Sonya Fournier

Sonya started her Cognos career in 2002 as a Cognos trainer, primarily teaching Impromptu and PowerPlay (that's how long ago it was). She worked for Cognos Corp in Boston. Since that time, she's worked for various Cognos/IBM partners in Canada and the USA and has followed Cognos as it moved from desktop tools to full web solutions. She is a senior consultant, helping our customers with everything from server installation, metadata modeling, report and dashboard development, administration, and self-service implementation. She also manages our training practice where she helps our customers find the best solution for educating their users and their entire Cognos team.

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Sonya FournierNovember 11, 2019Sonya Fournier

Chris Chapman

Chris has worked with Cognos for 8 years. During that time, he has helped clients design and implement Cognos by pushing them to think outside their typical thought processes. When not working to help clients, he's usually wrangling his two kids and hoping the Chicago Bulls get some help this season.

Chris ChapmanNovember 11, 2019Chris Chapman

Danny Gargus

Danny has about 20 years of experience in the BI/DW workspace and is a Senior Consultant at PMsquare. He has worked in numerous areas of business analytics projects including installation, metadata modeling, design, etl, report generation, security and training. He currently lives in the Orlando FL area with his wife. In his spare time, he likes to golf, travel, and play dodge the hurricane.

Danny GargusOctober 4, 2019Danny Gargus

Dan Swan

Dan builds budget and forecast models for a wide-ranging set of companies from medical device makers to garbage collection companies – all in need of sophisticated solutions to plan for an ever-changing future. If not building and maintaining planning engines, he can be found in or under an old car that when driven, will provide excitement even if just going to Trader Joe’s.

Dan SwanOctober 4, 2019Dan Swan

Paul Mendelson

Paul runs the occasionally updated CognosPaul blog. While not updating his blog, he focuses most of his time on finding new and interesting ways of breaking Cognos and causing as much grief for IBM Support as possible. His other hobbies include Taekwondo, in which he holds a black belt, and ballroom dance.

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Paul MendelsonOctober 2, 2019Paul Mendelson

Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn is an authority on digital marketing and marketing technology. A recognized thought leader, author, and speaker, he has shaped four key fields in the marketing industry: Google Analytics adoption, data-driven marketing, modern email marketing, and artificial intelligence/machine learning in marketing.

As Chief Data Scientist of PMsquare partner Trust Insights, he is responsible for the creation of products and services, technology and marketing strategy, brand awareness, and research & development.

Mr. Penn is an IBM Champion in Watson Analytics, co-founder of the groundbreaking PodCamp Conference, and co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee marketing podcast. Prior to cofounding Trust Insights, he built the marketing for a series of startups with a 100% successful exit rate in the financial services, SaaS software, and public relations industries.

Mr. Penn is a Google Analytics Certified Professional, a Google AdWords Certified Professional, a Google Digital Sales Certified Professional, and a Hubspot Inbound Certified Professional. He is the author of over two dozen marketing books including bestsellers such as AI for Marketers: A Primer and Introduction, Marketing White Belt: Basics for the Digital Marketer, Marketing Red Belt: Connecting With Your Creative Mind, and Marketing Blue Belt: From Data Zero to Marketing Hero, and Leading Innovation.

Christopher S. PennSeptember 30, 2019Christopher Penn

Ryan Dolley

Ryan Dolley hails from a long and storied line of Cognos developers. No seriously, his father worked at Cognos/IBM for many years before Ryan took up the mantle of the family business. Having put in his time as a report developer and Transformer master, he now advises clients on how to maximize their investment in IBM analytics technologies. In 2020 he was renamed as an IBM Champion. He is currently the Director of Technolgy at PMsquare.

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Ryan DolleySeptember 13, 2019Ryan Dolley

Mike DeGeus

Mike has been helping organizations uncover insights in their data for about 17 years. He is a partner, Services Director, and Solutions Architect at PMsquare, and also vies with a few others in the company for the title of “nerd who loves basketball the most”. When not visiting client sites or the PMsquare HQ, he soaks in the sun in Phoenix, AZ (yes, it’s a dry heat) with his wife and daughters.

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Mike DeGeusSeptember 3, 2019Mike DeGeus