{"id":2,"date":"2007-03-31T17:44:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-03-02T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T19:02:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/about","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the principal consultant for VidasSoft Systems Inc. corporation (Toronto, Canada) that specializes in building data warehouse solutions using Microsoft technologies (SQL Server, SSIS, Multidimensional and Tabular SSAS, PowerPivot). I worked with SQL Server since 1995 and started to use Analysis Services (now SSAS) as soon as it was released\u00a0with SQL Server 7.0 (1998). For the past 14 years, I was working exclusively on building data warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>I was Microsoft SQL MVP (Most Valuable Professional) from April 2008 until July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 I achieved SSAS Maestro certification &#8211; highest available certification level in Analysis Services field. In 2013 there was just one person in Canada with this certification (about 36 people in the world).<\/p>\n<p>I have the following certifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MCITP -Business Intelligence Developer<\/li>\n<li>MCTS\u00a0&#8211; Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Development<\/li>\n<li>MCTS &#8211; SQL Server 2005<\/li>\n<li>MCDBA &#8211; SQL Server 2000<\/li>\n<li>MCSE NT 4.0, 2000<\/li>\n<li>MCP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I created and maintain\u00a0Analysis Services related website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also created and maintain Portfolio Slicer\/ PowerBI application that lets you track investments in Excel using PowerPivot: <a href=\"http:\/\/PortfolioSlicer.com\">http:\/\/PortfolioSlicer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can reach me at: Vidas.Matelis &lt;at&gt; SSAS-Info dot com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the principal consultant for VidasSoft Systems Inc. corporation (Toronto, Canada) that specializes in building data warehouse solutions using Microsoft technologies (SQL Server, SSIS, Multidimensional and Tabular SSAS, PowerPivot). I worked with SQL Server since 1995 and started to use Analysis Services (now SSAS) as soon as it was released\u00a0with SQL Server 7.0 (1998). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}