Bob Beauchemin

Bob Beauchemin has more than twenty years' experience in the computer industry as an instructor, course author, software developer, and systems administrator. He currently is a senior staff instructor at DevelopMentor, curriculum liaison for the data access curriculum, and author of courses on ADO.NET, OLE DB, ADO, SQL Server application development, and Java Data Access. He has designed and implemented data-driven Web sites, as well as traditional data access applications for many different clients.

Bob Beauchemin

Bob Beauchemin is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, DBA, instructor, course author, and writer. He's Director of Developer Skills at SQLskills (www.sqskills.com), and teaches his SQL Server 2005 courses around the world. Bob has written extensively on SQL Server and other databases, database security, ADO.NET, and OLE DB.

Dan Sullivan runs his own consulting company, does training for Pluralsight (www.pluralsight.com), and has worked with SQL Server since it was first distributed by Microsoft and ran on OS/2. Dan speaks and writes widely on SQL Server.

Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan is a data architect and data scientist with more than 20 years of experience in business intelligence, machine learning, data mining, text mining, Big Data, data modeling, and application design. Dan’s project work has ranged from analyzing complex genomics and proteomics data to designing and implementing numerous database applications. His most recent work has focused on NoSQL database modeling, data analysis, cloud computing, text mining, and data integration in life sciences. Dan has extensive experience in relational database design and works regularly with NoSQL databases. Dan has presented and written extensively on NoSQL, cloud computing, analytics, data warehousing, and business intelligence. He has worked in many industries, including life sciences, financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing, health care, insurance, retail, power systems, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and publishing.

Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan is president of the Ballston Group (www.ballstongroup.com), a consulting and education firm specializing in business intelligence and portal design. Widely recognized for his work on the use of unstructured data in business intelligence, he is a columnist for DM Review magazine and www.businessintelligence.com. Dan also wrote Document Warehousing and Text Mining (Wiley, 2001).