Garrett Lai has been a data warehouse engineer at Empirical Education for over 15 years during which time he has been involved in design and building of the company’s warehouse technologies. Previously he held the position of software engineer with Computer Curriculum Corporation for 8 years where he designed, implemented and maintained a heterogeneous data collection system that contained data on over 250 schools and 130,000 students over multiple years. He has a MS from San Francisco State University.