Alaska

• Sam Chenaur

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Sam Chenaur is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft in the Pacific Northwest based out of Bellevue, WA. Sam collaborates with customer and partner software architects in the local community, and he is evangelizes the latest technologies from Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Sam held positions with NetUpdate as a Director of Development and Architecture, Avion Systems as Director of Technology, and Ariba as a J2EE Architect and Sales Engineer. Prior to Ariba, Sam performed services as a Sr. Consultant, Project Manager, and Technical Architect for Computer Associates in Atlanta, GA. Sam has supported Fortune 500 clients for the likes of Nike, Safeco, Nordstrom, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Sprint, Bellsouth, Georgia-Pacific, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Heery International. Sam obtained his Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was also multi-year letterman in the varsity Track Field competing as a Decathlete and Triple-Jumper.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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Alabama

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  Jeff Barnes

  Principal Architect Evangelist

  Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Greater Southeast District, where he engages with the local Architect and partner community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 11 years and has spent over 7 of those years as an Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked for several large financial, manufacturing, and retail companies in South Florida. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of tough technical challenges.

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Arizona

• David Chou

  Architect Evangelist

  David Chou is an architect at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as cloud computing, SOA, Web, RIA, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture. As an expert on Windows Azure Platform, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how “Software plus Services” fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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  Jeet Jagasia

  Principal Architect

  Jeet Jagasia is a Microsoft Architect and works with Public Sector Government customers in the west region. Jeet covers Microsoft's leading-edge technologies from an architecture perspective, and enjoys collaborating with customers on delivering solutions with best practices. Jeet has been with Microsoft for the last 7-8 years, and lives in sunny CA.
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  Joe Shirey

  Prinicpal Architect Evangelist

  Joe Shirey is a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on working with Microsoft's customers, partners, and community in the Denver and Utah markets. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe served as Vice President and General Manager at Interlink Group, a regional systems integrator based in Denver. He also has been a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board, and sat on the .NET Partner Advisory Council. Joe attained his Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions in 2005.

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California

• Raj Ramabadran

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  As a Platform Strategy Advisor at Microsoft, my overall mission is to secure platform adoption. A key focus is to evangelize and demonstrate the business value of Microsoft platform technologies by driving early adoption and mainstream deployment. I typically engage and collaborate with senior business and technical decision makers at customers and partners on leveraging the breath of technology and resources at Microsoft to enable them to excel their application of technology to business strategy. Prior to Microsoft, professional experience includes 20+ years of IT Enterprise Strategy Architecture, Development, Operation, Management and Management Consulting. Experience in ERP, Supply Chain, Customer Facing e.g. eCommerce apps, SaaS, Web 2.0, Enterprise Portals and Identity Management Previous roles include Chief Enterprise Architect at Spansion, Sr. Technologist/Sr. IT Manager at Sun, Management Consultant at EY LLP, Principal Consutant at Oracle.

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• Kevin Boyle

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Kevin Boyle started at Microsoft in 1991. He was part of the team that created Visual C++ 1.0 and went on to lead the 150 person product team through the release of version 5.0. In 1996, Kevin helped found a team to create Internet Explorer for UNIX. Before leaving corporate, Kevin headed up a special UNIX compatibility effort which morphed into the new Windows Power Shell shipped with Exchange 12. Kevin started in his current role in Southern California in 2003. He advises both the fastest growing and largest companies in the Los Angeles area on how to get the most business value from Microsoft's platform. These customers include American Honda Motor, Newegg, and Hulu. In 2006 he was named Microsoft's Architect Evangelist of The Year. Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. He recently completed a Management Development program at UCLA's Anderson School of Business.

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• David Chou

  Architect Evangelist

  David Chou is an architect at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as cloud computing, SOA, Web, RIA, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture. As an expert on Windows Azure Platform, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how “Software plus Services” fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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  Jeet Jagasia

  Principal Architect

  Jeet Jagasia is a Microsoft Architect and works with Public Sector Government customers in the west region. Jeet covers Microsoft's leading-edge technologies from an architecture perspective, and enjoys collaborating with customers on delivering solutions with best practices. Jeet has been with Microsoft for the last 7-8 years, and lives in sunny CA.

