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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Steve
Abraham
Mentor
Steve Abraham holds 8 Microsoft certifications and has been developing SQL Server based software for 10 years. Steve specializes in SQL Server and .Net Framework architecture, high availability, capacity planning, development, and performance tuning.
Steve has lead teams for some of the biggest and best known companies many of them de ...
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Herbert
Albert
Mentor and GM Central Europe
Herbert Albert is an MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT in SQL Server. He is a SQL Server trainer, consultant and Managinf Director of the Central Europe Subsidiary. His knowledge covers a wide spectrum of Microsoft Technologies and Network Architecture, although his focus is mainly in SQL Server. He works with Microsoft Austria at many training events ...
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Andrea
Benedetti
Mentor
Andrea Benedetti, SQL Server MVP, is the founder and mentor of Solid Quality Learning Italian Division.
Andrea specializes in architectural analysis, data transformation, performance and reporting. He has been working with SQL Server since their 6.5 version.
Member of the chair board of SQL Server Italian User Group (www.ugiss.org), A ...
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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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Emanuele
DelBono
Mentor
Emanuele became a passionate in Software developing since he was young, and after the university in electronic engineering this passion became his job.
After a few years of developing application in C/C++, Visual Basic and ASP, in 2001 he realized that C# was his language, and he embraced the new .NET Framework as his default platform. ...
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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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Miguel
Egea
Mentor
Miguel Egea is a Mentor Asociado of
Solid Quality Mentors Iberoamericana, a Computer Engineer with over 12
years of experience. He is a SQL Server MVP, and he works as a DBA for important
companies with complex database systems in Spain. Miguel
Egea is a well known speaker, presenting at many M ...
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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 Politécnica de ...
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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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Ashton
Hobbs
Mentor
Ashton Hobbs is a MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE, MCAD, OCDBA, as well as a member of MENSA International. He specializes in Database and Data Warehousing architecture as well as SSRS, SSAS, and .NET architecture. Ashton has worked in a broad range of environments including finance, insurance, manufacturing, scientific, governmental, and medical. In a ...
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Gianluca
Hotz
Mentor
Gianluca Hotz is an independent consultant specializing in architecture, high availability, capacity planning, performance tuning and database design for SQL Server. Gianluca has been working in the IT field since 1993 and with SQL Server since 1996 starting with version 4.2 on Windows NT. Besides consulting he also works in the training ...
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Richard
Hundhausen
Mentor
Richard Hundhausen, a Solid Quality Mentors mentor, 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 b ...
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Tibor
Karaszi
Mentor
Tibor Karaszi has been working with SQL Server
since 1988, staring with connectivity between SQL Server and DB2. He is an independent consultant focusing on SQL Server and he has a long record as a SQL Server trainer,
the last years in charge of the SQL Server courses at Sweden's largest CTEC. Tibor
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Andrew
Kelly
Mentor
Andrew J. Kelly is the Practice Manager for Performance & Scalability with Solid Quality Mentors and lives in Plaistow, New Hampshire. He has over 20 years experience with relational databases and application development on both UNIX and Windows platforms but his main focus now is SQL Server. In addition to general SQL Server training and ...
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Helmut
Knappe
Mentor
Helmut Knappe comes from a background of more than 20 years in IT development and project management and 10 years of working and training experience in the BI sector, starting from the early days of Knosys/ProClarity. He focuses on OLAP concepts, Analysis Services, MDX, cube design, integration of heterogeneous databases and various front ...
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Mario
Korbar
Mentor
Mario started his career as a mathematics teacher, just after graduating mathematical
engineering, but very soon he switched over to IT world, where he spent last ten
years. He started the IT journey as a database designer, MS SQL Server 6.5 DBA and
a Visual Basic 5.0 developer. However, after several projects, ...
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Brian
Lawton
Mentor
Brian Lawton is an independent consultant, the owner of Redtail Creek Software, and a contributing editor for SQL Server Magazine. Working primarily in the Baltimore, MD / Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas, Brian holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and over 12 years of industry experience. Since 1995, he has specialized in providing ...
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Alejandro
Leguizamo
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 BI, ...
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Andy
Leonard
Mentor
Andy Leonard is a SQL Server database developer, MCSD, and engineer who resides in central Virginia. He is co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Wrox, 2006) and founded VSTeamSystemCentral.com. An engineer - by training and at heart - Andy began working with Business Intelligence in 1995 when he developed one of ...
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Eric
Lofstrom
Mentor
Eric Lofstrom is a Business Intelligence Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors with over 13 years of technology experience in a wide variety of roles including Data Architect, Data Warehouse Architect, ETL Developer, OLAP Developer, Solution Architect, and Director of Business Intelligence.
