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Don Vilen Hired as Principal Architect

posted on January 09, 2008

In an effort to expand their highly skilled consulting practice in the enterprise market for Microsoft’s SQL Server database product line, Scalability Experts has hired Don Vilen as Principal Architect.

Mr. Vilen has worked in the information technology field for 27 years including a 12 year career at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Don spent 7 years as a program manager on the SQL Server development team and 5 years as a trainer for SQL Server Product Support Services (PSS) engineers.

“As I was looking at taking advantage of my vast SQL Server knowledge and experience (including SQL Server 2008 ‘Katmai’), and work with SQL Server customers in a consulting and training role, I found that Scalability Experts was the best place to do that. The reputation and credibility SE commands in Microsoft corporate and customers around the world is unsurpassed. I am really excited to be part of this elite team of SQL Server experts.” Says Vilen.

“Don Vilen brings a long track history of working with some of the most mission critical SQL Server customers in the world on topics such as scalability, high availability, and application compatibility. We are honored to add him to our team,” Raj Gill, Chief Technology Officer.

Mr. Vilen holds a Masters of Science degree with a Diploma of Computer Science from California State University, Chico.

Scalability Experts is a consulting, training, and software development company focused solely on Microsoft SQL Server™. A double Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, Scalability Experts is recognized in the industry as a world leading practitioner in advanced SQL Server™ technologies and has received Microsoft’s Global Excellence Award for Advanced Infrastructure in 2005. Scalability Experts recently won the 2007 Global Partner of the Year for Data Management Solutions for Database Infrastructure at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference.

For more specific information about SE services or to have a Solutions Sales Manager contact you please send us an email at info@scalabilityexperts.com or call 469-635-6200. SE has operations in U.S, Dubai, Singapore and India.

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