ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BENJAMIN PERKINS (MBA, MCSD.Net, ITIL Management) is currently employed at Microsoft in Munich, Germany, as a senior support escalation engineer on the IIS and ASP.NET team. He has been working professionally in the IT industry for almost 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 trouble-shooting 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 and served as an M1A3 tank driver in the Gulf War of 1990. After successfully completing his military service, he attended Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in management information systems.

His roles in the IT industry have spanned the entire spectrum from programmer, to system architect, technical support engineer, to 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 trouble shooting 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.