Introduction
I’m happy to announce that effective today, August 28th, 2023 I will be going work for the Kent Corporation as a Business Intelligence Engineer.
This opportunity came about from a friend, Patrick Phelan. He works for Kent, and reached out to me to see I was interested in the job. After looking at the company, and the role, I was very interested!
Kent is an agriculture manufacturing company that was started in 1927. They use various types of grains, such as wheat, and make a variety of products. Animal food for horses, sheep, dogs, cats and more. They make distilled grain alcohol for medical use or distilleries. In addition they make additives for a variety of food products such as bread. Another aspect I really appreciate about Kent is their environmental consciousness. They strive to reduce waste by-products as much as possible.
In my role I’ll be working to upgrade and expand their SQL Server Data Warehouse, working with their SSIS packages, create cubes in SSAS, and lots of SSRS reports. I’ll also be working heavily in PowerBI. At some point in the future we plan to be shifting a lot of this up to Azure. Along the way I’ll be whipping up some PowerShell scripts to help automate as much work as possible.
The Future
For the next few months I’ll be focused on Kent. At some point though I plan to resume my videos for Pluralsight working on the evenings / weekends.
In addition, my blogging will become irregular. Previously I’ve been posting weekly, the blog posts focused on the subjects in my videos. Working full time for Kent I won’t have time to dedicate to blogging. I’ll still blog, and while I will try for weekly there may be some weeks that get skipped due to my daytime workload especially in the first few months.
The subjects will also vary, tied more toward some of the BI subjects I’ll be working with at Kent, such as Data Warehousing, SSIS/SSAS/SSRS, PowerBI, and of course PowerShell!
Conclusion
Thanks for joining me on my journey over the last few years as a full time Pluralsight video course author and book writer. I hope you’ll keep my company as I begin a new phase in my career!
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