Brad Lovering
Technical Fellow
|
Brad Lovering is a Technical Fellow in the Connected System Division (CSD) where he leads the CSD Architecture and Advanced Development team. He is responsible for the design and oversight of Microsoft application platform technologies and products including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Workflow Foundation (WF), BizTalk Server, and Active Directory. He also currently leads the design of Microsoft’s next generation application platform.
Before he assumed his current role in CSD, Lovering co-founded and led the team responsible for designing Microsoft’s Web Services standards and the corresponding Windows Communication Framework (WCF). Before that that he led the design team for version 1 of Microsoft’s .NET framework and Visual Studio.NET, where he and his team developed the initial ideas behind Web Services as a Web-based framework for interoperable distributed computing.
Lovering joined Microsoft in 1988 after graduating from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He worked on a number of popular developer products, including Microsoft Fortran, VC/C++, Visual Basic, VBA, OLE Automation and VJ++.
