John Sharp is the founder and principal consultant for Sharp Informatics. Before starting Sharp Informatics in 1997 he was employed by Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM for 18 years. While at Sandia he held staff and management positions in all areas of information technology, including analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, information architecture, data administration, and information technology research. He has worked closely with Prof. Shir Nijssen of The Netherlands to improve the NIAM analysis methodology. Dr. Sharp is the editor of the international standard for conceptual schemas. He has co-chaired two international conferences on natural language modeling and he has presented numerous papers and seminars at professional conferences.

He recieved a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Electrical Engineering and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Pamela and dog Zia. His five children have all graduated from college and live in Annapolis, Chicago, and Albuquerque.

Eric is a Senior Consultant with Sharp Informatics and has been with the company since March, 2009. He is becoming an expert in the Natural Language Modeling procedure. He received his MBA from the University of New Mexico with dual concentrations in Finance and Marketing in 2007 (4.1GPA). He attended the University of Oklahoma on a National Merit Scholarship where he received his degree in Management Information Systems and played football and soccer. Boomer Sooner!

He was married to Cally in August 2009, and their daughter, Lilly, was born in October 2010. They have two dogs, Johnny and Gertrude.

Eric and Johnny love to hunt. Eric loves golf and working on their "new" boat.