Mark Brummel

Mark Brummel is an all-round Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialist. He started in 1997 as an end user but quickly moved to the other side of the table. For ten years he has worked for resellers, specializing in designing and maintaining add-on systems. Some of these add-on systems exceed the standard product in size and complexity. Also coaching colleagues and troubleshooting 'impossible' problems are a passion and part of his day-to-day work. Mark has trained most of the experienced NAV developers for the NAV 2009 product in The Netherlands and Belgium and he has been hired by almost every NAV reseller in the Benelux. Mark works as a freelancer. His main focus area is helping out end users in implementations all over the world. Mark was the first worldwide to use the NAV 2009 (CTP3) product in a production system, feeding back valuable information to Microsoft. Today he is still involved in projects to provide input for future versions and test new CTP releases. A special project has been performance tuning of the Dynamics NAV product on SQL Server. From 2007 to 2009 he was involved in the development of the 'SQL Perform Tools' as business partner of SQL Perform Benelux. As a unique specialist he has done break-through research in improving the performance of Dynamics NAV on SQL Server. When time is left, Mark maintains his blog on www.brummelds.com. This blog contains a wide range of articles about both the Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Server products. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and writer for independent Dynamics NAV websites and user groups. In 2006 Mark was rewarded by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional award for his contribution to the online and offline communities. In 2007 and 2009 he reviewed Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.