As you can tell, I have switched to a new WordPress theme for this blog site. I have now been blogging for ten years! It seemed like a good time to finally make a change 
Speaking of which, I have also changed jobs. After seven years at Microsoft, I have moved to EY as a Data Platform Architecture Lead, where I am a Director in the Client Technology Group. Microsoft was BY FAR the best company I have ever worked for. As evidence, the longest I have ever stayed at a company before Microsoft was for four years at one of my first jobs back in the 80’s. The reasons I joined Microsoft still ring true, which I blogged about here: Why I just became a Microsoft Employee.
I met many great people at Microsoft and I will continue those relationships while at EY as I will remain immersed in Microsoft technology. Crazy that I have been using Microsoft technologies now for 35 years. I still remember using SQL Server 1.0 in 1989 on OS/2!
I will continue to blog on Microsoft technologies, present at conferences, post presentation decks, and do a video or two in the future.
EY is a great new opportunity in which I will stretch my skillset, and I am really looking forward to it. What spurred me on to make this major career change are the traits that I have leaned on many times in my career: having a growth mindset, taking risks, and the saying “Take a leap: Extend beyond what you think you are capable of”.
On to a new adventure!
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