Dave Jarvis

Victoria, Canada

whitemagicsoftware.com

Age: 39

http://whitemagicsoftware.com

Read my technical manual Indispensable, which covers Business Intelligence with JasperReports and R:

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/books/indispensable

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