Len Silverston is an author, lecturer, consultant, and pioneer in the field of data management. He has devoted the last 20 years to helping organizations build and integrate information systems, using his unique approaches to develop information architectures, design databases, and solve data management issues.
Mr. Silverston has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences and has written many articles on database design and data warehousing in publications such as Data Management Review and Data Warehouse Institute's Journal of Data Warehousing.
Len Silverston is the founder and owner of Universal Data Models, LLC (www.universaldatamodels.com), a Colorado-based firm providing consulting and training to help enterprises customize and implement “universal data models” and develop holistic, integrated systems. Universal Data Models, LLC, has helped many diverse organizations develop data architectures and designs in a fraction of the typical time through its extensive repository of reusable data models and data warehouse designs. The company offers several seminars that provide tools to deliver higher quality databases and information systems in less time.
Mr. Silverston lives in Castle Rock, Colorado, with his wife Annette and his daughters, Danielle and Michaela. He holds a masters degree in Computer Science from Renssellear Polytechnic Institute with a specialization in database management systems.
He can be reached at [email protected].
About the Contributors
Kent Graziano ([email protected]) is a Senior Technical Architect for Aris Corporation in Denver, Colorado, and is the current president of the Oracle Development Tools User Group. He has over 18 years of experience, with the last 12 years devoted to Oracle data modeling and data warehousing. Kent was the recipient of the 1999 Chris Wooldridge Award from the International Oracle Users Group for outstanding contributions to the Oracle user community.
W. H. Inmon, the acknowledged “father of data warehousing,” is a partner in www.billinmon.com, a Web site for the corporate information factory and modern systems architecture. He has written more than 40 books on databases, database management, and data warehouse technology, including the recently published Exploration Warehousing (Wiley). Bill is also a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences and contributes to DM Review.
Natalie Arsenault has worked for major Fortune 100 companies in database administration, design, and modeling for most of her 20-year career. Her current work supports an enterprise data framework that is consistently leveraged throughout the company. She is involved with data standards, metadata planning and is a member of the enterprise technical architecture team.
Ms. Arsenault has been a conference speaker at several international conferences on data modeling, and her colleagues seek her expertise.