Bojan Nenadic documents his path to certifying as a Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange Server 2010. Check out his videos and blog posts here: http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/careerfactor/b/bojan/p/default.aspx

Hi all, In our current rotation James Carrion is providing a day by day account of his experiences since Day 1 (April 4th). Read all about it here . Check back next week to see how for a summary of how the R12 group performed! RyanCon Acting...

Continuing with our SQL MCM Profile series, meet Fabricio Catae: Fabricio Catae ( Twitter | Blog ), Sr. Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft . Fabricio Catae has been working with Microsoft enterprise customers throughout Latin America for the past...

Next on our SQL MCM profile series, meet Gaurav Aggarwal: Gaurav Aggarwal, Senior Architect, Microsoft . Gaurav is a Senior Architect with 16+ years of experience. He has been working with Microsoft Consulting Service in India for the past 7 years. In...

We recently published a case study with Unify Square that illustrates the value that an MCM certification (or in this case three of them) can bring in competitive situations. Obviously your own mileage may vary but there is one stand out point in this...

We have a new SQL MCM to announce today, meet Zoltán: Zoltán Hangyál, Database Engineer, LogMeIn . Zoltan has 13+ years of SQL Server experience, starting with SQL Server 7.0. In addition to working with core SQL engine functionality, he also has experience...

For our next SQL MCM Profile, meet Kal Yella: Kalyan (Kal) Yella, Sr. Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft . Kal has 13+ years of SQL Server design and administration experience. He initially started his SQL Server career with a major ERP vendor providing...

For our next SQL MCM Profile, meet Kate Baroni: Kate Baroni, Senior DBA, Microsoft . Kate Baroni has been involved with high end databases for 20 years and SQL Server for the past 10 years with specialties in database performance and security. She is...

Next on our SQL MCM profile series, meet Mike Weiner: Mike Weiner, Program Manager - SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT), Microsoft . Mike Weiner is a Senior Program Manager working with Microsoft's high-end hardware partners and focusing on the...

Over the past few months we have been working through the alpha and beta deliveries of the Lync MCM program. After these two highly successful rotations it gives me great pleasure to announce the following names as the first certified Lync Server 2010...

Our next SQL MCM profile is on Danny Ravid: Danny Ravid ( blog ), SQL Server Practice Leader, BRILLIX LTD . Danny has worked with SQL Server for the last 16 years and is both a Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) and Microsoft Certified Master. He is...

Here is Part 5 of the SQL MCM Profile series. Meet Danny Tambs: Danny Tambs , Architect for the Parallel Data Warehouse Center of Excellence (CoE) team, Microsoft . Mr. Danny Tambs is a Microsoft Architect specializing in database technologies. With over...

Here is Part 4 of the SQL MCM Profile series – meeting Binh Cao: Binh Cao, Senior BI\Database Consultant, Microsoft. Binh is a no-nonsense, seasoned database and BI Consultant with over 15 years of experience (starting with version 4.21). While already...

Continuing with the SQL MCM profile series – meet Vineet Sarda! Vineet Sarda ( blog ), Senior Consultant, Microsoft . Vineet has been a consultant with Microsoft since 1999 and works with Premier ISV customers and Partners in a wide variety of verticals...

Continuing the SQL MCM Profile series, meet Brian Jackson: Brian Jackson is a Delivery Architect at Microsoft Consulting Services who specializes in Business Intelligence and OLTP solutions. In his consulting role, he works with many of the largest corporations...

As I hinted at in my last post , I’m going to start sharing profiles about our existing SQL MCM community members that I haven’t yet blogged about. I feel like this will be good information for those of you interested in pursuing SQL MCM certification...

I got involved with the program back in 2009 and when I’m given permission by the MCM to do so, I post information about new MCMs as they enter the program (new and/or upgrades in version). With all the posts over the last two years I thought I...

I recently read a blog post where the author was concerned about the value of MCM and wondered if this certification was just a vehicle for ego expansion. I thought this was a valid question to ask and my thought was that, yes - if you’re not...

We have a new SQL MCM to announce, Christian Robert, who achieved certification a few weeks ago: Christian Robert ( Blog ), Consultant and Trainer . Christian is consultant and trainer based in Switzerland and works throughout Europe for Evolusys ...

A new week and a new SQL MCM announce: Derek Wilson , Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft . Derek has over a decade of experience managing relational database systems. He is currently a transactional Premier Field Engineer (PFE) who provides...

I'm happy to announce our newest Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008, Jonathan Kehayias ! If you've been reading up on Extended Events - chances are you've already read his work or heard his talks. A little about Jonathan: Jonathan Kehayias...

The last two Mondays have brought us two new highly qualified Microsoft Certified Masters. If you’ve been involved with the SQL Server community for the last few years, it’s likely you’ve already heard their names – Maciej Pilecki and certified today...

News travels pretty fast, so I thought I would get the official word out tonight before this news became too stale. As many already know, three months ago we announced some pretty significant changes to the SQL MCM program . I won’t recap those changes...

Bojan, one of our MCM Exchange Server 2010 candidates from rotation 8, tallied some interesting statistics for us: http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/careerfactor/b/bojan/archive/2011/01/21/microsoft-certified-master-in-figures.aspx