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Aaron Skonnard Aaron Skonnard is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on XML and Web services technologies on the Microsoft .NET platform including such areas as BizTalk Server 2004 and Indigo. |
Alan Cameron Wills Alan Cameron Wills develops prototypes and ideas in the Enterprise Frameworks and Tools Architecture Group at Microsoft. |
Ali Pasha Ali Pasha is a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group at Microsoft, working on the Distributed System Designers, which are a part of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects. |
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz is the C4ISR product line architect for a leading Israeli systems company - focusing on solution architectures and product line architectures. |
Barry Gervin Barry Gervin is an Architect MVP, a Regional Director, and a Principal Consultant and Instructor with ObjectSharp. |
Beth Massi Beth Massi is an Architect MVP and a Senior Software Architect for GiftRAP Corporation, focused on healthcare software products. |
Bill Gibson Bill Gibson is a program manager and architect in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group at Microsoft, working on the Distributed System Designers, which are a part of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects. |
Bill O'Brien Bill O'Brien is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft working in Ireland with the Irish architectural community and blogging on matters of interest to architects. |
Chris Keyser Chris Keyser is a Solutions Architect on Microsoft’s Partner Strategy Team working with partners on building the next generation of successful enterprise applications. |
Christian Weyer Christian Weyer is an Architect MVP and creator of WsContractFirst from Thinktecture. |
Class Designer Team Blog Class Designer is a fully-functional, visual design environment for the Common Language Runtime classes in Visual Studio. This blog is a forum to communicate with the team members about Class Designer. |
Dare Obasanjo Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager with Microsoft on the database and communications services for the server infrastructure for MSN Messenger, Hotmail, MSN Mobile, and MSN Spaces. |
David Chappell David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, David helps information technology professionals around the world understand, use, market, and make better decisions about enterprise software technologies. |
David Hill David is a Solution Architect on Microsoft's Developer and Partner Evangelism Architecture Strategy Team. |
David Ing David Ing is CTO of Meridian Systems and a member of the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board. |
David White David White is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft focused on architecture in the automotive industry. |
Don Box Don Box is an Architect for XML Messaging at Microsoft currently working on Indigo. |
Doug Purdy Doug Purdy is a Program Manger for Microsoft working on Indigo. |
Ed Jezierski Ed Jezierski is an Architect with Microsoft's Patterns & Practices. |
Eric Sink Eric Sink is the Founder and CEO of SourceGear. |
Gareth Jones Gareth Jones is a Software Engineer on Microsoft's DSL Toolkit Team. |
George Cerbone George Cerbone is an Infrastructure Architect with the US National Architecture Team in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism group. He works with customers and partners on next-generation datacenter design. |
Gerke Geurts Gerke Geurts is an Architect MVP and an independent consultant. |
Grady Booch Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow who has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world. Grady is the author of six best-selling books and has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design. |
Gregor Hohpe Gregor Hohpe leads the enterprise integration competency at ThoughtWorks and is an Architect MVP. |
Ingo Rammer Ingo Rammer is an Architect MVP and consultant with Thinktecture and author of Advanced .NET Remoting. |
Jack Greenfield Jack Greenfield is an Architect in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group at Microsoft. He's a co-author of Software Factories. |
James Newkirk James Newkirk is a Program Manager with Microsoft for GotDotNet and one of the key developers of NUnit. |
Jeff Schneider Jeff Schneider is the founder of Momentum and serves as the practice manager for the Enterprise Architecture Group. |
Jeff Tash Jeff Tash is the ITscout. This blog presents his views on Technology Architecture, Portfolios, and Standards. |
Jeromy Carriere Jeromy Carriere is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist and coauthor with Tim Mallalieu of the paper Enterprise Interoperability: .NET and J2EE. |
Jim Clark Jim Clark has spent more than 30 years in the telecommunications industry and is currently employed by Microsoft Corporation as a technical evangelist within Microsoft's Developer and Partner Evangelism Architecture Strategy Team. |
Jimmy Nilsson Jimmy Nilsson is an Architect MVP. |
Joel Semeniuk Joel Semeniuk is an Architect MVP and Regional Director. |
John Crupi John Crupi is the CTO of the Enterprise Web Service Practice at Sun Microsystems. |
Jon Box Jon Box is an Architect MVP and a Regional Director.
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Josh Lee Josh Lee has been at Microsoft for five years where he leads Microsoft’s architectural strategy for financial services. |
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen Juha-Pekka Tolvanen is the CEO of MetaCase.
