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Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
SQL Server Specialist
Resume of Tony RogersonTony began his long IT career in July 86, completed an apprenticeship as a Production Systems Analyst in April 90, he has used many languages and products throughout that career the main ones being IDEF-0, Application System, PL/1, CICS, DB2, System W, Oracle, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET and C++.
He has worked in many industries including Finance, Retail, Web and Engineering and provided consultancy to hundreds of companies.
Tony currently works as a freelance SQL Server specialist providing consultancy, offsite project development and training/mentoring as well as proving a big presence within the UK SQL Server community through the user group he runs and his technical blog.
Tony knows most of the worlds SQL Server specialists and also has access to a very large pool of other product experts such as .NET.
Biography
Tony started his IT career in 1986, for the first 7 years he developed using an assortment of mainframe langauges such as PL/1, CICS, DB2, Application System, System W. He served an apprenticehip as a Production Systems Analyst. 1993 saw Tony move into Client/Server development with Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL Server version 4.2, since then he has used many langauges and technologies that have always focused around Microsoft SQL Server. Tony went freelance in 1998.
Since going freelance Tony concentrated more on SQL Server, but still does a fair degree of ASP.NET coding for a number of clients using C# and VB.NET.
Experience Highlights (SQL Community)
| Ask The Experts: Answered delegate questions at 'Ask The Experts' booths at a number of Microsoft TechEd Europe, SQL Server 2005 Launch and DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Day Events. | |
| Chalk and Talks: Presented at the Chalk and Talk sessions in Birmingham, Harrogate and Edinburgh as part of the SQL Server 2005 launch events. | |
| UK SQL User Group: Organised, chaired and presented at numerous events since 1998. | |
| UK SQL Server 2005 Community Preview: This was an initiative by Microsoft UK, Tony recorded a dozen 10-15 minute media presentations on various aspects new to SQL Server 2005. | |
| Using LiveMeeting Tony began a serious of fortnightly SQL briefings where Tony gave a live demonstration, brought the audience up-to-date with SQL news. | |
| Tony participates in a number of Community Leader meetings where new ideas on fostering community are discussed, also guest presenters give presentations on topics such as Marketing and Microsoft futures. | |
| Member of the organisation committee for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 2 and 3. | |
| Tony has received the SQL MVP award yearly since 1998 where he was one of the first SQL Server MVP's in the UK and one of a dozen in the world. | |
| Specific memorable contributions | |
| 2 June 2006 | Tony and 12 other SQL professionals from my user group met with Jim Gray in London where we discussed database futures. |
| 14 Feb 2006 | Presented on 'Using XML, Web Services and CLR to expose and consume a RSS feed' at PASS in Barcelona. |
| 31 Jan 2006 | Gave a presentation on Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 for Microsoft at Reading, this presentation was videoed and can be seen here, the presentation was given to over 200 people. |