Bio

I love to teach early adopters about emerging tools and concepts for data analytics. I lead the research division at Eckerson Group, writing about topics such as DataOps, data modernization, cloud analytics, machine learning, and data observability. If you’re an entrepreneur with new ideas about data analytics, I would like to hear your story. For more than 25 years experience I have educated practitioners about technology, as an industry analyst, instructor, marketer, services leader, and tech journalist. I built a global analytics services team for EMC Pivotal and ran field training at the data integration software provider Attunity (now part of Qlik). I am a servant leader, listener, editor, speaker, and co-author of two books about data management. Outside of work, I’m a bookworm, history buff, mountain biker, husband, and father of three boys.