADW, PM/SS, MSP Family Products, ERWin, BPWin, Designer).

Derek is a Specialist Workshop Facilitator for all levels (clerical to Board-level) of workshops.   Has spoken at several local and international conferences on IRM-related issues, including a seminar series on Data Warehouse in Eastern Europe (Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Vienna). Derek is certified by Bill Inmon as a Government Information Factory Architect.

His education and training includes:

•  BSc (Honors), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
•  Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, John Zachman.
•  Certified Government Information Factory Architect, Bill Inmon.

Biography of Genia Neushloss - Co-Founder of Gavroshe

Genia Neushloss is the Data Warehouse Practice Director (UK) and Consultant on Information Systems and Data Warehousing. She has strong managerial and technical background spanning over 30 years of professional experience in insurance, finance, manufacturing, mining, chemicals, liquor and telecommunications industries. She is fully experienced in the development and implementation of Life Cycle Methodologies. Her proven areas of expertise include:

Genia has developed and conducted training courses in JAD/JRP Facilitation and Systems Reengineering and was co-developer of a standard method-set for Systems Reengineering. She has 16 years specialization in planning, analyzing, designing and building Data Warehouses. Based on this experience Genia has developed a method-set for implementing Data Warehouses and a Business Data Dictionary.

Genia specializes in:

•  The Zachman Framework for Information System Architecture.
•  Enterprise Planning.
•  Information Engineering.
•  Group Design.
•  Joint Requirements, Application and Data Planning and Design.
•  Business Area Analysis.
•  Project Management and Estimation.
•  Total System Process and Data Modeling.
•  Standard Best-Practices Creation.
•  Gavroshe Technologies Data Warehouse Methodology.
•  Training.

Her education and training includes:

•  Degree in Economics & Planning of industry from Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Politechnical Institute.
•  Member of the Data Warehouse Association USA.
•  Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, John Zachman.
•  Certified Government Information Factory Architect, Bill Inmon.