Fireside Analytics Inc.
Shingai Manjengwa (@Tjido) is the Director of Insights and Analytics at Fireside Analytics Inc. An NYU Stern alum, she graduated from the Stern Business Analytics Masters program in 2014 and founded Fireside Analytics the following year. Fireside Analytics is a data analytics consulting company that makes data analytics and data science skills accessible to private sector companies, non-profits and education institutions. Fireside Analytics works with clients to build their data science capabilities and train their staff and stakeholders using customized case studies. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
This course has been adapted from the original version created by Glen R.J. Mules (below), a Senior Instructor and Principal Consultant with IBM Information Management World-Wide Education.
Glen R.J. Mules
Glen R.J. Mules is a Senior Instructor and Principal Consultant with IBM Information Management World-Wide Education and works from New Rochelle, NY. Glen joined IBM in 2001 as a result of IBM's acquisition of Informix Software. He has worked at IBM, and previously at Informix Software, as an instructor, a course developer, and in the enablement of instructors worldwide. He teaches courses in BigData (BigInsights and Streams), Optim, Guardium, and DB2, and Informix databases. He has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Adelaide, South Australia; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, England; and has just completed a Ph.D. in Education (Educational Technology) at Walden University. His early work life was as a high school teacher in Australia. In the 1970s he designed, programmed, and managed banking systems in Manhattan and Boston. In the 1980's he was a VP in Electronic Payments for Bank of America in San Francisco and New York. In the early 1990's he was an EVP in Marketing for a software development company and chaired the ANSI X12C Standards Committee on Data Security for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
Leons Petrazickis
Leons Petrazickis is the Ombud for Hadoop content on IBM Big Data U as well as the Platform Architect for Big Data U Labs. As a senior software developer at IBM, he uses Ruby, Python, and Javascript to develop microservices and web applications, as well as manage containerized infrastructure.
