Data Warehouse Consultants was founded in 2004 by
John Shantz, a former manager at Deloitte & Touche.
He worked for Deloitte Consulting in their information technology and business intelligence practices
for seven years and was one of the founding members of the public sector data warehouse practice
within Deloitte. His specialties at Deloitte were the design and development of data warehouse
systems and associated Internet applications. He helped Deloitte to grow their data
warehousing practice from 2 individuals in 1997 to a $40 million practice in 2003
with 50+ consultants on dozens of projects.
Mr. Shantz’s credentials include design, development and management duties on more than twenty different
data warehouse initiatives in various industries across the country. He is also an accomplished program
designer and programmer in many different languages and environments.
John's fifteen years of experience in data warehousing have helped him become an authority on successful
data warehouse implementations.
Along with being the lead consultant on some current engagements,
Mr. Shantz is also an adjunct professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School in Pittsburgh teaching
graduate-level courses in Data Warehousing and Decision Support Systems. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from
The Pennsylvania State University (Class of 1996) and
a Master of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business (Class of 2001).