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Jeff Block joined Capstone in early 2008 to lead the BI practice and to help Capstone build a new
consulting practice in Chicago. Upon his joining the company, Capstone opened their second office in
downtown Chicago, and established a close relationship with the Illinois IT Association. Along with
billable consulting work and leading Capstone's Chicago and BI practices, Jeff chairs the
ITA Business Intelligence Roundtable
and hosts quarterly "BI Summit" events in Omaha, where Capstone's headquarters
is located. Jeff is also heavily involved in Capstone's marketing group.
Born in the St. Louis area, Jeff has been a consultant in the IT industry in the Chicago area since beginning
his career in 1994. Early in his career, he built his own consulting practice as an independent to kick-start
his career. Since then, he has worked with both very small and very large consulting firms, has
provided technical training and field readiness services for a global software company, and helped
launch a startup media company, where he invented much of their intelligence scoring technology.
Jeff has a passion for building things. In the corporate / consulting world, this translates to
leveraging technology, particularly IT, to make business more successful. His broad experience
includes executive and technical leadership, program- and project management,
process and methodology development, enterprise- and application architecture, relational and
multidimensional data architecture and modeling, and software design and development.
Jeff has specific proficiencies in business process management, project
management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence, enterprise data
warehousing, object-oriented technologies, distributed computing, and various
database systems.
Jeff holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Engineering College at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is
married, and loves to spend time with his wife and their 4 year old son. Jeff is heavily involved
in Harvest Bible Chapel,
where he serves in the youth and children ministries.
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