Colorado

• David Chou

  Architect Evangelist

  David Chou is an architect at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as cloud computing, SOA, Web, RIA, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture. As an expert on Windows Azure Platform, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how “Software plus Services” fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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  Jeet Jagasia

  Principal Architect

  Jeet Jagasia is a Microsoft Architect and works with Public Sector Government customers in the west region. Jeet covers Microsoft's leading-edge technologies from an architecture perspective, and enjoys collaborating with customers on delivering solutions with best practices. Jeet has been with Microsoft for the last 7-8 years, and lives in sunny CA.
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  Joe Shirey

  Prinicpal Architect Evangelist

  Joe Shirey is a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on working with Microsoft's customers, partners, and community in the Denver and Utah markets. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe served as Vice President and General Manager at Interlink Group, a regional systems integrator based in Denver. He also has been a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board, and sat on the .NET Partner Advisory Council. Joe attained his Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions in 2005.

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Connecticut

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  Bob Familiar

  Architect Evangelist

  Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Bob is a liaison to the architect and developer community providing on-line content and in-person seminars covering topics related to application platform development, technologies, tools and architectures. Bob has been with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the software industry for 24. Bob holds a patent in Object/Relational Design and obtained a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Bob is also a musician; a composer, arranger and producer. You can check out his music projects at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bobfamiliar.com/">http://www.bobfamiliar.com</a>.

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  Bill Zack

  Principal Architect Evangelist

  Bill Zack is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. He comes to this role after serving as a Solutions Architect in the Financial Services Unit of Microsoft Consulting Services. His experience includes developing, supporting and evangelizing .NET/SOA based frameworks used to jump-start development projects for financial services companies. <br /> <br />Prior to joining Microsoft he acted as a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, and System Integrator. He has also authored several computer books and white papers. He is the Founder and President of the New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and a member of the IASA International Board of Directors He is also Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, co-founder of the Windows Azure User Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups.

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  Mike Cramer

  Principal Architect Evangleist

  Mike Cramer is an Architect supporting customers in the Northeast in the use of the Microsoft platform, working for a group within Microsoft known as Developer and Platform Evangelism(DPE). He has an extensive background of over 25 years in the area of automated design and development technologies. Prior to Microsoft he had been working for a company, Netwise, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. Netwise was a small company in the enterprise middleware market and his role was to assist customer’s in their design and use of this platform to achieve interoperability across their applications which ran on a variety of platforms. Earlier in his career he assisted in the development and initial go to market of one of the most widely adopted code generators in the industry, a product called Telon, which at the time targeted the IBM Mainframe platform. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from North Adams State College.

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  Allan da Costa Pinto

  Architect Evangelist

  Allan da Costa Pinto recently celebrated 10 years with Microsoft. In that time he has worked in several roles ranging from software consulting to support to technical evangelism. He is currently an Architect Evangelist focused on jumpstarting software projects with Microsoft’s cutting edge technologies such as Windows 7, Windows Azure and Silverlight. He lives in Hartford CT with his amazing wife, 2 kids, and 1 cat.

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Delaware

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  Max Zilberman

  Architect Evangelist

  Max Zilberman is an Architect Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic. In his role he concentrates primarily on the technology innovation using next generation of technologies on the Microsoft Developer Platform. With core competency and focus on Azure Services Max also covers Silverlight and Visual Studio, among a few other technologies. With Financial, Healthcare and Public Safety background, Max has broad understanding of challenges faced by customers and how technology can change an industry.<br />

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Florida

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  Jeff Barnes

  Principal Architect Evangelist

  Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Greater Southeast District, where he engages with the local Architect and partner community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 11 years and has spent over 7 of those years as an Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked for several large financial, manufacturing, and retail companies in South Florida. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of tough technical challenges.

