A Business Intelligence specialist and experienced software developer, with an entrepreneurial flair and a passion for learning new things. Expert in a number of open source BI platforms and databases. I now run Meteorite BI, a company that helps clients develop their BI systems and get the most out of their data. We also develop cutting edge BI infrastructure and platforms.. I am the founder of the Saiku Analytics platform which now incorporates both open source OLAP analysis and reporting. My weekly duties include some BI consulting, Scala & Java programming and tinkering with System Administration frameworks. In my spare time I am also a regular blogger, and open source committer. I am on the PMC of the Apache Object Orientated Data Technology (OODT) Project and Pentaho and Open Source Business Intelligence advocate. Specialities: Open Source BI, Yellowfin, Pentaho, Jaspersoft, BIRT, Java, Scala, Puppet, Play Framework, Akka, Developer Advocate, Community relations developer. If you want to find out more drop me a mail at tom.barber@meteorite.bi

Director @ •Founder and Director of Meteorite Consulting •Led the technical development for the business and partner relations •Designed and built Meteorite Cloud that allows clients to spin up on demand business intelligence servers and clusters •Designed and implemented the company technical infrastructure, backup and failover procedures, including Puppet automation and Xen server virtualisation •Helped drive the company to a record first years turnover within the business hub that we are affiliated with From December 2010 to Present (5 years) London, United KingdomMember @ Having served the OODT project for some time I was kindly nominated and accepted as an Apache Software Foundation member. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Apache OODT PMC Member @ From October 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Founder @ •Founder of Analytical Labs, an OSBI organisation providing a development hub for Open Source Business Intelligence •Initiated development of the Saiku OLAP and Reporting tool kits •Driven Saiku adoption world wide, clients include the US Government, UN and European Union From January 2010 to Present (5 years 11 months) VP Apache OODT @ Chair of the Apache OODT project, helping bring Big Data Pipelines to the masses. From February 2015 to Present (10 months) Pentaho Specialist @ •Designed and coordinated the building of the Pentaho based dashboarding and ETL stack from the ground up •Supervised the offshore development teams both in India and Bulgaria •Enhanced the reporting speed and execution time by over 70% with the implementation of improved database schema and query engines From July 2010 to June 2011 (1 year) BI Team Lead @ •Integrated the Pentaho Business Intelligence suite at Muzicall •Worked with CBF, Hudson(now Jenkins) and dbdeploy to achieve a continuous integration development environment, allowing seamless movement or reports, ETL and data from development to testing to production with zero downtime. From January 2010 to July 2010 (7 months) Pentaho Systems Integrator @ •Design and installation of a Pentaho business intelligence reporting system. This included multiple data warehouses running on a combination of Postgresql and LucidDB, the design and maintenance of multiple Mondrian OLAP schema's, and the design of many SQL and MDX based reports. I also designed and implemented various Pentaho based dashboards utilising the Community Dashboard Framework, which in my free time I helped maintain and extend. •Implemented the PHP based project tracking system and the Liferay Intranet Portal. •Founded the PAT project which went on to become Saiku From December 2006 to December 2009 (3 years 1 month) Pentaho Consultancy and Training @ •Pentaho integration consultancy and training to the Business Development Support Office at Coventry University. •Left clients with a fully working BI installation and the skills and expertise to maintain and extend it. From September 2009 to September 2009 (1 month) Technical Editor - Pentaho Solutions @ •Technical editor of Pentaho Solutions for Wiley publishers. •Roles included verifying the text and making sure the hands on content worked as written. From February 2009 to May 2009 (4 months)

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing @ Leeds Metropolitan University From 2000 to 2002 A Levels @ Whitby Community College Tom Barber is skilled in: MDX, SQL, Java, XML, Tomcat, Java Enterprise Edition, Hibernate, Eclipse, Spring, Pentaho, GWT, Business Intelligence, Programming, Integration, Oracle