Ken Collier Senior Consultant

Ken Collier is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Intelligence and Agile Product & Project Management practices, where he brings more than 20 years' experience in advanced computing and technology. With expertise in data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), software engineering, and agile methods, Dr. Collier extends his skills across many industries. He was a former VP at KSolutions, Inc., and former head of the Business Intelligence Solutions practice at KPMG Consulting (now BearingPoint). In both roles, Dr. Collier was responsible for BI solutions and services, including overseeing and managing multiple software development projects.

Dr. Collier spent 10 years as a tenured Associate Professor of computer science engineering at Northern Arizona University (NAU) specializing in software engineering, database theory, and machine learning. At NAU, he cofounded the Center for Data Insight, a leading center of excellence in data mining and advanced analytics. Dr. Collier has been an invited speaker on various BI and agile development topics. He holds a PhD in computer science engineering from Arizona State University. Ken Collier can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.

For more by Ken Collier:

• The Message Driven Warehouse: A New Architectural Model for BI Systems
• Alpine-Style Systems Development
• Putting the Intelligence Back into Business Intelligence