Joyce Norris-Montanari is an expert in a variety of data warehousing activities. She has managed and implemented data warehouses and operational data stores for restaurants, telecommunications, government, medical organizations, pharmaceuticals, financial institutions, oil and gas, insurance, R&D, and retail environments. She has also participated in the design, development, implementation, and assessment of operational data stores, data warehouses, and data marts. Ms. Norris-Montanari has facilitated requirements gathering sessions to ensure correct delivery of information, created data models, implemented metadata solutions, and gathered database sizing information. She excels in her knowledge of ETL products and metadata and has assisted client companies with ETL and metadata tool selection.

In addition, Ms. Norris-Montanari has a strong background in traditional system development in the mainframe, client-server, and Internet environments. She speaks frequently at data warehouse conferences, contributes to several trade publications, and wrote Data Warehousing and E-Business with W.H. Inmon, Dan Meers, and R.H. Terdeman. Ms. Norris-Montanari has aided corporations in determining their data warehouse and operational data store solutions and has provided training on the topics of implementing data warehouses and operational data stores, SQL and database features, tool evaluations, ETL and metadata issues, and performance and tuning. She can be reached at jmontanari@earthlink.net.