Jack Olson has worked in the commercial software development business for 40 years.  His career has mostly consisted of architecting solutions to IT problems in the area of database systems and tools.    He spent 17 years in IBM development labs working on such notable products as CICS, IMS, DB2, and AIX.   He worked at BMC software as Corporate Architect, as Vice President of Development at Peregrine Systems, and as Chief Technology Officer for Evoke Software and NEON Enterprise Software.   He has worked with several other startup companies in recent years as a consultant, advisor, or board member.    He is currently an independent consultant.   Jack has published two books:  “Data Quality: the Accuracy Dimension”, 2003, and “Database Archiving: How to Keep Lots of Data for a Very Long Time”, 2008.   Jack has a BS degree in Mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University.