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Hello, my name is Craig Trombly. First and foremost, I would like to thank all of you for welcoming me as the new Community Manager here at Infobright. I look forward to meeting, discussing and learning from each of you. Who am I? I am a proud father of two incredible daughters, Kaylah and Kyara. I am a software engineer/architect at heart; I truly love to build and learn new technologies. Building software and business applications has been a passion of mine for over 15 years. I also enjoy the outdoors, playing golf and I am an avid poker player.

In my professional life, I built a software company from the ground up and led a team of engineers and managers through a host of custom software projects for clients. I have worked with many different platforms and software needs across different industries, and look forward to bringing that experience to Infobright. As the new Community Manager, some of my key goals are to expand the reach of the community, foster greater interaction, represent the views of the community back to Infobright and to improve the user experience with our software, our website, our documentation and more. Through outreach, collaboration and an analytical approach combined with years of hands on-experience, I intend to achieve these results. I encourage you to please reach out to me and discuss your ideas and concepts that may benefit my process. I can be reached at craig dot trombly at infobright dot com.

One of our new technologies, DomainExpert, has begun to really catch on.  Besides the enhanced compression, DomainExpert improves overall query speed due to the reduction in decompression time.  Plus, it doesn't require any DDL changes.  This continually-improving technology will get further enhanced over time.  

To help show the simplicity of DomainExpert, take a look at this short video.  If you have any questions regarding DomainExpert, reach out on our forums.

Over the past 15 months, I proudly served as Infobright's open-source community manager.  In recent months, I began looking at other options to expand my experience within the organization; given a recent move, we now are looking for our next community manager.

While I will continue to blog, vlog, attend conferences, and speak, the position requires someone to ensure that our community members have a strong voice.  To that end, we are actively looking for an individual with strong database experience and business acumen.  For more specifics on the role (and to apply), check out our careers website: http://www.infobright.com/Careers/community_manager/.

Many have asked, "What does a community manager do?"  (I tend to get that question the most from my wife.)  Long story short, the community manager educates and assists its users with technical challenges and celebrates their successes.  As an example, the community manager will ensure all forum posts have proper responses.  Five minutes later, they will prepare their talk for the upcoming OSCON show.  Plus, the community manager heavily influences the Infobright Intern Program at the University of Illinois; the position serves as the program manager for the team.  

You, as our community manager, own our open-source analytics database.  From the website to the install procedure, you heavily influence how our users interact with Infobright.  Honestly, it's been the most fulfilling role I've ever had with any company.  The position hones your engineering, business, and leadership skills.  Plus, you work with an amazing group of people.  

Since you will help lead the intern program, the position requires you to be in Champaign, IL.  Our office is located within the University of Illinois' Research Park incubator facility EnterpriseWorks, recently awarded the Research Park of the Year Award as well as rated one of the top ten incubators.

If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to e-mail me.  You can reach me at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).