Mike Lawell
Senior Consultant at Microsoft
Alys Beach, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMike Lawell is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft with over two decades of experience specializing in SQL Server, Azure Analytics, and database infrastructure modernization. He has a proven track record rescuing and hardening production environments—most notably recovering a county government from ransomware and consolidating scale-out Reporting Services to improve resilience and efficiency. A regular speaker at SQLSaturday events and PASS Summit presenter, he blends deep performance-tuning expertise with pragmatic architecture work like Hybrid Availability Groups, AlwaysOn designs, and large-scale migrations from legacy platforms such as Sybase and DB2. Mike is fluent in automating deployments with PowerShell and operationalizing SSIS with Azure Data Factory v2, bringing both hands-on engineering and leadership in cross-functional teams. His background includes running turnaround initiatives, building and mentoring high-performing DBA and development teams, and driving continuous improvement across enterprise operations. Based in Alys Beach, Florida, he also brings an uncommon pairing of technical depth and customer-focused consulting that consistently reduces downtime and cost.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Math, Computers, Physics, Math, Computers, Physics at Muncie Central High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Art: Photographty, Bachelor’s Degree, Art: Photographty at Ball State University
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Github Skills (27)
microsoft10
tsql10
microsoft-sql10
sql-server10
data-tools10
sql10
mssql10
microsoft-sql-server10
ssms10
data-studio9
postgresql9
azure-sql9
cosmosdb9
azure-sql-server9
azure-sql-database9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mikelawell/sql-docs
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server, tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) , SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) etc.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
data-servertechnical-documentationsqlserversql-serversql-server-management-studio
mikelawell/azure-docs
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 days
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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