Benjamin Perkins (MBA, MCSD, ITIL) is currently employed at Microsoft in Munich, Germany, as a Senior Technical Advisor for IIS, ASP.NET, and Azure App Services. He has been working professionally in the IT industry for over two decades. He started computer programming with QBasic at the age of 11 on an Atari 1200XL desktop computer. He takes pleasure in the challenges that troubleshooting technical issues have to offer and savors in the rewards of a well written program. After completing high school he joined the United States Army. After successfully completing his military service, he attended Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems.

His roles in the IT industry have spanned the entire spectrum including programmer, system architect, technical support engineer, team leader, and mid-level management. While employed at Hewlett-Packard, he received numerous awards, degrees, and certifications. He has a passion for technology and customer service and looks forward to troubleshooting and writing more world-class technical solutions.

“My approach is to write code with support in mind, and to write it once correctly and completely so we do not have to come back to it again, except to enhance it.”

Benjamin is married to Andrea and has two wonderful children, Lea and Noa.

Jacob Vibe Hammer is a software architect and developer at Kamstrup, where he is helping the company develop world-class Smart Grid solutions for large public utilities. He started programming just about the time when he was able to spell the word “BASIC” — which, incidentally, is the first programming language he ever used. Since then, he has worked with numerous programming languages and solution architectures; however, since the turn of the century, he has worked primarily with the .NET platform. Today, his programming time is spent working primarily with C# and WPF, as well as toying with NoSQL databases. A Danish citizen, Jacob lives in Aarhus, Denmark, with his wife and two sons.

Jon D. Reid is a Product Solution Manager for IFS Field Service Management (www.IFSWORLD.com). He has coauthored a number of books, including Beginning Visual C# 2010, Fast Track C#, Pro Visual Studio .NET, and many others.