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• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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• Chad Brooks

  Architect Evangelist

  Chad Brooks is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation. He works with Enterprise customers across the entire Southeast to define Systems Architecture around Microsoft products and how those products can fit into today's heterogeneous environments. Chad joined the Microsoft, Healthcare and Life Sciences Services Group in 2000, where he was responsible for architecting .NET-based solutions for some of Microsoft's largest pharmaceutical and hospital customers. Chad is based in Atlanta, GA.<br />

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Georgia

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  Jeff Barnes

  Principal Architect Evangelist

  Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Greater Southeast District, where he engages with the local Architect and partner community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 11 years and has spent over 7 of those years as an Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked for several large financial, manufacturing, and retail companies in South Florida. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of tough technical challenges.

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• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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• Chad Brooks

  Architect Evangelist

  Chad Brooks is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation. He works with Enterprise customers across the entire Southeast to define Systems Architecture around Microsoft products and how those products can fit into today's heterogeneous environments. Chad joined the Microsoft, Healthcare and Life Sciences Services Group in 2000, where he was responsible for architecting .NET-based solutions for some of Microsoft's largest pharmaceutical and hospital customers. Chad is based in Atlanta, GA.<br />

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Hawaii

• Kevin Boyle

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Kevin Boyle started at Microsoft in 1991. He was part of the team that created Visual C++ 1.0 and went on to lead the 150 person product team through the release of version 5.0. In 1996, Kevin helped found a team to create Internet Explorer for UNIX. Before leaving corporate, Kevin headed up a special UNIX compatibility effort which morphed into the new Windows Power Shell shipped with Exchange 12. Kevin started in his current role in Southern California in 2003. He advises both the fastest growing and largest companies in the Los Angeles area on how to get the most business value from Microsoft's platform. These customers include American Honda Motor, Newegg, and Hulu. In 2006 he was named Microsoft's Architect Evangelist of The Year. Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. He recently completed a Management Development program at UCLA's Anderson School of Business.

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• David Chou

  Architect Evangelist

  David Chou is an architect at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as cloud computing, SOA, Web, RIA, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture. As an expert on Windows Azure Platform, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how “Software plus Services” fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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Idaho

• Sam Chenaur

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Sam Chenaur is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft in the Pacific Northwest based out of Bellevue, WA. Sam collaborates with customer and partner software architects in the local community, and he is evangelizes the latest technologies from Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Sam held positions with NetUpdate as a Director of Development and Architecture, Avion Systems as Director of Technology, and Ariba as a J2EE Architect and Sales Engineer. Prior to Ariba, Sam performed services as a Sr. Consultant, Project Manager, and Technical Architect for Computer Associates in Atlanta, GA. Sam has supported Fortune 500 clients for the likes of Nike, Safeco, Nordstrom, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Sprint, Bellsouth, Georgia-Pacific, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Heery International. Sam obtained his Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was also multi-year letterman in the varsity Track Field competing as a Decathlete and Triple-Jumper.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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Illinois

• Wade Wegner

  Architect Evangelist

  Wade Wegner is an architect in the Developer Platform Evangelism division at Microsoft, tasked to collaborate with organizations in the advanced and emergent areas of enterprise architecture, SOA, Web 2.0, and cloud computing, as well as to support decision makers on defining technology adoption strategies. Drawing on his deep background in IT consulting, Wade enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies and solution architectures.

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Indiana

• Wade Wegner

  Architect Evangelist

  Wade Wegner is an architect in the Developer Platform Evangelism division at Microsoft, tasked to collaborate with organizations in the advanced and emergent areas of enterprise architecture, SOA, Web 2.0, and cloud computing, as well as to support decision makers on defining technology adoption strategies. Drawing on his deep background in IT consulting, Wade enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies and solution architectures.

