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Eric Rudder
In September 2005, Microsoft announced that Senior Vice President Eric Rudder will
be taking on a new role working directly for Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and
chief software architect. Rudder focuses on some of the company’s key advanced development
efforts as well as overall technical strategy. Rudder most recently served as senior
vice president of Servers and Tools, and was also responsible for leading the company's
outreach to the developer community. Rudder and his team focused on coordinating
the overall programming model for the client and server, creating the best tools
for the .NET platform and fostering synergies between Windows and the Windows Server
System offerings. In addition, the division evangelizes the extended Microsoft platform
through a variety of content offerings including providing effective web-based training
for developers and IT managers. Prior to leading the Developer and Platform Evangelism
division, Rudder was vice president of Technical Strategy working directly with
Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Microsoft's technical planning
processes. He also has worked in several other areas at Microsoft, including networking,
operating systems and developer tools, where he previously served as general manager
for Visual Studio. Rudder graduated with honors from Brown University in 1988, and
currently lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
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Justin Graham
a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Windows Server BG. I concentrate on making
sure IT Professionals get all the information they need regarding Windows Server
technologies and the 2008 Launch Wave Previously I was an Account Technology Specialist
covering 42 accounts in the Boston and Northern New England Area. I covered industries
such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and professional services.
My previous roles at Microsoft include Senior Premier Field Engineer and Support
Professional. My technical specialities are Directory and Identity technologies
along with anything Windows Server/Client. I live in Seattle, WA (Belltown). In
the winter you will find in Whistler, BC, Canadawith my 177 Volkl Mantras strapped
to my feet. In the summer you will find me trail braking and apexing turns in my
Mazda RX-8 or swinging my Taylor Made clubs on a golf course.
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Amit Goyal
Amit is a Lead Program Manager for SQL Server Reporting Services. He has 10+ yrs
background in data warehousing, analytics and reporting tools at Oracle, Broadbase,
Yahoo! and Microsoft. If more info is needed, my professional profile is at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/amitgoyalmsft
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Shai Ofek
Shai Ofek is a Lead Technical Product Manager in the Technology Strategy Group within
Microsoft’s Windows Server Division, focused on Microsoft virtualization technologies
and server consolidation initiatives. He is an experienced architect of diverse
technologies including directory services, systems management, secured environments,
hardware platforms, datacenter design, as well as others. Currently Ofek is involved
in several projects including development of a strategic (heterogeneous) platform
standardization, planning for the next generation datacenter, system and server
consolidation using virtualization, applying high performance computing for extended
and other computation initiatives. Prior to this role Ofek was a senior consultant
with Microsoft Consulting Services, where he applied his knowledge of Windows Server
technologies to deploy products in organizations ranging from 50 to 10,000 servers.
His involvement in projects covered a variety of industries including financial
services, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, academia, defense and security organizations,
as well as small businesses. Before joining Microsoft, Ofek held key strategic positions
in the following organizations: Sumitomo Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Time Warner, as
well as other Fortune 100 companies. Ofek’s experience with computer technologies
started with his service in the Israeli Army in 1988.
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Allen Stewart
Allen Stewart is a principal program manager in the Windows Server Division Customer
Advisory team, which focuses on key Windows Server technologies. Allen focuses on
Microsoft virtualization technologies, such as hardware virtualization, virtualization
management, and application virtualization. He works directly with customers who
are architecting complex, cutting-edge, cross-product solutions based on Microsoft
virtualization technologies. He also works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization
product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption programs, white papers,
and feature planning. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory
Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization
scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors
of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program.
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Christof Sprenger
Christof Sprenger is an Architect Evangelist at the Architecture Strategy Team at
Microsoft. Before Microsoft he worked as an trainer and later as the software development
lead at an independent software vendor. He has been with Microsoft for over 7 years
and gained a lot of experience in customer engagements around distributed software
development and web applications. In 2006 he joined the Architecture Strategy team
at Microsoft Corporation and is now focusing on User Experience for software architects.
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Dave Probert
Dave Probert is a kernel architect within the Windows Core Operating Systems Division
at Microsoft where he is currently working on the next generations of Windows. Dave
is also the architect for the Windows Academic Program, developing both the WRK
package and ProjectOZ. Previously Dave managed kernel development for Windows, starting
with the Windows 2000 release. Dave joined Microsoft in 1996, after earning his
Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara developing the SPACE
project with Prof. John Bruno. His prior industry experience includes serving as
Vice President of Software Engineering at Culler Scientific Systems, consulting
for various companies on UNIX kernel internals, and working as a systems architect
at Burroughs Corporation designing hardware and writing microcode for the B1900.
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Glenn Block
Glenn Block is the Technical Product Planner for the Client UX program at patterns
& practices. As Product Planner he is responsible for driving the vision and creation
of p&p client deliverables including the Web Client and Smart Client software factories.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Glenn has lived in various roles being "in the trenches"
with developers, including being responsible for the overall architecture and technology
direction. He has worked in both large and small organizations building enterprise
systems for financial services, manufacturing, and print & mail on multiple platforms
including .NET and Java. His technology passions are in software frameworks, architecture
and systems integration. He resides with his wife and 3 year old daughter in Seattle
(his other passion).
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Luke Hoban
Luke Hoban is the Program Manager for F#. Before moving to the F# team, Luke was
the Program Manager for the C# Compiler, working on C#3.0 and LINQ, which were recently
released with Visual Studio 2008. Prior to that, Luke worked with the C# IDE group,
and was responsible for the Visual Studio Express line of products which were launched
in VS2005. He is very excited to be working on the F# programming language now,
and is looking forward to bringing F# into the collection of first-class languages
for .NET
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Matthew Winkler
Matt Winkler is a program manger on the Connected Tools team at Microsoft Corporation
designing the the Windows Workflow Foundation designer for Oslo. He holds a Bachelor
of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Denison University in Ohio,
and a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.
His blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle
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Pablo Castro
Pablo is a Technical Lead in the SQL Server team. He has contributed extensively
to several areas of SQL Server and the .NET Framework including SQL-CLR integration,
SQL type-system extensibility, the TDS client-server protocol and the ADO.NET API.
Pablo is currently involved with the development of the ADO.NET Entity Framework
and also leads the Astoria project, looking at how to bring data and web technologies
together. Before joining Microsoft Pablo worked in various companies on a broad
set of topics that range from distributed inference systems for credit scoring/risk
analysis to collaboration and groupware applications.
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Tim Stevens
Tim has been involved in enterprise architecture, integration and telecoms for 10
years. He has been involved in systems as diverse as Data Warehousing, SOA implementation
and bus technologies; his current work with British Telecom is within the team responsible
for the design, implementation and roll out of its telecoms SDK.
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Daniel Moth
Daniel Moth has been working in the UK for Microsoft in the Developer & Platform
group since April 2006. Daniel gets to "play" with the latest and greatest Microsoft
software and then explains and demonstrates it via his blog, articles, webcasts,
screencasts, online chats and in person at developer events! Before joining Microsoft,
he worked for a large consultancy and before that in an R&D department. In addition
to significant industry experience, he holds a BSc in Computing for Business, an
MSc with distinction in Object Oriented Software Technology, Microsoft certifications
and he has been working with .NET since the first public beta in 2000. He gained
the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his community contributions in 2004
and 2005. Daniel is the co-author of the "Mobile Development Handbook" available
from Microsoft Press. Reach him at http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog
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Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum is the program manager for the Visual Basic Editor, Debugger, and
Performance. Her team is responsible for features such as intelliSense, error correction,
edit-and-continue, code snippets, and go to definition. Lisa has spoken at internal
Microsoft conferences, and at .Net user groups in Seattle, Portland, and Ra’anana
(Israel). She has been featured on Microsoft Channel9 and VB webcasts, and blogs
on the VB team blog:http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/.
She has been a member of the Visual Basic team since 2004. Before that she earned
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Asli Bilgin
Asli Bilgin serves a Developer Evangelist on the Microsoft Financial Services Industry
Platform team in New York City. She works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise customers
on Wall Street to advise them on the latest advancements with Microsoft development
software. She is an industry recognized speaker and serves as a contributing editor
to various technical publications. She also serves on the Corporate Partnership
Council board for the Society of Women Engineers. She has authored the book: Mastering
Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET (Sybex), which has been translated into
six languages and serves as the curriculum for college and post-graduate institutions
in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, and India.
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Ron Jacobs
Ron Jacobs is an Architect Evangelist in the Microsoft Architecture Strategy group
based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington. Since 1999 Ron has been
a product and program manager on various Microsoft products including the .Net Framework,
Windows Communication Foundation and COM+. A top-rated conference speaker, author
and host of the podcast show ARCast.TV, Ron brings over 20 years of industry experience
to his role of helping Microsoft customers and partners to build architecturally
sound and secure applications
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Shy Cohen
Shy Cohen is a program manager in the Distributed Systems Group at Microsoft. Shy
joined Microsoft Israel in 1996 and moved to Corporate Headquarters in 1999. During
his time at Microsoft Shy worked on different technologies at different groups in
the company, always staying true to his passion for distributed computing. For the
past five years, Shy has focused his time on designing several of the technical
and architectural aspects of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and today he
focuses on deep customer interactions, directs his attention to aspects relating
to the creation of distributed systems, and provides guidance on distributed systems,
SOA, Web Services, and workflow technologies.
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Ofer Ashkenazi
Ofer Ashkenazi is a senior technical product manager for BizTalk Server with Connected
Systems Division Marketing at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Ofer served as
the Microsoft Regional Director for BizTalk Server in Israel for 3 years, helping
IT professionals and developers to successfully implement enterprise integration
solutions with BizTalk Server. At the same time, Ofer managed a consulting, training
and professional services business based on BizTalk Server for a Microsoft partner.
Ofer possesses broad technical expertise and practical experience that stems from
a 19 year career that focuses on integration themes: Enterprise Application Integration,
Data Integration, Legacy Modernization, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and
Business Process Management (BPM).
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David Chappell
David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California.
Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps IT professionals around
the world understand, use, and make better decisions about enterprise software.
David has been the keynote speaker for dozens of conferences and events in the U.S.,
Europe, Asia, and Latin America. His popular seminars have been attended by tens
of thousands of developers, architects, and decision makers in forty countries.
He has also spoken at many universities, including the National University of Singapore,
Moscow State University, and Sweden’s Uppsala University. David’s books have been
published in ten languages and used regularly in courses at MIT, ETH Zurich, and
other educational institutions. He is Series Editor for Addison-Wesley’s award-winning
Independent Technology Guides, and he’s been a columnist for several publications.
In his consulting practice, David has helped clients such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Microsoft, Stanford University, and Target Corporation adopt new technologies, market
new products, train their sales staffs, and create business plans. David’s comments
have appeared in The New York Times, CNN.com, and many other publications. Earlier
in his career, he wrote software for supercomputers, chaired a U.S. national standardization
working group, and played keyboards with the Peabody-award-winning Children’s Radio
Theater. David holds a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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