OUR TEAM
At Solid Quality Mentors, we don't have trainers or consultants in the traditional sense - people who teach a packaged class but don't do the hands-on work or consultants who perform a consulting engagement and then disappear. Instead, we have mentors- people who combine database expertise and training skills with real-world experience in demanding SQL Server environments and bring that knowledge to you.
Solid Quality Mentors offers a broad range of technical proficiency across the entire Microsoft SQL Server spectrum. Our mentors, who are located all around the globe, include more than 40 winners of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, 7 Microsoft Regional Directors, and speak a variety of languages including: English, Spanish, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, French, Gallego, German, Hebrew, Hindu, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish.
Whatever your challenge, our mentors can help you solve it!
Our Mentors
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Itzik
Ben-Gan
Founder and Mentor
Itzik Ben-Gan is a Principal Mentor and Founder of Solid Quality Mentors. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered many training events around the globe focused on T-SQL Querying and Programming, Performance Tuning, and Internals. An accomplished author, Itzik has written many articles for SQ...
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Randy
Dyess
Mentor, Program Manager: Strategic Initiatives
Randy has a variety of experiences dealing with SQL Server over the past 9 years and has worked with environments with Terabytes of data and environments that had over a 1000 databases with only a few megabytes of data in each database. Currently Randy is the founder and owner of Dyess Consulting Inc. a SQL Server mentoring and training c...
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Jay
Hackney
Mentor
Jay Hackney is a mentor and consultant for Solid Quality Mentors with a focus on business intelligence solutions. He has been consulting on business intelligence and development projects for the past 8 years and was a software developer for 5 years prior to that. Jay is a speaker at conferences such as the PASS Community Summit and is a c...
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Richard
Hundhausen
Mentor
Richard Hundhausen, travels and mentors developers worldwide. He has over 20 years of software and database development experience and over 14 years of training experience. His main area of interest is the ever-expanding intersection between .NET and SQL Server. As a result of this constant evangelism, he became a Microsoft Regional ...
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Andrew
Kelly
Mentor
Andrew J. Kelly is the Practice Manager for Performance & Scalability with Solid Quality Mentors and lives in New Hampshire. He has over 20 years of experience with relational databases and application development on both UNIX and Windows platforms and now focuses on SQL Server in his work as a Solid Quality Mentor. In addition t...
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Douglas
McDowell
CEO, North America
Douglas McDowell is the CEO, North America for Solid Quality Mentors. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server, an MCT, MCTS, MCSE, MCDBA, and serves as the Director of Technology on the Board of Directors for the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS). He is an author and contributing editor for SQL Server...
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Rushabh
Mehta
Mentor
Rushabh Mehta is a Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors' global Business Intelligence Division and the Managing Director for Solid Quality India. He has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since 1998 and has been designing and developing large-scale BI systems on the Microsoft platform since 2001. This work has included predictive analysis...
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Brian
Moran
Founder and Managing Partner
Brian Moran is one of the founders of Solid Quality Mentors, a partnership devoted to offering the most in-depth, high quality SQL Server training in the world, where he is the Director of Business Development and a Principal Mentor. Brian has been working with SQL Server and related technology since 1990. Brian was a senior architect wit...
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Jessica
Moss
Mentor
Jessica Moss is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors focused on Business Intelligence. An MCDBA and an MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence, Jessica has been working with the SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence suite for the past several years. While employed at a major clothing retailer, she had the opportunity to work with ...
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Peter
Myers
Mentor
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 o...
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Tim
Peterson
Mentor
Tim Peterson is a mentor and trainer with Solid Quality Mentors specializing inAnalysis Services, PerformancePoint Server, and MDX. He is the author of two books in the field of Microsoft Business Intelligence - Microsoft OLAP Unleashed and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services. Tim has given several ...
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Ken
Spencer
Mentor, Program Manager: Development Platform
Ken has been developing and managing application development with VB sinceversion 1.0 Ken currently spends his days providing software design guidance and teaching in various venues. He has developed tools to migrate applications to .NET including large Access applications. Recently, Ken has worked with a great team to provide technology ...
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Ron
Talmage
Founder and Mentor
Ron Talmage is a co-founder and principal mentor with Solid Quality Mentors. He has over 20 years experience in the IT industry, and 8 years with SQL Server. Ron has been providing mentoring, teaching, and conference presentations on SQL Server for the past six years. He is a SQL Server MVP, current president of the Pacific Northwest SQL ...
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Craig
Utley
Mentor
Craig Utley is a Mentor and senior architect with Solid Quality Mentors, where he focuses on Business Intelligence (BI), .NET application development, and developer productivity issues. Craig has been working with Microsoft database technologies since 1993 and with Microsoft development tools since 1991. He is the former president of...
