Wolfgang Baeck – Wolfgang is a professional engineer in Applied Physics from a Hochschule in Munich, Germany. He has been a consultant in Database, Real Time Systems, and Object Oriented technology for many years, taught and lectured but mostly helped businesses to implement their business process with the right technology for the future. Wolfgang had formal education in computer science, performance analysis, capacity planning, and artificial intelligence.  Wolfgang can be reached at WBaeck@earthlink.net!

Presentations: September 2005

Marc Beacom – Marc is currently a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Consultant utilizing the Microsoft BI tool stack. He has a breadth of IT work experience including web development, network support and SQL Server development. Marc is active in the local IT community and is the President of the Denver SQL Server User Group (www.DenverSQL.org) and VP of Membership at the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group (www.SpringsSQL.org). You can read his SQL Server, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence blog posts at http://beacspeak.spaces.live.com.  Marc can be reached at marcbeacom@gmail.com

Presentations: August 2008

Todd Behrbaum – Todd Behrbaum has 13 years of technology management experience, most recently focused on building a partnership with Microsoft to develop and market enterprise level solutions. Prior to joining PolyServe, he was the Site Manager for Compaq and HP's server and solutions organization in Bellevue, WA. He collaborated with Microsoft on new technologies, enterprise solutions, and strategic initiatives targeted at Fortune 500 customers. Prior to Compaq, Todd held business development and project management positions at Tempress and IBM where he identified new markets and grew revenues in new channels. Todd graduated from the University of Washington with both a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Todd also served on the Board of Advisors to the University of Washington's Center for Technology Entrepreneurship.  Todd can be reached at None

Presentations: June 2006

Glenn Berry – Glenn works as a Database Architect at NewsGator Technologies in Denver, CO. He is a SQL Server MVP, and he has a whole collection of Microsoft certifications, including MCITP, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD, and MCTS, which proves that he likes to take tests. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College - University of Denver, where has been teaching since 2000. He recently completed the Master Teacher Program at University College.  Glenn can be reached at glennb@newsgator.com

Presentations: May 2010

Carlos Bossy – Carlos Bossy has more than 20 years of experience in software and database development as a developer, DBA, and Architect. He has also held a number of management positions while implementing technology solutions for businesses in a wide range of industries, including Financial Services, Travel, Broadcasting, Telecom and CRM. Carlos has been working with SQL Server for 8 years and with the .NET Framework since it’s inception. He led the development of the first hotel reservations system to perform real-time bookings and property location mapping, managed the development of the leading application used by in broadcasting operations, and as VP of Technology oversaw the development of the full suite of CRM products for the Rapore brand. Since 2004, Carlos has been an independent consultant working for his own company, Aabcom Solutions. He helps businesses implement advacned Business Intelligence solutions using data warehouses, predictive analytics, and data integration. In his spare time, Carlos likes to travel, play golf, ride his bike, and talk to his kids about Math. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York, Albany.  Carlos can be reached at cbossy@aabcomsolutions.com

Presentations: September 2008

Volkan Buyukacar – Volkan Buyukacar (MSCE, MCDBA) is currently working as a DBA at a Fortune 500 company in Colorado Springs. Volkan has worked at different areas of IT for the last 6 years specializing on Microsoft and Cisco technologies. Volkan has specialized on SQL 2000 and 2005 server for the last 3 years and supported databases distributed globally and nationwide. Volkan has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Business Logistics Management.  Volkan can be reached at vbuyukacar@yahoo.com

Presentations: May 2007

Kevin Cox – Kevin Cox has worked in the database field for over 30 years as DBA, author, lecturer, consultant and now Principal Program Manager on the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. He has been fortunate to work on some of the largest database projects in the world and has become an expert in both scale up and scale out databases. He has authored a book on SQL Server and many articles for SQL Server, DBMS magazines and even the old HP3000 magazine. He has a strong application development and architecture background and was previously certified to teach Powerbuilder and Visual Basic. Kevin spent several years as a Data Center Manager during the days of large mainframes honing his mission critical skills. Kevin has an MBA degree from the University of Denver and a BS Degree from Arizona State University.  Kevin can be reached at kevincox@microsoft.com

