Syd Shewchuk has over 12 years of expert level experience with the Cognos suite, ranging from the early years of Cognos 7, through 8 and 10 to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11 platform. He is a former Senior Cognos Instructor with IBM and has worked as a Cognos Trainer, Mentor and Consultant for several IBM partner companies. He is IBM certified in all aspects of Cognos BI, Cognos Analytics and TM1. Syd has helped hundreds of public and private sector clients work with and understand their business intelligence implementations including report/dashboard design, interactive performance metrics development and data modeling.
Syd designs Cognos courseware and course curricula, delivers advanced Cognos BI and Analytics courses, and provides mentoring services for other BI clients and professionals. He has assisted hundreds of clients across many industries and functional areas with business analyses, process improvement, report design and development, metadata modeling, administration, system implementations, technical documentation, training, and delivery. He has written volumes of technical documents, and has done technical editing for publishers, McGraw Hill and Thompson Learning.
Syd is a former officer in the Canadian Army and an Oregon resident with dual US/Canadian citizenship. He has over 30 years of business, project management, and data analytics experience. Syd graduated with distinction with a Master’s degree in Plasma Physics from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in California and with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta. He also holds an IT diploma with distinction from the Canadian Information Technology Institute.