With almost 25 years of experience in technology, I have dabbled in most things. But I have always, and I mean ALWAYS, been attracted to the bleeding edge technologies. It is what drives me. The first project I got on when I joined Slalom in September 2020 was creating a Cognitive Services AI solution for an International Retail client that wanted their HR questions that were asked in the Microsoft Yammer community to be asked automatically with little to no human intervention (although they wanted the answers to be shaped by SMEs when needed). The only problems were that I had never heard of Yammer. Or of Cognitive Services. And I had never worked in AI. Or with Power Automate, really, which was another critical piece of technology we needed. But I made that project sing. I learned so much with that project and I decided right then and there, AI was my future. And I have never looked back. I have since worked on several other AI projects and have also began evangelizing the technologies surrounding Microsoft Syntex. The low-code/no-code AI implementations surrounding these SharePoint tools is such a powerful improvement to metadata extraction and an easy "toe in the water" approach to getting businesses interested in AI in their workplace, it has changed the landscape of AI for me. I have also done some dabbling in AWS AI and have taken their classes on Responsible AI because Responsible/Ethical AI is paramount to me and what I do. I have worked with AI4ALL in several capacities, including being a mentor for their summer program with high school kids doing a 10-week program to learn about AI technologies and careers from real AI professionals. This has been one of my favorite ways to give back and, frankly, to learn more about AI because these kids are SMART. I am a published author (Wrox Press) and have written (or co-authored) the following books:Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (November, 2010)Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (September, 2009)Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (September, 2008)Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design: CSS, Themes, and Master Pages (September, 2007)I have lately gotten the bug to write again so look out for my next book. Not sure when it will be coming out again but I have already started talking to some other potential co-authors. I hope you love it.