About Me

David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security. His involvement supports decision makers in helping them to define the appropriate evolutionary strategies in their architecture development. Drawing from his extensive experience at previously held positions with Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping his clients and customers create value by using objective and pragmatic approaches to create definitive IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.

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Publications:

• SOA with Cloud Computing (Prentice-Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series)
• SOA with Java (Prentice-Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series)
• SOA with .NET and Windows Azure (Prentice-Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series) - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131582313
• Understanding Cloud Computing and Cloud-Based Security (SOA Magazine)
• Using Events in Highly Distributed Architectures (The Architecture Journal)
• Strong User Authentication on the Web (The Architecture Journal)

Public Presentations:

• J-Fall 2011 (11/2011, Amsterdam)
• JavaOne 2011 (10/2011, San Francisco)
• Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce "Small Business Council" (6/2011, Los Angeles)
• Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum (6/2011, Pasadena)
• Microsoft TechEd North America (5/2011, Atlanta)
• CESASC 2011 Convention (4/2011, Los Angeles)
• Cloud Connect 2011 (3/2011, Santa Clara)
• Årskonference 2011 (2/2011, Denmark)
• Microsoft Underground @PDC10 (11/2010, Los Angeles)
• Cloud Computing Expo 2010 (11/2010, Santa Clara)
• Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2010 (10/2010, Redmond)
• Southern California Code Camp (10/2010, Los Angeles)
• International Cloud Symposium (10/2010, Berlin)
• AITP Cloud Computing Conference 2010 (9/2010, San Diego)
• JavaOne 2010 (9/2010, San Francisco)
• Key Info CIO Retreat 2010 (6/2010, Santa Barbara)
• Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce "Smart + Simple Strategies for Small Business" (5/2010, Los Angeles)
• Pervasive Metamorphosis 2010 (5/2010, Sunnyvale)
• Web 2.0 Expo 2010 (5/2010, San Francisco)
• CloudPlay 2010 (4/2010, Sunnyvale)
• CloudConnect 2010 (3/2010, Santa Clara)
• San Diego .NET User Group (3/2010, San Diego)
• Microsoft Architect Council (12/2009, Irvine, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver)
• Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2009 (11/2009, Los Angeles)
• Orange County .NET User Group (11/2009, Irvine)
• CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment (10/2009, San Diego)
• CloudCamp Los Angeles (9/2009, Los Angeles)
• Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce "Social Media forum" (9/2009, Los Angeles)
• INTEROP 2009 (5/2009, Las Vegas)
• CloudCamp Las Vegas (5/2009, Las Vegas)
• UCLA IS Associates "Rich Internet Applications" panel (2/2009, Los Angeles)
• Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (11/2008, San Francisco)
• Microsoft Tech Days 2008 (11/2008, Costa Mesa)
• Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (11/2008, Los Angeles)
• UCLA IS Associates "Open Source - Ready for Primetime?" (6/2008, Los Angeles)
• ITARC 2007 (10/2007, San Diego)