Well hello there. My name is Derek and I’ve been in the information technology industry for the past 20 or so years focused mainly on Windows Server environments and lately Cloud.

Most recently, I have been on a platform engineering team working to help restart a cloud journey. As part of this, I’ve been working with a small group to create a cloud strategy for the organization and get cloud architecture off the ground. This takes a team of wicked smart people and visionary leaders - and I am glad to be a part of the process and the team.

In addition, I have been blogging for publication off and on for much of my career. Because of the published works and community work done over my career, Microsoft awarded me the MVP award from 2008 - 2018. Lately, my day to day work and other projects have kept me quite busy and he content production has slowed. It is my hope that I can start blogging about cloud and distributed computing to help others in the community learn how to use these resources to make their businesses and careers better.

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