Gordon C. Everest

Professor Emeritus
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota

Falcon Heights (Saint Paul), Minnesota 55113

geverest@umn.edu

LINKS:

Advanced Database Design course

Why ORM?

Data Modeling Q&A

Lecture Presentations (DAMA talks)

GEMS Consulting (& Legal projects)

Brief Resume (biography)

Papers & Publications

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

Badminton

Singing barbershop harmony with TIMBRE! quartet

Photo Gallery

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The Advanced Database Design course is now available online, beginning this spring semester on Thursday, January 20. This is no ordinary online course. It runs in lockstep with the face-to-face class which provides a more effective and engaging learning experience. Click here for more information.

Come to the annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference of the international Data Management Association (DAMA). Gordon will be conducting a 1/2 day workshop entitled "Rethinking How We Do Data Modeling" which motivates the need for a new scheme such as ORM. He will also be giving a presentation entitled "Helping Business Users Understand Your Data Models."

At the University of Minnesota, Gordon has specialized in teaching Computers and Information Systems; Database Management, Design, and Administration; Data Warehousing; and the Legal Aspects of Computing. After the Y2K tsunami hit our industry (see an opinion paper), hiring in IS/IT collapsed, and students stopped majoring in MIS. With many IT courses being cancelled, he took a somewhat forced earlier "retirement" (in 2004). This allowed more time to devote to his passion -- educating IS practioners in advanced database design techniques using Object Role Modeling (ORM) and the supporting data modeling tools (NORMA, and Visio in Visual Studio Enterprise). For more details, see Brief Resume.

Broad mission: To help managers make better decisions through support of information technology, and to help organizations better use computers and databases, through consulting and education (see GEMS).

Specific Mission: To get the whole world of data modelers (enterprise data architects) designing databases using Object Role Modeling (ORM). ORM is a significantly better way to do data modeling (see Why ORM?). Online delivery of the Advanced Database Design course is one step toward that goal.

Your feedback on this website or anything else is welcome -- send an email to: geverest@umn.edu