Presentations: June 2010

Maurice De Vidts – Mr. De Vidts started working with databases in 1989 during a co-op internship with IBM in Florida. Since then, Mr. De Vidts has worked with all major database systems, Oracle, IBM DB2, and SQL Server. Through his career Mr. De Vidts has worked primarily as a consulting DBA and Database Architect to several major projects such as the City of Chicago real estate management system, the state of Texas workforce commission, and Homeland Security. During these projects Mr. De Vidts has focused on performance tuning and developer best practices , maximizing efficiencies in the systems he has worked in. In addition to performance tuning, Mr. De Vidts has spent considerable time developing ETL data transformation packages using DTS and SSIS. During his work at Homeland Security he architected and wrote advanced data cleansing and validation interfaces to third party software and designed an elaborate data load and exception management schema capable of merging new data with existing records. More recently Mr. De Vidts has been with the Customer Focused Testing group with Hewlett Packard where he is testing advanced SQL Server 2008 configurations and writes white papers with the resulting best practices achieved on HP hardware platforms. Mr. De Vidts hold a B.S.E.E. from the University of Maryland and holds Oracle certifications since 1996. He is currently Oracle 9i certified and he is also pursuing his SQL Server certifications at this time.  Maurice can be reached at mdevidts@hp.com

Presentations: May 2009

Kalen Delaney – Kalen Delaney has been working with SQL Server since 1987 when she joined the Sybase Corporation in Berkeley, California, where she work in both the technical support department the training organization. Kalen was an independent trainer and consultant from 1992 until she helped create Solid Quality Learning in 2002. As a consultant, she has worked with both the Microsoft and Sybase Corporations to develop courses and provide internal training for their technical support staff. Kalen has taught Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses, as well as her own independently developed courses to clients around the world. In addition, she has been writing regularly about SQL Server since 1995. Her latest book, "Inside SQL Server 2005:The Storage Engine", from Microsoft Press, was released in October 2006 and she is currently working on the next volume: Inside SQL Server 2005:Tuning and Optimization. Kalen is also a contributing editor and columnist for SQL Server Magazine and has been a SQL Server MVP since 1993.  Kalen can be reached at kalen@insidesqlserver.com

Presentations: April 2007

Andrew Dykstra – Andrew is relatively new in the SQL Server community having only worked with SQL Server since 2007. He currently works for Messenger International, a not-for-profit organization located in Palmer Lake, CO, where he is responsible for all things database. Andrew's current focus is developing a unified Business Intelligence solution for each of Messenger International's branch offices.  Andrew can be reached at adykstra@messengerinternational.org

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Corey Eberly –  Corey can be reached at corey.eberly@modis.com

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Ben Hoelting – Senior Software Developer, Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. and C# MVP. Graduated from Colorado State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Information Systems and a Minor in Computer Science. Ben joined the IT industry in 1996 as an intern and has worked with .NET since its inception back in 2002. Worked for the Gates Corporation (formally the Gates Rubber Company) from 2000 – 2005. He left Gates to pursue a consulting career. Currently he works for Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. in Colorado Springs. His most recent projects include a Silverlight line of business application that uses the ADO.NET Entity Framework to access the backend data store. He also still supports and adds features to a Windows forms Smart Client that requires offline support, an ASP.NET tracking system for the floral industry and a Microsoft CRM customization using ASP.NET. Ben is also a MCP, certified in both CRM Customizations and .NET Framework Application Development. Finally, Ben is very involved in the local .NET community and is the leader of the South Colorado .NET User Group.  Ben can be reached at BHoelting@coloradotc.com

