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Michael Ward Bio

Michael Ward has over 32 years experience providing technical consulting and training throughout North America. He has been heavily involved with business intelligence since 1990, and has worked with a number of different business intelligence products. With over 8 years of Business Objects experience, he has presented to a number of Business Objects groups throughout the country to high acclaim.

Michael just presented for the 3rd time in San Francisco. He was recently requested by Dallas for the 2nd time and by DC for the 1st time. He has presented to BONYMAUG (New York City) three times, where his company has been presenting for over 5 years. Michael is also the coordinator for SEMIBOUG and Indianapolis, organizing the Business Objects user group meetings for those areas.

Michael was awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award at the FOCUS International User Group Conference as "Best Session" of the 1993 FUSE Conference in Atlanta. In the Top Gun School for High Performance instructors top three, he is a certified ORACLE Master in Application Development. Michael has been heavily involved with training organizations throughout the Midwest. His Train-The-Trainer Program is a great way for students to learn to present and teach! He is also the former president of the Detroit Oracle User Group. Michael has a Mathematics Degree from the University of Michigan.

For over 43 years, Michael has been an avid runner and a major supporter of running programs in his area, having established several memorial scholarships. He is also involved with Community Living Toronto, a special needs group of intellectually challenged adults, where for over 6 years he has been bringing groups in for overnight trips to attend Detroit Tiger, Piston , and Red Wing games with his company and other local firms helping to cover all the costs.