About

	Name: Jose Chinchilla Position: President, Agile Bay, Inc. (www.agilebay.com) Certifications: MCITP: Database Administrator SQL Server 2008 MCITP: Business Intelligence SQL Server 2008 MCSA: SQL Server 2012 Core

I enjoy reading and writing about SQL Server administration and performance, query tuning and optimization, Virtualization (VMWare and Hyper-V), Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), Data Mining and Trending, among other subjects. I also enjoy speaking, mentoring, blogging and being involved in the SQL Server and Business Intelligence community. I am an active member of PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server) and leader of the Tampa Bay Business Intelligence user group. I have also co-authored two technical books: SQL Server 2012 Professional Administration (http://bit.ly/IdfJ74) and SQL Server 2012 Bible (http://bit.ly/IgL9uj).

I’ve had the opportunity to play with the latest and greatest Microsoft technology out there. I have been involved in the migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2005 and 2008 as well as O.S. upgrades from Windows Server 2000, 2003 to Windows Server 2008 in physical and virtualized environments. I have architected and developed several Data Warehouse Business Intelligence solutions using the full Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. Currently working on several Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence projects.

Some of the products and technologies I support or manage include:

– SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012 including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, PowerPivot, Power View
– Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008-R2
– Hyper-V and VMWare
– Microsoft System Center (Operations, Configuration, Virtual Machine Manager)
– Citrix Presentation Server 4.5/5.0
– Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
– Team Foundation Server 2008
– MapPoint Server 2010
– Targit 2k9/2k10
– Microstrategy
– Sybase ASE