Graeme C. Simsion

Graeme C. Simsion is a New Zealand born Australian author, screen-writer, playwright and data modeler. He won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book, The Rosie Project. The screenplay for this book has been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. From 2002-2006, as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Melbourne, Simsion conducted the largest published study of data modeling practitioners in attempt to answer this question: Is data modeling better characterized as description or design? His thesis, entitled Data Modeling: Description or Design, was published by the University of Melbourn in 2006.