About Developing for Dynamics GP Blog
Welcome to the "Developing for Dynamics GP" blog. 
The creation of the Developing for Dynamics GP blog was born out of a desire to more widely touch the Microsoft Dynamics GP developer community with access to sample code, sample applications and articles which are created by support engineers from the global Dynamics GP support delivery teams. Please review the individual Bio’s below of those individuals involved in contributing to this blog.
David Musgrave's Bio
David Musgrave has presented at conferences and delivered training around the world. He is the creator and primary contributor to the Developing for Dynamics GP MSDN blog. Based in Perth, Western Australia, David has been working as a Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) developer and consultant since v2.0 in 1994 (from 2001 with Microsoft). He is currently working with the Microsoft Dynamics GP Asia Pacific support team as their Escalation Engineer. Before joining Microsoft in 2001, David was the owner of Winthrop Dexterity Consultants and before that part owner of Sequel Technology. David is the original author of Named Printers, Omni Tools, Omni Price, Advanced Security, Field Level Security, Business Activity Statement (for Australian GST), Support Debugging Tool, and Menus for Visual Studio Tools, and he has made a number of contributions to the code in the core Microsoft Dynamics GP Dictionary.
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Scott Stephenson's Bio
Scott Stephenson currently works as Team Manager for the North American Dynamics GP Developer Support team and is based in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. Scott has worked in Developer Support for Great Plains Software and Microsoft for more than 16 years as both a support engineer and now a team manager. Over his years in working with GP developers, Scott has been a trainer for Dexterity and Modifier with VBA courses, he has presented at numerous partner and customer technical conferences, and has been an advisory/advocate for projects such as the creation of the Dynamics GP Developer Center found within MSDN.
Patrick Roth's Bio
Patrick is an Escalation Engineer with the Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. He started with Great Plains Software in 1995 supporting financials before moving to the Developer Support team initially supporting the Import Utility. Through the years, he has supported most of the developer toolsets that this team has supported (except for eConnect). He currently support Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. During his time in Developer Support, he has presented at Convergence several times and a number of Tech Conferences and has made contributions to core Dynamics, Report Scheduler, Smartlist, SBF, and Dexterity.
Dave Dusek's Bio
Dave Dusek is a Escalation Engineer for the Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. Dave has been with Microsoft and Great Plains Sofware for 15 years. Dave started with the SQA team in development and then moved to the Dynamics Support team. From there Dave moved to the Developer Support team and has been there since. Dave's main responsibilities include supporting Dexterity, VSTools for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Dave has presented at numerous conferences over the years and has trained various classes and workshops.
Beth Gardner's Bio
Beth Gardner is a Support Escalation Engineer for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. Beth started at Great Plains in January of 2001. Beth started on the HR/Payroll/Canadian Payroll team. She was on this team for two years. Ever since then she has been on the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team. She is currently the Integration Manager Product Captain. She currently takes support calls on SDK, Extender, Modifier/VBA, Integration Manager, and eConnect. She has attended and presented at numerous conferences over the years and trained some classes.
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hris Roehrich's Bio
Chris Roehrich is a Escalation Engineer for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. Chris started with the Dynamics GP System Support team over 10 years ago. He currently focuses on eConnect, Web Services, and is the Product Captain for Business Portal SDK\Customizations for the last 3 years.
Dave Clauson's Bio
Dave Clauson is a Support Escalation Engineer for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. Dave started with the Developer Support team in August of 1999. He currently focuses on Modifier/VBA, eConnect and Web Services, and is the Product Captain for eConnect.
Jen Mehrer's Bio
Jen Mehrer is currently a technical lead on the Microsoft Dynamics GP Support team. Jen has been with the Microsoft Dynamics GP support team for over 10 years as a support engineer, team manager, and technical lead. Jen's focus is around supportability and readiness of the Microsoft Dynamics GP product, this includes the Microsoft Dynamics GP TAP. TAP is a Technology Adoption Program, Microsoft’s pre-release feedback, testing and adoption programs.
Greg Willson's Bio
Greg Willson is currently a Senior Support Engineer for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. He started at Microsoft in June of 2006 when he joined the GP Developer Support team. Before that, he worked in IT Operations and also worked as a Software Developer for a small manufacturing company for over four years. Greg is currently the Modifier/VBA Product Captain and takes support calls on SDK, Extender, Modifier/VBA, Integration Manager, and eConnect. Since joining Microsoft, he has attended a number of conferences and also presented at Convergence last year in Orlando, FL.
Ryan Wigestrand's Bio
Ryan Wigestrand is currently a Senior Support Engineer for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. He started at Microsoft in April of 1999, and joined the GP Developer Support team in November of 2003. Before he joined the GP Developer Support team he worked on a number of other GP support teams. Ryan is currently the GP SDK Product Captain and takes support calls on SDK, Extender, Modifier/VBA, Integration Manager, and eConnect.
Kevin Johnson's Bio
Kevin Johnson is an Escalation Engineer for the Developer Support team based in Fargo, ND. Kevin has been with Microsoft and Great Plains Sofware for 11 years. Kevin started with the Great Plains Accounting Support team before moving to his current position on the Developer Support team. He is currently the product captain for Web Services as well as focusing on eConnect, Business Portal SDK and Workflow SDK.
Emily Halvorson's Bio
Emily Halvorson started at Great Plains Software early in 1994 on the Product Development SQL research team. After 2.5 years in Dev, she moved to GPConsulting which became Microsoft GPC and then MBSC. Emily has worked since June 2006 as an Escalation Engineer on the Developer Support Team, assisting with Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools, Web Services for Dynamics GP, and eConnect.
Dawn Langlie's Bio
Dawn Langlie is a Support Escalation Engineer for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team based in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. Dawn started at Great Plains in June of 1999. She started on the Distribution team. She was on this team for five years. Ever since then she has been on the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support team. She is currently the Extender Product Captain. She currently takes support calls on SDK, Extender, Modifier/VBA, Integration Manager, and eConnect.
