Year 2013 in retrospective

Posted: December 22, 2013  |  Categories: Uncategorized
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Close to Christmas and the end of the year 2013. It has been quite a year from me. Lots of travelling to the United-States (Seattle, Portland, Bellevue, Renton, Detroit), Canada (Toronto, Trenton, London, Windsor, Brighton), United-Kingdom (London, Orpington), Norway (Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo), Germany (Berlin), France (Paris, Beziers, Narbonne), Spain (Pyrenees), Italy (Milan, Piacenza, Valconasso di Pontenure, Podenzano, Val Trebia), and Portugal (Porto).

For one it has been a very busy year like last year 2012. To summarize all my activity bullet wise:

  • I have had multiple speaking engagements in the Netherlands and abroad (UK, Norway, Portugal, and Italy)
  • Two MVP Summits (February and November)
  • Attended the UK Connected Systems Group: The Hybrid Organization
  • Published a white paper on WCF-BasicHttpRelay Adapter (Deep Dive)
  • Written dozen blog posts on this blog and on the TechNetWiki Blog
  • Continued and finalized the blog post series on BizTalk community members
  • Written multiple TechNet wiki articles on BizTalk and
  • Ran the Berlin Marathon with Kent Weare in September.

London in January.

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MVP Summit 2013 (February)

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March in Porto, Portugal.

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UK Connected Systems, London.

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September in Stavanger, Norway.

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October in Milan, Italy.

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MVP Summit 2013 again (November).

Berlin Marathon.

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Ready to run!

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After the marathon behind the Brandeburger Tor with Kent.

That’s right I ran the first marathon in my live. Kent did his second and gave me some insights how to prepare.
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After the race you’re entitled to eat some German specialty.

Besides running I dedicated most of my time with my family and friends, travelling and of course the BizTalk community. Thanks everyone for reading my blog and I will continue to share my knowledge through speaking and writing in 2014.

Cheers,

Steef-Jan

Author: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Steef-Jan Wiggers is all in on Microsoft Azure, Integration, and Data Science. He has over 15 years’ experience in a wide variety of scenarios such as custom .NET solution development, overseeing large enterprise integrations, building web services, managing projects, designing web services, experimenting with data, SQL Server database administration, and consulting. Steef-Jan loves challenges in the Microsoft playing field combining it with his domain knowledge in energy, utility, banking, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, (local) government, bio-sciences, retail, travel, and logistics. He is very active in the community as a blogger, TechNet Wiki author, book author, and global public speaker. For these efforts, Microsoft has recognized him a Microsoft MVP for the past 8 years.

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