About Rob Farley
Rob Farley, a mentor/trainer with Solid Quality Learning Pty Ltd, has been
consulting in IT since completing a Computer Science degree with first
class honours in 1997. He lives in Adelaide, but has also
worked in consultancies in Melbourne and London. He heads up the
Adelaide SQL Server User Group, sits on the South Australian Branch
Executive Committee of the Australian Computer Society and holds
several Microsoft certifications including MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS, MCPD and
MCITP. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and is a recipient of the
Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server.
Since
2006, Rob has made multiple trips to Microsoft HQ in Redmond to assist
with the content for many of the new generation Microsoft
certifications, including the exams required to earn MCTS, MCITP and
MCPD certification.
Rob has been involved with Microsoft
technologies for most of his career, but has also done significant work
with Oracle and Unix systems. Despite this, his preferred database is
SQL Server and his preferred language (other than T-SQL) is C#.
Over
the years, Rob's clients have included BP Oil, OneLink Transit,
Accenture, Avanade, Australian Electorial Commission, the Chartered
Institute of Personnel and Development, the Royal Borough of Kingston,
Help The Aged, Unisys, Department of Treasury and Finance (Vic),
National Mutual, the Bible Society and others.
His blog is at http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley, and his MVP profile is at http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/rob
Despite his avatar being Batfink, his wings are not actually a shield of steel.
