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2017-2018 Board of Directors
Jeff Johnson: President
Jeff has 19 years data management experience, including at Experian Information Solutions, DeepData, World Vision and Sila Solutions Group. He has held several leadership roles including 9 years form President/CEO of DeepData; Consulting Lead at Sila Solutions Group; Project Management in various capacities and as an Operations Director. He is certified in Data Science, Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Methodology, and is a certified Scrum Master. Jeff has a desire to lead the strategic direction of DAMA-PS with a team of committed members in order to proactively grow DAMA-PS presence in the Puget Sound area.
Michael Mueller: Past President
Mike has been an active member in Puget Sound DAMA since 2011 and has served on the DAMA Board. As an accomplished leader with over 27 years of Data Management experience and complementary expertise in business operations, process improvement, organizational transformation, data governance and technology innovation, he brings a wealth of business-focused information management capabilities and practical execution know-how. He believes his broad work experience in business data operations together with his program management expertise will help the DAMA Puget Sound Chapter continue to grow in membership and relevance to the local data community.
ChaiJen To: Vice President of Operations
ChaiJen is a consultant on both traditional and Cloud data architecture, for Global 1000 companies and mid-size organizations. He has designed or helped design and implemented CRM and data warehouse projects with Big Data or in a SOA environment for cyber security, banking, telecommunication, retail, workforce, and manufacturing industries. ChaiJen has written over 1000 db objects and design scalable solution on Cloud MPP with data integrity for enterprise data management and business intelligence systems. He is a CDP, CDMP, CBIP, and is active in TDWI, ISSA and AI events.
Luisa Recalcati: Vice President of Programs and Education
Luisa Recalcati is a technology executive with proven success directing high profile programs. Experienced in Data Management and Enterprise Architecture, Web Application, CRM, Asset Reusability, transaction processing, E-commerce, and Advanced Metadata Repository. She has a consistent history of developing innovative solutions that enable business growth. She is experienced at leading top-performing teams in application and system integration, design, and development.
She joined Microsoft in 2007 and worked in the Microsoft IT department as an Enterprise Data Architect. In this capacity, she leads the Integrated Data Management initiative, and gained a certification as Data Management Expert by the CMMI Institute. She authored the Architectural Approach portion of the DMM (Data Management Maturity Model)
Previous roles included: Chief Data Architect for Washington Mutual, Chief Technology Officer for SmartContractor, an internet startup company in Seattle. Luisa began her career at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Milan Italy, as a field engineer supporting real time and time sharing operating systems. She then relocated to the DEC European Technical Center in Sophia Antipolis (South of France) where she consulted on large transaction processing and database applications for major European customers.
She holds a Diploma in Programming and Accounting from "Istituto Mose' Bianchi" in Monza Milan Italy.
Patrick Edward Zeine: Co-Vice President of Finance
Patrick has 18+ years of IT experience and has been a Product Data Management specialist at Boeing for the last 4 years.
Patrick was CEO and founder of a business from 1997 – 2007 and has been a local member of DAMA PS for over a year.
He has been Vice Commander of the Sons of American Legion post 141. He has been involved in several leadership positions in several Fraternal Orders and am familiar with Roberts Rules of Order. Patrick currently is a member in good standing of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (Freeland, WA.). Patrick is familiar with preparing income tax reports (IRS 990) for non-profit organizations, and can prepare an annual report.
Theron Jaquez: Co-Vice President of Finance
Theron Jaquez is a financial system analyst managing Oracle Hyperion (OLAP) at World Vision. Prior to joining WV in 2007, he held positions with Microsoft, Premera Blue Cross, United HealthCare, and served in the US Navy. He came to WV with 10 years of experience in the actuarial field where he designed data warehouses, measured liabilities, and conducted ROI and provider profiling studies.
Theron uses his prior business experience and understanding of data systems to bridge the information gap (knowledge, comfort, delivery, etc.) between IT (data source) and the business (data consumer). He holds a BA in math from Amherst College and an MBA from the University of Washington.
Jay Gardner: Vice President of Marketing
Jay has been involved with data management for over 20 years, and with DAMA-PS since 2006. He has worked in many different database and systems integration roles. Starting out with geographic information systems and document management systems, moving on to finance and retail OLTP systems, then to data warehousing, OLAP and business intelligence, Jay passionately strives to maintain best practices in managing the underlying data. His current interests are Enterprise Business Intelligence, Big Data and advanced Data Visualization.
Jean Nichols: Co-Vice President of Communications
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Jean has 25+ working for local companies in IT with a specific emphasis on managing financial business systems. A key focus of Jean’s role over the years has been planning, designing, developing, launching and maintaining efficient and effective financial system solutions that support organization business processes. Additional emphasis and a very critical component in all financial systems that Jean has managed has been the data from how data gets input into the systems, the security and controls that get executed within the systems and the outputs that get generated through reporting and business intelligence solutions. Jean has managed several data management projects related to Data Security / Compliance, Data Integrations, Document and Content Management, Business Intelligence and Metadata Management. DAMA-PS since 2011 and she is looking to continue being involved. She is a CBIP CDMP.
Michael Stillings: Co-Vice President of Communications
Mike has been working in Data Management and Analytics for 14 years and been a member of Puget Sound DAMA for five years. He has also developed engineering, database and web applications, consulted external and internal customers, taught classes and been a team, project and technical leader and mentor. He enjoys technical writing and other forms of disseminating information and knowledge. He has worked in the aerospace industry for 32 years. Mike has architected and designed the end-to-end process for taking in value-added data on one end and performing all the steps required to release cleansed and integrated data out the other end for data scientists and engineers. He has also facilitated Decision Support via Data Warehouse-based Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics products.
Dawn Chen: Co-Vice President of Membership
Dawn started her IT professional career in the Bellevue/Seattle area since 1998. She started as a Software Design Engineer, Web Database developer, Middle Tier Application developer, but later moved onto Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Analytics world – always combined with Data Management practice in her career. As a BI Architect with a curious mind, she loves to participate in professional events, learn from others, compare technology from different vendors and methodology, and changing the impossible to possible. She reviews the engineering process as an art and enjoys the beauty of the different processes. Her current role is a BI Architect Manager at NAES. She is a CBIP, CDMP, and looking to serve and learn from DAMA PS community.
Larry Liang: Co-Vice President of Membership
Larry Liang has been an active member in Puget Sound DAMA and in TDWI and Big Data events as well since 2013. Larry Liang has solid experience with all phases of data warehouse/business intelligence development lifecycle from gathering requirements to design, testing, implementation and support of data assets including data warehouse, real time database, and metadata. He earned master degree in Computer Science specializing in data mining and data warehousing in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets. He is a fully Certified IBM Cognos BI consultant for telecom, insurance, retail, and mortgage