Speakers for
SQLBits Community Conference 2007.
Allan Mitchell
www.konesans.com
Allan is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in SQL Server, and most importantly SQL Server Integration Services. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses on the BI suite of tools. He is a SQL Server MVP, a frequent poster on the MS SSIS/DTS newsgroups as well as running the sqldts.com and sqlis.com resource sites.
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I am an MCDBA and evangelsit at Microsoft specialising in business intelligecne and data management. I got interested in large databases while at HM Customs in the nineties as part of the move to intelligence led resourcing, but another inititive namely outsourcing meant that my last ten years have been in the private sector working for a number of gold partners, before joining Microsoft last July. I got into SQL Server in v6 and have used this platform almost exclusively since then for a wide variety of clients from tiny breweries to global banks.
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Chris Webb
Cross Join Consulting
Chris Webb, has been working with Microsoft's Business Intelligence tools since 1998. He is a well-known figure in the Microsoft Business Intelligence community, regularly contributing to newsgroups and online discussion forums, and has spoken at several international conferences. He is a co-author of the second edition of the book "MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase" along with George Spofford. His weblog can be found at http://spaces.msn.com/cwebbbi.
Chris has extensive experience of implementing Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft platform across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, banking, engineering, manufacturing and market research. He has worked as a consultant (including three years with Microsoft Consulting Services) and as a permanent employee on internal development teams, and understands the different demands of each role.
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14 years a SQL Server DBA, from a database development background. With SQL Server since Version 6, prior to this Ingres, AS400 and DataEase.An independent DBA tending to specialize in performance tuning of applications and databases.Aka GrumpyOldDBA SNIA SCP and SCSE www.snia.org
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Daniel Fisher
Devcoach.de
Daniel Fisher is a co-founder of devcoach® (http://www.devcoach.de), a company that helps its customers in projects with the Microsoft® .NET platform from architecture to deployment.
He has worked several years on projects as a consultant, architect and developer for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware, construction supplies and various other companies of different branches. Before the foundation he worked as a software architect on projects for a software developer services firm with a focus on Microsoft® technologies.
Daniel has a strong emphasis on service-orientation, agile methods, the web and data access.
He is actively contributing to the software developer community as lead of an user group and organizer of the biggest regional community event.
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Darren Green
Konesans Ltd
Darren is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in SQL Server, and most importantly SQL Server Integration Services. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses on BI and SSIS. He is a SQL MVP and a frequent poster on the MSDN SSIS forums as well as running the sqldts.com and sqlis.com resource sites.
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McMahon, Dave Dave works as Chief Architect for .NET Development at Ridgian Limited, a privately owned software house based in Central Birmingham. Ridgian are a Microsoft Certified Partner and specialise in Business Intelligence Solutions and Custom Software Solutions. He is very active in the Microsoft community speaking at DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper conferences, and at numerous User Group meetings around the country on such topics as SQL XML, SQL 2005 Security, Regular Expressions and his
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Dr András Belokosztolszki
Reg-Gate.com
András Belokosztolszki is a software architect at Red Gate Software Ltd. He is a frequent speaker at many UK user groups. He is primarily interested in database change management. At Red Gate he has designed and led the development of many database tools that compare schemata and enable source control for databases (SQL Compare versions 4, 5 and 6), refactor databases (SQL Refactor) and show the history of databases by analyzing the transaction log (SQL Log Rescue). András has a PhD from Cambridge and an MSc and BSc from ELTE, Hungary.
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Eric has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. He is currently working for IMGroup the MS Worldwide BI Partner for the last 3 years. Prior to this he managed development effort for a number of dotcoms and another consultancy. Eric has presented multiple sessions for UK SQL Server User Group events and written for a number of magazines including Enterprise Server Magazine.
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Hue Holleran
Open Action Limited
Hue Holleran is a professional consultant specialising in database-centric solutions and specifically SQL Server. After 20 years as a consultant to over 100 organisations and some of the largest global brands in various industries - he has established a reputation for leading teams leveraging modern tools and technologies in innovative and practical ways.
Being old enough to remember all too well developing database solutions in 'C' on a mainframe and DBase and FoxBase+ in the mid 1980's and one of the first developers of that "modern" approach: client/server!
Having frequently presented on various topics since presenting for Microsoft at all UK venues for the launch of Visual Studio 6 in 1998, Hue's current focus is on leveraging the enterprise capabilities of SQL Server 2005 to implement truly robust and resilient systems that retain excellent performance even in the most challenging of environments.
Hue is currently consulting in one of those challenging environments with world-leading utilities supplier, Actaris. Many systems with daily loads of 100's millions of records and retained record volumes in the billions - a significant and enjoyable challenge!
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Ian Cooper has over 15 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile. He is test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group
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James Rowland-Jones
Conchango
James is a Senior Technical Consultant at Conchango. His focus has been
the development and technical direction of major, mission-critical,
pan-European projects in the enterprise. His experience includes data
and system architecture, information analysis, logical and physical
database modelling and design, highly available implementations, ETL
process architecture and client tools implementations including a number
of major bespoke applications. He has worked in IT since 1998 and with
SQL Server since 6.5.
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Jasper Smith
Nationwide Building Society
Jasper is a member of the Database Services team at Nationwide Building Society focussed on High Availability, Scalability, Performance Tuning and Monitoring. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2003 and runs www.sqldbatips.com with a focus on providing free tools for the SQL Server community including ExpressMaint, SQL 2005 Service Manager and Reporting Services Scripter.
