I am very excited to now be a 3-time award winner of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional program. Our competency has morphed from MIIS to ILM and I'm happy to see three new members:
- Chris Calderon - Chris is a superb Identity Architect (just look at his blog) and an effective speaker.
- Peter Geelen - Peter is a huge influence in the Benelux community in the areas of Identity Management and Enterprise Security.
- Brian Komar - Brian has been an Enterprise Security MVP for several years now and because of his immense influence on the CLM components within ILM I'm happy to welcome him to the group!
In addition to our new awardees, Joe Stepongzi and David Lundell were also re-awarded - congrats guys! That brings the total up to 8 ILM MVPs:
Last March we all got to meet with the ILM Product Group for dinner at the MVP Summit in Redmond, WA:
From left to right: Almero Steyn, David Lundell, Brad Turner, Joe Stepongzi, Paul Adare, Brian Komar, and Ahmad Abdel-wahed (Microsoft).
MVP's represent a group of passionate individuals that spend a considerable amount of time answering questions on forums or newsgroups (for free), speaking publicly, and generally evangelizing the product. We have a personal interest in seeing the quality of the products we represent improve and the adoption of them increase.
For me the most valuable aspect of being an MVP is the close relationship we build with the Product Group. This relationship culminates at events like the MVP Summit and technical conferences like the Directory Experts Conference (now The Experts Conference) where the direct exposure and access helps to open very effective dialogs between the PG and ourselves.
Looking forward to TEC 2009 and MVP Summit 2009 - Almero, you had better be at one of those if not both, sir!
3 comments:
Congratulations, Brad!
Peter Geelen
Thanks Peter, I hope to see you at the Summit next March!
That's great news! Congratulations on year 3. I can't think of anyone more deserving of the honor than you.
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