About

I grew up in Revere, Massachusetts, went to trade school, and fell in love with computers before I knew what a career was. Nobody would hire me without a four-year degree, so I worked three jobs, saved up, and put myself through Colorado State. I've been in this industry ever since — SQL Server, databases, and eventually PowerShell, which I picked up out of necessity and never put down.

Since 2013 I've worked as a SQL Server DBA at a federal agency in the Pacific Northwest, mostly looking after a farm of instances. That's where the PowerShell-first habit hardened into a philosophy: when you're running the same task across 30, 50, or 100 servers, the GUI doesn't scale — a script does, and it does it the same way every time.

These days I'm also building Detent Point, a suite of PowerShell tools for SQL Server DBAs. A conversation I had a few months back finally convinced me it was time to build something of my own — the scripts I kept wishing I'd had years ago, packaged so the next person doesn't have to reinvent them. This site is where I share what comes out of that: what I'm building, what I learn running SQL Server at scale, and the occasional hard-won lesson — passed along so you can skip the mistake I already made.