Pedro was born in 1977 in Portugal and currently works as BI Senior Consultant and Developer at Novabase. He's also an invited teacher in master and postgraduate BI degrees, by IUL-ISCTE (Lisbon) and by Universidade Portucalense (UPT-Porto) respectively. He received in 2010 and 2011 the Microsoft award “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) for all his dedication and contribution helping theoretical and practical issues in the various BI communities and he's also co-author of the SQL MVP Deep Dives book – 2Edition. He has several Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCSD, MCTS-Web, MCTS-BI and MCITP-BI and also worldwide certifications in the area of BI provided by TDWI/CBIP (The Data Warehouse Institute – http://www.tdwi.org). He's currently preparing his PhD degree on BI. For further details you can also visit his personal blog at http://www.pedrocgd.blogspot.com or even contact him directly at pperfeito@hotmail.com
