Since 1978 I have been involved in the IT industry. I hold MS/BS degrees in Computer Science, as well as many Microsoft certifications. I started out as a Developer, and then advanced to Development Manager. While at Microsoft, I thoroughly enjoyed the challenging employment and have held many customer-related roles – Senior Consultant, Technical Evangelist, Support Engineer, Technical Trainer, Solutions Architect Integration Engineer, and Senior Programming-Writer. The different job functions and experience this time has given me a unique breadth as well as depth of the IT environment from the view of development, management, and the customer.

My passion is to help stakeholders or customers define their business/system requirements, and then apply Windows Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud technology and architecture to fulfill those goals. When used in conjunction with my deep and wide technology background, my excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills, and analytical problem solving capabilities, I am a high performer. Organizational agility and the ability to organize and motivate people to drive a process through to completion is a strong point for me. I love to blog (http://www.michaelmckeown.com) and speak at numerous technical conferences.

I also spent 23 years as a Navy Engineering Duty Officer.

Specialties: Architecture and requirements analysis around the following technologies: Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing Architecture, Web Security (RSA, CA, Federation), Data migration, NET Framework, AppFabric, Silverlight, IIS, COM, and COM+, ASP.NET, WinDNA and SOA architectures, C/C++/C#, Visual Basic NET, troubleshooting, performance tuning, SQL Server, MTS, and BizTalk Server. Other skills include software development, technical writing, training and delivering technical presentations to all levels of customers.