Profile
Publish Date
12 December 2008
Last Update
16 December 2008
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Author(s)
- Chuck Ballard
- Deepak Rangarao
- Jimmy Tang
- Philip Wittann
- Zach Zakharian
- Andy Perkins
- Robert Frankus
Chuck Ballard is a Project Manager at the International Technical Support organization, in San Jose, California. He has over 35 years experience, holding positions in the areas of Product Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Technical Support, and Management. His expertise is in the areas of database, data management, data warehousing, business intelligence, and process re-engineering. He has written extensively on these subjects, taught classes, and presented at conferences and seminars worldwide. Chuck has both a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
Deepak Rangarao is a Technical Sales Specialist on the IBM Americas BI Best Practices team, focussing on analytics. He has over 9 years of cross industry experience in data warehousing and analytics working for customers and vendors in both a pre-sales and post sales capacity in retail, banking, telecommunication and public services. Deepak has also taught in universities, on subjects that include electrical engineering, Java network programming, and multimedia/Web development. Deepak holds a Masters degree in Information Technology from R.M.I.T, in Melbourne, Australia.
Jimmy Tang is the team lead for the IBM Information Management Technical Pre-sales team in Canada. He has over 25 years of IBM experience in Finance Industry and Business Intelligence providing support to customers in data warehouse architecture and design, and the implementation of data warehousing and analytics solutions. Jimmy is a constant technical leader on the IBM America's BI competency team in Dynamic Warehousing and Analytics. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Science from the University of Hong Kong.
Philip Wittann is a Proven Practice Advisor for Cognos Business Intelligence Reporting with IBM, Canada. He has worked with business intelligence reporting for 6 years and through this time has created and identified some of the key approaches to successful implementation of relational and dimensional reporting applications with IBM Cognos products. He has also taught courses on data design, report design, metadata modeling, and understanding queries, from both SQL and MDX query perspectives across multiple relational and OLAP providers. Phil holds a degree in Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Zach Zakharian is a Software Engineer at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, San Jose, California. He is a member of the Business Intelligence Technical Support team, providing advanced technical support for the Alphablox and InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services products. Zach holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Management from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Software Engineering at San Jose State University.
Andy Perkins is a Business Intelligence specialist for the IBM TechWorks team in Dallas, Texas. He has 23 years of experience with customer database and Business Intelligence projects, providing support in consulting, architecture design, data modeling, and implementation of data warehouses and analytical solutions. Over the years Andy has worked with the majority of the IBM and Information Management products portfolio on platforms ranging from the mainframe to the PC.
Robert Frankus is a Consultant IT Specialist for the Business Intelligence Best Practices Team focused on Analytics, and is based in San Francisco, CA. His areas of expertise are in analytics, data warehousing, and information integration. Over the last seven years, he has architected and developed a number of analytical applications, dashboards, and corporate performance management solutions for Fortune 500 clients, in industries such as retail, high tech, and financial services. He teaches extensively on dimensional modeling and building business intelligence applications. He holds a Masters of Management Information Systems from the University of Cologne, Germany and was a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Boston, Massachusetts.
ISBN
073843194X
IBM Form Number
SG24-7582-00