Episode 43 – The Power BI Community with Chuck Sterling

This is episode 43 recorded on March 8th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Charles Sterling who runs the MVP Program for the PowerApps, Flow, and Power BI about his experience working at Microsoft, his view of the Power BI Community in the larger Power*s world, and non-NDA stuff about MVP Summit.

Who is Chuck Sterling?

Charles Sterling joined Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. He started out at Microsoft supporting Excel and moved through a couple of support teams to being an escalation engineer for Microsoft SQL Server. Taking his love for customers (and diving), Chuck moved to Australia as a product manager and developer evangelist for the .NET Framework. In 2008 he moved back to Redmond as the Visual Studio community program manager and just recently moved to the Power BI team to continue his community passion and looking after the Power BI influencers and MVPs.

Links:

• Chuck on Twitter
  • https://twitter.com/chass
• Power BI Support
  • https://support.powerbi.com
• Power BI User Voice
  • https://ideas.powerbi.com
• Nominate an MVP!
  • https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/Nomination/nominate-an-mvp
  • There are 167 Power BI MVPs now!
• Find your User Groups
  • https://usergroups.powerbi.com
  • There are ~180 Power BI User Groups now!
• EdX Course
  • https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-and-visualizing-data-with-power-bi
• Power*s Community Programs
  • https://powerusers.microsoft.com