"To promote the understanding, development and practice of managing information and data as a key enterprise asset" [http://www.dama.org/damamore.html]

I was once asked to prepare a brief white paper describing my approach to research (access thelastmile.pdf). My teaching load has been a maximum of four sections each academic year and my reward structure has been weighted as sixty percent for scholarship, thirty percent for teaching, and ten percent for service. My research at VCU has concentrated on the reverse engineering of data and the key role that data and engineering plays in organizational integration as a fundamental tenant of Information Engineering. I contributed a column to DMReview discussing this issue. I have secured funded research into real world data engineering problems from commercial and government organizations. Much of my research is conducted in conjunction with the Data Blueprint.

Interesting recent results include the recovery of PeopleSoft metadata. Student research consultants and interns have played a key role in these efforts. Ph.D. students are one of the obvious outputs.

If you are interested, I'll be presenting my research at a number of forums in upcoming months. I try to present research results clearly, in a manner interesting to technical audiences and useful to management as well