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The Founder


For nearly three decades, DIETER W. STORR has worked in the United States and Europe as an Information Technology specialist for the performance and tuning of databases and mainframe operating systems. His early efforts included work with Software AG products such as ADABAS, Natural, Com-plete, and Predict; for ADABAS, Storr was a Data Base Administrator (DBA) and helped improve his clients disaster recovery procedures. By the mid-1980's Storr was also teaching subjects such as information technology, performance and tuning, and data modeling. His programming experience includes Assembler, PL/1, Cobol, Natural, Basic, and Pascal, and he has recently learned JavaScript and Java.

Storr has developed software for change management; backup and recovery; database performance monitoring; logical DB-distribution; and stress testing from the browser to the back-end mainframe - including open-system middleware. Other endeavors have included analyzing and designing various architectures to bring mainframe data to the Web, designing and creating web pages, and overseeing the design and implementation of a security concept for the Swiss Government.

Among Storr's writing credits are various magazines articles, the book "Efficient Usage of ADABAS," and the English translation of Heinrich Seidlmaier's textbook "Process Modeling with ARIS." Storr joined D.P. Solutions, Inc. in 1998 and formed his own company, Storr Consulting, the following year. He incorporated his company in 2007 and works for the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and for the Los Angeles Times.