Speakers for
SQLBits Cubed 2008.
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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Andrew Sadler is a Principal BI consultant at Edenbrook. He has charted a varied course to get there - Psychology Academia >>> IRI >>> marchFIRST >>> Cognos >>> ProClarity >>> Microsoft >>> Edenbrook, and has accrued 10+ years in all things BI during this process.
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Andrew Wiles
iT-Workplace Limited
I have been involved with Olap for too long.....
I have developed Olap database technology, Olap applications and now develop Olap reporting tools.
Maybe one day I will feel that I am done with Olap and move on...
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Chris is regularly caught by his wife browsing internet sites at 2.00am in the morning. Sadly he is always looking at .NET sites rather than the haunts frequented by his peers.
Chris has worked on various large projects and is specialised in C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, SQL and various other acronymns. Having always tried to keep at the front of the technology curve, i guess it is time to share that knowledge around a little.
Simple tip, never mention Silverlight infront of him (if you are in a hurry).
You can catch him on his blog http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com
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Chris Testa-O'Neill
Remarc Group
Chris Testa-O'Neill is the Database Product Manager at Remarc Group Ltd.
He specialises in SQL Server Business Intelligence Solutions and teaches all Microsoft courses in the SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 product range.
He also conducts closed company sessions and consults on thier business implementations of SQL Server. He has been a trainer since 1999 and has been active in running SQL Server 2008 seminars at Remarc since the begiining of this year.
Chris is an MCT and has Microsoft qualifications in MCDBA, MCTS and MCITP in SQL Server 2000 and 2005 as well as an MCSE in Windows Server 2000 and 2003
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Chris Webb
Crossjoin Consulting
Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services and the MDX query language. 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. 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.
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Christian Bolton
Coeo Ltd
Christian Bolton is a Director and Database Architect for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused on large scale and complex SQL Server projects in EMEA. Prior to this, Christian worked for 5 years as a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft UK working with some of Microsoft’s biggest customers. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect and Master for SQL Server specialising in High Availability, Scalabilility, and Performance Tuning and is co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning published by Wrox. He works out of London and lives in the south of England with his wife and children and can be contacted at http://coeo.com or through his blog at http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian.
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Colin Hardie is a Senior BI Consultant with Information Management Group (IMGROUP), winners of the Microsoft Global Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award for the past four years. Previously Colin worked as a Technical Architect for a large pharmaceutical Information Services provider. Colin has worked with the SQL Server BI stack since 2001 and is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional Business Intelligence Developer. His main fields of expertise are SSIS and SSAS. Colin lives in London with his wife and two children.
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Colin Mackay
Scottish Developers
Colin Angus Mackay is a software developer specialising in Microsoft technologies located in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Member of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers, Member of the British Computer Society, a Microsoft MVP (C#), a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, a Core Member of Scottish Developers, Code Project MVP for four years running and while not involved in software related pursuits is an amateur photographer, cyclist, map maker. And if all that wasn’t enough he is already thinking about Developer Day Scotland 2009.
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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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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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Duncan Sutcliffe
Edenbrook
I am a business intelligence architect working at Edenbrook. I have been developing MI solutions since the 1990s in industry and consulting roles, using SQL Server from version 6.5, Analysis Services from 2000, the ProClarity family from version 6.1 and Reporting Services from 2005. I currently work with the full Microsoft BI stack including PerformancePoint, and am involved with projects which extend the power of BI through the use of other technologies such as Silverlight.
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Ed Vassie
Totaljobs Group
Ed has enjoyed working in computing for over 30 years on many different platforms covering application design and DBA work in various countries and cultures. After developing an international reputation in DB2, he now majors on SQL Server. He prefers being a techie and is now a Database Architect at Totaljobs Group, a leading provider of online recruitment sites. Skilled at identifying the key cost, benefit and risk factors, Ed delivers by interpreting the business vision to innovate E2E solutions that give real commercial advantages.
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Gary Crawford
XLCubed Ltd
My role is as Customer Service Manager for XLCubed Ltd. XLCubed has been producing reporting, analysis and dashboard software primarily for the Microsoft BI platform since 2002 with a focus on using Excel as the authoring environment. I spend most of my time with customers helping them get the most out of our software both from a query design perspective with SQL and MDX and training the tool’s. XLCubed acquired MicroCharts in 2007 has introduced data visualisation as a key part of the role I now play with customers helping them learn best practises (after learning all the rules myself!). Before joining XLCubed I was a consultant delivering custom applications using all SQL versions since version 4.2. My main interest has always been the benefit's of technology and how to maximise the return on investment to the business.
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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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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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Jay is a specialist in providing enterprise technology solutions that help large businesses access, analyse, report and share their data, structured and unstructured, to make better decisions and improve business performance.
Jay has implemented information management strategies and BI Systems across industries including Media, Petrochemicals, Retail, Insurance, Automative, Government, Legal and Financial Services.
