It’s been a crazy 2025 where I focused on depth over noise, sharing insights on long-term experience and real-world problems. After digging into the post, I ended up breaking this up into two posts to give proper credit to all that happened in 2025. You’re also going to find that rather than chasing shiny AI trends, my work this year centered on helping technologists navigate AI complexity with clarity, especially when data protection was concerned. I did keynotes, technical conferences, published writing, and performed community engagement and all the while the central thread was focused on practical impact: work that…
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2024 was a pretty busy year for me. It was one marked with change as I shifted the beginning of the year into my role at Silk as Director of Data and AI. We began focusing heavily on my abilities to navigate the technology landscape and identify what was required as a company at Silk to make the most of it. As I had time, I was heavily involved at DZone writing content on a slew of topics, which I really enjoyed. I think the biggest surprise was that you realize with a small pivot, tech is often handled the…
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How was 2016 for me? It was a surprisingly busy year- blogging, speaking, working and doing. I posted just under 100 posts to my blog this year. After I changed jobs, the “3 per week” quickly declined to “4 per month” after I was inundated with new challenges and the Delphix learning curve. That will change for 2017, along with some new initiatives that are in the works, so stay tuned. For 2016, the most popular posts and pages for my website followed a similar trend from the last year. My emulator for RPI is still a popular item and…
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As many bloggers and sites do this time of the year, here is my review of 2014. It was a great year and it was a lot of fun, as well as educational reviewing all the data. DBAKevlar Blog Busiest Day on my Blog: Posts this year: Most popular post of 2014: Easy EM12c Agent Deployment on Windows Windows installations are still a huge mystery and Cygwin still frustrates a lot of people, sometimes, me included. This post describing the easiest deployment method has continued to be my most popular post. I admit that I’m not too thrilled that it…