Presentations: January 2008 , April 2010

Eric Johnson – Eric Johnson (MCSE, MCITP: Database Administrator, MCSD) is a co-founder of Consortio Services, and the primary Database Technologies Consultant. He also also a Microsoft MVP in SQL Server and a host of the weekly podcast series CS TechCast (cstechcast.com). Currently he works for IntrinsiQ as a database developer. His background in Information Technology is diverse, ranging from operating systems and hardware to specialized applications and development. He has even done his fair share of work on networks. Since IT is really just a way to support business processes, he has also acquired his MBA. All in all, he has 10 years of experience with IT, a great amount of which has been working with Microsoft SQL Server. Eric has managed and designed databases of all shapes and sizes. He has delivered numerous SQL Server training classes and webcasts as well as presentations at national technology conferences. Most recently, he presented at TechMentor on SQL Server 2005 Replication, Reporting Services, and Integration Services. He also does a good deal of writing, including the recent four-part series, Tour de SQL, published in Redmond magazine.  Eric can be reached at eric.johnson@springssql.org

Presentations: February 2007 , January 2007 , January 2009 , February 2009

Steve Jones –  Steve can be reached at sjones@sqlservercentral.com

Presentations: March 2009

Joshua Jones – Joshua Jones (MCTS: SQL Server 2005, MCITP: Database Administrator) is co-owner and Operating Systems Consultant with Consortio Services in Colorado Springs, CO. There he provides training, administration, analysis, and design support for customers utilizing SQL Server 2000 and 2005. In his 7 years as an IT professional, he worked in multiple areas of Information Technology including Windows desktop support, Windows 2000 and 2003 server infrastructure design and support (AD, DNS, Exchange), telephony switch support, and network support. Josh has spoken at various PASS sponsored events about SQL Server topics such as 64-bit SQL Server Implementation, Reporting Services Administration, and Performance Tuning. When Josh is not working hard to fulfill his duties as the Vice President of Marketing for the Colorado Springs SQL Server Users Group (www.SpringsSQL.org), he is co-authoring a database design book with Eric Johnson, which will be available from Addison-Wesley in 2nd quarter of 2008.  Joshua can be reached at drjones23@gmail.com

Presentations: November 2007 , December 2007 , April 2008 , May 2008 , February 2010

Greg Keller – Greg has over 12 years of experience in the development of data, application, and process modeling technologies and products. He oversees the development and execution of Embarcadero's technology strategy. Prior to joining Embarcadero, Greg served in key sales and product evangelism positions at Popkin Software for the System Architect family of products. Greg is regularly a featured panelist in data modeling and metadata management conferences, and is a regular contributor to various data modeling columns and discussion groups. Greg earned his BA from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship.  Greg can be reached at NA

Presentations: November 2005

Troy Ketsdever – Troy Ketsdever is a database specialist with over 20 years of commercial software development experience. His main objective and vision is "making the right information available to the right people at the right time".  Troy can be reached at cs_troyk@juno.com

Presentations: February 2008 , October 2008

Todd Kleinhans – Todd Kleinhans has been working with SQL Server since 1999 using 7/2000/2005/2008. He has worked as a dba, developer, data architect, manager, and a consultant. His current job is at TransFirst- a credit card processing company where he is one of only two dba(s) on staff. Todd helps manage many systems, all of them using encryption.  Todd can be reached at todd.kleinhans@gmail.com

Presentations: January 2010 , March 2010

Janet Lenox –  Janet can be reached at Janet.Lennox@state.co.us

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Jeremy Lowell – - Jeremy has been engaged in SQL Server development, administration and database architecture for over 10 years. In that time, he has worked with many successful corporations including MCI, Wells Fargo, Lucent, Oxford International, IP Commerce, Regis University and others. Jeremy has served as a participating member on a joint FSTC and OMG project (I2PADS), which focus on industry collaboration, initiatives and standards in the Financial Services space. Jeremy founded a database consulting practice, DataRealized and their philosophy is to enable clients to focus on what they do best by allowing us to do what we do best.  Jeremy can be reached at Jeremy@DataRealized.com

