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March 2009 NEWSLETTER

Meeting Information

 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE


Dear Members,

For this month's meeting we had a last minute cancellation by our planned speaker, but our Treasurer has graciously volunteered to step in and share his modeling expertise (see below).

President

 Diby Malakar (currently serving as Program Director)
Treasurer

 Francois Cartier (currently serving as Treasurer)
Secretary

 
Program Director

 Mehmet Orun (currently serving as President)
Online Services

Dan Weller (currently serving as Web Master, new title, expanded position)
Communication Director

 Wendy Wood (currently serving as communications director)
Membership Director

 
Industry Relations

 Mani Keeran (currently serving as resource director)
Resource Director

 

From Logical to Physical
March 11, 2009

State Compensation Insurance Fund
Union Square Room
1275 Market Street San Francisco, CA
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Please RSVP to Mani

8:30 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15

Welcoming Remarks; Election

9:15 - 10:15

Presentation

10:15 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 11:45

Presentation Cont.

11:45 - 12:00

Questions and Wrap-Up

12:00 - Lunch

Restaurant or Cafeteria (to be announced at the meeting)



Data Modeling: From Logical to Physical
by Francois Cartier

Presentation Description:

Learn in detail what it takes to turn a logical data model into a physical data model, ready to be implemented as an operational database. I'll talk also about implementation strategies, views, denormalization and transforms, performance tuning, and data model maintenance.

François Cartier has more than thirty years of diversified experience in Information Technology in a wide variety of commercial sectors, including telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, wholesale, government agencies, insurance, and financial institutions.

He has designed systems marrying relational with object-oriented technologies, built and contributed to corporate data models, designed operational and decision support databases under a variety of DBMSs. He has managed data analysis, data standards management, system development, application support and IT change control teams.

He has given classes at Golden Gate University, and made technical and management level presentations at various forums in the USA and Japan.

François is a senior consultant with e-Modelers, the vice-president of BAEMUG, the treasurer of CA's Modeling PLC, and the treasurer of this S.F. chapter of DAMA.

 

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