TORONTO USERS GROUP
for Midrange Systems
Debbie Gallagher is a Manager in the Solutions practice at Deloitte Consulting in Toronto, Canada. Her assignments frequently focus on system implementation, data conversion, or interface design. Debbie’s most recent clients are O&Y Properties and 407 Express Toll Route.
Previous to her employment with Deloitte & Touche, Debbie was System Resource Administrator at ADC's (previously Saville Systems) AS/400 data centre in Markham, Ontario. Debbie created several tools for ADC's AS/400, most of them related to DASD housekeeping. She published articles on many of these custom tools in TUG eServer Magazine.
Debbie was introduced to the midrange world in 1983, when she was employed at Cadillac Fairview. As a business analyst for the then-new CTI Real Estate application, Debbie was involved in requirements definition and user acceptance testing on the System/38.
Debbie Gallagher received an Honours BA from the Ivey School of Business (previously Western Business School) at the University of Western Ontario, followed by an MBA from York University.
In January and March 1999, Debbie wrote a two-part article on project management methodology for TUG eServer magazine. After completing the methodology articles, she decided to illustrate project management in the real world by writing a series of real project stories. Debbie's project management tales are all true stories, which she creates based on interviews of project managers in Canada and other countries. Each tale is used to illustrate how real project issues get solved, and sometimes, how real projects fail.
Debbie’s Project Management Tales are available on-line at www.gallaghers.ca/debbie.
Debbie can be reached at (416) 643-8767 or by e-mail at dgallagher@deloitte.ca.