• Azure - SQL Saturday - SQLServer

    PASS Summit: Journey to Management with Chris Yates

    Along with presenting the keynote at SQL Saturday Oregon this weekend, I will be taking the SQL Train up to PASS Summit for the next week’s conference.  I will be on the WIT panel, as well as presenting with Chris Yates in a Professional Power Hour: Journey to Management on how to transition from a technical role to management.  As much as I enjoy the technical aspect of my career, it was a careful navigation for me to ensure that my neurodiverse self was fulfilled as I moved up the ladder to my current Director position at Silk. If you’re…

  • DBA Life - Oracle

    HotSos Symposium and IOUG Collaborate 2016

    I fly out on Sunday for HotSos and am looking forward to giving a joint keynote with Jeff Smith, as well as giving two brand new sessions on Enterprise Manager New Features.  IOUG’s Collaborate is just a month afterwards, so the spring conference chaos is officially under way. With running the RMOUG conference, Feb. 9th-11th, I think you can imagine what my response was like when I realized how much content I had to produce for HotSos’ two sessions and then another four for Collaborate, plus a Hands on Lab. As focused as I’ve been on day job demands for…