I was born in Montgomery, Alabama to Isiah and Hagalyn Ferguson. My mother and father have since passed away. I have three older brothers and sisters. I live with my partner of many years.
I attended Head Elementary, Dozier Elementary, Saint Judes and the Montgomery Academy in Montgomery. And I attended Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California. I spent a couple of years studying Mathematics, Linguistics and Philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. I graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. I also attended graduate school in Mathematics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
I have worked for many companies including: the FBI, Boeing, KnowledgeWare, Sequent, Teradata and IBM.
I am currently focused on selling and delivering solutions related to Business Intelligence and Masterdata Management principally in the Telecommunications, Health Care, Financial Services, Retail and Distribution Sectors in North and South America.
Specialties:
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Masterdata Management, Information Governance, Customer Relationship Management, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Health Care, Retail and Distribution. I am a subject matter expert in the IBM Information Framework (IFW), Banking Data Warehouse (BDW), Telecommunications Data Warehouse (TDW), Retail Data Warehouse (RDW) as well as the m1 and RDA Model Management tools.
Travel, SCUBA, politics, dining, snow and water skiing