Her focus is on database modeling, T-SQL optimization, requirements gathering, and report design using the SQL Server stack. She is the recent recipient of the “Best New Community Voice” Tribal award from Red Gate. She blogs regularly at mickeystuewe.com and occasionally on other sites such as mssqltips.com. She recently co-authored her first book, SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints. She has spoken at Dev Connections, SQL in the City for Red Gate, and various SQL Saturday events. She is also part of the committee that hosts the two Southern California SQL Saturday events each year. She is the President and Founder of a new user group in Irvine, CA called Business Intelligence Group, a PASS Community (BIG PASS Community for short). She makes her home with her husband Dan and their two girls in Southern California.