He was the Technical Architect on a project that won IMGROUP Ltd "Microsoft Business Intelligence Worldwide Partner of the Year 2007/08" and has recently been invited to review SQL Server 2008 BI exams in Seattle.
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I've worked on SQL Server upgrade, performance and scalability projects for Coeo since February 2008. Prior to joining Coeo, I worked as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft - when I worked with some of the UKs largest finance and government customers. I spend much of my time helping customers improve database performance and availability when SQL Server is used in misson-critical platforms.
Last year I co-authored a book in the Wrox IT-Pro series on SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning. I've recently contributed as a reviewer of the SQL Server content for a best practice whitepaper created by the Biztalk product group at Microsoft and have also responded to questions in the SQL Q&A column of TechNet magazine.
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Kevin Kline is the Director of Technology for the SQL Server Solutions Group at Quest Software. He is a recognized SQL Server expert and author of the O'Reilly titles SQL in a Nutshell and Database Benchmarking. With more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry, Kevin has worked on large-scale database projects at Deloitte & Touche, NASA and the U.S. Army. He is a founding Board member of the international SQL Server user's group, PASS. In addition to being a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Kevin is a regular contributor to database technology magazines, Web sites and discussion forums including www.sqlmag.com, www.sqlblog.com, www.sqlserverpedia.com, SQL Server Magazine and Database Trends and Applications.
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Leo Matter is Parter and Consultant at CIS (www.cis-olap.com) since 2001. He has been focusing on ProClarity, Analysis Services and SQL server since. He completed several projects involving different the different reporting options offered by Microsoft, experiencing both technical capacities of the tools as well as their user acceptance. He has achieved MCTS on Performance Point, as well as MCSE and MCDBA certifications.
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I work at Microsoft in the UK where I'm part of a group that's involved in getting information out to developers about what's happening with the Microsoft platform through online mechanisms like newsletters, blogs, videos and through offline mechanisms such as technical sessions.
At the time of writing (September 2007) my focus is primarily around the forthcoming Version 3.5 of the .NET Framework including LINQ to XML, SQL. I'm also interested in the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities along with SQL Server in general. On the UI side, I'm keeping a close eye on Silverlight. Beyond that, I try and maintain an interest in most things that might involve code whether that be .NET 1.1 to 3.5 or something a bit more unmanaged :-)
I've been at Microsoft since 2000 and, prior to my current role, I spent three years working within Microsoft's Services division as a consultant on developer technologies working closely with UK software vendors and enterprise customers.
Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked as a developer for a number of different UK based consultancies, software houses and enterprises. I started professional development back in 1991 and spent a few years writing C/C++ code for various platforms (Unix, VMS) using a variety of storage and middleware technologies. Windows development began for me back in 1993 with the first release of Windows NT.
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Niels Berglund
DevelopMentor
Niels Berglund is a member of DevelopMentor's technical research, curriculum development and teaching staff. He specializes in the .NET system software and database areas, and is author of DevelopMentors database courses.
Niels speaks regularly at various industry conferences. He writes technical articles for the trade press and is co-author of the first book released for SQL Server 2005; "A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers".
Before joining DevelopMentor Niels worked as a consultant, specializing in design and development of distributed applications to mainly the financial industry.
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Predrag Bosnic and Marko Markovic
Predrag Bosnic started his IT journey in 1979 using UNIVAC 1100, Fortran and Mapper. For the next 20 years he visited the world of PC, dBase, Clipper and Fox. During the last 10 years he has been working with SQL Server, BI and .Net maintaining his passion for databases and software development. He is a Software Development Manager, Developer, conference speaker and author of a dozen technical articles.
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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 Munro is an independent Solution Architect has over ten years of experience in leading teams to deliver solutions in the South African financial services and retail sectors. He has designed and implemented applications across different models such as a high volume transactional system at a large retailer and large BI solutions in the banking industry. Simon pays particular attention to how newer products technologies can be integrated into existing patterns, practices and development processes in order to focus on business delivery.
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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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Yasser Abdel Kader
Microsoft
Yasser has 14 years of experience in the Software / Information Technology Industry (4 years of them, he was working in the UK). Currently, He is a Senior Consultant in Middle East and Africa (MEA) Services Regional Consulting Team.
He has extensively been involved in architecture, design and development of database systems, data warehouse and Business Intelligence systems. He is a MCITP (database development) and MCTS (MS SQL Server 2005).
He specializes in solution development in the Information Worker Space using Sharepoint 2007, WSS, MOSS 2007 and related products.
He is experienced in software development life cycle (requirement analysis, system study, designing, coding, testing, de-bugging, documentation and implementation) of both windows based and web based applications (ASP.Net) using Microsoft .NET technologies as front-end and SQL Server as back-end. He developed a number of successful SOA and n-tier implementation projects using best-practices in the industry.
He finished his PhD in Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield UK in 2007. He had MSc in Engineering Management and BSc in Computer Engineering.
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