About Us



The Vermont Sql Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge.

Our Group usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area. We are a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.

Please visit www.VTDotNet.org

We would like to thank The Vermont Department of Health, Champlain College, and Competitive Computing for their generous donation of meeting space!

President: Roman Rehak

Roman Rehak

Bio:

Roman Rehak, MCSD, MCDBA, MCSA is a SQL Server Specialist at Competitive Computing in Colchester, VT. He specializes in SQL Server development, database performance tuning and writing DBMS utilities. He regularly contributes SQL Server related articles to Visual Studio Magazine, SQL Server Magazine and other technical publications. He is an active member of Professional Association for SQL Server, he speaks at the annual PASS conferences and was also selected to be the track leader for the "Database & Application Development" track for the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 PASS conferences. Roman also serves as the Tech Chair for the SQL Server track at the annual DevTeach conferences in Montreal.

Vice President: Laura Blood

Laura Blood

Bio:

Laura is the Chief Technology Officer for Blue Note Computing, Inc. in Charlotte, Vermont. She has over 20 years of experience in the industry and earned her Bachelors degree in Computer Science back in the 1980s. Laura has worked in a wide variety of industries and development environments. Her experience with Visual Studio .NET goes back to the days of Beta and she recently produced the 2005 Launch Event here in Vermont. Laura has worked extensively with SQL Server, developing production applications for both the web and desktop environments. During the last few years she has been busy with web development, data warehousing, as well as some .NET windows and console applications. She is also an active member of the VT Dot Net user group. Check out her blog: Geek Girl Cookin' with .NET