Douglas Scherer is founder and CEO of Core Paradigm, a company that shows organizations how to realize the optimal value from their corporate knowledge.

He has assisted companies from a diverse set of industries including:


DC Interconnect   The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deutsche Bank   SCP Communications
The Image Bank   The University of Venice
Ingersoll-Rand   WNET/Thirteen
The Medical Library Center of New York   Verizon

and others, as well as small and midsize companies. He has helped these organizations define their informational needs, extract crucial information from their existing systems, and worked with internal development teams to produce systems that support those needs.

Mr. Scherer is a noted speaker and author on database analysis and design, implementation, and management. He is the lead author of Oracle 8i Tips & Techniques, and co-author of the Oracle DBA Interactive Workbook and Oracle DBA Complete Video Course. His Oracle Magazine series on interMedia and text mining is presented to over 500,000 readers annually.

A frequent speaker and panel member at conferences and user-group meetings internationally, he appears on radio and TV, most recently on Visions of the New Millennium, a series seen on PBS and its affiliates.

For the last 10 years, Mr. Scherer has been a member of the adjunct instructional faculty at Columbia University in the Executive Information Technology Management (EITM), and Computer Technology and Applications (CTA) programs. He led for three of those years as chair of database track in the CTA program.