A Sampling of Publications 

Fiction

Dancing the River Lightly. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: SterlingHouse Publishers, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 1-56315-364-5.

Pacific Passion. Fraser, Colorado: DB Publications, 1987. Part of the proposed gag-gift series “ToileTales: Read ’em ’n’ wipe.”

Nonfiction

Hungry? Seattle Family. Los Angeles, California: Glove Box Guides. 2008. Contributed to the collection of restaurant reviews.

Feature Articles

“Politicians Swear Off S&M” Ezine Articles. August 2007.

“Writers: Cheap, Easy, Expendable” Ezine Articles. August 2007; and FreeZineSite.com. October 2006.

“Stormy Waters” Seattle Magazine. June 2007.

“The Silent Epidemic” E Magazine. May/June 2007.

“Pollution Absolution?” Seattle Magazine. April 2007.

“Power Couples” Mo Magazine. March 2007.

Technical Books

Beginning MySQL (part of the Wrox Programmer to Programmer series). Indianapolis, Indiana: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 0-7645-7950-9

Microsoft Office Access 2003: A Beginner’s Guide. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2004. ISBN: 0-07-223142-4

SQL: A Beginner’s Guide. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003. ISBN: 0-07-222885-7

MCSE Training Kit: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows .NET Enterprise Server. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky. Not published

MCSE Training Kit: Designing Highly Available Web Solutions with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Technologies. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2001. ISBN: 0-7356-1425-3

MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2001. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky. ISBN: 0-7356-1248-X

Academic Learning Series: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2000. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky. ISBN: 0-7356-0988-8

MCSE Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Readiness Review; Exam 70-215. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-7356-0948-9

MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2000. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky. Awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. TechRepublic rated this book as the best Windows 2000 Server study guide for Microsoft’s exam 70-215. ISBN: 1-57231-903-8

MCSE Readiness Review—Exam 70-229: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-7356-0673-0

MCSE Readiness Review—Exam 70-059: Internetworking with TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-7356-0540-8

Technical Articles

“Custom VB.Net scripting in SQL Server Integration Services” TechTarget (SearchSQLServer.com). December 18, 2007.

“PowerShell One-Liners for Managing Events” Scripting Pro VIP. October 2007.

“PowerShell One-Liners for Accessing WMI” Scripting Pro VIP. August 2007.

“PowerShell One-Liners for Managing the File System” Scripting Pro VIP. August 2007.

“Migrating to PowerShell? Don’t Scrap Your Existing Code Just Yet” Scripting Pro VIP. July 2007.

“Dig Out By Digging Into PowerShell” Windows IT Pro. July 2007.

“Scripting Data Flow in SQL Server Integration Services” Scripting Pro VIP. February 2007.

“Scripting Control Flow in SQL Server Integration Services” Scripting Pro VIP. January 2007.

“Creating T-SQL statements in SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005” Windows Scripting Solutions. August 2006. Penton Media, Inc. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky.

“Using XQuery expressions to create computed columns” Windows Scripting Solutions. June 2006. Penton Media, Inc. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky.

“Logging DDL events” Windows Scripting Solutions. April 2006. Penton Media, Inc. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky.

“New SQL Server 2005 functions rank high” Windows Scripting Solutions. February 2006. Penton Media, Inc. Co-author: Ethan Wilansky.

“Web Admin: Setting Up the Tool and Its Customer Organizations” Windows Web Solutions. November 2002.

Awards

Certificate of Merit (2000), Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Awarded to the technical book MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.

Runner-up/Best News Story of the Year (1985), Colorado Press Association. Awarded to the news story “Three Saved from subzero ordeal.”

Honorable Mention/Best Feature Story of the Year (1985), Colorado Press Association. Awarded to the feature story “Get goin’ while the goin’s worth gettin’.”