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Jed Summerton is the Chief Solutions Architect at CONNECT: The Knowledge Network (CONNECT). Jed has worked with CONNECT for fifteen (15) years as an independent consultant and as a client, and has now joined the CONNECT staff to provide senior guidance to CONNECT teams and clients in IT strategy, business intelligence, and data warehousing. Jed has twenty-five (25) years of experience in information technology, business-process improvement, business management, and IT consulting. In his roles as technical director and senior IT manager, Jed has formulated and executed multi-year IT plans with documented returns on investment, implemented e-commerce systems, and built one of the first real-time data warehouses larger than ten (10) Terabytes (TB). He also pioneered near-line storage and has received numerous industry citations and awards for storage architecture and management practices. As a consultant, Jed has guided over thirty-five (35) data-warehouse and business-intelligence programs from architecture to implementation for Fortune 1000® clients. Jed has degrees in Business Administration (Finance) and Computer Science from the University of Delaware. | 