Jen Stirrup Author

Jen Stirrup, recently named as one of the top 9 most influential business intelligence female experts in the world by Solutions Review, is a Microsoft Data. Platform MVP, and PASS Director-At-Large, is a well-known business intelligence and data visualization expert, author, data strategist, and community advocate who has been peer-recognized as one of the top 100 most global influential tweeters on big data and analytics topics. Specialties: business intelligence, Microsoft SQL Server, Tableau, architecture, data, R, Hadoop, and Hive. Jen is passionate about all things data and business intelligence, helping leaders derive value from data. For two decades, Jen has worked in artificial intelligence and business intelligence consultancy, architecting, and delivering and supporting complex enterprise solutions for customers all over the world. Ruben Oliva Ramos is a computer systems engineer from Tecnologico of Leon Institute with a master's degree in computer and electronic systems engineering, tele informatics, and networking specialization from University of Salle Bajio in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He has more than five years' experience in developing web applications to control and monitor devices connected with the Arduino and Raspberry Pi using web frameworks and cloud services to build Internet of Things applications. He is a mechatronics teacher at University of Salle Bajio and teaches students studying for their master's degree in Design and Engineering of Mechatronics Systems. He also works at Centro de Bachillerato Tecnologico Industrial 225 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, teaching electronics, robotics and control, automation, and microcontrollers at Mechatronics Technician Career. He has worked on consultant and developer projects in areas such as monitoring systems and datalogger data using technologies such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Visual Studio .NET, HTML5, PHP, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, Angular, ASP .NET databases (SQLite, MongoDB, and MySQL), and web servers (Node.js and IIS). Ruben has done hardware programming on the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Ethernet Shield, GPS, and GSM/GPRS, ESP8266, control and monitor systems for data acquisition and programming. He's the Author at Pack Publishing book: Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript.