About Me and this Blog

NOTE: The opinions expressed here are MY OWN and are not necessarily those of my employer, partners, customers, freinds, or family. ALL content presented AS-IS, for entertainment purposes only with ABSOLUTLY NO WARRANY expressed or implied.

Now that's out of the way, here's a little something about me!

Beth is an Online Content and Community Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team responsible for producing content for business application developers and driving community features onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com/vbasic). She also produces content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), the VB Team blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam) and Channel 9. As a VB community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and modifying cars.

This blog is meant to showcase Visual Basic community content links, announcements and other VB coolness but it will also contain my personal ramblings :-). Please also check out the VB Team Blog and the Visual Basic Developer Center!