Charles Bell conducts research in emerging technologies. He is a member of the Oracle MySQL Development team and is one of the principal developers for the MySQL Database Service (MDS) team supporting MySQL as a service in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. Dr. Bell is an expert in the database field and has extensive knowledge and experience in software development and systems engineering. His research interests include 3D printers, microcontrollers, database systems, cloud systems, software engineering, Internet of Things, and sensor networks. Dr. Bell lives in a small town in rural Virginia with his loving wife. He spends his limited free time as a practicing Maker, focusing on microcontroller projects and refinement of 3D printers.