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Kansas

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  Clint Edmonson

  Architect Evangelist

  For Clint, it's all about the architects. He was educated as a mechanical engineer, but quickly saw the error of his ways and has spent his entire 17-year career in software development, preparing for his current role as an architect evangelist. Clint has applied his expertise to a wide range of industries, including utilities, education, call centers, construction, and beer brewing (tough assignment, Clint!). When he’s not deep in a conversation or delivering presentations on software layering, Clint enjoys studying game design and 3D game engine architecture.

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Massachusetts

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  Bob Familiar

  Architect Evangelist

  Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Bob is a liaison to the architect and developer community providing on-line content and in-person seminars covering topics related to application platform development, technologies, tools and architectures. Bob has been with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the software industry for 24. Bob holds a patent in Object/Relational Design and obtained a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Bob is also a musician; a composer, arranger and producer. You can check out his music projects at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bobfamiliar.com/">http://www.bobfamiliar.com</a>.

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  Mike Cramer

  Principal Architect Evangleist

  Mike Cramer is an Architect supporting customers in the Northeast in the use of the Microsoft platform, working for a group within Microsoft known as Developer and Platform Evangelism(DPE). He has an extensive background of over 25 years in the area of automated design and development technologies. Prior to Microsoft he had been working for a company, Netwise, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. Netwise was a small company in the enterprise middleware market and his role was to assist customer’s in their design and use of this platform to achieve interoperability across their applications which ran on a variety of platforms. Earlier in his career he assisted in the development and initial go to market of one of the most widely adopted code generators in the industry, a product called Telon, which at the time targeted the IBM Mainframe platform. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from North Adams State College.

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• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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  Allan da Costa Pinto

  Architect Evangelist

  Allan da Costa Pinto recently celebrated 10 years with Microsoft. In that time he has worked in several roles ranging from software consulting to support to technical evangelism. He is currently an Architect Evangelist focused on jumpstarting software projects with Microsoft’s cutting edge technologies such as Windows 7, Windows Azure and Silverlight. He lives in Hartford CT with his amazing wife, 2 kids, and 1 cat.

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Maryland

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  Zhiming Xue

  Sr. Architect Evangelist

  Zhiming Xue “Z is a senior Microsoft Architect Evangelist, based in the Washington DC area. He works with enterprise customers to help architect business solutions using Microsoft products and technologies, while maintaining an online communication with developers and architects through his MSDN blog and the ArCast.TV program at Microsoft Channel9. During his tenure with Microsoft Services, he played technical and architectural roles on many large-scale projects for customers in the commercial sector and the public sector. He has presented various topics at Microsoft events including TechEd China and local community events. He holds a Ph. D. in Management Science from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a professional certification from American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), and several Microsoft certifications.

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• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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  Max Zilberman

  Architect Evangelist

  Max Zilberman is an Architect Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic. In his role he concentrates primarily on the technology innovation using next generation of technologies on the Microsoft Developer Platform. With core competency and focus on Azure Services Max also covers Silverlight and Visual Studio, among a few other technologies. With Financial, Healthcare and Public Safety background, Max has broad understanding of challenges faced by customers and how technology can change an industry.<br />

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Maine

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  Bob Familiar

  Architect Evangelist

  Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Bob is a liaison to the architect and developer community providing on-line content and in-person seminars covering topics related to application platform development, technologies, tools and architectures. Bob has been with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the software industry for 24. Bob holds a patent in Object/Relational Design and obtained a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Bob is also a musician; a composer, arranger and producer. You can check out his music projects at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bobfamiliar.com/">http://www.bobfamiliar.com</a>.

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  Mike Cramer

  Principal Architect Evangleist

  Mike Cramer is an Architect supporting customers in the Northeast in the use of the Microsoft platform, working for a group within Microsoft known as Developer and Platform Evangelism(DPE). He has an extensive background of over 25 years in the area of automated design and development technologies. Prior to Microsoft he had been working for a company, Netwise, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. Netwise was a small company in the enterprise middleware market and his role was to assist customer’s in their design and use of this platform to achieve interoperability across their applications which ran on a variety of platforms. Earlier in his career he assisted in the development and initial go to market of one of the most widely adopted code generators in the industry, a product called Telon, which at the time targeted the IBM Mainframe platform. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from North Adams State College.

