[ polish version ] Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum. Full name: Marcin Andrzej Guzowski Nickname: mv (ancient times..) Birth date: 10111010100100100110011100000 Locations: Lublin, Warsaw (Poland) Languages: English, Polish (native), Russian (basics) E-mail address: enter_my_name_here@guzowski.info Skype: m.guzowski GG: 1120226 Contact via e-mail is preferable. Professional field I'm a computer system developer, architect and consultant specializing in data-centric & data automation solutions. When time permits, I write technical articles (Microsoft TechNet, IT magazines) and give trainings and lectures on SQL Server. I'm also trying to keep being actively involved in the IT community (more on my professional activity here). Major interests: 1. Databases (mainly Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, also: DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL), SQL (T-SQL) language, VLDB, data warehousing, data mining and business intelligence, query tuning & database performance, data automation solutions, information-centric integration. 2. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), services and interfaces in software engineering, distributed systems, concurrent processing, heterogeneous systems. 3. Perl with advanced data processing solutions, data access providers (DBI, DBD::ODBC, Win32::SqlServer), regular expressions, hybrid data structures, app performance, multi-threading, GUI building (Perl::Tk). I'm a regular CPAN visitor. Favourite IDE: Eclipse+EPIC. 4. Microsoft .NET platform, ADO.NET, C# language, ASP.NET (including JavaScript, CSS, AJAX), CLR integration (SQL Server 2005), security issues, IDE: VS .NET 2003, VS 2005. 5. Computer systems security, standardization (ISO 1799, PN-I-13335), Windows 2003, 2000, NT, XP, 98SE (services, architecture, configuration, administration), Linux Slackware (in the past), Ubuntu (and other Debian clones), information protection (steganography, cryptography), source code security.   Private field My non-professional interests are probably quite common, maybe excluding the need for adrenaline and risk at reasonable level :) I especially like celtic music, blue colour and flying on everything flyable. You can see some pictures of me here.   .:: Main page ::.