About Jim O'Neil
I'm a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft covering the Northeast District (namely, New England and upstate New York) along with my colleague Chris Bowen. Our charter is to engage with the development community in the area through user groups, code camps, barcamps, etc., and just in general serve as ambassadors for Microsoft. We also host quarterly, free 'Northeast Roadshows', in which we visit six or so cities in our district to present on various .NET and Microsoft technical topics.
As for my background, I joined Microsoft in April 2008 after nearly 12 years working for Sybase in a support and sales consultant role for its developer tools, namely PowerBuilder, DataWindow.NET, PocketBuilder, and EAServer. Prior to that I worked on various DoD projects at MITRE (Bedford, MA) and BDM International (in McLean, VA, now subsumed by Northrop Grumman). Raised and schooled in Tennessee and North Carolina, since 1993 I've lived in Acton, MA, about 25 miles northwest of Boston, and at this point have been certifiably yankee-fied.
