Donald Miner

Dr. Donald Miner serves as a Solutions Architect at EMC Greenplum, advising and helping customers implement and use Greenplum's big data systems. Prior to working with Greenplum, Dr. Miner architected several large-scale and mission-critical Hadoop deployments in the U.S. Intelligence Community. He is the author of the book "MapReduce Design Patterns", a book on Hadoop that is published by O'Reilly. He is also involved in teaching, having previously instructed industry classes on Hadoop and taught a variety of artificial intelligence courses at the University of Maryland, BC. Dr. Miner received his PhD from the University of Maryland, BC in Computer Science, where he focused on Machine Learning and Multi-Agent Systems in his dissertation.