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Minnesota

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  Clint Edmonson

  Architect Evangelist

  For Clint, it's all about the architects. He was educated as a mechanical engineer, but quickly saw the error of his ways and has spent his entire 17-year career in software development, preparing for his current role as an architect evangelist. Clint has applied his expertise to a wide range of industries, including utilities, education, call centers, construction, and beer brewing (tough assignment, Clint!). When he’s not deep in a conversation or delivering presentations on software layering, Clint enjoys studying game design and 3D game engine architecture.

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Missouri

• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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  Clint Edmonson

  Architect Evangelist

  For Clint, it's all about the architects. He was educated as a mechanical engineer, but quickly saw the error of his ways and has spent his entire 17-year career in software development, preparing for his current role as an architect evangelist. Clint has applied his expertise to a wide range of industries, including utilities, education, call centers, construction, and beer brewing (tough assignment, Clint!). When he’s not deep in a conversation or delivering presentations on software layering, Clint enjoys studying game design and 3D game engine architecture.

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Mississippi

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  Jeff Barnes

  Principal Architect Evangelist

  Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Greater Southeast District, where he engages with the local Architect and partner community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 11 years and has spent over 7 of those years as an Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked for several large financial, manufacturing, and retail companies in South Florida. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of tough technical challenges.

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• Chad Brooks

  Architect Evangelist

  Chad Brooks is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation. He works with Enterprise customers across the entire Southeast to define Systems Architecture around Microsoft products and how those products can fit into today's heterogeneous environments. Chad joined the Microsoft, Healthcare and Life Sciences Services Group in 2000, where he was responsible for architecting .NET-based solutions for some of Microsoft's largest pharmaceutical and hospital customers. Chad is based in Atlanta, GA.<br />

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North Carolina

• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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New Hampshire

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  Bob Familiar

  Architect Evangelist

  Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Bob is a liaison to the architect and developer community providing on-line content and in-person seminars covering topics related to application platform development, technologies, tools and architectures. Bob has been with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the software industry for 24. Bob holds a patent in Object/Relational Design and obtained a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Bob is also a musician; a composer, arranger and producer. You can check out his music projects at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bobfamiliar.com/">http://www.bobfamiliar.com</a>.

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  Mike Cramer

  Principal Architect Evangleist

  Mike Cramer is an Architect supporting customers in the Northeast in the use of the Microsoft platform, working for a group within Microsoft known as Developer and Platform Evangelism(DPE). He has an extensive background of over 25 years in the area of automated design and development technologies. Prior to Microsoft he had been working for a company, Netwise, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. Netwise was a small company in the enterprise middleware market and his role was to assist customer’s in their design and use of this platform to achieve interoperability across their applications which ran on a variety of platforms. Earlier in his career he assisted in the development and initial go to market of one of the most widely adopted code generators in the industry, a product called Telon, which at the time targeted the IBM Mainframe platform. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from North Adams State College.

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New Jersey

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  Bill Zack

  Principal Architect Evangelist

  Bill Zack is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. He comes to this role after serving as a Solutions Architect in the Financial Services Unit of Microsoft Consulting Services. His experience includes developing, supporting and evangelizing .NET/SOA based frameworks used to jump-start development projects for financial services companies. <br /> <br />Prior to joining Microsoft he acted as a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, and System Integrator. He has also authored several computer books and white papers. He is the Founder and President of the New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and a member of the IASA International Board of Directors He is also Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, co-founder of the Windows Azure User Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups.

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• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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• Jim Cirone

  Architect Evangelist

  Jim Cirone is an Architect Evangelist serving the NY Metro area. In his role he works directly with clients to help them identify opportunities where they can leverage our new and emerging technologies to build compelling and innovative solutions. Jim spent his first 10 years at Microsoft in their Services organization and has been in the Developer and Platform Evangelism group ever since.

