Greetings and welcome to the Financial Services Blog from Josh Lee. 

Just to give you some background.  I'm the Program Manager for Financial Services Architecture for Microsoft.  For the last four years I have been the Technology Strategy Director for Financial Services for Microsoft.  So what is a PM for Financial Services Architecture?  I focus on architectures, patterns and standards in Financial Services.  What an exciting time for Financial Services.  With all the talk about a Service Oriented Architecture, financial services is the key link to making that real.  Financial firms will make monetization of a service oriented architecture possible.  They also house so much of the data about consumers, homes, consumers, finance and markets....who better to be the innovators in SOA than financial services.  Include the great innovations in Information Worker technology and mobile computing and Financial Services is the most exciting area to be a technologist in.  I am on the Board of Directors of the IFX Forum as well as on the Board of Trustees of CIECA, helping to define industry standards and architectures at those organizations for banking and insurance claims.

I hope that this Blog is informative to you.  I'm a huge Seinfeld nut, so you'll have to put up with inane Seinfeld trivia to add some flavor to these posts.  I'm a fan of the outdoors, golf, knitting (therapeutic to be sure), reading and gaming.  I also love spending time doing gardening and handiwork around the house.  Good technical architecture is so much like good woodwork, good engineering and a little finesse and flair. 

Please feel free to give feedback, provide additional thoughts and insight into financial services technology.  Welcome to my Blog....ENJOY!!