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Erik
Veerman
Mentor
Erik Veerman is a Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors focusing on training, mentoring and architecting solutions on the SQL Server BI platform. His industry recognition includes Microsoft's Worldwide BI Solution of the Year and SQL Server Magazine's Innovator Cup winner. Erik has designed dozens of BI solutions across a broad business spectr...
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Pablo
Ahumada
Mentor
Pablo is actually focused on the Business Intelligence area. He has more than ten years of experience on the computer area. During this time he had been working quite different projects, last three years related to BI area, he has co authored some important Microsoft publications as SQL2008UpgradeTechni...
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Enrique
Catalá
DPA
Enrique Catalá's work has been focused on SQL Server databases with a concentration on resolution of performance and scalability issues for OLTP based systems and implement trusted high availability SQL Servers environments. His professional career revolves around SQL Server mentoring, consulting, and training projects. He enj...
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Miguel
Egea
Mentor
Miguel Egea is an Associate Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors Iberoamericana and a Computer Engineer with over 12 years of experience. He is a SQL Server MVP, and he works as a DBA for several companies in Soain with complex database systems. Miguel is a well known speaker, presenting at many Microsoft events. He has taught Microsoft techn...
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Rubén
Garrigós
Data Platform Architect
Rubén Garrigós is a Data Platform Architect at Solid Quality Mentors. He is an expert in troubleshooting, tuning and designing high availability SQL Server enterprise solutions. During the last three years he has been mentoring leading companies around the world and architecting top-notch solutions based on Microsoft Data Ac...
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Francisco
González
Mentor
Francisco A. González works for Solid Quality Mentors specializing in Integration and Business Intelligence and is based in Spain. He earned a master degree in Computer Science at University of Murcia, Spain and Kennesaw State University, GA. His Master project was "Automatic support answerer with BizTalk Server and SQL S...
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Fernando
Guerrero
CEO, Founder and Mentor
Fernando G. Guerrero is one of the founders of Solid Quality Mentors. He has worked with SQL Server since 1993, and for more than 20 years he has been designing information systems, providing training and mentoring in many countries worldwide. His teaching experience started in 1981 when he was a lecturer at the Universidad Politéc...
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Alejandro
Leguízamo
Mentor
Alejandro Leguízamo has been working with SQL Server since 6.5, and with MS Access since Office 97. His core area is Data warehousing and Business Intelligence, plus ETL. He is certified in SQL Server 2000 and has wide experience in deployment and training in Business Intelligence Strategies. He is an Independent Consultant on...
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Jesús
López
Mentor
Jesús López is an Associate Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors Iberoamericana, specializing in .NET Development. He has been a developer and a trainer since 1991, with experience in many Microsoft technologies. His main areas of expertise are SQL Server and .NET Development, for which he received an MVP award. Jesú...
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Javier
Loría
Mentor
Javier Loria is a Solid Quality Mentor based in Costa Rica. He began his professional career in 1992 as a software developer and system engineer. His training career quickly developed especially in XML and OLAP as he trained customers throughout Latin America. Javier assists customers as a software and Business Intelligence Architect...
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José
Quinto
DPA
José Quinto trabaja como DPS en Solid Quality Mentors. Es Ingeniero en Informática por la Universidad de Alicante, galardonado con el premio extraordinario al mejor expediente en su promoción (2003-2008). Su proyecto final de carrera fue un chat de usuarios geoposicionados, que combina tecnologías como Silverli...
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Jordi
Rambla
Mentor
Jordi Rambla is a trainer and consultant specializing in relational database systems, reporting solutions, and business intelligence with over 15 years experience. He has written and managed several professional IT magazines and has been a speaker at many conferences and seminars about Microsoft technologies. In addition to his work ...
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Salvador
Ramos
Mentor
Es Mentor en Solid Quality Mentors. (http://www.solidq.com)
Hoy en día trabaja ofreciendo servicios de consultoría, formación y mentoring en SQL Server y Business Intelligence.
Tras casi 20 años de experiencia ha participado en muy diversos proyectos, desde pequeñas aplicaciones de ...
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Eladio
Rincón
Mentor
Eladio Rincón, a SQL Server MVP since 2002, is the IT Director of Database Technologies for Solid Quality in Spain. He has worked for Solid Quality Mentors since 2004 focusing on administration, support and consultancy projects, as well as a serving as a trainer for SQL Server technologies. He has exe...
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Daniel
Seara
Mentor
Daniel Seara is an Associate Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors Iberoamericana specializing in .NET Development, and has been a developer for the past 13 years. He was a part of the team that introduced new Microsoft products and technologies at the recent DevDays in Argentina and has spoken at DevDays in Peru as Regional Director of ...
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