Senior Business Intelligence Trainer
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William McKnight
Outside of SetFocus, William is president of McKnight Consulting Group, which includes service lines of Master Data Management, IT assessment, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence. He also functions as Strategist, Lead Enterprise Information Architect, and Program Manager for sites worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. William has overcome numerous complex data acquisition/ETL (real-time, sourcing, transforming, syndicated data, integration, cleansing, POS/CDR/RFID source) issues and has hands-on experience with numerous leading OLAP/BI/ETL tools. His breath of experience with information management product set includes internal product development (source code), IT development, management, analyst and consulting roles.
William is author of the book “90 Days to Success in Consulting” and has written about a dozen white papers on Modernizing Information Management, Data Quality ROI, Compliance, Architecture Consolidation, Healthcare BI, SQL Server 2005, Netezza, Appliances, Query Performance. He’s been a panelist numerous times on the B-Eye Perspective Radio Show, covering what is happening in BI and IT. He has given 13 keynote presentations at major conferences and online trade shows on topics of master data management, business intelligence futures, data mining, healthcare business intelligence, packaged business intelligence, CRM data warehouses and data warehouse value.
Outside of work, William enjoys family, fitness, yoga, playing soccer, reading, history, music and playing the piano.
Technical Skills:
- Master Data Management
- SQL
- Oracle, DB2 and Microsoft business intelligence tools
- Data Modeling
- Data Quality/Data Cleansing
- DW/BI/MDM Justification and Return on Investment
- Data Warehouse Architectures and Methodologies
- Data Warehouse/Information Management Maturation
- Data Warehouse Appliances
- Enabling DW/BI Across the Enterprise
- The DW/BI Landscape
- Packaged DW/BI
- DW Fundamentals
- Data Acquisition and Integration
- RFID Information Analytics