Welcome To My World

Hi, I'm Barret

Developer, Azure Architect, Speaker, Teacher, MVP

I wear many hats. Father, husband, Microsoft MVP, developer, Azure Solutions Architect, gamer, blogger, speaker, teacher, mentor, model railroader, Buckeyes fan, and more. I’ve been blessed greatly by this industry, and so this site is one way I try to give a little bit back. When I can find the time, I add a bit of my coding knowledge and experience to share with whoever might find it of worth.

Mentoring

If you are a student or someone in a different career field and looking to move into software development, I am happy to provide what time I can spare to speak with you 1 on 1 and provide what guidance or insight I can. You can schedule time with me on my Calendly.

Speaking

Looking for someone speak on your podcast, video, user group, conference, or company? Here's a few of my current sessions. Contact me to set up a time.

MVP

I am a Microsoft MVP for Business Applications. I specialize in the Power Platform, especially Power Automate. Get in touch to see how I can help you out.

Latest Posts

  • My Favorite Podcasts & Video Channels for 2023

    Every so often I update my list of favorite podcasts and video channels. These are the places I go to for learning and entertainment. It’s especially great to listen to while I’m driving since anymore radio is a desolate wasteland of 40 minutes of ads and 20 minutes of content […]

  • Rockin’ the Code World with Me!

    Just in case you missed the live interview with me on Rockin’ the Code World, you can watch it below. Get the details here.

  • Using C# and Power Automate To Sync An Outlook Calendar

    There are some good tools out there for syncing your Outlook calendar to other calendars, especially for O365 or Outlook.com calendars. And they’re well worth the money for the good ones. But sometimes, in certain circumstances (such as if you have an on-prem exchange server that you can’t access from […]

  • Automatically Adding Travel Time To Your Calendar

    Even in this world of video meetings on Teams, Zoom, or wherever, there are still occasions when you need to travel to an onsite meeting somewhere. In these cases, it can be useful to automatically block out travel time before and after to ensure that your calendar reflects when you’re […]

  • Power Automate vs Azure Logic Apps

    When people start to get into the workflow automation processes that are offered on the Microsoft stack, there are questions that they commonly have. For one, why does Microsoft have two platforms to do the same thing? And if they’re not the same, what is the difference between Power Automate […]

  • My New Job

    I haven’t posted in a few weeks, and there’s a reason for that. I recently changed jobs. It was a long journey, and I’ll go in to that here in this post. But the last few weeks were focused on wrapping up my work with my old employer and getting […]

Blog Topics

Advent of Code 2021 (12) AI (2) AI Builder (4) API (1) approval flows (1) Ardalis (1) Azure (13) Azure Back to School (3) Azure Data Factory (2) big data (2) blogging (2) burnout (2) C# (20) C# Advent (6) career (4) Cognitive Services (3) collections (3) connectors (4) content (2) culture (2) database (3) datetime (4) deployment (3) DevOps (3) DotNet (23) Dynamics (2) Excel (2) failure (3) flow (68) Function Friday (22) giving (2) ICYMI (2) IIS (2) LinkedIn (3) organizational skills (2) podcasts (2) Power Automate (71) productivity (3) Sentiment Analysis (2) StackOverflow (2) Summit NA (4) triggers (4) Twitter (5) vision service (2) Visual Studio (2)