From “Keep it Running” to “Make it Valuable”: Why Your SQL Skills Aren’t Enough Anymore
April 10, 2026
You’ve spent a long time learning about tuning indexes, fighting deadlocks, and keeping the green lights on the physical systems and cloud deployments. You’ve got scripts that could shame half the Stack Overflow answers GPT hasn’t scraped. You know the difference between CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER without Googling. But here’s the kicker: your CIO doesn’t care
The Clock Is Running: Decision Latency
February 26, 2026
There is a metric hiding in plain sight inside every enterprise data organization, and in my experience, few organizations track it. It’s not a pipeline metric, not a data quality score, and it certainly does not show up on the standard dashboards. It’s the gap between the moment someone in your organization recognizes they need
Joining Straight Path Solutions as Chief Data Officer
October 10, 2025
Recently, I announced that after almost 20 years at Microsoft, I was moving to a new company and role. I’ve been in the Information Technology industry for over 40 years, and I believe that experience, combined with the various companies, organizations, and roles I have held, has led me to this place. Why Straight Path