Arcane Training and Consulting, LLC

Well this has been an exciting last few months. I’m finally able to share what’s been happening with me.

As some of you know, I’ve left Pragmatic Works. They went through a reorganization of sorts, and several of us either had our positions eliminated, or as people departed were not replaced. Let me be clear, I have no ill will toward them. This was purely a business decision.

I have to be grateful to them, as through them I gained many new opportunities for speaking, authoring, and the like. In addition I worked with many top level people, who constantly challenged me. I wish them the best of luck in their new business model.

As my good friend Alan Stevens likes to say, “…sometimes getting fired is the best thing that can happen to you”. In my case, it has finally given me the impetus to start my own company, a dream I’ve had for a while.

As Arcane Training and Consulting, LLC, I plan a twofold approach. First, I will continue my passion for training primarily through continuing my videos on Pluralsight. Here I have a suite of ten videos already, with another shortly to follow. If you don’t have a Pluralsight subscription, email me free@arcanetc.com and I will be happy to set you up with a 30 day trial through which you can watch my videos, or those of any of the other awesome authors at Pluralsight.

In addition I will also be setting up a YouTube channel, I’ll post more on that as it comes about. Finally I will be available to do live training, both customized as well as public courses. I’m already scheduled to do a one day precon for an event here in Birmingham Alabama to be held in August, and hope to do more for SQL Saturdays, code camps, and other such events.

On the consulting side, I’m very excited to announce I’ve now become a team member at Linchpin People! I have long admired the company, especially the outstanding quality of the people who work with them. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be part of their team now.

If you aren’t familiar with their model, they are basically a confederation of independent consultants with a top notch sales team. This gives them a pool of outstanding talent to draw from. In addition it gives me, as a consultant, a great team to back me up, people to draw on when I need additional resources for a project. Likewise when they have projects they can pull me in very easily. I see this as a great partnership between Arcane Training and Consulting and Linchpin People.

Finally, I am in the process of wrapping up a new book deal. I can’t say much about it right now, but look for a new tome from the old Arcane Coder to come out sometime around the end of 2016 or early 2017.

If you have any inquires about my training or consulting services, please email me at info@arcanetc.com. With the rush of getting things setup I still haven’t had time to establish a real website, but for now I’ve just updated my company domain of http://arcanetc.com points to my company Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/arcanetc . I’ll revise it once I get a website created.

I’ve also setup a company twitter account of @ArcaneTC. I’ll use this for company announcements like upcoming training, releases of new Pluralisght courses, and the like. Of course you can still follow me at @ArcaneCode.

Thanks for following along, and hope to do business with you in the future!