William Bathurst is a development manager at M2Mi with over 25 years of industry experience. He is currently working with the Industrial Internet Consortium to work out advanced tracking solutions for the Airline Industries.

Doug Ortiz is a senior big data architect at ByteCubed who has been architecting, developing, and integrating enterprise solutions throughout his career. Organizations that leverage his skillset have been able to rediscover and reuse their underutilized data via existing and emerging technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft BI Stack, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL Databases, and SharePoint, along with related toolsets and technologies. He is also the founder of Illustris and LLC, and you can reach him at [email protected].

Doug has experience in integrating multiple platforms and products and holds certifications in big data, data sciences, R, and Python. He helps organizations gain a deeper understanding and value of their current investments in data and existing resources, turning them into useful sources of information, and he has improved, salvaged, and architected projects by utilizing unique and innovative techniques.

Doug regularly reviews books on topics such as Amazon Web Services, data science, machine learning, R, and cloud technologies. His hobbies include yoga and scuba diving.