Days like this don’t come around very often for us here at SQLskills.com – we’re expanding again! It’s been seven months since Jonathan Kehayias came on board and we’ve had a huge amount of fun together. Now business has expanded to the point where we need to grow again so it’s time to hire the next member of our close-knit, expert team.
Specifically, we’ve asked Joseph Sack to join us and we’re extremely pleased that he accepted our offer. He’ll become employee #4 when he starts with us on Monday, October 3rd.
Joe has worked in the SQL Server space since 1997, and we first met him back in 2006 when he was a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft and he was in one of the early SQL Server 2005 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) rotations – which he passed! He then went on to get the SQL 2008 MCM certification and finally took over responsibility for the whole SQL Server MCM program within Microsoft from 2009 to 2011.
It was while Joe was running the SQL MCM program that we got to know Joe really well and gain an appreciation for his extensive SQL Server knowledge and enterprise consulting expertise, as well as his passion for developing content and helping people learn – whether as a consultant or as a teacher.
In fact we respect Joe so much that recently we asked if he’d like to get back into the wild and varied consulting life by leaving Microsoft to join us. We feel honored that he agreed. He brings a wealth of performance troubleshooting, development, scalability and architecture expertise to the team and maintains the high bar we have of all team members either having MCM certification or being MCM instructors (or both!).
With our increased full-time consulting team we’re now able to meet the burgeoning demand for our services, including our new Remote DBA Service that we announced earlier this week. Joe will be blogging on SQLskills.com and hanging out on Twitter (@JosephSack) and in the community with the rest of us.
As you can tell, we’re very excited to have Joe join our team!
Thanks as always,
Paul and Kimberly
18 thoughts on “SQLskills hires deep technical expert Joseph Sack”
Congratulations to Joe Sack and to the entire sqlskills.com team for the newest addition to the team. Looking forward to reading blogs on sqlskills.com. All the best !!
CHAMPAGNE JOE! That’s awesome, I’m so happy for you guys. What a great group.
Congrats Joe …
Congrats to all – sounds like a great move for everyone!
Thank you Paul and Kimberly! Very excited to get to work and join the team. Blogging about it shortly.
Andy and Sanjeev- thank you!
Brent – thank you! And yes, the champagne corporate budget just doubled. Not to mention getting to keep my iPhone. Guess who is going to be lining up for the new iPhone 5 mid-October?
Congratulations to Joe and to all of the SQLSkills crew! I am sure Joe will be a great addition to the team.
Thank you Glenn!
The best of the best; can hardly wait for Joe to blog as well.
Great shift Joe. All the best for the ever growing SQLSkills family.
Congratulations Joe! Way to go.
Congratulions on your continued efforts in building this outstanding team!
Congrats. Glad to see the team growing. What’s the unofficial role (given that the poolboy role is already taken)? :)
Congrats! I’m sure Joe will make a great addition to the team. I’m looking forward to reading Joe’s blog on sqlskills.com
Congrats Joe! Look forward to reading Joe’s articles on SQLSkills.com!
Congrats! This is what I would like to call ‘Perfect Team’.
Official Congratulation Joe :)!!
Congratulations to Joe and SQLSkills team. This is a WIN WIN for Joe and SQLSkills. Oh, wait a minute.. I should say, WIN WIN WIN for Joe, SQLSkills and all SQL professionals!
Thank you for the warm welcome, all! Much appreciated.