I attempt to promote and evangelize PowerShell, helping new learners with the basics and participating in the online community as often as I can. I am most active on Twitter @thedavecarroll, but you can also find me on LinkedIn, and (less occasionally now) in the r/PowerShell subreddit.

I got into scripting early. First just DOS batch files, then VBScript. Around 2009, I learned my first bits of PowerShell converting my homegrown identity management system consisting of more than 10,000 lines of VBScript and interfacing with Active Directory, SunOne LDAP, Oracle DB, MySQL, and more. I enjoyed wowing coworkers (and myself) with the data I could collect and collate using just a few commands of PowerShell. It has allowed me to control the systems I manage and interface with various others.