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- Where did you grow up?
- I was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
- Tell us about your family.
- I am married to my best friend, Jan. We met at Georgia Tech in 1981, and are playing Ozzie and Harriet to our four sons' collective imitation of Viacom's Jimmy Neutron. The boys range in age from 7 to 17. The oldest, about to head to college to study music, will begin a long line of educational entitlements sure to pave the way to my own certain financial ruin.
- What do you like most about your work?
- I need intellectual freedom and Gartner is the only place I have found it other than in academia. I also need a decent expense account, which is why I am not in academia.
- When you were six years old, what did you want to grow up to be?
- I was torn between astronaut and race car driver. Later, I wanted to be a dentist. Then I went into the IT field and have been here ever since. My level of risk-taking has dropped since I was six.
- What are you most proud of professionally?
- The Predicts work we did in 2001 and 2002 was the largest coordinated research effort Gartner had ever undertaken. That was a pleasure to be involved in and a privilege to lead.
- If you could not be an IT analyst, what would be your second career choice?
- I would be a combination philosopher/theologian and short story writer. Instead, I do that in my spare time. It is important to balance both sides of your brain.
- How do you spend your time when you're not working?
- Writing and reading short stories, gardening, teaching my children about life, playing the blues, learning jazz, traveling, learning in general.
- Do you play a musical instrument?
- Yes — electric guitar (specifically Fender's classic Telecaster and Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's 360 six and twelve string beauties). I am also a co-founder (with Daryl Plummer) and lead guitarist for Gartner's band, The Research Notes, aka ToneDefs. So far, we have played in Orlando and San Francisco, but unfathomably have yet to garner a record deal.
- How do you choose the books you read for pleasure?
- Usually, I look for anything twisted such as Douglas Adams or something that reeks of classic New York, cigarette smoking, hat-wearing, sophistication like John Cheever and J.D. Salinger. At the moment, I am an eBay fiend buying the Best American Short Stories series from 1917 up to the present.
- Do you have a favorite movie?
- The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman — the dubbed, not subtitled, version.
- What are your favorite Web sites?
- Dilbert, Google, Amazon and eBay.
- What is your most prized personal possession?
- Photos of my family and the silly cards and drawings we do for and with each other. Everything else is replaceable.
- Do you have a philosophy by which you live, something that guides you in tough times?
- I teach an adult Sunday School class in my Methodist Church. The philosophy I try to live by is spelled out in this really cool, two-part owner's manual that was written many thousands of years ago.
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David is a leading authority on Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring and Application Integration.
Topics He Covers Include:
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Recent Accurate Predictions:
In 2000, predicted that application integration middleware vendors would incorporate business process management capabilities into their products.
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In 2001, predicted that no business process management standard would eliminate the need for an enterprises to support multiple, incompatible process-management-aware applications.
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In 2001, predicted that businesses would improve their operations by having real-time access to critical business performance indicators.
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David has more than 24 years of senior-level IT experience. With a deep business process background he understands the technical implications of complex business processes and can communicate easily to both business and technical people.
David's advice is sought by the top leaders of major companies such as Microsoft, IBM, BEA, FileNet, and Tibco.
David has advised United Nations officials, senior U.S. military members, and the Inland Revenue (U.K.) on strategies to improve the productivity of their IT investments.
David has been a keynote speaker at Tibco, Microsoft, IBM, FileNet and Vitria user conferences. He co-presented at Staffware with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
David serves on the Advisory Board to San Jose State University's Department of Computer Engineering, and has served on a number of advisory boards including the Association for Information and Image Management's (AIIM) Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EmTAG).
David is frequently quoted in media publications such as Business Week, ComputerWorld, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, CNET, Darwin, InfoWorld, and Investor's Business Daily.
David is a columnist, contributing editor and member of the Editorial Advisory board for Business Integration Journal. His monthly column of humor-meets-technology, Renaissance Man, is assumed to be read by millions, perhaps billions.
So popular is David's research with clients that he was one of the Top 10 most-read analysts in 2002. He created and launched the popular Gartner Annual Predicts on all IT topics in 2001.
David is founder and leader of the Gartner Academic Roundtable (GAR) — a research vehicle that marries academic and Gartner viewpoints to create a holistic view of IT topics. Also, during 2004, David took an eight month break from research duties to lead the team building Gartner's research operating model.
Prior to joining Gartner, David worked at a "big six" consulting organization researching document management systems, open-systems networking and future technology analysis.
Education:
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BS, Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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MS, Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University |
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Completed post-graduate work towards Doctorate in Business Administration |
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David's primary research topics are: Agility and advanced software infrastructure, including service-oriented development of applications (SODA); Emerging trends and technologies, including advanced technology planning and research on semantic representation of content; Business process management skills and training requirements; and Business rules.
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