Maria Carina Roldan - Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE

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First published: April 2010

Second edition: October 2013

Production reference: 1011217

ISBN 978-1-78829-243-6

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Mara Carina Roldn was born in Argentina; she earned her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and then moved to Buenos Aires, where she has lived since 1994.

She has worked as a BI consultant for almost twenty years. She started working with the Pentaho technology back in 2006. Since then, she has been dedicated full time to developing BI solutions, mainly as an ETL specialist using Pentaho tools. In all these years, she worked for different companies, including Assert Solutions, a Pentaho partner company based in Argentina, and Webdetails, a Portuguese company acquired by Pentaho in 2013. Currently, she works as an independent consultant.

Carina is the author of the first and second edition of Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Book, Packt Publishing and the co-author of the first and second edition of Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

Diethard Steiner is one of the very early Pentaho adopters. He has implemented business intelligence projects for various clients for more than a decade, covering everything from data integration to multi-dimensional cubes and dashboards. Over the last few years, he has gained in-depth experience in utilizing Pentaho tools in the big data world. These days, he is running his own independent consultancy company called Bissol Consulting Ltd in London.

Diethard has been a very active Pentaho community member and regularly publishes articles on Pentaho and the wider business intelligence world on his GitHub blog (http://diethardsteiner.github.io/).

Paulo Pires is a Geographical Engineer, who in his early thirties decided to apply his skills in the business intelligence area. He started working in Webdetails more than 6 years ago and specialized in building dashboards with CTools and Pentaho, along with doing some ETL work when needed.

2 years ago Webdetails became a Pentaho company, and last month Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group, and Pentaho joined into a single company, called Hitachi Vantara, where Paulo Pires is a Senior Consultant.

Miguel Gaspar started working at Webdetails about 3 years ago, some time before
the acquisition of Webdetails by Pentaho. He was a consultant in the Implementation
team and his work involved developing dashboard solutions as part of services. He
is now acting as the technical owner of some of the Implementations projects as part
of the Webdetails team in Pentaho.

He likes to be as professional as possible, but in an informal way. One of his favorite hobbies is learning and his particular areas of interest are: business analytics, predictive analysis and big data, augmented reality, and cloud computing. He likes to play and is a huge martial arts fan and also one of the worst soccer players ever. He is married and a parent of two young and lovely daughters, who would like to spend more time playing like crazies with him. He also likes to spend time with friends or just having a drink and a good talk with someone else, if possible with his family at his side. He really hates liars.

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