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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Howard S. Edidin

The Holiday is over and it is back to work. I opened up my laptop and start working on a story on a remarkable BizTalk pro Howard S. Edidin . He is currently working with me, Tord G. Nordahl and Andres del Rio on BizTalk Administration book due before end of this year. Howard is a very enthusiastic, driven and social person, who I enjoy collaborating with and share ideas on many divers BizTalk topics. So here is another story of a BizTalk community member I like to bring to the foreground. Howard is married and has two grown sons, and two granddaughters. He resides in Libertyville, IL which is a far Northern Suburb of Chicago. Howard has no formal education in IT. He majored in Architectural Design and had studied Theatrical Light Design at the Goodman School of Drama. He never completed his degree. Howard has not always worked in IT. He spent many years doing Marketing and Engineering Sales in the commercial flooring industry. Working with computers was a hobby. Because of

WikiNinjas - Official Blog of TechNet Wiki

The official blog of TechNet Wiki contains multiple posts on what drives the community collaborating on the TechNet Wiki. This blog is maintained by Wiki Ninja’s. This is a group of authors who celebrate and evangelize the community and social-authoring excellence that is known as TechNet Wiki .There are several categories the Wiki Ninja’s are writing posts for: Monday - Interview with a Wiki Ninja Tuesday - TNWiki Article Spotlight Wednesday - Wiki Life Thursday - Community Wins Friday - International Update Saturday - Top Contributors of the Week Weekend Surprise Every day there is a new post depending on day of the week. This blog site offers a great access point to explore what is being contributed on the TechNet Wiki and what drives the TechNet Wiki Ninja’s. Since the end of last year I have written a couple of blog posts in a few categories. Below you will find a list of my blog posts: Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: BizTalk Server Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: Windo

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Lex Hegt

Before I will head to sunny Spain for a nice vacation I will have one more story for you on a hard working BizTalk community member Lex Hegt . He is a former colleague of mine that works for Ordina . Lex is the founder of the recent launched website BizTalk Events . A good initiative as you have a great access point to resources (slides, links, speakers, etc.) from numerous BizTalk events. The site has a calendar that shows, past and upcoming future events. Lex lives in Leidschendam , close to The Hague with his wife Odette and children (9 year old daughter Denise and almost 7 year old son Casper).He is currently stationed at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he works in the role of BizTalk Administrator and Architect. On the combination  of roles Lex says: “This might sound like a strange combination, but to me it makes perfect sense! A BizTalk Admin needs to be pretty good skilled to be able to do his job. That combined with BizTalk developing experience, you have a

BizTalk Server MVP 2012

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Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that I’ve been re-awarded the MVP title. For me this is the third time to receive this award. The second year in the program has been an tremendous experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring and very skilled people. I have written and published a book, reviewed to other books, written dozen or so TechNet Wiki articles, answer many questions on the forum, build a couple of samples for the MSDN Gallery and had quite a few speaking engagements. I would like to thank: My MVP leads William Jansen and Jacqueline de Jong . BizTalk Product Team, Ed Price, Suzanna Moran , Haris Majeed , Allesandro Teglia , Paolo Salvatori , Clemens Vasters and all other Microsoft employees involved. People at my former employer Ordina Netherlands: Bert van de Belt and Marco Rutters in particular for all their support. Current Employer motion10: Daan Scheer , Gijs in ‘t Veld , Wilfred Noppers , Iri