About the Technical Reviewer

John Rivard is a software design engineer for Microsoft Visual Studio. Over his career, he has worked on a variety of developer tools including Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic .NET, the .NET Framework, and Silverlight. John is the architect for Visual Studio LightSwitch, a model-based development tool for creating business applications quickly and easily for the desktop and the cloud. John started at Microsoft Corporation in 1991 and is a graduate of the University of Washington in computer engineering.

Jeff Sanders is a published author, technical editor, and accomplished technologist. He is currently a group manager/senior architect at Avanade.

Jeff has years of professional experience in the field of IT and strategic business consulting, leading both sales and delivery efforts. He regularly contributes to certification and product roadmap development with Microsoft, and speaks publicly on Microsoft enterprise technologies. With his roots in software development, Jeff's areas of expertise include collaboration and content management solutions, operational intelligence, digital marketing, distributed component-based application architectures, object-oriented analysis and design, and enterprise integration patterns and designs.

Jeff is also the CTO of DynamicShift, a client-focused organization specializing in Microsoft technologies, specifically Office365/BPOS, SharePoint Server, StreamInsight, Windows Azure, AppFabric, Business Activity Monitoring, BizTalk Server, and .NET. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and leads DynamicShift in both training and consulting efforts.

He enjoys non-work-related travel, spending time with his wife and daughter, and wishes he had more time for both. He may be reached at [email protected].