Congratulations Bob Jarvis

Scottish Developers would like to congratulation Bob Jarvis, an Edinburgh based enterprise architect, on being awarded an MVP by Microsoft in the are of Solution Architecture.

Bob has operated for many years on the business/technical architectural intersection and besides working closely with Microsoft for over a decade, is fairly well known in international Enterprise and Service Oriented Architecture circles. He also works closely with the National Computing Centre in the  EA and SOA training and IS/IT best practice guidance areas.

Robert (Bob) Jarvis has been recognised for his continued contribution to the architect community by the award of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Solution Architecture category.  MVPs are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for sharing their high quality, real world expertise in technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.  For more information on the MVP program, see http://www.microsoft.com/mvp .

An accomplished architect with over 40 years of experience spanning many industries, Bob Jarvis has authored several books on Enterprise Architecture and articles in the Microsoft Architecture Journal, presents at industry events, conducts training workshops and consulting engagements.  In recent years, Bob was actively involved in numerous Microsoft eHealth consulting engagements in England, Scotland, Central and Eastern Europe – working with our [often scarce] local architects.  His most notable contribution is as a leading author of the Microsoft Connected Framework – Architecture and Design Blueprint, its second edition released earlier this year and available from http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/technology/Healthframework.mspx .

More information about Bob Jarvis, his accomplishments and activities is available on his company site http://www.systems-advisers.com/

Prize Draw Winners

As last Monday’s meeting ran a little late we didn’t have time to do our normal prize draw at the end of the evening.

We’d therefore like to congratulate Erika Birse and Chris Woolderink who both won a copy of TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio.

What do you want to see in 2009?

We are in the process of putting out 2009 events together and we’d like to know: What would you like to see?

You can let us know on our Google group, by adding a comment below or by sending an email to support@scottishdevelopers.com.

We also maintain a list of software developer events across Scotland by ourselves and other user groups. If you are a user group leader and you want your event added, just email support@scottishdevelopers.com

We are always on the look out for new or speakers. If you’d like to speak at an event then get in touch by sending us an email to support@scottishdevelopers.com

If you’d like to have a go but are not sure about a full presentation then why not ask about doing a “nugget” or “grok talk”. These are short 10 minute talks that we can put on either as an evening of grok talks or put one on at the start of an evening with a main speaker.