Larry Grey

Larry Grey

 

President

Most PeopleSoft customers would recognize Larry as PeopleSoft's expert and visionary for Reporting and Business Intelligence. As the lead technologist for Reporting, Larry has had the opportunity to set the vision and direction of PeopleSoft's reporting, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing Strategy for the past 9 years. He has presented at countless conferences and user group meetings on the following:

Larry also has more than 6 years of high-impact consulting experience. His specialty was strategic implementation consulting for largest, most complex organizations. At PeopleSoft, Larry was responsible for making its most strategic customers successful: PeopleSoft's first, and largest Projects implementation, PeopleSoft's largest AP implementation, PeopleSoft's first Global implementation, and PeopleSoft's largest GL implementation. Many of the enhancements that Larry developed at customer sites were adopted by PeopleSoft development and released in later versions of the products.

Brian Sparling

Brian Sparling

 

VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Architect

During Brian's 18 year career in software, he has been involved in ground breaking projects in both Business Intelligence and Web-based business applications. For the past 5 years, Brian was a Senior Software Architect for NetSuite, the leading web-based software provider for small to medium-sized businesses. During his tenure, he architected and implemented a scalable real-time component-based reporting infrastructure as well as several modules including Payroll and NetSuite's initial CRM implementation.

While at PeopleSoft, Brian was the lead developer for the Reporting and Analysis team. In addition to driving the architecture of all of PeopleSoft's reporting and analysis offerings, Brian created and developed both the Open Query API driver (which is the primary extraction API into PeopleSoft data) and Cube Manager (which is the primary means of building OLAP cubes from PeopleSoft data). His work was crucial to PeopleSoft's Budgeting and EPM products.

Chris Heller

 

PeopleSoft Guru and Technology Evangelist

Most PeopleSoft customers would recognize Chris as PeopleSoft's technology expert and guru. During Chris's tenure at PeopleSoft, Chris has managed the PeopleTools strategy group, acted as PeopleSoft's technology architect and evangelist, and presented at countless conferences and user group meetings on all aspects of PeopleSoft's technology infrastructure, including:

Chris also has several years experience as PeopleSoft's premier technology product consultant in PeopleSoft International.

Jerry Platz

Jerry Platz

 

Chief Marketing Officer

Jerry Platz joins Grey Sparling after recently leaving his CTO position at Calpont Corporation, a hardware/dbms appliance company he co-founded in 2002. With more than 22 years experience in the database/data warehousing industries, Jerry has worked for both Oracle and PeopleSoft to build and market world-class DW/OLAP products, analytical applications and tools for both companies.

Jerry started the Oracle Industry Vertical groups, as well as, Oracle's first Data Warehouse Global Center of Excellence and Oracle’s BI&W Global Service Line. Later he became senior product director for the CRM Global Group and built several application data warehouse products. During a two year intermission from Oracle, Jerry joined PeopleSoft as product strategist and PeopleTools development manager for the Data Warehouse and OLAP Tools. Many will remember Jerry and Brian Sparling as the co-producers of Cube Manager.

Jerry's products/applications/tools include: