Solid Quality Mentors

Fernando G. Guerrero
CEO & Trainer

Fernando G. Guerrero is one of the founders of Solid Quality Mentors. He has worked with SQL Server since 1993, and for more than 20 years he has been designing information systems, providing training and mentoring in many countries worldwide.

His teaching experience started in 1981 when he was a lecturer at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, followed by many international projects where mentoring was a key part of his tasks, until he became a Principal Technologist and SQL Server Product Consultant at QA plc., the leading IT training and consulting company in the United Kingdom.

Fernando has presented at numerous conferences including TechEd Europe, PASS, VBUG, VBITS, MCT Conference, SQL Server Magazine Live, and DevWeek. Fernando is a Civil and Hydrologic Engineer, MCDBA, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCT, a SQL Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and an INETA speaker. His book "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming By Example", from QUE, was published in April 2001, and you can find his ".NET Operations Guide" and his ".NET Deployment Guide" in TechNet.

Itzik Ben-Gan,
Trainer

Itzik Ben-Gan is a SQL Server professional. He teaches, lectures, writes and consults about SQL Server. He has been working with databases since 1992, and has been focusing on SQL Server since 1998.

Itzik writes monthly columns in SQL Server Magazine and in the T-SQL Solutions Web site, and he co-authored the book Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (Apress, ISBN: 1893115828).

In 1999 he founded the Israeli SQL Server and OLAP Users Group and has been managing it since. Itzik is an MCT, MCDBA, MCSE+I and a SQL Server MVP.

Dejan Sarka,
Trainer

Dejan Sarka is an MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, and SQL Server MVP. He is a trainer and consultant working for many CTECs and development companies in Slovenia and some other nearby countries. He is a frequent contributor to the PASS news and many local technical magazines. He is a member of the PASS Technical Advisory Council and Microsoft SQL Server beta testing program. Besides training he regularly works on OLTP, OLAP and Data Mining projects, especially at the database design stage (Dejan worked with Data Mining technologies long before Microsoft built the first version of SQL Server). He is a regular speaker on regional Microsoft TechNet meetings, on the NT Conference, the largest Microsoft conference in Central and Eastern Europe, and some other events, like MCT and PASS conferences. He is the founder and the manager of the Slovenian SQL Server Users Group.