Follow Friday: Ryan Adams

Our last Follow Friday, at the end of May, was mister Tim Mitchell of the NTSSUG board. I’m apparently following a theme this summer, for today’s Follow Friday is NTSSUG board candidate Ryan Adams (blog, Twitter)!  Ryan’s a SQL Server DBA who has been at the same company for…twelve years??  I don’t even know what you just said to me, man.

Guy's got more certs than a singles convention

Yesterday Ryan stood before the user group and told us why he’d be a good UG board member – I wasn’t listening, it was something about free Droids for everyone who votes for him, or something – and then went on to host one of the five discussion groups we had for the evening.  Okay, to tell the truth I waslistening, and the guy’s got some good ideas and a LOT of energy for the group.  Ryan’s been a volunteer and core team planner for SQL Saturday Dallas 2010, and is doing it again for SQL Saturday Dallas BI this fall. He blogs, he tweets, he (I believe) created the NTSSUG LinkedIn group. He’s on the planning committee for the upcoming HoustonSQL Saturday, for Codd’s sake!

Others have noticed…after SQL Sat in May, Stuart Ainsworth wrote on his blog:

Ryan Adams was the sponsor coordinator, and I watched him work those tables several times throughout the day.  That was a nice touch, and I hope the sponsors appreciated having someone who was available to them all the time to handle any issues that they may have had come up.

And Wes Brown had this to say from the vendor perspective:

Ryan Adams did a very good job keeping things coordinated up to the event. Making sure that everything we were entitled to we got. Always very responsive to emails and questions.

The day of I always had Ryan or one of the volunteers stop by between sessions and check that everything was good. I have always had a good experience with PASS events, but I’ve never had so many people checking on us before!

Ryan’s a hardworking, upbeat, all-around good guy with a good view of what’s good in the SQL community.  That’s a lotta “good”.  Go give him a follow, subscribe to the blog (be sure to read the one about how he handled SQLSat sponsor coordination), and give him a hard time because he doesn’t get Droid discounts.

Happy days,

Jen McCown

http://www.MidnightDBA.com/Jen

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