Speakers
 | Raj Gill, Chief Technology Officer, Scalability Experts, Inc. Raj Gill is the CTO and co-founder of Scalability Experts, a consulting and services company focused on SQL Server in enterprise environments. With over 13 years of experience in database architecture, management, deployment, and development, Raj leads the technical team at Scalability Experts. In addition, he is also well known as a leading database architect, author, and dynamic speaker. As a Senior Database Architect, Raj has helped optimize some of the largest and most complex database environments for industry leaders such as Barnes & Noble, Fidelity Investments, Raymond James, Duke Energy, Accenture, and Pilgrims Pride. |
 | Jim Leisring, Senior Consultant, Scalability Experts, Inc. Jim Leisring has been a Microsoft Certified System Engineer since 1997 and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in PerformancePoint Server with a degree in Electrical Engineering From Purdue University in 1990. His 20 year career in IT has included teaching MCSE MOC courses as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Network consulting, and Business Intelligence professional specializing in Supply Chain Management and Demand based forecasting. |
 | Andrew Sisson, Director of Business Intelligence, Scalability Experts, Inc. Andrew Sisson is the Director of Business Intelligence for Scalability Experts in Dallas and has many years of experience with data management and database technologies. He has coauthored several advanced training courses covering SQL Server and Oracle. |
 | Don Vilen, Principal Architect, Scalability Experts, Inc. Prior to becoming Principal Architect at Scalability Experts in November 2007, Don Vilen was on the SQL Server team in Redmond, with nearly thirteen years of SQL Server experience at Microsoft. For six years Don was a Program Manager on the Storage Engine component of SQL Server, focusing on high availability and the storage of large objects. For the preceding four years Don created and delivered training for Microsoft's SQL Server support engineers around the world. Prior to joining Microsoft Don was on the computer science faculty at a California university and was also the Vice President of Software Development for a software company. |
 | Joe Yong, Chief Architect, Scalability Experts, Inc. As Chief Architect for Scalability Experts, Joe Yong is responsible for technical leadership in delivery of services to strategic customers, building new offerings, and transforming existing offerings to meet customers’ needs around scalability, availability, consolidation, security and migration. He is also the lead architect for the design and development for content, methodology and tools for the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade and Application CompatibilityTesting program. |
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