I've been building software solutions for businesses for over 30 years and now focus on helping development teams plan and architect their software. I was a Microsoft Regional Director from 2016-2025 (one of about 150 around the world) with strong ties to a number of teams at Microsoft. I've also been recognized annually as a Microsoft MVP since 2003 until I chose to retire from the program in 2025, for my technical expertise and community involvement. In 2018, I was added to the Docker Captains program.

In addition to coaching and training software teams, I present technical and keynote sessions at software conferences around the world on Microsoft technologies with a focus on Entity Framework and Azure data stores and am excited to be leveraging Microsoft's new direction with cross-platform and open source technologies. My speaking engagements and mentorship also lean heavily on practices from Domain-Driven Design.

I am the author of the highly acclaimed “Programming Entity Framework” books, the MSDN Magazine Data Points column (since 2009) and many popular videos on Pluralsight.com.

While participating in a truly global community, my heart belongs to the tech community in Vermont. I founded the Vermont.NET user group in 2002 and we continue to have monthly meetings all these years later. The .NET community fostered a variety of other tech communities and many of them share our meetup which is over 2000 strong. I initiated the Vermont Code Camp in 2009 and continue to be a lead co-organizer. Our code camp ran as an annual event through 2019, drawing over 250 attendees and speakers across a wide variety of technology stacks and entices quite a few people from other parts of the country to participate as well. I was a founding board member of the Vermont Software Developer Alliance and served on the board for its first 3 critical years. VTSDA has morphed to the Vermont Technical Alliance and is an important player in the Vermont technical business community. I am also an Executive Fellow of BTV Ignite, a partner of the National Science Foundation's US Ignite whose mission is to spark next-gen applications in gigabit enabled communities across the United States.

Feel free to contact me about working with your team on site, remotely or even in Vermont where I live, if you'd like an excuse to visit my beautiful state.

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