Jack Gudenkauf's (JackG) Bio

Jack Gudenkauf has been a software engineer since 1986. He was employed by Microsoft as a contractor from 1995-1998 and currently as a full time employee since 1998, working in IT, Online Services, the Developer Division, and Microsoft Research & Development division. He is currently a Product Unit Manager of the Technical Strategy Group (TSG) Engineering teams, which works to capture and influence business, experience opportunities and technology direction for Microsoft. The TSG programs ensure long-range customer scenarios and trends are well understood, and encourages and circulates well-articulated thought where there is the highest potential for impact.

With Microsoft, Jack has contributed in both Technical and Managerial disciplines. He was previously a Software Architect in the core product .Net Framework/CLR team, where he focused on ISV/VAR/SI customers, in order to ascertain their .Net technical adoption issues. He was a Group Development Manager for Visual Studio Tools for Office and a Development Manager for the MSN platform which provided the content management platform and services for the MSN.com homepage, Channels and Properties web sites.

Prior to Microsoft, his experiences included; MIS Director of insurance and finance related companies, software development, and consulting services from 1986-1998. His consulting company, "The Logical Choice", serviced clients such as; America West Airlines, Nordstrom, the State of Washington, and Microsoft.

If you are interested in reading his thoughts on ISV/VAR/SI's, .Net framework, Innovation, Client and Web evolution, or extensibility models, check out his blog at https://blogs.msdn.com/JackG/ or via RSS at https://blogs.msdn.com/jackg/rss.aspx.