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New Mexico

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  Joe Shirey

  Prinicpal Architect Evangelist

  Joe Shirey is a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on working with Microsoft's customers, partners, and community in the Denver and Utah markets. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe served as Vice President and General Manager at Interlink Group, a regional systems integrator based in Denver. He also has been a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board, and sat on the .NET Partner Advisory Council. Joe attained his Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions in 2005.

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Nevada

• David Chou

  Architect Evangelist

  David Chou is an architect at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as cloud computing, SOA, Web, RIA, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture. As an expert on Windows Azure Platform, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how “Software plus Services” fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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  Joe Shirey

  Prinicpal Architect Evangelist

  Joe Shirey is a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on working with Microsoft's customers, partners, and community in the Denver and Utah markets. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe served as Vice President and General Manager at Interlink Group, a regional systems integrator based in Denver. He also has been a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board, and sat on the .NET Partner Advisory Council. Joe attained his Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions in 2005.

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New York

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  Bob Familiar

  Architect Evangelist

  Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Bob is a liaison to the architect and developer community providing on-line content and in-person seminars covering topics related to application platform development, technologies, tools and architectures. Bob has been with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the software industry for 24. Bob holds a patent in Object/Relational Design and obtained a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Bob is also a musician; a composer, arranger and producer. You can check out his music projects at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bobfamiliar.com/">http://www.bobfamiliar.com</a>.

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  Bill Zack

  Principal Architect Evangelist

  Bill Zack is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. He comes to this role after serving as a Solutions Architect in the Financial Services Unit of Microsoft Consulting Services. His experience includes developing, supporting and evangelizing .NET/SOA based frameworks used to jump-start development projects for financial services companies. <br /> <br />Prior to joining Microsoft he acted as a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, and System Integrator. He has also authored several computer books and white papers. He is the Founder and President of the New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and a member of the IASA International Board of Directors He is also Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, co-founder of the Windows Azure User Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups.

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• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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• Jim Cirone

  Architect Evangelist

  Jim Cirone is an Architect Evangelist serving the NY Metro area. In his role he works directly with clients to help them identify opportunities where they can leverage our new and emerging technologies to build compelling and innovative solutions. Jim spent his first 10 years at Microsoft in their Services organization and has been in the Developer and Platform Evangelism group ever since.

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  Allan da Costa Pinto

  Architect Evangelist

  Allan da Costa Pinto recently celebrated 10 years with Microsoft. In that time he has worked in several roles ranging from software consulting to support to technical evangelism. He is currently an Architect Evangelist focused on jumpstarting software projects with Microsoft’s cutting edge technologies such as Windows 7, Windows Azure and Silverlight. He lives in Hartford CT with his amazing wife, 2 kids, and 1 cat.

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Oregon

• Sam Chenaur

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Sam Chenaur is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft in the Pacific Northwest based out of Bellevue, WA. Sam collaborates with customer and partner software architects in the local community, and he is evangelizes the latest technologies from Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Sam held positions with NetUpdate as a Director of Development and Architecture, Avion Systems as Director of Technology, and Ariba as a J2EE Architect and Sales Engineer. Prior to Ariba, Sam performed services as a Sr. Consultant, Project Manager, and Technical Architect for Computer Associates in Atlanta, GA. Sam has supported Fortune 500 clients for the likes of Nike, Safeco, Nordstrom, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Sprint, Bellsouth, Georgia-Pacific, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Heery International. Sam obtained his Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was also multi-year letterman in the varsity Track Field competing as a Decathlete and Triple-Jumper.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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Pennsylvania

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  Zhiming Xue

  Sr. Architect Evangelist

  Zhiming Xue “Z is a senior Microsoft Architect Evangelist, based in the Washington DC area. He works with enterprise customers to help architect business solutions using Microsoft products and technologies, while maintaining an online communication with developers and architects through his MSDN blog and the ArCast.TV program at Microsoft Channel9. During his tenure with Microsoft Services, he played technical and architectural roles on many large-scale projects for customers in the commercial sector and the public sector. He has presented various topics at Microsoft events including TechEd China and local community events. He holds a Ph. D. in Management Science from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a professional certification from American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), and several Microsoft certifications.

