Communicating to Get What You Want

Paul is the CEO of SQLskills.com, a Microsoft Regional Director and a SQL Server MVP. He worked on the SQL Server Storage Engine team at Microsoft from 1999 to 2007. Among other things, he wrote DBCC CHECKDB/repair for SQL Server 2005 and was responsible for the Core Storage Engine during SQL Server 2008 development. Since leaving Microsoft, Paul has been a full-time consultant and trainer on SQL Server around the world, including authoring and teaching the prestigious Microsoft Certified Mast... moreer certifications on SQL Server and SharePoint for Microsoft. He regularly presents at conferences such as SQL PASS, SQLIntersection, and TechEd, and has written or contributed to numerous white papers and books on SQL Server. He also writes regular columns and articles for SQL Server Pro magazine and TechNet Magazine, and is a Contributing Editor of both. He blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/paul, and you can find him on Twitter at @PaulRandal. When he's away from work, his main passion is scuba diving with his wife, fellow SQL expert Kimberly Tripp, and their two daughters.

Jason Alba has been a Pluralsight Author since 2012, specializing in soft skills and professional development. He started his IT career as an intern developing tools for a robust intranet. He transitioned to an IT manager at another company where his job included web development as well as other IT functions. After an acquisition Jason became VP and then general manager at a newly formed tech company. He founded and manages JibberJobber.com, a CRM for job seekers. Jason has authored three books.... more He speaks and blogs regularly about soft skills, professional development, and career management. He has a CIS undergraduate and an MBA from Idaho State University.

Audacious Leap, the digital marketing agency I founded has created and run hundreds of projects in dozens of industries ranging from notebook manufacturers in Australia, to bikes in Dublin Ireland, iOS apps and lawyers in Canada, real estate & stationery in the US, tennis supplements in France and business consulting in the Netherlands, I decided to share my experience from both successful and not-so-successful campaigns in the form of a series of marketing courses. All my courses are based on e... morexperience in the real world and are not read from a book. You will get in minutes the essence of 10+ years of online marketing experience.

Jan-Erik Sandberg is an international author and a requested speaker and has coached agile teams since 2001, being a veteran coder. Sandberg is currently CTO at Blue Robot, the world’s first cloud based Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS). Jan-Erik has worked as a leader for a wide range of teams, from small DevOps all the way up to being part of senior management of an internationally listed company represented in 20 countries. His/her main expertise is large scale internationally dis... moretributed teams. Jan-Erik is the founder of the premier community organization for blockchain development, BlockchainRebels.com, started Norway's first community-based group on Agile in 2001 and is known as an active participant in the Microsoft Developer Community, both locally and internationally as an MVP for 5 years.