José Blakeley is Partner Architect in the Data Warehousing Product Unit of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft where he is building the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) DBMS product. José joined Microsoft in 1994. Some of his contributions at Microsoft include the development of the OLE DB data access interfaces, the integration of the .NET runtime with SQL Server 2005, the extensibility features in SQL Server, and the creation of the ADO.NET Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2008. José has authored many conference papers, book chapters and journal articles on design aspects of relational and object database management systems, and data access. Jose has 20 patents awarded and 22 patents pending. José became an ACM Fellow in 2009. Before joining Microsoft, José was a member of the technical staff with Texas Instruments where he was co-principal investigator of the DARPA Open-OODB system. He received a B. Eng from ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Waterloo, Canada.