Presentations: June 2009

Brad McGehee – Professional Experience Brad M. McGehee is a MCSE+I, MCSD, and MCT (former) with a Bachelors’ degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration. Currently the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software, Brad is an accomplished Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 10 years’ SQL Server experience. Having founded the popular community site SQL-Server-Performance.Com, where he now acts as the technical editor and forum moderator, Brad specializes in SQL Server Administration, Performance Tuning, and High Availability. He regularly consults with multiple clients, helping them to get the most out of SQL Server. Community Support Brad is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, SQL Connections, SQL Server user groups, and other industry seminars, where he shares his 10 years’ cumulative knowledge. A well-respected and trusted name in SQL Server literature, Brad is the author or co-author of more than 12 technical books and over 100 published articles. His most recent book (as a co-author) is Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration by Wrox Press. Home Life When he is not travelling to spread his knowledge on SQL Server, Brad splits his time between his homes in Missouri and Hawaii, where he enjoys spending time with his wife and young daughter.  Brad can be reached at www.sqlbrad.com

Presentations: August 2007

Kat Meadows – Kat has been working with SQL Server since 1998. Currently she holds the position as Senior DBA and Manager of the Database Service team for EL Paso County where her primary focus is for strategic planning, database development and administration for SQL Server. Past positions have allowed her to work in military\government, manufacturing, and dotcoms environments. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Managing Information systems from Colorado Technical University.  Kat can be reached at katmeadows@gmail.com

Presentations: December 2005 , October 2006

Peter Myers – Peter Myers has nine years' solid experience working in OLTP database design and development, DBA support and Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence with SQL Server. Specializing in developing custom data-focused applications and reporting solutions, he provides architecting, development, implementation and support services at all tiers of a multi-tier application. He has a broad business background supported by a bachelor degree in applied economics, and he extends this with MCITP, MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE and MCT certifications. Currently he provides mentoring and technical training internationally, and focuses on delivering training for the SQL Server database engine, Integration Services (DTS), Analysis Services, Reporting Services, ASP.NET and .NET programming (C# and VB.NET). In 2005 Peter authored and presented the "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence" workshop Australia-wide for Microsoft which showcased the SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence platform. In 2006 he authored the "Jumpstart to Microsoft Business Intelligence" two day workshop. Peter enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for Microsoft technologies by presenting at SQL Server user group meetings and technical events, including TechEd, VSLive and the SQL Server 2005 Launch.  Peter can be reached at PMyers@SolidQ.com

Presentations: July 2009

Paul Nielsen – Paul Nielsen is a local SQL Server MVP and author of SQL Server 2005 Bible. His website is www.SQLServerBIble.com  Paul can be reached at pauln@sqlserverbible.com

Presentations: April 2006 , June 2008 , September 2006 , October 2007

Bruce Prang – Bruce Prang is a Group Manager in the Sql Server Manageability Group. This group is responsible for the overall manageability tools and infrastructure in the Sql Server group. Prior to this role he was the Development Manager for the Management Tools group which was responsible for SSMS, Sql Agent, SMO, SQLCMD, Profiler and DTA. Bruce has been using Sql Server since version 4.20 on OS/2. He has worked at Microsoft for 8 years, almost all of those in the Sql Server team.  Bruce can be reached at bruce.prang@microsoft.com

Presentations: January 2006

Terry Ray – Terry is a Senior Security Engineer for Imperva ™, Inc., a provider of Web and database application security solutions. At Imperva, Terry has designed and deployed application security solutions and performed application penetration testing for a wide range of healthcare, financial services, government and eCommerce organizations. Prior to joining Imperva, Terry worked in a variety of technical roles at Check Point Software Technology ltd. Including technical support, security engineering, and end-user training. Terry has lectured on general network security topics and taught Check Point and other security related product certifications in over 30 countries worldwide. Terry holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of North Texas.  Terry can be reached at terry@imperva.com

Presentations: July 2005

Dean Richards – Dean has over 20 years of Oracle and SQL Server project development, implementation and strategic database architecting. Before coming to Confio, Dean held engineering positions at McDonnell Douglas and Daugherty Systems, an object-oriented solution provider for Anheuser-Busch. Dean was also a technical director for Oracle Corporation managing all aspects of their broadband account including short and long-term technical planning and strategic alliances. As a highly successful liaison between management and technical staff, Dean has proven to be an effective collaborator implementing cutting-edge solutions.  Dean can be reached at deanrichards@confio.com