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• Joe Cleaver

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Joe Cleaver is a Platform Strategy Advisor for the East Coast, focusing on Financial Services in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft. In this role, Joe is responsible for articulating the business value of .NET platform adoption and helping key customers in early adoption of new and upcoming Microsoft technologies. Joe also helps to understand current issues and trends that top tier Financial Services customers are contemplating, and working closely with other groups within Microsoft, helps to bridge those issues and trends with Microsoft platform solutions. Joe joined Microsoft in 2006 after nearly 10 years in Financial Services, and has held senior consultant as well as officer roles in top tier Financial Services Firms. His experience includes strategic analysis and management in areas such as anti-money laundering compliance IT, investment banking IT, and software quality, to name a few.

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  Max Zilberman

  Architect Evangelist

  Max Zilberman is an Architect Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic. In his role he concentrates primarily on the technology innovation using next generation of technologies on the Microsoft Developer Platform. With core competency and focus on Azure Services Max also covers Silverlight and Visual Studio, among a few other technologies. With Financial, Healthcare and Public Safety background, Max has broad understanding of challenges faced by customers and how technology can change an industry.<br />

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Rhode Island

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  Bob Familiar

  Architect Evangelist

  Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Bob is a liaison to the architect and developer community providing on-line content and in-person seminars covering topics related to application platform development, technologies, tools and architectures. Bob has been with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the software industry for 24. Bob holds a patent in Object/Relational Design and obtained a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Bob is also a musician; a composer, arranger and producer. You can check out his music projects at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bobfamiliar.com/">http://www.bobfamiliar.com</a>.

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  Mike Cramer

  Principal Architect Evangleist

  Mike Cramer is an Architect supporting customers in the Northeast in the use of the Microsoft platform, working for a group within Microsoft known as Developer and Platform Evangelism(DPE). He has an extensive background of over 25 years in the area of automated design and development technologies. Prior to Microsoft he had been working for a company, Netwise, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. Netwise was a small company in the enterprise middleware market and his role was to assist customer’s in their design and use of this platform to achieve interoperability across their applications which ran on a variety of platforms. Earlier in his career he assisted in the development and initial go to market of one of the most widely adopted code generators in the industry, a product called Telon, which at the time targeted the IBM Mainframe platform. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from North Adams State College.

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Utah

• David Chou

  Architect Evangelist

  David Chou is an architect at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as cloud computing, SOA, Web, RIA, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture. As an expert on Windows Azure Platform, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how “Software plus Services” fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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  Joe Shirey

  Prinicpal Architect Evangelist

  Joe Shirey is a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on working with Microsoft's customers, partners, and community in the Denver and Utah markets. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe served as Vice President and General Manager at Interlink Group, a regional systems integrator based in Denver. He also has been a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board, and sat on the .NET Partner Advisory Council. Joe attained his Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions in 2005.

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Virginia

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  Zhiming Xue

  Sr. Architect Evangelist

  Zhiming Xue “Z is a senior Microsoft Architect Evangelist, based in the Washington DC area. He works with enterprise customers to help architect business solutions using Microsoft products and technologies, while maintaining an online communication with developers and architects through his MSDN blog and the ArCast.TV program at Microsoft Channel9. During his tenure with Microsoft Services, he played technical and architectural roles on many large-scale projects for customers in the commercial sector and the public sector. He has presented various topics at Microsoft events including TechEd China and local community events. He holds a Ph. D. in Management Science from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a professional certification from American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), and several Microsoft certifications.

