"Dan is a great champion of virtualization...and through numerous public presentations on this subject, he has proved his prowess in the arena of educating and mentoring.... Dan's immensely entertaining sessions highlight his own experiences in coaching and cajoling the always skeptical..." - Mani and Sullivan, Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere, 319.Greetings-My name is Dan Young and in addition to the kind words above, I am the Chief Data Architect at Indiana University. I am an avid technical pioneer with a focus on business process improvement through excellence in architecture and design. Capable of organizing, motivating and inspiring staff and peers to meet organizational goals, I deliver results in high-pressure situations while working to build collaboration and consensus across organizational units. Additionally, I am experienced in managing high-profile vendor relationships and negotiating successful contractual partnerships and outcomes. A decisive decision maker with a proven ability to lead change, I frequently influence executive technology leadership and have been afforded opportunities to speak nationally on the topics of such database virtualization, data virtualization and technical team organizational best practices. I have held positions as a member of various "customer advisory boards" for industry vended software suites and am the past president of the VMware Special Interest Group of the IOUG. In my current role at Indiana University I am responsible for both the technical architecture and management of the team charged with the implementation of the university's "Decision Support Initiative". Chartered in 2015, DSI re-envisions our enterprise approach to analytics leveraging Agile and DevOps principles. Feel free to listen as Brad Wheeler, our former CIO, reflects on the transformative power of DSI in the featured presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2HoRnN1daA (Jump to 40:56)