Pierre J. Dufour

Pierre is responsible for designing and building SynDevRx’s data warehouse and data mining solutions. He brings 30 years of accomplishment and invention in the areas of data management, data warehouse design and implementation, and advanced data analytics.

After earning a B.S. in computer science from MIT, Pierre was one of the early employees at Oracle and worked with the database development team as a development manager. Over a 17-year period, he invented or co-invented numerous technologies that proved of enormous benefit to Oracle’s clients, including the PL/SQL language and parts of the JDBC specification. He also invented and built foundational technologies for Oracle’s eBusiness suite that enabled the development of robust eCommerce applications and avoided the necessity of rewriting millions of lines of code. In addition, he led multiple teams that have designed and built the industry standards for database-tier programming and in supporting highly scalable web servers (e.g. Amazon.com), which must handle tens of thousands of concurrent transactions.

Over his career, Pierre has designed and built data analytics solutions on a wide variety of topics, including bioinformatics and genomics, and corporate client analysis (using cluster analysis and neural networks, etc.). His research has included genetic algorithms and web scraping of social media. In 2016, he completed a master’s in business data analytics from Bentley University.