Public speaking started out as a hobby, taking me places I wouldn’t normally visit. I’ve seen quite a number of really cool, mostly European, cities these days. It has also helped me communicate better, stare at my shoes less.
I love Sessionize, it makes submitting for events so easy. It’s where I keep the abstracts for my current sessions. And my bio and such:
I’m a SQL Server consultant based in the Netherlands. I’m a SQL Server MVP and I’m the co-founder and current chairman of the Dutch PASS Chapter and a member of the volunteer team for the Dutch SQL Saturday’s. I’ve done a whole lot of pure DBA work managing 100′s of servers and learning something new every day.
These days I spend a lot of time on just a few servers containing some large databases and the better part of the day is spent with SSIS. In both roles I’ve been using Powershell a lot. I joke sometimes that I replaced myself with a powershell script when leaving the DBA role, but these days I automate so much that I have to watch myself and not actually do just that