Wow, October 18, 2005? That was the date of my last post! Well certainly a lot has happened since then! I've had brief "blog post cameos" on my team's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector, but I think it's about time I get back to my roots and start posting. For those of you who've followed my blog, even back when I was on DotnetJunkies.com, you know that I joined Microsoft back in 2005 as a Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center. During my time there, I've had the opportunity to architect some of the coolest solutions on our platform. The desire to further evangelize our platform in delivering robust solutions has landed me as an Architect Evangelist within our Public Sector Developer & Platform Evangelism team where I now work with customers to help them realize the potential of our platform in delivering compelling solutions that tackle many of the business problems that plague organizations today. Still staying true to my SharePoint roots, I've been doing a lot of work helping customers architect Office Business Applications in efforts to exploit the power and flexibility of the 2007 Office System platform for delivering compelling business solutions. In addition, I've also been focusing on helping customer deliver solutions using our take on SaaS (Software as a Service) methodologies with our S+S (Software+Services) initiatives, improving the web user experience with technologies our recently introduced Silverlight platform, as well as continuing to build robust, SOA-enabled enterprise applications using .NET 3.0.
I've had the opportunity to do a number of cool things that I'll be blogging about and I promise to not go on such long "blog sabbaticals" again 