
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP and MCP, Author
Zürich Area, Switzerland

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP and MCP, Author
Zürich Area, Switzerland
I work as a senior software developer and architect for Siemens Building Technologies (SBT) in Switzerland, where I live with my wife Chi Meei and my two daughters Alise and Laeticia. Originally an Electronics engineer, my interests moved to software very fast and I achieved a postgrade study in Software Engineering in 1999.
Currently, my interests are very much set on WPF, Silverlight and other .NET 3.5 technologies, which I helped introduce at SBT and am currently teaching and coaching within my project and within Siemens worldwide.
As a "side project", I am also writing "Teach Yourself Silverlight 2 in 24 Hours" for Sams Publishing. This book will be published soon.
Prior to that, I first wrote embedded C/C++, and then moving to desktop computers in Java, JavaScript and eventually .NET (WinForms and ASP.NET).
Privately, I have also been very active, developing mainly websites and web applications in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP and currently ASP.NET. I have done my best to contribute to the community, first in the JavaScript newsgroups, and then in Microsoft's newsgroups related to ASP.NET, C#, WPF and Silverlight. I blog regularly on http://blog.galasoft.ch and write on my website http://www.galasoft.ch where I also publish articles, prototypes and demos related to the mentioned technologies. In 2008, I also earned a MCTS for Windows Presentation Foundation.
2008 is my second year as a MVP, first in ASP.NET and now in Client Application Development. In 2007 I became Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for the field of WPF.
WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Microsoft technologies, Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Professional MCP, Author
(Publishing industry)
September 2007 — Present (11 months)
Currently writing "Teach Yourself Silverlight 2 in 24 Hours", to be published soon
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
April 1996 — Present (12 years 4 months)
Software Engineer FH, Software engineering (postgrade), 1998 — 1999
Continued education, evening classes
1992 — 1995
Maturity, Latin, French Literature, Philosophy, 1985 — 1988
WPF& Silverlight community,
.NET user group of Switzerland DotMUGS
Microsoft MVP, 2007 - 2008 (Client Application Development)
Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows Presentation Foundation)