Dave Tangren is the Business Intelligence Practice Director at Northridge. Dave oversees and coordinates projects, pre-sales, customer relations, and best practices for business intelligence and collaboration solutions based on the Microsoft platform. Mr. Tangren has extensive experience in building business intelligence solutions for large and small companies around the United States, and is leveraging this experience at Northridge to bring the Microsoft business intelligence product suite to the Georgia market.
Dave's business intelligence background includes work for companies such as Coca Cola, MBNA, the Army/Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) and the US Navy. Prior to the emergence of Microsoft Analysis Services and the MS Business Intelligence suite, Dave designed and built BI solutions for the Oracle Express OLAP product suite. Dave also spent a stint as an web/application developer in MS .NET and SQL Server for an Atlanta firm, Transport4.
Mr. Tangren has a bachelor's degree in General Business from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he graduated with honors Summa cum Laude. Dave started his consulting career as a temp working for First Tennessee Bank in college, where he built a database for First Tennessee Bank's Estate division. Ever since, he has leveraged his business knowledge and technical experience gained on-the-job to develop soup-to-nuts BI applications that closely fit the needs of his clients.