Andrew Troelsen

Current

Lead .NET Instructor at Intertech

Past

Senior Sofware Engineer at MECC
Software Developer at West Publishing

Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Connections

18 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Andrew Troelsen’s Summary

Authored a number of books in the space of COM and .NET. My book, C# and the .NET Platform, is in its 4th edition and has been translated into numerous languages (Hindi, German, etc) and won programming book of the year (Referenceware).

I also author articles on the .NET platform for MSDN, DevX and MacTech (regarding .NET development on the Mac via Mono).

In addition to my authoring, I am a full time employee at Intertech, where I research emerging technologies and author classes on my findings. As well, I teach 2-5 day workshops on the .NET universe.

Andrew Troelsen’s Specialties:

C#, VB (.NET), WPF, WCF, WF, Silverlight and .NET APIs in general.

Andrew Troelsen’s Experience

Lead .NET Instructor

Intertech

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)

I work at Intertech as a corporate trainer in .NET programming technologies (C#, VB, WPF, WCF, WF, LINQ, ASP.NET, etc, etc, etc). In addition to delivering training seminars, I also research new .NET technologies, author courseware for Intertech, and work with clients to customize content.
Senior Sofware Engineer

MECC

(Computer Software industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )

Great time. Worked on children's educuation video games using C, C++ and x86 assembler. Loved the job, but the company was bought out and died a painful death.

Worked on Amazon Trail 2, TesselMania Deluxe, Oregon Trail 3
Software Developer

West Publishing

(Public Company; TOC; Financial Services industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )

Worked in the college textbook division, authoring interactive CTB software using C++/MFC.

Andrew Troelsen’s Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

B.A. , Linguistics , 1988 — 1993

Studied Sanskrit for 3 years, biblical Greek for 2 years and dabbled in Sumerian.

Linguistics degree focused on syntax and semantics, NLP (natural language processing).

Additional Information

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Andrew Troelsen’s Interests:

Snowshoeing, Skiing, Playing Video Games (XBox, PS3, Wii, PC, PSP, DS), finding new music.Teaching people about software development. Playing "feather-stick" with my cat, and "ball" with my dog. MN Wild Hockey games.