Giving in to the fact that every blog should be able to tell you something about it’s
author, this post will serve as a bit of introduction to me and give you a little
bit of my history.
My name is Tim Rayburn, and I am currently employed as a Principal Consultant with
Sogeti and I ama Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for BizTalk Server.
I’m fairly heavily involved with the Microsoft community, I am the President of the
Dallas BizTalk User Group, I commonly speak at user groups throughout Texas, Oklahoma,
and Arkansas as well as at conferences such as the Tulsa TechFest, Houston TechFest,
VSLive! Austin, Microsoft TechEd and the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference.
I grew up in New York City, moved with my family to Connecticut when I was entering
the 6th grade, graduated from Glastonbury High School and then after some community
college moved with my family again to the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas where I
reside still today even though much of my family no longer lives in this area.
I do not have a bachelor’s degree, but I have in the past attended Manchester Community
College (in Manchester, CT), and later the University of Texas at Arlington.
I still live in Arlington with my lovely wife Kate and ourAustralian Shepardnamed
Gandalf.
I am a certifiable geek, and unabashedly so. I own multiple gaming consoles,
play table top RPG’s, love board games of all sorts, and still have a weekly gathering
to play D&D (or whatever we’re playing at the moment) with my friends. In
the past I’ve also been deeply involved with a wonderful organization called the Society
for Creative Anachronism, but have not been active with them for many years.
I’m always happy to talk to folks in the community about their latest project or about
coming out to their conference, code camp, code mash, etc. Please feel free
to reach out at Tim@TimRayburn.net if you
have questions or would like me to come out and speak.