Andy Roberts is a Data Platform Technology Specialist for Microsoft in the Northeast district. Prior to that, Andy spent 12 years as a consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services. As a consultant, Andy assisted customers in implementing mission critical OLTP and DW/BI solutions on SQL Server. Andy wore many hats as a consultant, including that of application developer, solution architect, mentor to development teams, mentor to DBAs, BI lead, SCRUM Master, and guy-that-knows-a-bunch-of-stuff-about-Microsoft. When not basking behind the glow of his laptop, Andy enjoys volunteering as a ski instructor at Maine Adaptive Sports. He also enjoys golfing, biking, and trying to reverse engineer his three month old son, Max.