DAMA - Philadelphia / Delaware Valley Chapter

Serving the greater Philadelphia area, southern New Jersey, and the State of Delaware

Addressing Complex Data Integration Challenges Without Breaking the Bank

Richard Pilkington is Director of Product Marketing for Syncsort and is responsible for driving research and product management efforts. This includes product strategy, messaging/positioning, sales process/training, customer/market analyses, and partnership/alliance development. Previously, Mr. Pilkington was Global Operations Manager in AIG’s International Property and Casualty Division where he was one of the key architects driving design and deployment of new product development and service delivery models across a network of 138 offices in 98 countries. Mr. Pilkington has over 20 years of business development and management experience during which time he has held positions as a Principle for a management consultancy, COO for a mid-size insurance company, and a large scale technology deployment manager for a major US-based financial services company. During his career, he and his family have resided in France, Switzerland, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates. Mr. Pilkington holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a joint Masters Degree in their School of International Affairs and School of Arts & Sciences. He also holds a joint Bachelors Degree in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Columbia’s School of Engineering and Columbia College.

Implementing a solid, fast and cost effective data integration method within a Master Data Management environment is a complex and massive undertaking where many IT Department’s Total Cost of Ownership sky rockets. If not framed within a pragmatic manner from the onset, these programs risk not delivering the colossal benefits they promise to both business and IT.

In this seminar Richard Pilkington, Director of Marketing at Syncsort, teams up with Trillium Software to take a pragmatic look at the most common business and technical problems caused by poorly managed data delivery methods, and define a set of fundamental solutions for accelerating data integration and improving data quality within one of the most complex of all Data Integration Programs an IT Department can undertake.

This seminar is intended for CIO’s, Large Scale IT Project Managers, Data Architects, Database Administrators, Data Integration Developers, Compliance Managers, and Master Data Management Professionals, who are responsible for management and delivery of Enterprise Data. Moreover, this session is for those open to take a more pragmatic approach to value creation that will speed up their companies’ time to value.