Michael Jones

Michael is a hands-on software architect working in and around the Nashville area for more than 15 years. Michael has worked on projects ranging from early cross-platform IPC libraries at the Naval Research Laboratory and clinical applications at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to scalable distributed applications at Passport Health Communications and Deloitte. Michael's work has taken the form of client/server libraries, widely deployed client applications, web applications, and service-oriented architectures (SOA). Though his experience is much broader, Michael's greatest technical experience has been with Microsoft servers and toolsets such as COM, .NET, SQL Server, ASP/ASP.NET, WCF, etc. Michael is hands-on and works directly with developers in both consulting and development roles to help define a project's architecture and deliverables. Michael has written extensively on architectural topics facing Microsoft and .NET developers, speaks at local and national developer conferences, provides consulting expertise for a nationwide list of clients, and blogs at http://www.thesoftwaredevotional.com.