Bill Pearson created Island Technologies Inc. in 1997, and has developed a large and diverse customer base over the years since. Bill's background as a CPA, Internal Auditor and Management Accountant enable him to provide value to clients as a liaison between Accounting / Finance and Information Services. Bill has implemented enterprise business intelligence systems over the years for many Fortune 500 companies, and focuses his practice upon the integrated Microsoft business intelligence solution

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Melissa Coates has more than 10 years of experience as a hands-on developer with various reporting and analysis tools.  As a Senior Consultant with Intellinet, she specializes in delivering business intelligence solutions using the Microsoft platform and has experience with SQL Server Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Integration Services, Master Data Services, as well as SharePoint BI.  Formerly a CPA, Melissa brings a beneficial blend of technical, business, and training skills.  She has a keen interest in visualization techniques and repeatable best practices.  Melissa’s blog is at http://www.sqlchick.com.

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Javier Guillen has ten years of software development and business intelligence experience in a variety of industries with a heavier focus on financial data using Microsoft and SAP environments. His most recent work involved developing applications and business intelligence solutions for private investment firms involving futures and derivative trading and portfolio management C#/ASP.NET application development as well as BI/DW architecture and implementation leveraging the Analysis Service object model for custom financial/accounting aggregations.

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John Hall has twenty five years of experience in large and small software organization ranging from project management to software architect and programmer in the energy, public sector, financial, imaging, and healthcare fields. He was chief architect of a high volume payment processing archive which won the Microsoft High Performance Computing Award and is one of the largest SQL databases in the world. He is currently specializing in Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions with Mariner. For fun he bowls and plays in a band.

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Wayne Snyder is an international speaker, author, and PASS volunteer. He is a SQL Server MVP, and author of the popular Learnkey) SQL Server Training series. As a Distinguished Architect for Mariner, he specializes in Business Intelligence Solutions. On the weekend, he sings and plays keyboards for the regional band – soundbarrier.

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