Ricardo Picone is an IBM Advisory IT Specialist in Brazil since 2005. He has expertise with business intelligence architecture and reporting projects. He currently supports a project that provides budget sharing information for the IBM sales teams across the world. His areas of expertise include SQL, ETL jobs, IBM DB2 database, data modeling, and IBM Cognos dashboard/scorecards development. Ricardo is an IBM Certified Business Intelligence Solutions professional and is helping the Brazilian Center of Competence for Business Intelligence (COC-BI) in areas such as IBM Cognos technical support and education. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Universidade Paulista, Brazil.