Craig Purnell, Principal Consultant

Craig Purnell is a SQL Server Consultant and Founder of Purnell DataWorks LLC.

Craig has spent his entire career since 1999 working with Database technologies and mission critical back office Enterprise applications. He has helped guide many organizations from legacy hardware and software platforms to Microsoft SQL Server. His diverse industry experience includes healthcare, insurance, legal, manufacturing, and transportation.

Craig has been working with Microsoft SQL Server for almost 20 years. Prior to that he worked with mission critical databases running on the UniVerse multi-value database platform in the transportation industry.

For much of his career, Craig has been a passionate supporter of grassroots technical user groups & organizations. He was a founding member of the Ohio North SQL Server User Group in 2005. He has participated in and helped to organize numerous SQL Saturday training events. Craig served on the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Program Committee for six years, and the last four years leading teams screen and prepare content for the annual Summit convention. He is a frequent presenter at SQL Saturday.  Since 2016, Craig has served on the Board of Directors of the Akron Association of Information Technology Professionals, and has led the organization as President since 2018.