David Lutz joined Infobright in April of 2008 as Director of Sales Engineering.  David became an Infobright team member after 13 years in the data warehousing and business intelligence industry as a consumer, consultant and vendor representative of software products for this market.

David filled many roles in those years, including DBA, Data Warehouse Administrator and Data Warehouse Designer at organizations such as The Kroger Company and LensCrafters.  As a member of the data warehouse software industry, David has served as a Data Warehouse Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Intelligence (BI) Integration Architect and at various levels of responsibility in the Sales/Systems Engineering organizations of Informix, Net Perceptions, Crystal Decisions, Business Objects, Pervasive Software/Data Junction, Composite Software and Greenplum Software.

David’s experience includes working in all aspects of industry with customers including Cornell University, The Kroger Company, Randalls Groceries, Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut), JCPenney, GTE, Sabre Systems, XTO Energy and Impac Mortgage.

David’s experience spans all aspects of business intelligence – data modeling and administration, ETL/ELT and custom integration, data warehousing, data marting, data mining, operational/analytical BI, and heterogeneous data federation with such tools as Informix ODS/XPS, Illustra (PostgreSQL), Metacube, RedBrick, KD1, Microstrategy, Crystal Decisions suite of BI products, Business Objects BI and EIM tools – Acta/Data Integrator and FirstLogic, BIRT, Pentaho, JasperSoft, Cognos8, Composite Server, and various databases including open source databases like MySQL.