Presentations: July 2008 , September 2009

Bob Roudebush – na  Bob can be reached at broudebush@doubletake.com

Presentations: July 2006

Raul Salas –  Raul can be reached at raul@mobilemonitoringsolutions.com

Presentations: August 2006

Chris Shaw – Chris is a SQL Server MVP and started working with SQL Server in 1995 and continues with it to this day. His career has taken him from a Yellow Pages publishing company to Wells Fargo and mortgage companies like Pulte Mortgage. Chris has enjoyed speaking and writing about SQL Server for the last 10 years. The combination of speaking and writing was his guide in becoming the Site Manager for SSWUG.ORG. Chris has been active in the SQL Server Community for a number of years including being the founder of the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group and speaking as the SSWUG content chair, not only at SSWUG Conferences but at Dev Connections and PASS as well. Chris’s writings can be found on SSWUG.org, his blog (chrisshaw.wordpress.com) and in the SQL Server 2005 Bible.  Chris can be reached at chris.shaw@SQLoncall.com

Presentations: October 2005 , March 2006 , April 2009 , November 2009

Russell Tuttle – Russell Tuttle has been a senior systems Consultant with Quest software for over five years and has also been involved with Post-Sales Training on SQL Server and Oracle Solutions. Before Quest, Russell worked for a small consulting service delivering data warehouse and OLAP Solutions after leaving Oracle. His areas of expertise are in Database and Data warehouse design and database tuning. Russell has lived in Colorado for 13 years after moving from the East coast where he grew up.  Russell can be reached at N/A

Presentations: February 2006

Rodolfo Vargas –  Rodolfo can be reached at dbaguy666@hotmail.com

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Steve Wake – Steve Wake is a Senior Web Developer at Visa in the Member Processing Solutions group. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Applications Developer in .NET. He has worked at Visa for 12 years and has been a computer programmer since high school. He started working at Visa on creating and maintaining COBOL reporting and billing applications for MVS and AS/400 systems. In the last 6 years he has trained himself on ASP .NET and C# programming. When the first version of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services was released as an add-on to SQL Server 2000 he saw the potential to move most of the existing reporting at Visa to this platform. For the last 4+ years he has built ASP .NET applications that leverage Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and is now being used as the enterprise reporting platform at Visa. Steve maintains a Business Intelligence focused blog at http://blog.wakebi.com.  Steve can be reached at swake71@gmail.com

Presentations: October 2009

Mike White – Mike currently works for IntrinsiQ, LLC as a Data Architect, and is a co-author of the SQL Server 2005 Bible. He has been working with Analysis Services and data warehousing for the last 8 years.  Mike can be reached at

Presentations: July 2007

Andrew Wright – Andrew Wright is an Engineer for StrataVia Corporation and part of the core team that developed Data Palette™, StrataVia’s database automation product. Andrew helps deploy Data Palette at StrataVia customer sites, helps train customers on the technology, and helps the sales team in pre and post sales work. Andrew lives in San Francisco, California.  Andrew can be reached at amwright@stratavia.com

Presentations: March 2007

Steve Wright – Steve Wright – Steve is the Director of Product Support at SQL Sentry, which is located in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a critical member of the development team behind the award winning SQL Sentry Event Manager and Performance Advisor. Steve holds MCSD, MCDBA, OCDBA 8i, and IT Project+ certifications. Prior to joining SQL Sentry in 2005, Steve developed and presented web based training courses for Wachovia Bank. Previous experience includes education positions at Techskills and Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.  Steve can be reached at sales@sqlsentry.net

Presentations: August 2009

Steve Write – Steve is a member of the sqlSentry team and holds MCSD and MCDBA certifications. For two and a half years, Steve was a Regional Education Manager for the SQL Server and VB curriculum at Techskills IT Training Centers. Prior to joining the sqlSentry team Steve spent a year and a half as a Learning Specialist on Wachovia’s Technology Training Team.  Steve can be reached at N-A

Presentations: May 2006