Kimberly L. Tripp
SQLskills.com

Kimberly L. Tripp is a SQL Server MVP and a Microsoft Regional Director and has worked with computers since 1985. Her career with database technologies began when she first worked (as an intern) at IBM in 1988 (starting the DataEase and then moving to FoxBase). In 1990, Kimberly was introduced to Microsoft SQL Server™ while working for a small consulting and training firm in Chicago called LAN/mind. Becoming an MCP and an MCT in 1991, Kimberly decided that training was her primary passion and pursued a career at Microsoft. Working for Microsoft University in 1992 and 1993, Kimberly delivered training all over the United States – with focus on SQL Server, LanManager, and Windows. But, when Microsoft University stopped delivering training directly to customers, Kimberly joined the SQL Server Development Team. Kimberly held positions at Microsoft including Subject Matter Expert/Trainer for Microsoft University and Technical Writer for the SQL Server Development Team. After working with a truly great team, Kimberly decided to leave Microsoft to pursue her passion for teaching and to allow her to work with customers and “in-the-trenches” problems.

Since 1995, Kimberly has worked as a Speaker, Writer, Trainer and Consultant for her own company SYSolutions, Inc. (aka SQLskills.com). Forming SYSolutions and then SQLskills, Kimberly has enjoyed the ability to work on different types of projects – from speaking to writing to presenting. In terms of some of these projects, Kimberly is a writer/editor for SQL Server Magazine; was a founding writer for T-SQL Solutions magazine; was a technical contributor for the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit; co-authored the MSPress title SQL Server 2000 High Availability; authored multiple whitepapers on SQL Server 2005; and has authored/co-authored numerous resources for SQL Server 2008 including the “New Features for Database Infrastructure and Scalability in SQL Server 2008 course” as well as the hands-on lab VPC that’s used for this course. In presenting, Kimberly has presented lectures and seminars at Microsoft Tech*Ed, SQLConnections, SQLPass, and other SQL Server-related events since 1996 and is consistently top-rated both on quality of technical content and presentation style. In consulting, Kimberly helps customers tackle their availability and performance issues as well as design and architect appropriate solutions. Finally, Kimberly frequently works with Microsoft to provide new and interesting technical resources, whitepapers, hands-on labs and training content for SQL Server.

Currently, Kimberly is focused on SQL Server 2008 content for conferences and workshops around the world. Additionally, Kimberly worked as a co-author/editor on two titles. As a co-author, Kimberly put together the Index Internals chapter for SQL Server 2008 Internals. As a co-author and editor, Kimberly helped to put together SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, which is a collection of best practices from MVPs around the world – in one title – which is all for charity. All proceeds from this title go to help feed underprivileged children.

For technical information and resources, check out Kimberly’s popular blog at: http://www.SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly To contact Kimberly, email Kimberly@SQLskills.com.

Awards and Conference Highlights

Kimberly named a Microsoft Regional Director for the 2004-2006 and 2006-2008 RD Timeframes
Being an RD is really an exciting way of staying current on various technologies and creating a great world-wide team. RD's are not Microsoft employees - they're independant speakers, writers, consultants and trainers who are immersed in .NET-related technologies. There are 140 RDs worldwide and you can get information about all of the RDs and how the RD program works from the primary Microsoft RD site.

Kimberly named a Microsoft SQL Server MVP - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
The Microsoft MVP program is an another exciting program in which Kimberly is a member. Being an MVP because of my support in the community through my website and Q&A makes Kimberly want to continue to post helpful tips and tricks and answers to your questions. To see more about the MVP program check out http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/.

Kimberly co-chairs the SQL Connections conferences - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
First, co-chairing SQLConnections with Brian Moran and now co-chairing with Paul Randal (since 2007), we get to hand-select our favorite presenters and topics to create a unique and focused show.

Kimberly chairs the VSLive/SQLLive conference - 2004, 2005
When VSLive still had a track focused on SQL, I put together some great tracks and had a lot of fun with the team.

From the PASS Community Summit - Seattle, Washington - November 2003
Kimberly's "General Database Optimizations" session was selected as the overall best session of the PASS Seattle 2003 conference.

From Microsoft Tech Ed Europe - Barcelona, Spain - July 2003
Kimberly's was awarded as a Top 3 Speaker as the top SQL Server session speaker and the second highest rated conference speaker.

From Microsoft Tech Ed US - Dallas, Texas - June 2003
Kimberly's "Preserving SQL Server 2000 Performance Through Index Maintenance" was selected as the top conference sesssion out of 380 sessions! In fact, all five of Kimberly's sessions placed in the top 12. SQLskills (and Kimberly!) had a great time at Tech Ed in Dallas.

From the PASS Community Summit - Seattle, Washington - November 2002
Kimberly's "Disaster Recovery with Backup and Restore" was the top rated workshop at the PASS Community Summit.

From the PASS Community Summit - Denver, Colorado - January 2002
Kimberly's "Indexes from Every Angle" conference session was selected as the overall best session of the PASS Community Summit.