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Ali, Arshad

He has been working with Microsoft for almost five years now and has 10+ years of extensive experience in the software industry. As a DB/BI Consultant, in an end-to-end delivery role, lately he has mostly been working on a several enterprise scale data warehousing project for enabling\developing BI/Analytic solutions. He specializes in Database, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence application design, development and deployment, at enterprise level, with SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Service Broker, MDS, DQS, SharePoint and PPS. In the past, he also performed performance optimization for several projects with significant performance gain. He is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) in Microsoft SQL Server - Database Development 2008, Data Administration 2008 and Business Intelligence 2008. In his earlier career, he developed applications in VB/ASP/.NET/ASP.NET/C# and worked as a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for the .NET platform in Web/Windows/Enterprise. He presented his work at several technical events and has written 150+ technical and performance optimization technique articles on SQL Server and its related technologies which have been published on several sites. On the educational front, he holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA) and Business Administration in IT (MBA-IT).