It has been pretty quiet on this blog for the last month or so, mainly due to a significant professional change in my life.  After three years at Magenic Technologies I took the next step in my career and joined Slalom Consulting as their Microsoft BI Practice Director.  I am now responsible for the BI strategy and execution for all BI projects in the Microsoft stack for our Atlanta practice.  Exciting times to be sure but a huge mental shift in short term.

Over the past few weeks life has been a blur of transitions, adding new names and faces to the mental rolodex, and a trip to New Orleans for the MS BI Conference. 

While this period has presented its own challenges I can barely contain my excitement for this new role.  This transitions nicely into the second portion of this blog post - a couple announcements that I can finally make publicly.  Slalom received the following awards for 2010 from Microsoft:

• Worldwide BI Partner of the Year
• Worldwide Information Worker Partner of the Year
• US Partner of the Year

Everyone at Slalom is extremely proud to have received this honor.  I will admit this is also raising the competitiveness of this geek to not let the BI award go to anyone else next year.  In short, its on.