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A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that my MVP status has been renewed again. I am now an Azure MVP!

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For me this is the seventh time to receive this award. The sixth year in the program has been again an awesome experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring, very skilled people. I have had some interesting speaking engagement, which were fun to do and were very fulfilling. I learned a lot through speaking thanks to the community and fellow MVP’s. I was able to share my experiences through these speaking gigs and other channels like this blog, MSDN Gallery, and above all the TechNet Wiki.

I would like to thank:

  • My MVP old lead William Jansen, and new MVP lead Tina Stenderup-Larsen.
  • The BizTalk Product Team, Jim Harrer, Ed Price, Mandi Ohlinger, Tord G. NordahlDan RosanovaJon FanceyPaolo Salvatori, and all other Microsoft employees involved.
  • People at my former employers: Rene BrauwersEldert Grootenboer, fellow MVP Edward Bakker and many others.
  • At my current company DutchWorkz : Rutger van Hagen and colleguaes.
  • Fellow Microsoft Integration MVP’s: Richard SeroterKent WeareMikael HåkanssonJohan Hedberg, Saravana KumarNino Crudele, Sandro PereiraStephen W. Thomas, Mick Badran (Azure), Micheal StephensonTomasso GroenendijkNicholas HauensteinSalvatore Pellitteri,Sam VanHoutteGlenn ColpeartBill ChesnutHoward S. Edidin, Martin Abbott, Leonid Ganeline, and Ashwin Prabhu, who I got learn even better and supported me in this program.
  • The BizTalk community: Mikael SandLex HegtColin Meade, Naushad Alam, Johann Cooper, Mark Brimble, Mitch VanHelden, Sven Van den Brande, Jérémy Ronk,  Maxime Labelle, Jean-Paul Smit, Dean Robertson and the collegueaes at Mexia, and many others that make the BizTalk community strong!
  • Andrew Slivker from Sentinet.
  • Finally my wife Lian and children StanEllis and Cato for their support.

I’m looking forward to another great year in the program.

Cheers,

Steef-Jan

Author: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Steef-Jan Wiggers is all in on Microsoft Azure, Integration, and Data Science. He has over 15 years’ experience in a wide variety of scenarios such as custom .NET solution development, overseeing large enterprise integrations, building web services, managing projects, designing web services, experimenting with data, SQL Server database administration, and consulting. Steef-Jan loves challenges in the Microsoft playing field combining it with his domain knowledge in energy, utility, banking, insurance, health care, agriculture, (local) government, bio-sciences, retail, travel and logistics. He is very active in the community as a blogger, TechNet Wiki author, book author, and global public speaker. For these efforts, Microsoft has recognized him a Microsoft MVP for the past 6 years. View all posts by Steef-Jan Wiggers