I know I haven’t posted for a long time, but I’ve been REALLY busy.  These last few months, weeks, days have been hectic as I finished up projects at Microsoft preparing for my departure…

That’s right, I have left Microsoft.  I’m not going far; I’ll still be working on Microsoft CRM, just on the other side of the fence and with more skin in the game than ever before.  Aaron Elder and I (along with my wife Shannon who left a few months ago) have both decided to leave Microsoft to join Invoke Systems.  Aaron will be overseeing the development group as Director of Software Development and I will be serving as Chief Technology Officer.

Returning to Invoke Systems feels like a homecoming.  Invoke actually funded and spun-off iCommunicate which was purchased by Microsoft in April, 2001.  Aaron, Shannon and I all came to work at Microsoft through the acquisition.  We actually made up 50% of the development staff at iCommunicate!  But then again, we only had 10 employees when Microsoft acquired us.  We spent the last 3 ½ years developing features for Microsoft CRM and about a year ago I moved over to product management.  It felt like time for a move and working on the outside as an ISV definitely was #1 on our list.

I’ve basically spent the last year and a half of my career at Microsoft traveling the globe, working with ISV’s and speaking at conferences explaining WHY developing products on the Microsoft CRM platform for the application made good business sense.  Now it’s time to lead by example…

Jason B Hunt
Invoke Systems
Chief Technology Officer
jason.hunt@invokesystems.com

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