Mark Chapman is the Pre-Sales Manager for Talend in the UK, the leading Open Source Integration software vendor. He joined Talend in October 2009 as a Technical Consultant and is now the primary hands-on Pre-sales Manager for Integration (ETL and ESB), Data Quality (DQ), Master Data Management (MDM), and Business Process Management (BPM) for the Enterprise sector.
Mark has over 25 years of business experience in the Information Technology industry, the past 18 years as a consultant for Enterprise Master Data Management software vendors including Search Software America (now Informatica), Datactics, Datanomics (now Oracle), and Talend. Mark works with organizations from all sectors and sizes to understand how EDM technologies encompassing ETL, AI, DQ, MDM, and BPM can be deployed to meet the needs of the business.
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markvchapman
Olivier Carbone began his career in the world of training and in 2006, he joined the open source software vendor, Talend. He worked on the team that produced the beta version of Talend Open Studio and subsequently was responsible for producing Talend training tools. He also worked in Talend's marketing team.
In 2008, he was appointed as Customer Care Manager at Talend. His role was to ensure that the services from Talend were on par with the customers' expectations. Continuing to satisfy his customers, he took the role of the Head of the Professional Services (training + expertise + support) and has enjoyed managing teams of French consultants.
In September 2011, he came back to R&D to work on a government project linked to e-learning and to build the internal social networks.
Olivier also belongs to the social network (http://www.apprendre2point0.org) dedicated to the impact of technology on our way to learn/work. Since 2007, he has invested a lot of time to write the first pages of this story and define the rules of practice.
He aims to share with us his experiences on his blog at http://ocarbone.free.fr/blog/.
Philip Yurchuk is an independent Enterprise E-commerce and Web Application Consultant. He started his career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing satellite mission planning software. At Boeing, he developed and managed systems software and web applications. He then began consulting, starting with an engagement managing the development of a high volume consumer web application for Toyota. Since then, he has worked as a project manager and developer on several e-commerce sites for major retail brands. He has a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Outside of work, he is a typical geek who enjoys movies, music, books, board games, and blogging at http://philip.yurchuk.com.