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Steve Blais
International IT Expert – USA
Steve Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA, has been working with data-oriented
projects and systems for several decades and has developed
business intelligence applications using Cognos (now IBM® Cognos®
Business Intelligence). He has consulted to many government and
commercial organisations in the UAE, Singapore, Indonesia, and the
US to help develop business analytics, data mining facilities, and
corporate data models. He also worked with MicroStrategy in the late ‘90s.
Steve is an industry-renowned Consultant, Trainer, Author, and Speaker who has over 50
years’ experience in Information Technologies. He has worked as a Business Analyst, System
Analyst, Information Security Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, Programmer, Project
Manager, and General Manager. In addition, Steve has held various development and
management positions in his career and has also been in executive positions for several startup
companies.
Steve writes a monthly column for Business Analyst Times and is a frequent contributor to
AllpM.com, Modern Analyst and other publications. He has presented the keynote addresses
at the IPMA European Conference (2013), PMI PacRim Conference in Tokyo (2012), PMI South
America in Sao Paolo (2011), and many other conferences around the world in 2019.
He is also the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and coauthor
of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a member of the
core team for A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide), v.3 (IIBA,
2015). He has a forthcoming book on Big Data and Data Analytics to be released soon.
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