Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsMike Biensen is currently the business intelligence leader of a major project at Celanese, recently featured in CIO magazine, to move all SAP and other legacy systems to one SAP instance. Benefiting from data warehousing best practices learned prior to his experience with SAP's Business Warehouse, Biensen is implementing this system utilizing a hub-and-spoke architecture. Operational and other source data goes through a data hub where integration and business rule resolution occurs before going to the spokes (e.g., data marts or external systems). He can be reached at mbiensen@celanese.com.
Chris Grant, senior data analyst at Fry Multimedia.
Stephanie Garcia, director of e-commerce merchandising for Restoration Hardware, Inc.
Vice president of chapter services for DAMA.
Jill Eckhaus, president of AFCOM, is responsible for the worldwide activities of the organization including membership, publications, marketing, sales, conferences and trade shows. Eckhaus has been with AFCOM for more than 10 years. Prior to becoming president, she was AFCOM's executive vice president, in charge of the organization's day-to-day activities. In this position, she also headed AFCOM's Strategic Partner Program and was instrumental in the creation of AFCOM's Data Center Institute. Eckhaus may be reached at jeckhaus@afcom.com.
Riddhi Dutta worked in manufacturing industry in operations after graduating with a degree in Economics. He earned his MBA degree in Finance in September 2002 at Leeds University Business School, U.K. As an intern in the IT/IS Department of Leeds University, he designed and constructed a decision support system for the evaluation and prioritization of IS projects. Dutta�s career and research interests involve applications of decision analysis tools within different industrial sectors. You can contact him at riddhidutta@yahoo.com.
Dr. Stephen P. Goodwin, Exploration and Production Technology for BP.
Dr. John C. Hermansen is the cofounder and chief executive officer of Language Analysis Systems, a Herndon, Virginia-based maker of name recognition software. He can be reached at jack@las-inc.com.
Lisa Dusseault currently heads server product development for Xythos Software and is co-chair of the IETF WebDAV working group. She has participated in IETF application protocol standards since 1996 when she worked at Microsoft on Internet server technology. She is currently writing a book about WebDAV due to be published by Prentice Hall later this year.
Vijay K. Agarwala, director, Graduate Education and Research Services group, a part of Information Technology Services at Penn State.