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Keith Pleas Keith Pleas is an Architect MVP who works closely with Microsoft's Patterns & Practices. |
Keith Short Keith Short is an Architect with Microsoft's Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group. He's a co-author of Software Factories. |
Kevin W. Hammond Kevin Hammond is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft in the US, focusing on reliable messaging and alternative transports for Web services. |
Klaus Probst Klaus Probst is a senior consultant and distributed systems architect with Spherion Technology Services and an Architect MVP. |
Lewis Curtis Lewis is an IT Advisor with Microsoft's National Architecture Team focusing on next generation datacenter infrastructure architecture for Microsoft. |
Maarten Mullender Maarten Mullender is a solutions architect for the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team; this team is responsible for architectural guidance to enterprise architects. |
Mario Cardinal Listen to Mario Cardinal's Blah Blah Architecture podcast about software architecture. Mario is an Architect MVP and a senior consultant specialized in enterprise application architecture.
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Marley Gray Marley Gray is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft and manager for the .NET Adoption Team.
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Martin Fowler Martin is the Chief Scientist for ThoughtWorks and is a member of the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board.
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Martin Gudgin Martin Gudgin (otherwise known as Gudge) is an Project Manager with Microsoft wording on Indigo. |
Matt Deacon Matt Deacon is an Architect with Microsoft in the UK focusing on strategy level architecture and the development of architectural communities. He currently runs the UK Chapter of the IASA. |
Michael Lehman Michael Lehman works for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Group and worked on the world software factory. |
Michael Stal Michael Stal is a computer engineer and scientist with Siemens Corporate Technology and an Architect MVP. |
Michele Leroux Bustamante Michele Leroux Bustamante is a Regional Director and the IASA Events Director.
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Mike Roberts Mike Roberts works for ThoughtWorks and is the author of Tree Surgeon. |
Omri Gazitt Omri Gazitt describes his job as Product Unit Manager (PUM) of the Advanced Web Services team at Microsoft as really all about establishing Web services as the definitive industry architecture for building interoperable distributed applications. |
Paul Preiss Paul Preiss is the President and Chairman of the International Association of Software Architects and is an Architect MVP. |
Pedro Silva Pedro Silva is a developer with Microsoft on the Domain-Specific Language Tools and the modeling framework for Visual Studio 2005. |
Peter Stanski Peter Standski is an Architect MVP.
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Pierre Greborio Pierre Greborio is chief software architect of PEWay and an Architect MVP.
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Raj Wall Raj Wall is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft in the US focusing on enterprise architecture, software development, project management, and the architect culture and mindset. |
Ralf Westphal Ralf Westphal is a founding associate of Thinktecture, specializing in data-access and developing component oriented software. He is also an Architect MVP.
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Ramesh Rajagopal Ramesh Rajagopal is a Software Engineer with Microsoft on Class Designer.
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Rebecca Dias Rebecca Dias works for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism, focusing on connected systems. |
Rich Turner Rich Turner is a Program Manager with Microsoft working on Indigo. |
Richard Hughes Richard has been with Microsoft for six years and in the IT industry for another fourteen. He is a Program Manager with the Architecture Strategy Team tasked with managing content strategy. |
Rob Caron Rob Caron from Microsoft writes the New Team System Stuff newsletter, covering all the goings on around VSTS. |
Rockford Lhotka Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.
Rockford is the author of several books, including the Expert Visual Basic .NET and C# Business Objects books, a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, and an INETA speaker. He is also a columnist for MSDN Online and contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine. Rockford regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections. |
Sam Gentile Sam Gentile is the Chief .NET Architect at Adesso Systems and is a C# MVP.
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Scott Colestock Scott Colestock is the Chief Architect of Trace Ventures and is a member of the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board.
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Scott Hanselman Scott Hanselman is the Chief Architect for Corillian, focusing on retail banking solutions. He is also an Architect MVP and makes funny videos for TechEd. |
Steve Cook Steve Cook is an architect for Microsoft's DSL Toolkit Team and is a co-author of Software Factories. |
Steve Maine Steve Maine is a Program Manager with Microsoft working on Indigo.
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Steve Vinoski Steve Vinoski is Chief Engineer and Fellow at Iona.
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Steven Kelly Steven Kelly is the CTO of MetaCase. |
Stuart Kent Stuart Kent is a Program Manager at Microsoft working on infrastructure for developing modeling tools. |
Ted Neward Ted Neward is a consultant, and instructor, an Architect MVP. He is also the author of several books including Effective Enterprise Java, SSCLI Essentials and C# in a Nutshell.
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Tim Ewald Tim Ewald is a senior member of Mindreef’s technical staff, focused on best practices for designing and developing Web services and SOA. |
Udi Dahan Udi Dahan is the head of C4ISR Systems Development at KorenTec and known as a primary authority on Service Oriented Architectures in Israel. |
Werner Vogels Werner Vogels is the CTO of Amazon.com. |
William Tay William Tay is an Architect MVP.
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William Zentmayer Bill is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft in the New York City area, focused on connected systems and service orientation. |
Wojtek Kozaczynski Wojtek Kozaczynski is an Architect for Microsoft's Patterns & Practices. |