New Role

When I started blogging, I made a promise that I would never write one of those posts that starts "I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a long time, but I've been really busy...".  Well, here I am writing one of those posts...  A couple of months ago I took on a new role leading the DPE platform architecture team here at Microsoft, hence the reason for being under the radar.  I've been a member of the team for the last few years and it's a great honor to now lead the group.  

As part of getting up to speed, we've been putting a lot of thought into some of the areas of focus this year (Microsoft's fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30 in case you are looking at the calendar).  We have some great things lined up, some of which I mentioned in my interview on our new ARCast show last month at TechEd.  For those that don't know, ARCast is a popular podcast on architecture - started originally by Ron Jacobs, we've since re-launched a new version run by our global architect evangelist community.  In this ARCast (which was the re-launch of the show under this new group), I chat to Bob Familiar about some of our events, channels, and content we have for architects.

Great to be back online!