About Architecture + Strategy
David Chou is an Architect at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as cloud computing, SOA, Web, RIA, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture.
As an expert on Windows Azure Platform, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how “Software plus Services” fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures.
Between the different roles, David had the opportunities to participate in many different kinds of projects at organizations in various industries. He helped a web retail startup built on the Microsoft platform to obtain public status on Nasdaq, implemented a genomics search engine for a biotechnology firm, designed a next-generation Java-based services architecture for one of the largest telecoms in China, and headed architecture teams on multiple Java-based legacy modernization projects at a few of the largest financial services organizations in the U.S. David's recent projects include enterprise SOA initiatives using the Microsoft platform at major enterprises, Silverlight and Windows Live Platform implementations at web companies, and cloud applications using Windows Azure Platform.
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