A companion to their first hit book, 'Comic Book Survival and Price Guide', authors Sanjiv Purba and Sandy Sicilia examine the world of toys, special items, and other oddities related to comic book characters. From action figures to spy rings, they share their wealth of knowledge showing collectors how to collect wisely and avoid making costly mistakes. Researched and documented to identify rarities, this book guides collectors through the myriad of comic-related paraphernalia. This book is 'the' resource for values!
Sanjiv is Chief Information Officer (CIO) with Home Trust and has over 22 years of progressive IT experience successfully managing projects of all sizes, complexities, and architectures. Sanjiv has worked for the "Big 5" consultancies, boutique consulting firms, and for Fortune 100 organizations around the world.
Sanjiv has focused on SAP (banking services, FICO, Treasury, CRM, CML, Deposits, Business Objects, BW), System Integration projects, Data Warehouse solutions, Business Intelligence, and the infrastructure and processes to support these.
His clients have included HomeTrust, the Royal Bank, CIBC Mellon, CIBC, TD Waterhouse, CIT Bank, Bank of Montreal, Mastercard, Goldman Sachs, The Dominion, Sun Life, Prudential Assurance, Allstate, and the Co-Operators. Clients in other industries include The Forzani Group, Labatt, Hudson's Bay, Perrier, Future Shop, Canadian Tire, BMW, Nintendo, Hospital for Sick Kids, Bell Canada, Rogers, OLG, OMERS and IBM.
Sanjiv is a recognized authority in the end-to-end project management and product management lifecycles. He has successfully implemented projects that cross functional departments and have complex layers of technical, data, and application architectures. His project sizes have ranged from teams of a half dozen to 150+ resources. He built and implemented a data warehousing practice for Deloitte Consulting.
Sanjiv was a key author of the Deloitte Consulting project management and development methodology. He has written over 18 books and hundreds of articles for such publications as The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. He is also editor for the 'Data Management' handbook published by Auerbach/CRC Press. Sanjiv is a frequent lecturer at universities and colleges.
Sanjiv holds an Honors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
