Larry Burns has worked in IT for more than 25 years as a database administrator, application developer, consultant and teacher. He currently works for a global Fortune 500 company as a database developer on numerous software development projects, and teaches a series of data management classes for application developers. He was a contributor to DAMA International's Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK), and is a former instructor and advisor in the certificate program for Data Resource Management at the University of Washington in Seattle.