Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out my 45th interview with a thought leader in the “connected technologies” space. This month, we’re talking to Tom Canter who is theDirector of Developmentfor consultancy CCI Tec, a Microsoft “Virtual Technology Specialist (V-TS)” for BizTalk Server, and a smart, grizzled middleware guy. He’s seen it all, and I […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
First of all happy new year!
In this post I would like to summarize how my year 2012 went. For one it has been a very busy year like last year 2011. To summarize all my activity bullet wise:
During 2012 I became good friends with quite a few people. Some of them I visited their homes, wedding and companies. It is great to have Kent Weare, Randal van Splunteren, Richard Seroter, Tord G. Nordahl, Sandro Pereira, Saravana Kumar, Nino Crudele, Johan Hedberg, Mikael Hakanson, Stephen W. Thomas, and Mick Badran as a friend and fellow BizTalk now Microsoft Integration MVP to collaborate with (some of them are in the picture below).
Mikael, Me, Richard, Kent, Johan, Sravana, Stephen, Tord and Mick having a drink at Earls, Bellevue.
February this year I organized a BizTalk innovation event with Saravana as one of the speakers. This turned out to be a success, which was followed up by Nino organizing one in Milan with myself, Saravana, Nino, Tord and Sandro as speakers. Again this turned out to be a successful event. In September Tord (since 1st of January 2013 also a Microsoft Integration MVP) organized a two day BizTalk Innovation event at Bouvet with the same speakers. This turned out to be a huge success.
This year in two weeks from now there will be an event with all of us speaking at the London BizTalk Summit 2013 organized by Saravana, Microsoft UK and BizTalk product group. This will be a great event for us and another possibility to speak as a group, which unofficially is named the “BizTalkCrew” (you’ll sometimes will see the hashtag BizTalkCrew in some of our tweets).
On the personal side I got interested in running and start doing so since April 2012. I have run over 200 miles so far and completed two runs (10 miles in Amsterdam, the Dam-to-Dam run and 9,5 miles in Nijmegen, Seven Hills run).
Running the Seven Hills run (Zevenheuvelen loop, Nijmegen) at 10 kilometers mark.
Besides running I dedicated most of my time with my family and friends, travelling and of course the BizTalk community. Thanks everyone for reading my blog and I will continue to share my knowledge through speaking and writing in 2013.
Cheers,
Steef-Jan
Thanks Microsoft for another wonderful start of New Year. I’m delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2013. For me this is the third time to receive this award and as usual on such occasions, I would like to thank my MVP Lead Cristina Herrero, BizTalk Product Team, Mandi […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program is an annual program awarded by Microsoft for most influential community members in the world. Getting an MVP status in their chosen technology area is a dream for many of the technical professionals. The MVP award is not just restricted to developers, there is no easy way to achieve […]
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Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar
January 1st is one of 4 dates during the year when Microsoft announce their new and renewed Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). As someone that was awarded on January 1st, it means the year starts off with a regular scan of my emails to see if my community contributions have been sufficient to be re-awarded.
Sitting proudly in my Inbox was the much anticipated email confirming that I have once again reached the bar to be an ALM MVP for another year.
In addition to my community contributions, I’ve been very busy with our TFS training curriculum. We start 2013 with 6 TFS 2012 courses, the most comprehensive curriculum for TFS 2012 in the world today. Over the next 3 months we’re also releasing two new courses to bring the total up to 8 courses.
Stay tuned for news on the following two courses.