Collaborate Disseminate
Each year since 2011, Microsoft has sent me a lovely email around this time:
I’ve been fortunate enough to find a passion in life that has allowed me to do what I love and make a great living out of it all whilst contributing to the community in
11 years now, wow 😲 It’s actually 11 and a bit because it was April Fool’s Day in 2011 that my first MVP award came through. At the time, I referred to myself as “The Accidental MVP” as I’d no expectation of
While it’s great to be experienced and have a ton of specialist knowledge needed to solve a problem, there’s something liberating about coming at things from a position of ignorance. …read more Continue reading Minimum Viable Quad Build Shows What Starting from Nothing Can Accomplish
A little over a decade ago now, I awoke from a long haul flight to find an email I never expected to see: my first Microsoft MVP award. I earned the award by doing something many people couldn’t understand, namely devoting a bunch of my time to creating
Last week, I received my 10th Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award. Being recognised as an MVP was a pivotal moment in my career and to continue receiving the award all these years later is an honour. Particularly given recent events that have made it exceptionally difficult to sustain community contributions
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The photo up the top of this blog post was taken 259 days ago, 15 and a half thousand kilometres away in Budapest and with 1.3 billion records less in Have I Been Pwned. It was also taken in an environment that unbeknownst to all of us at the
Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2020 is not taking place in the Seattle area this year due to the…
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I’ve become especially reflective of my career this year, especially as Project Svalbard marches forward and I look back on what it’s taken to get here. Especially as I have more discussions around the various turning points in my professional life, there’s one that stands out above most others: my
Back in 2011, Microsoft gave me the rather awesome (IMHO) Most Valuable Professional Award for the first time. This is Microsoft’s award for community leadership within a technology discipline which for me at the time, was developer security. I’m confident that award came largely due to the work I did…
I received a very nice email this week:
Congratulations, your nomination has been accepted to the Microsoft Regional Director program! I am pleased to welcome you back to this worldwide community of technology thought leaders and thank you for being a part of this community.
Just over 2 years ago,…