Upcoming speaking engagements (as of 8/30/2021) #ProfessionalDevelopment #TechCon21 #PASSDataCommunitySummit #DataSaturday #SQLSaturday #Networking #SQLFamily

Now that I have a couple of confirmed speaking engagements, I figured that this was a good time to update my upcoming speaking schedule! Confirmed These engagements are confirmed. I don't have exact dates or times for either of these (and I might not for a little while); all I know is that these events …

Getting my music heard

As some of you may know, when I'm not coming up with ideas for professional development 'blogs, I'm a musician on the side. I'm a classically-trained pianist, and I also play the clarinet, saxophone, and mallet percussion instruments as well. I perform in a large symphonic concert band, I accompany a local church choir, I …

Never assume it’s obvious

When I was in college, I remember a professor who seemed fond of saying "it's intuitively obvious." I don't remember a lot from that professor (other than that he was a good professor and a good man), but I vaguely remember my classmates making fun of that line, partially because he used it often, and …

#PASSDataCommunitySummit — I’m speaking! #PASSSummit #SQLSaturday #DataSaturday #SQLFamily

And now that it's been made public, I can announce this! (I've actually known about it for a week, but haven't been allowed to announce it until now!) I have been selected to speak at PASS Data Community Summit! For those who've been following along, PASS Data Community Summit is the successor to PASS Summit, …

You don’t have to be in a management position to be a leader

For years, I used to think that in order for me to become a leader, I would need to land a management position of some type. Indeed, for a long time, our culture taught us that you needed to obtain some kind of leadership or management position in order to be a leader. So I …

Upcoming speaking engagements (as of 8/6/2021) #DataGeeksSaturday #ProfessionalDevelopment #DataSaturday #SQLSaturday #TechCon21

I figured this was a good time to post an update of my upcoming speaking engagements... Confirmed I will definitely be speaking at the following events. Saturday, August 7 (tomorrow)!: Data Geeks Saturday (virtual) -- I will do my presentation on networking! And as an added bonus, the South Florida Data Geeks will also have …

Rocket Companies TechCon ’21 — I’m speaking!

The speaking gig train keeps rolling! I received an email this evening saying that I have been selected to speak at Rocket Companies (formerly Quicken Loans) Tech Con '21! This is a virtual conference scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, October 20 and 21! I will be doing my "original" (as in the one that started …

August CASSUG Monthly Meeting #Networking @CASSUG_Albany

Our August meeting will again be online. NOTE: you MUST RSVP to this Meetup at https://www.meetup.com/Capital-Area-SQL-Server-User-Group/events/279920893/ to view the Zoom URL! Our August speaker is our own Ed Pollack! Topic: Predict Application Problems with Database Metrics There are many database metrics that can be collected to help us understand database, server, and application performance. This data …

It’s not them, it’s you #Documentation #ClearCommunication

A friend of mine (you know who you are) posted this to his Facebook this morning. Ostensibly, it's in response to the growing controversy about the New York State governor (I won't go there; that's not what this is about, and I still despise politics), but my friend's post was so compelling that I thought …

Reminder: I’m speaking this Saturday, August 7 #DGS2021 #SqlSatSoFLa #Networking #softskills #relationships #professionaldevelopment #DataDriven #SouthFlorida #learning

Wow, is it August already? I'm speaking this Saturday, August 7, at Data Geeks Saturday! I will be doing my Networking 101 presentation at 11:45 am (EDT) in the Flux Capacitor room. Come and get 1.21 gigawatts of networking information! (See what I did there?) And if that wasn't enough, as an added bonus, the …