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  Max Zilberman

  Architect Evangelist

  Max Zilberman is an Architect Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic. In his role he concentrates primarily on the technology innovation using next generation of technologies on the Microsoft Developer Platform. With core competency and focus on Azure Services Max also covers Silverlight and Visual Studio, among a few other technologies. With Financial, Healthcare and Public Safety background, Max has broad understanding of challenges faced by customers and how technology can change an industry.<br />

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Vermont

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  Bob Familiar

  Architect Evangelist

  Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Bob is a liaison to the architect and developer community providing on-line content and in-person seminars covering topics related to application platform development, technologies, tools and architectures. Bob has been with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the software industry for 24. Bob holds a patent in Object/Relational Design and obtained a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Bob is also a musician; a composer, arranger and producer. You can check out his music projects at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bobfamiliar.com/">http://www.bobfamiliar.com</a>.

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  Mike Cramer

  Principal Architect Evangleist

  Mike Cramer is an Architect supporting customers in the Northeast in the use of the Microsoft platform, working for a group within Microsoft known as Developer and Platform Evangelism(DPE). He has an extensive background of over 25 years in the area of automated design and development technologies. Prior to Microsoft he had been working for a company, Netwise, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. Netwise was a small company in the enterprise middleware market and his role was to assist customer’s in their design and use of this platform to achieve interoperability across their applications which ran on a variety of platforms. Earlier in his career he assisted in the development and initial go to market of one of the most widely adopted code generators in the industry, a product called Telon, which at the time targeted the IBM Mainframe platform. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from North Adams State College.

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Washington

• Sam Chenaur

  Platform Strategy Advisor

  Sam Chenaur is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft in the Pacific Northwest based out of Bellevue, WA. Sam collaborates with customer and partner software architects in the local community, and he is evangelizes the latest technologies from Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Sam held positions with NetUpdate as a Director of Development and Architecture, Avion Systems as Director of Technology, and Ariba as a J2EE Architect and Sales Engineer. Prior to Ariba, Sam performed services as a Sr. Consultant, Project Manager, and Technical Architect for Computer Associates in Atlanta, GA. Sam has supported Fortune 500 clients for the likes of Nike, Safeco, Nordstrom, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Sprint, Bellsouth, Georgia-Pacific, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Heery International. Sam obtained his Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was also multi-year letterman in the varsity Track Field competing as a Decathlete and Triple-Jumper.

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• Scott Kerfoot

  Senior Director - Evangelism

  A veteran of Software and Information Technology since 1983, Scott Kerfoot has worked at Microsoft Corporation since November 2000. Since July of 2006 Scott has been the West Region Director of Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. He manages the team of Architect Evangelists, User Experience Evangelists and Platform Strategy Advisors that engage with strategic customers building leading edge solutions using emerging Microsoft technology across the Western US. Scott and his team enable these businesses to architect and build solutions based on the Microsoft Platform that reduce costs, increase profits and offer high quality solutions that are more Secure, with Richer End-User Experiences, Improved Reliability, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability and seamless Integration with Existing Systems. Prior to his role as Director of Strategy, he worked as a Principal Architect Evangelist, communicating the value, technologies and architecture of the Microsoft Platform to key customers in Southern California. For the 17 years prior to joining Microsoft, Scott owned and operated a successful Software and Consulting business based in Southern California.

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  Jeet Jagasia

  Principal Architect

  Jeet Jagasia is a Microsoft Architect and works with Public Sector Government customers in the west region. Jeet covers Microsoft's leading-edge technologies from an architecture perspective, and enjoys collaborating with customers on delivering solutions with best practices. Jeet has been with Microsoft for the last 7-8 years, and lives in sunny CA.

Wisconsin

• Wade Wegner

  Architect Evangelist

  Wade Wegner is an architect in the Developer Platform Evangelism division at Microsoft, tasked to collaborate with organizations in the advanced and emergent areas of enterprise architecture, SOA, Web 2.0, and cloud computing, as well as to support decision makers on defining technology adoption strategies. Drawing on his deep background in IT consulting, Wade enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies and solution architectures.

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