Eric has substantial experience designing, develop ...
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Jesús
López
Mentor
Jesús López, also known as SqlRanger, is a Mentor
Asociado of Solid Quality Mentors Iberoamericana,
specialized on .NET Development. He has been a developer and a trainer
since 1991,
covering many different Microsoft technologies. His main areas of expertise are SQL Server and .NET Development, for whic ...
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Javier
Loría
Mentor
Javier Loria is a Solid Quality Mentors Mentor based in Costa Rica. He began his professional career in 1992, as a software developer and system engineer. His career evolved rapidly to the training side, especially in the XML and OLAP world, training customers at different locations in Latin America. He is a software architect, and Busine ...
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Chris
Love
Mentor
Chris Love has over 14 years of experience in software design, development and architecture. He has been the principal developer for over 250 small and medium ASP and ASP.NET web sites over the past 7 years. These projects have exposed Chris to a wide range of Microsoft related technologies to solve real business problems for his clients. ...
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Davide
Mauri
Mentor
Davide Mauri is a Microsoft MVP – SQL Server, MCP, MCAD, MCDBA, and MCT. He prefers working with Relational Modeling and enjoys studying the theory behind it. Additionally, he is well grounded in Reporting Services, .NET and the object-oriented principles, and has a good knowledge and experience in Notification Services. He wrote the firs ...
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Douglas
McDowell
Managing Director
Douglas McDowell is managing director at Solid Quality Mentors and is an author and contributing editor for SQL Server Magazine. Douglas is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server, a member of Microsoft's Business Intelligence Partner Advisory Council (BI PAC), and a charter member of the Professional Association ...
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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. Rushabh 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, including predictive analysis system, ...
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Brian
Moran
COO, Founder and Mentor
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
Jessica Moss is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and focuses 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 working at a major clothing retailer, she had the opportu ...
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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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Karol
Papaj
Mentor
Karol Papaj, MCP, SQL Server MVP and first Solid Quality Learning Mentor in Slovakia and Czech Republic, is an independent consultant and trainer working for CPLSs in Slovakia and Czech Republic. He has been working with SQL Server since 1995 and he works as a DBA for important companies with complex database systems in Slovakia. Besides ...
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Maciej
Pilecki
Mentor
Maciej Pilecki is a Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, SQL Server MVP an Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has several year of international experience in software development, specializing mostly in MS SQL Server database applications. In the past he also used to work as a network administrator and IT security consultant. He specializes in ...
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Jordi
Rambla
Mentor
Jordi Rambla is a trainer and consultant, working with relational database systems, reporting solutions, and business intelligence, for more than 15 years. Jordi Ramblahas writen and managed several professional IT magazines, and has been a speaker at many conferences and seminars about Microsoft technologies. Jordi Rambla combines his wo ...
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Scot
Reagin
Mentor
Scot Reagin has more than twenty years of technology experience serving in a wide variety of roles including: Software Designer, Solution Architect, and Operations and General Manager.
Mr. Reagin has substantial experience architecting, designing, and implementing complete analytic solutions for organizations of many sizes and in diver ...
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Eladio
Rincón
Mentor
Eladio, a MVP for SQL Sever since 2002, is the IT Director of Database Technologies in Spain. From 2004 he has worked for Solid Quality Mentors focusing on administration, support and consultancy projects, as well as a serving as a trainer for SQL Server technologies. He has executed and/or managed pr ...
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Dejan
Sarka
Mentor
Dejan Sarka, MCP, MCDBA, MCT, MCTS SQL Server, MCITP Database Administrator, MCITP Database Developer, SQL Server MVP, Solid Quality Mentors Mentor, is a trainer and consultant working for many CPLSs and development companies in Slovenia and some other countries. Besides training he continuously works on OLTP, OLAP and Data Mining project ...
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Andreas
Schindler
Mentor
Andreas Schindler is a BI professional and MCT from Austria. Since 2005, he has done a lot of development for Q4bis (http://www.q4bis.com/), a New Zealand company. He has rewritten their 'Data Server' a tool to speed up and simplify the ETL process for SQL Server data warehouses and also provides tier two support for about 200 installatio ...
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Daniel
Seara
Mentor
Daniel Seara is an Associate Mentor of Solid Quality Mentors Iberoamericana, specialized on .NET Development. He has been a developer, using Microsoft's tools, during the past 13 years. He was one of the people in charge of presenting and introducing new products and technologies of Microsoft to the developer community during the last 7 D ...
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