Alex Chow has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, formerly Navision, since 1999. Over the years, he has conducted hundreds of implementations across multiple industries. His customers range from $2-million-a-year small enterprises to $500-million-a-year multinational corporations.
Over the course of his Dynamics NAV career, he has often been designated as the primary person responsible for the success and failure of Dynamics NAV implementations. The fact that Alex is still in the Dynamics NAV business means that he's been pretty lucky so far. His extensive career in the Dynamics NAV business is evidence of his success rate and expertise.
With a background in implementing all functions and modules inside and outside of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Alex has encountered and resolved the most practical to the most complex requirements and business rules. Through these experiences, he has learned that sometimes you have to be a little crazy to have a competitive edge.
Believing that sharing these experiences and knowledge would benefit the Dynamics NAV community, Alex writes about his journey at www.dynamicsnavconsultant.com. He founded AP Commerce (www.apcommerce.com) in 2005. It is a full-service Dynamics NAV service center. In addition, Alex has written a book about Dynamics NAV titled Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development by Packt Publishing.
He lives in southern California with his beautiful wife and two lovely daughters. He considers himself the luckiest man in the world.
Laura Nicolàs Lorente started working with Dynamics NAV back in 2005, first in the support department, mostly solving functional issues and doubts. She soon jumped to full deployment: consulting, analysis, development, implementation, migration, training, and support. Right from the beginning, she realized that it was very important for a Dynamics NAV consultant to have deep knowledge of business workflows. Technical skills are just not enough. So, she started to train herself in accounting, taxation, supply chains, logistics, and so on.
Laura discovered a whole new world and she found it very interesting. After having enough consultancy experience, she got a chance to manage the first project on her own. And then she realized that even tech and business knowledge are not enough—she also needed management skills. That is why, after reading different management books and trying different approaches on the projects she worked on, she decided to deepen her knowledge by taking a master's degree in project management. Laura is now transitioning to agile management and agile development for better project success. She continues her training in the three areas (technology, business workflows, and management) whenever she gets the chance. The Internet is a huge source of inspiration for her: groups, forums, blogs, books, and so on. She also contributes by sharing her knowledge and experience with the Spanish Dynamics NAV community. Laura is also the coauthor of the book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, Packt Publishing which had really good feedback from different Dynamics NAV experts.
Cristina Nicolàs Lorente has been working with Dynamics NAV since 2005. She started in the ERP world as a developer, but soon evolved into a complete Dynamics NAV professional, doing all the tasks involved in Dynamics NAV implementations: consultancy, analysis, development, implementation, training, and support to end users. When Cristina started developing solutions for Dynamics NAV, she had no idea about accounting or any kind of business workflow. They don't teach those kinds of things for a technical university career. Soon, she discovered that it is important to know the set of tools used, but even more important to understand the meaning of whatever you develop. Without knowing the accounting rules, practices, and legal requirements, it is impossible to develop useful accounting functionalities even if you are the best developer of all. Only when you fully understand a company's processes will you be able to do the appropriate developments. Having that in mind, Cristina has taken courses in accounting, warehouse management, and operations management. She is also willing to take courses on any other company-related topics. She thinks that the best way to learn is to teach what you are learning to someone else. She has actually learned almost everything she knows about Dynamics NAV by responding to user questions on Internet forums, by writing a blog about Dynamics NAV, and of course by writing the book you have in your hands. When you have to write about something, you have to experiment, try, investigate, and read. It is definitely the best way to learn. Cristina is also the coauthor of the book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, Packt Publishing.
Vjekoslav Babić is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV expert, consultant, and architect with 18 years of experience in the IT industry and 14 years of experience delivering project success on large-scale, international, and high-risk and implementations of Microsoft Dynamics solutions. He has project experience in various industries, including retail, telecommunications, insurance, food and beverages, manufacturing, distribution, and many more. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2010. Vjekoslav is an avid author and has published more than 400 technical articles about software development, database design, and Internet technologies in a number of online and printed magazines, as well as on his blog at http://vjeko.com/. He speaks regularly at Microsoft Dynamics NAV conferences worldwide.
Based in Zagreb, Croatia, he runs his own Microsoft Dynamics NAV consultancy business.
You can contact Vjekoslav through his blog at http://vjeko.com/.
David Roys has worked in the computer industry since 1992 and currently works as a Dynamics NAV programmer and consultant for Intergen, a leading Microsoft Gold Partner. He is the Dynamics Presidents Club member in New Zealand.
After coauthoring the original Implementing Micro soft Dynamics NAV book by Packt Publishing in 2009, David has written two novels.