David Loo is a Senior Software Development Professional with over 25 years of experience in both software development and people management. He is respected for his ability to focus teams on service excellence and for designing and implementing practical process improvements. Always on the lookout for ways to contribute his knowledge and experience of software development, team-building, and development best practices.

Richard Louie is a Business Intelligence developer at Redwood Trust, a residential and commercial mortgage investment firm. He has extensive experience in Oracle and Microsoft SQL for ETL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and VB.NET. Richard is ASQ Green Belt Certified. He is a graduate in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Donabel Santos is a SQL Server MVP and is the Senior SQL Server Developer/DBA/Trainer at QueryWorks Solutions, a consulting and training company in Vancouver, BC. She has worked with SQL Server since Version 2000 in numerous development, tuning, reporting, and integration projects with ERPs, CRMs, SharePoint, and other custom applications. She holds MCITP certifications for SQL Server 2005/2008, and an MCTS for SharePoint. She is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and is also the lead instructor for SQL Server Administration, Development, Tableau, and SSIS courses at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). Donabel is a proud member of PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server), and a proud BCIT alumna (CST diploma and degree).

Donabel blogs at www.sqlmusings.com and her twitter handle is @sqlbelle. She speaks and presents at SQLSaturday, VANPASS, Vancouver TechFest, and so on. She writes for Packt, Idera, SSWUG, and so on. She is the author of Packt's SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 Cookbook, and a contributing author of Manning's PowerShell Deep Dives.