Donovan has over twenty years of experience in research and development in data warehousing, business intelligence, and parallel processing. He has worked at innovative startups like Red Brick and nQuire, as well as Siebel, Yahoo!, and HP-Labs. Dr. Schneider has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is a recipient of the 2008 ACM Software Systems award for work on the Gamma parallel database system.