We are honored to have a star-studded panel of Celebrity Judges for our SQL Victory contest! Thank you to Mitch, Kendra, John, Noel and Tim for volunteering. Mitch was the winner of our SQLCruise Miami contest (see his winning video here), and Kendra, John, Noel and Tim will be your cruise mates in Alaska!
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Mitch Bottel Mitchell Bottel is a Senior Database Administrator and owner of Innovative IT Consulting, Inc. He has been in the IT world for 11 years and has worked mainly on SQL Server for the last 7 years. He is the previous winner of the Idera SQL Hero contest and set sail on SQLCruise Miami 2011. He is a database junkie, community volunteer, novice blogger (www.mitchespitch.com), Twitter addict and father of 2 beautiful girls. Keep your boys away! |
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Kendra Little Kendra Little is a technologist who has spent ten years nerding out on SQL Server. She focuses on large scale system design and improving performance in high-traffic database environments. She enjoys creating effective processes, designing automation, and rumor has it she's written documentation that people WANT to read. Kendra has a Masters in Philosophy and a salt shaker full of certifications, but all the best stuff she's learned lately has come from her smarty-pants colleagues and the SQL Server community. Read her blog and check out her free SQL Server posters at http://littlekendra.com. |
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John Robel John Robel is an IT Manager leading a team of developers responsible for the regions #1 on-line news network. John has past experience leading a team of database, network and systems Administrators for a security appliance company. John calls the Pacific Northwest home and likes to push his teams to find ways to leverage technology to solve business challenges. He encourages his team to work themselves out of a job: build the button for someone else; silence your pager with good work; once you’re done, teach others. |
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Noel McKinney Noel McKinney is a data professional currently serving as principal/consultant with The Constant Group in Chicago. As a corporate employee, he has worked in accounting, database administration, software development and technology management roles. Formerly a university instructor, Noel has advanced degrees in computer science and economics. |
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Tim Ford Tim Ford is one of the founders and trainers aboard the SQLCruise, as well as a Technology Professional with almost a dozen years of experience supporting SQL Server and convincing SQL Server instances to do what he wants them to do. He's an author, blogger, speaker, PASS volunteer and instigator of many things. He geeks out on Dynamic Management Objects, metadata mining of SQL instances, and incorporating playtime into learning (and anything else). He's been a Microsoft MVP since 2009 and blogs at http://thesqlagentman.com. He also owns the only Zune in Michigan.* *86% of all statistics are fictional |