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Keith began his career at Dec as a database consultant for Rdb/VMS. For the past 15 year he’s worked for Microsoft supporting SQL Server in a variety of roles. His experience goes back to V4.2 on OS/2 (before Windows NT was released). For a number of years he work with large Enterprises installing large scale OLTP systems and Data Warehouses. Currently he works with ISV’s who are looking to become early adopters of SQL Server 2008.
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I am deeply interested in technology and how it can be used to solve todays business problems. I love emulation and bizzare operating systems.
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Martin Bell
Carillon Software Systems Ltd
Martin Bell has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He has worked on many relational database systems and since 1998 has specialized in SQL Server. He was first awarded Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) status in June 2003. He runs the Scottish Area meetings of the UK SQL Server User Group and is a founding organiser of the SQLBits Community Conference.
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Martin Cairney has just returned to the UK after working in Australia for 8 years. In his time he has worked for one of the largest IT services companies in the world deploying and supporting SQL Server installations from versions 6.5 through to 2005. Martin has supported some of Australia's major Government Departments and Financial Institutions as well as an occasional consultancy role.
Overall, Martin has nearly 10 years experience as a SQL Server DBA.
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Richard Fennell
Black Marble Ltd
Richard Fennell is a Director of Black Marble, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Yorkshire. He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the British Computer Society, MCAD and MCSD.NET, with over 20 years experience in the IT industry. Richard is a regular speaker at DDD and other community events, speaking on a variety of subjects. At DDD3 he spoke on automated testing, DDD4 on Continuous Integration and at DDD5 on Visual Studio Team System.
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Richard Siddaway is Microsoft Practice Leader for Centiq Ltd. With over 20 years experience in various aspects of IT Richard is currently concentrating on the Microsoft environment at an architectural level especially around Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server and Infrastructure Optimisation much of his recent experience has involved migrating enterprises from Windows NT\Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003\Exchange 2003. Richard has administration experience with several database systemsespecially SQL Server. His initial programming background is still usefulas Richard is a very experienced scripter always looking for the opportunity to automate a process. Having discovered PowerShell 18 months ago he has enthusiastically adopted it in preference to VBScript. Richard founded and currently leads the UK PowerShell User Group. Richard has presented on PowerShell to the Directory Experts Conference 2007, at various events at Microsoft UK, including the last Community Day, and for other UK User Groups.
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Satya Shyam K Jayanty
SSQA.net
Knowledge is the power and you will gain by sharing it;
I'm an Independent Database expert, with over 16 years of experience in application designing, developing and managing database technologies using industry famous technologies & software. I have been working with SQL Server since version 4.2 (1996) and active member & moderator in Technet, MSDN, SQL-Server-Performance.com forums/websites and also writing for http://www.sql-server-performance.com website. I'm a regular speaker and volunteer (Ask The Experts) at SQL Server events such as SQLPASS, Tech-ed etc. and I was awarded as SQL Server MVP since the year 2006. I also update content & manage the website http://www.sqlserver-qa.net.
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Simon Sabin
Onarc Consulting Limited
Simon is an independent Database consultant specialising in the world of search, distributed architectures, business intelligence and application development. He has worked with SQL Server since 1998 and has always focused on high performance reliable systems. He was awarded as an MVP in 2006 and is regular speaker at SQL Server events as well as writing for SQLServerCentral and Simple-Talk.com.
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I have been working with SQL Server for last 8 years. Predominantly I spent most of my carrier building data warehouses and loading the data using various ETL Tools such as DTS, SSIS, Ab-Initio and Informatica. I have work for well known names such as Tyco and Reuters. I have got MBA in Project Management, MCDBA (just on paper) along with MCTS (SQL 2005). I have worked in diverse business sectors such as Financial Services, Media, Share Market Data, Mergers and Acquisition, Pub Management, Security, Building Society, Bank, Mortgages, Publishing and Commercial Finance
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I am a software developer based in Reading and currently work for a Microsoft Partner. I specialise in VB.Net and SQL Server and have achieved MCSD.Net and MCDBA Microsoft certifications for both products.
A large part of my work involves developing .Net solutions for public sector bodies including Police, Customs and Immigration departments
I am currently the Vice Chairman of VBUG (the UK Visual Basic User Group) and actively involved in the UK developer community. I regularly organise, attend and help out at various developer events throughout the UK.
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Tony Rogerson
Torver Computer Consultants
Tony started his IT career in 1986 coding on the IBM mainframe programming in such languages as Application System, PL/1, CICS, DB2, System W. Around 1994 he moved into the client/server environment using Visual Basic and C++, Oracle at first and then Microsoft SQL Server, he primarily does SQL Server consultancy but also knows VB.NET and C# but is really SQL Server focused.Tony has been an independent consultant since 1999 based in Harpenden - Hertfordshire. He has a broad client base from a Research Fellow right the way through to enterprise covering a lot of business areas, Banking (Retail, Investment), Retail, Knowledge Management, Manufacturing, Motor Racing, Web Industries and a ton more I don't even know how to classify!In 1998 he founded the UK SQL Server Community (http://sqlserverfaq.com) a community of over 9,000 members. He also co runs SQLBlogcasts.COM with Simon Sabin, Tony’s blog
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