Reza Rad is a Microsoft Regional Director, an Author, Trainer, Speaker, and Consultant. He has a BSc in Computer engineering and has more than 20 years of experience in data analysis, BI, databases, programming, and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He has been a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for 12 continuous years (from 2011-present) for his dedication to Microsoft BI. Reza is an active blogger and co-founder of RADACAD. Reza is also co-founder and co-organizer of the Difinity conference in New Zealand, the Power BI Summit (the biggest Power BI conference), and Data Insight Summit (Chicago, USA).
His articles on different aspects of technologies, especially on BI, can be found on his blog, which you can find at radacad-dot-com/blog.
He has written books on Microsoft BI and also is currently writing others. He has also been an active member on online technical forums such as MSDN and Experts-Exchange, and was a moderator of MSDN SQLServer forums, and is an MCP, MCSE, and MCITP of BI. He is the leader of the New Zealand Business Intelligence users group. He is also the author of very popular book Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star, which is free with more than 1700 pages of content.
He is an International Speaker in Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Data Insight Summit, PASS Summit, SQL Saturday and user groups. And He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.