Meet the members of our Microsoft Australia and New Zealand Architecture team.
Nigel Watson
Nigel Watson (blog) is an Architect Advisor for Microsoft Australia, and works with the software architecture community in Melbourne. His role is to help build awareness of Microsoft's platform, tools and architectural practices, while showing how these may be leveraged to provide value in heterogeneous enterprise environments.
Prior to joining Microsoft four years ago, Nigel worked in a range of software engineering roles over a period of nine years - mostly on Unix-based platforms, and mostly in C++ and Java. Specialising in protocols and messaging, his work included development, design and architecture of network-based software systems in the telecommunications and finance industries. Nigel holds a Masters degree in Computer Science (specialising in network and application security) from the University Of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Jorke Odolphi
Jorke Odolphi (blog) is a Web Platform Architect Evangelist for Microsoft Australia, and works in the technical community of Web Hosting Providers.
Jorke has previously worked with large service providers in a variety of roles specialising in the deployment and management of Microsoft technologies in multi-tenancy situations - particularly with IIS, .NET, SharePoint and other web-based applications.
He loves talking about datacentre optimisation, saas, S+S and the ideas of green technology in the datacentre.
Greg Willis
Greg Willis (blog) is an Architect Advisor within the Microsoft DPE team with over 15 years commercial experience in the IT, telecoms, media and finance industries. He joined Microsoft Australia in 2004.
Greg’s previous experience includes architecting high-traffic (and in other cases high-hype) web sites in the halcyon days of Web 1.0 before the web world generally worried about such trivial matters as business models, revenue etc.
He now focuses a lot of his time on Software + Services and Web 2.0 and their application in enterprise architectures. He also has an on-going fascination with the media industry and cool technology like Silverlight.