Riaz Ahmed is an IT professional with more than 25 years’ experience. He started his career in early the early 90s as a programmer, and has been employed in a wide variety of information technology positions, including analyst programmer, system analyst, project manager, data architect, database designer, and senior database administrator. His core areas of interest include web-based development technologies, business intelligence, and databases. Riaz possesses extensive experience in database design and development. Besides all versions of Oracle, he has worked intensively in almost all the major RDBMSs on the market today. During his career he has designed and implemented numerous databases for a wide range of applications, including ERP.