{"id":604,"date":"2011-02-23T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/SQLskills-hires-deep-technical-expert-Jonathan-Kehayias.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:53:38","slug":"sqlskills-hires-deep-technical-expert-jonathan-kehayias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sqlskills-hires-deep-technical-expert-jonathan-kehayias\/","title":{"rendered":"SQLskills hires deep technical expert Jonathan Kehayias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Today is a very exciting day for us here at SQLskills.com as we take the first step at growing as a company instead of solely partnering with other consultants with their own companies. While we value our partnerships and plan to continue many, we also value the benefits brought by having a small and dedicated team of highly technical and skilled employees.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Specifically, we&rsquo;ve asked Jonathan Kehayias to become employee #3 (with Kimberly being #1 and me being #2) and we&rsquo;re extremely pleased that he accepted our offer.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/2\/jonathan%20kehayias.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We first met Jonathan four years ago when we crossed paths on the MSDN forums where he is a prolific provider of answers (actually the top answerer on the <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com:443\/forums\/en-US\/sqldatabaseengine\/threads\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Database Engine forum<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">) and we&rsquo;ve been casually discussing eventually hooking up at some point for well over a year. This year the stars aligned and Jonathan is making the move, starting with us mid-March.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Jonathan is the world authority on Extended Events in SQL Server 2008&mdash;he wrote the definitive <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd822788.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">whitepaper on Extended Events<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;for Microsoft and he authored the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/extendedeventmanager.codeplex.com\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Extended Events Manager SSMS add-in<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">, which won the PASS 2008 SQL Hero contest. He has a thirst for knowledge and digging into the guts of SQL Server that&rsquo;s truly inspiring, and he constantly impresses us with how much he knows.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><strong>[Edit 02\/24\/11: Jonathan just passed the MCM certification &#8211; congratulations!!!]<\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Jonathan is a performance tuning expert, both SQL Server and hardware, and has architected complex systems as a developer, business analyst, and DBA. This breadth of role experience, along with extensive development (T-SQL, C#, and ASP.Net), hardware and virtualization design expertise, and Windows, Active Directory, IIS, and other component knowledge makes Jonathan an incredible addition to our team. He has also presented at multiple conferences including PASS, SQLBits, and VMware Open Forum, and will be presenting at PASS SQL Rally and SQL Connections this Spring.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Jonathan is also a Drill Sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves, and did a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004. He&rsquo;s married with two small children and describes himself as a &lsquo;general goofball&rsquo;&mdash;he&rsquo;s going to fit right in :-) In all seriousness though, his dedication to his family, his country and his work is without doubt extraordinary.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">You can follow Jonathan on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SQLSarg\">twitter<\/a> and he&#39;ll be moving his blog over to SQLskills.com very soon.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">One of the most interesting aspects about Jonathan being a real employee rather than a&nbsp;partner consultant&nbsp;is that we&rsquo;re not limited to only working on client projects. We&rsquo;re going to be working on research, benchmarks, tools, and other really useful things for the SQL community, our classes, and our clients. We&rsquo;re already planning resources that will be available exclusively to our SQLskills.com community. <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.SQLskills.com\/joincommunity.asp\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Join now!<\/font><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">As you can tell, we&rsquo;re really looking forward to Jonathan starting to work at SQLskills.com and we&rsquo;re planning great things to come plus more additions to the team.&nbsp;Watch this space&hellip;<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Thanks as always,<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Paul and Kimberly<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a very exciting day for us here at SQLskills.com as we take the first step at growing as a company instead of solely partnering with other consultants with their own companies. 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