Bio
Len Wyatt is a Laureate Software Engineer at Blackbaud, where he is involved in system performance and capacity management for the systems that power thousands of non-profit and social-good organizations. Before that, Len was a Program Manager at Microsoft, often engaged in crazy projects like building the largest On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) data base ever, breaking the world record for ETL processing, or creating an industry standard ETL benchmark through the Transaction Processing Council. In these roles he was a speaker at many industry events. Len was also an Engineer in testing and in performance at Sequent Computer Systems, which created the first commercial multiprocessing systems. He started out at Bell Labs working on packet switching systems and doing performance simulations of not-yet-implemented systems.