Did You Jump on the Hadoop Bandwagon? Did You Do it for the Right Reasons? I recently saw a statistic that only 15% of Hadoop projects are in production. So that would mean that 85% of the Hadoop projects are not yet in production, right? Hmmm…could that be because Hadoop is not the right choice for […]
I have put this list together a couple times over the years. This one is adapted from one I did for a client several years ago. This particular client had a lot of .NET programmers who had been pressed into double duty as database programmers. I have seen these types of things in many […]
Starting in September of 2006 and for about one year I took a hiatus from my career as a Data Warehouse focused Data Architect, Data Modeler and ETL Architect. As I prepared to re-enter the market as an BI consultant I started reading articles about all things IT especially database and BI related. I was reading an article […]
It”s been another year and as I look back my major excuse for not posting is that I don”t feel like I know how to make pretty posts in a timely manner. My story: I don”t have enough experience with WordPress. I”m giving that up and will be writing and publishing posts and will get better […]
I have not updated this blog in quite a while so I thought I would post a quick status. I am back Denver consulting at Comcast, via Apex Systems and working with a amazing group of people. The current area of interest that excites me the most is Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) and more specifically […]
I was recently asked to write a few sentences about myself for submission with my CV to a potential client it seems appropriate to repost that info here: I love technology and I love working with people. My entire career has been driven by the desire to have technology make peoples lives better, technology should […]