The Master Blog
Thoughts, info, and updates from the Microsoft Certified Master team.
Introducing our latest MCSM: Data Platform Master - Stuart Miller
Stuart Miller is a 28 year old Database Administrator working at Blood Systems, Inc. Previously, he...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 01/16/2014
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Ellon B. Peterkin
Ellon has over 14 years of hands-on professional experience with SQL Server in multiple roles...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 01/11/2014
Introducing our latest Microsoft Certified Solution Master: SharePoint-Ivan Vagunin
Ivan is a Solution Architect in Knowit Oy focusing on SharePoint and related Microsoft technologies....
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 01/09/2014
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Menzo Steinhorst
Since February 2008 Menzo works as Senior Premier Field Engineer Data Platform for Microsoft...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 01/07/2014
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Amit R S Bansal
Amit R S Bansal is a Technical Director at eDominer Systems & Peopleware India. He leads the SQL...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 01/06/2014
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Ajay Jadoo
Ajay currently works as Senior SQL DBA in London, at Morgan Stanley, one of the leading Investment...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 01/06/2014
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Paul Anderton
Paul currently works as a DBA for DWF LLP in Manchester, one of the Largest Law Firms in the UK. He...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 01/06/2014
Introducing our latest MCSM: Data Platform Master - Andreas Wolter
Andreas Wolter is a Database Architect for SQL Server with more than 12 years of experience and an...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 01/06/2014
Introducing our latest Microsoft Certified Solution Master: Messaging - Aaron Busch
Aaron Busch is the Data Center Practice Manager for ENETsolutions, an IT consulting firm in Houston,...
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 12/30/2013
Introducing our latest MCSM: Data Platform Master - Xiaoheng Henry Ji
Henry is a Senior BI Developer with more than 12 years extensive experience in multiple Microsoft...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Emma Zambonini
Emma currently works as a DBA for Coeo providing expert Remote Database Administration to customers...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Hamid Jabarpour Fard
In the mid 2000's,Hamid Jabarpour Fard learned to program in visual basic 6.0 on a personal...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Brian Carrig
Brian currently works as a Senior Database Administrator at leading ecommerce cloud solutions...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Daniel Maxic
Daniel is a 26 years old DB engineer, and student by night. He specializes in databases internals,...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/30/2013
Introducing our latest SharePoint Microsoft Certified Solutions Master - Martin Bacik
Martin is skilled professional focusing on SharePoint Architecture and Development. He is Consultant...
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 12/26/2013
Introducing our latest SharePoint Microsoft Certified Solutions Master - Arthur Neufeld
Arthur is one of the first SharePoint Masters who passed the MCSM program based on SharePoint 2013...
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 12/23/2013
Introducing our latest SharePoint Microsoft Certified Solutions Master - Alexey Glazirin
Alexey is an experienced SharePoint Developer and Architect, who is living and working in...
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 12/23/2013
Introducing our latest SharePoint Microsoft Certified Solutions Master - Hannes Gfrerer
Hannes is a Principal IT Engineer at Lam Research, where he architects and implements end-to-end...
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 12/23/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Mark Broadbent
Mark is a passionate SQL community member and is currently serving as a PASS UK Regional Mentor, is...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/19/2013
Introducing our latest MCSM: Data Platform Master - Louis Li
Louis is independent IT consultant, Microsoft Certified Solution Master and Microsoft Certified...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/18/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Edwin Sarmiento
Edwin Sarmiento is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP from Ottawa, Canada specializing in high availability,...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/18/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Geoff Clark
Geoff has worked with SQL Server since 1991, he was the technical architect for one of the earliest...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/18/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - IJeb Reitsma
IJeb Reitsma is working as a Software Engineer/consultant for Prodware in The Netherlands. He has...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/10/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Mattias Lundell
36 year old guy from Sweden, working with SQL Server since 1998 starting from version SQL Server...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/06/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Ian Allchin
Ian Allchin is a Freelance SQL Server Specialist based in London, United Kingdom. In addition...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 12/05/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Chad Crawford
Chad has been working with database engines for 15 years, the last 13 focused specifically on SQL...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 11/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Ricardo Leka Roveri
Ricardo is a Sr. Database Administrator at ITGroup on São Paulo / Brasil, with 13 years...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 11/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Ryan Rinehart
Ryan has worked as an IT Professional since 2000, beginning as a Windows Systems Administrator. In...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 11/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Pekka Korhonen
Pekka is a Consultant and Partner at Sovelto. He is co-founder of Sovelto which is a Microsoft...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 11/30/2013
Introducing our latest MCSM: SharePoint Master- Marian Mihaiu
Marian has over 20 years experience working with a majority of the Microsoft products, from both...
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 11/19/2013
Introducing our latest MCSM: SharePoint Master- Dima Chernov
Dmitry is a Premier Field Engineer working at Microsoft. He is based in Moscow, Russia.
Author: Cindy McCormack Date: 11/11/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Jen McCown
Jennifer McCown is a SQL Server Microsoft Certified Master, consultant, and DBA. She owns...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 11/07/2013
Introducing our latest MCSM: Data Platform Master - Vesa Tikkanen
Vesa works with large Dynamics AX and Microsoft BI environments and helps customers to get...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 11/07/2013
Introducing our latest MCSM :Data Platform Master- Rob Nicholson
Rob is Senior Database Administrator who has worked in private industry and for a number of large...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/31/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Stephen Archbold
Stephen is a SQL Server Consultant at Prodata Business Systems, with over 6 yearsexperience working...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/31/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Keith Tate
Keith Tate is a Senior Database administrator who has been a data professional for the last 14...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/31/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - David Peter Hansen
David is a Senior Manager at Hitachi Consulting. He has worked with database development and...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/31/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - David Barbarin
David works with SQL Server since the version 7 as developer and then as database administrator....
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/31/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Randy Knight
Randy Knight, MCITP, is an IT professional who has worked with Microsoft technologyfor over 20...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/31/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Guillaume Fourrat
Guillaume was lucky enough to start with SQL Server for his first position at Microsoft,and never...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/31/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Paul Ou Yang
Paul is a Senior Database Administrator at Micron Technology Inc. where he started his career 13...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/01/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - James Boother
James has had a passion for computers since a young age when his parents bought him his beloved...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 10/01/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Rick Lowe
Rick has been working with SQL Server since somewhere around the year 2000 when he was thrown into...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 09/30/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Ronald (RJ) Book
RJ Book manages a team of DBAs for Wonderbox Technologies, an Application Service Provider serving...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 09/27/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Stanley Roos
Stanley is an independent Database and BI consultant. He began working with SQL Serverin 1994, and...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 09/26/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - David Pless
David Pless is a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft focusing on performance and...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 09/25/2013
Introducing our latest SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master - Warwick Rudd
Warwick has been working with SQL Server for a little over 15 years first starting with SQL Server...
Author: boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor Date: 09/23/2013