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Well, I got what I wanted for Christmas this year… a brand spanking new startup to launch! I’m launching a new consultancy and product company… you can now find me at DreamTimeStudioZ.

If you need Visual Studio Extensibility expertise or want to build an iPhone/iPod touch or iPad application, we can help!

Monday, December 27th, marks my last day at Microsoft.  I'll have been here for almost exactly 6.5 years (2,358 days to be precise).

In that time I've had the following 10 jobs:

    1. Senior Consultant
    2. Technical Evangelist for
        a. Visual Studio Tools for Automation
        b. Compilers
        c. MicroISVs
        d. Visual Studio Team System - Distributed Systems Initiative
    3. Podcasting producer for Channel9
    4. Senior Architect/Engineer
        a. Project Glidepath
        b. Software + Services Blueprints
        c. Microsoft Blueprints
        d. Feature Builder - A power tool for Automated Guidance Packages (directing developers not flying objects!)
        e. Community Outreach Manager

I've shipped 5 different versions of automated guidance/software factories tooling that have helped thousands of developers adopt Windows Vista, Outlook automation, multi-tenant database architecture, Silverlight video, SharePoint + Silverlight, ASP.Net, Social Media applications and more:
    2006 Project Glidepath
        Dynamic software factories for Visual Studio 2005
    2007 Software + Services (S+S) Blueprints
        Dynamic software factories with reference apps for Visual Studio 2008
    2008 Microsoft Blueprints
        Dynamic software factories with cloud scenario examples for Visual Studio 2008
    2010 Feature Builder
        Dynamic software factories shipped in July 2010 as an official VS power tool
    2010 Instant Feature Builder
        Easier-to-author mechanism for Feature Builder, works on VS2010 Pro and above (open source, available on www.codeplex.com)

All-in-all it's been a great ride and I've learned a lifetime's worth of knowledge about building large scale software, large scale corporations and immense leverage. 

I'll be continuing my blogging and podcasting career on my personal blog which is located at:
https://www.independentinnovation.net