Experienced Business Analyst specialising in systems that deliver timely, reliable and relevant information by leveraging data quality and data governance strategies.Designed one of the very first commercial electronic mail software applications, WordStar Messenger and was granted a landmark British patent in 1992 covering the use of electronic mail systems to maintain distributed databases.Designed and oversaw the development of a number of strategic distributed database management systems used extensively in the UK and US by the Public Relations and Media Industries. From 1994 to 1998, served as the elected chairman of the American National Standards Institute Accredited Committee ANSI ASCX 12E, the Standards Committee responsible for the development and maintenance of EDI standards for product data.Responsible for the design, development and global promotion of the UNSPSC as an internationally recognized commodity classification and for the design and development of the eOTD, an internationally recognized open technical dictionary based on the NATO codification system.Project leader for ISO 8000, the international standard for data quality and for ISO 22745, the international standard for open technical dictionaries. Expert in the creation and maintenance of unambiguous language independent master data (data that identifies and describes individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, rules and regulations) and the generation of high quality descriptions that are the heart of today’s ERP applications and the next generation of high speed and high relevance internet searches.Supporter of open standards for portable data and long term data retention. Helping to focus international attention not only on data quality issues but also on the serious intellectual property problem caused by software applications that embed proprietary metadata into their customer's data thereby creating a joint copyright in the data.Specialties: Business development, Systems analyst, Master data design, development and management, Data quality evaluation and audit, Data portability evaluation and audit, Data requirements analysis, System integration and interoperability, Metadata development and management, Data sourcing and validation, Data governance, International standards development