3 years ago in October 2011, I was attending my first PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. It was a fantastic experience and I knew that I was hooked on the #sqlfamily.
Shortly after the Summit, I put out a blog post about a goal that I wanted to shoot for. Call it an early New Years Resolution if you will. The goal was simple. When checking in at the event, I would check in either as a Speaker, Microsoft Certified Master (MCM), or a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). I was fairly certain that I wouldn’t be in the MCM/MVP camp, but being a speaker was definitely something that I could control. I wasn’t sure when that would happen, but I knew that one day, I’d be in that line.