Carmel works at the Prodata SQL Centre of Excellence in Dublin, Ireland, where she is a data management specialist, with background in Business Intelligance and Business Analysis.

Over the past few years, Carmel has taken a keen interest in how the world of data is progressing, and what that can mean for us all, in terms of empowerment of every day decisions through data - from business, to personal life, good data is key.

As a committee member for, and speaker at, the SQL Server Ireland User Group, she has played an active roll in bringing 3 SQL Saturdays to Dublin, and is heavily involved in the SQL community across Europe.