Sivakumar Harinath was born in Chennai, India.
Siva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Illinois at Chicago. His thesis title was "Data Management Support
for Distributed Data Mining of Large Datasets over High Speed Wide
Area Networks." Siva has worked for Newgen Software Technologies
(P) Ltd., IBM Toronto Labs, Canada; National Center for Data
Mining, University of Illinois at Chicago; and has been at
Microsoft since February of 2002. Siva started as a Software Design
Engineer in Test (SDET) in the Analysis Services Performance Team
and currently is a Senior Test Lead in the Analysis Services team.
Siva''s other interests include high - performance computing,
distributed systems, and high-speed networking. Siva is married to
Shreepriya and has twins, Praveen and Divya. His personal interests
include travel, games, and sports (in particular carrom, chess,
racquet ball, and board games). You can reach Siva at
Sivakumar.harinath@microsoft.com.
Matt Carroll is currently a Senior Development
Lead on the SQL Server Integration Services team at Microsoft.
Prior to this, he spent 10 years working on the SQL Server Analysis
Services team as a developer and then development lead. He''s
presented on Analysis Services at VSLive and compiled and edited
the whitepaper "OLAP Design Best Practices for Analysis Services
2005."
Sethu Meenakshisundaram has more than 20 years
of Enterprise System Software Development experience. Sethu spent a
good portion of his career at Sybase Inc. in architecture,
development, and management building world class OLTP and OLAP
Database Systems. Sethu was instrumental in developing and leading
highly complex clustered systems of Adaptive Server Enterprise.
Early in the ''90s, Sethu developed a version of Sybase Adaptive
Server running on the Windows platform. Most recently he was an
Architect in the SQL Server BI team driving technology and partner
strategy. Prior to Microsoft, Sethu managed all of Server
development as Senior Director at Sybase including building teams
in the U.S., India, and China. He is currently a Vice President in
charge of Technology Strategy at SAP Labs, USA.
Rob Zare is a program manager on the SQL Server
development team. He''s worked on the product since shortly before
the first service pack of SQL Server 2000. During that time, he''s
focused primarily on Analysis Services, though for the next major
release of SQL Server he''ll be focused on Integration Services. He
is the co-author of Fast Track to MDX and regularly speaks
at major technical conferences around the world.
Denny Lee is a Senior Program Manager based
out of Redmond, WA in the SQLCAT Best Practices Team. He has more
than 12 years experience as a developer and consultant implementing
software solutions to complex OLTP and data warehousing problems.
His industry experience includes accounting, human resources,
automotive, retail, web analytics, telecommunications, and
healthcare. He had helped create the first OLAP Services reporting
application in production at Microsoft and is a co-author of "SQL
Server 2000 Data Warehousing with Analysis Services" and
"Transforming Healthcare through Information [Ed. Joan Ash]
(2008)". In addition to contributing to the SQLCAT Blog, SQL Server
Best Practices, and SQLCAT.com, you can also review Denny''s Space
(http://denster.spaces.live.com). Denny specializes in developing
solutions for Enterprise Data Warehousing, Analysis Services, and
Data Mining; he also has focuses in the areas of Privacy and
Healthcare.