Microsoft Integration MVP 2015 – 6th Time in a row!

Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that my MVP status has been renewed again!

For me this is the sixth time to receive this award. The fifth year in the program has been again an awesome experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring, very skilled people. I have had some interesting speaking engagement, which were fun to do and were very fulfilling. I learned a lot through speaking thanks to the community and fellow MVP’s. I was able to share my experiences through these speaking gigs and other channels like this blog, MSDN Gallery, and above all the TechNet Wiki.

I would like to thank:

• My MVP old lead William Jansen, and new MVP lead Birgit Huebsch.
• The BizTalk Product Team, Mark Mortimore, Guru Venkataraman, Ed Price, Mandi Ohlinger, Allesandro Teglia, Dan Rosanova, Jon Fancey, Paolo Salvatori, and all other Microsoft employees involved.
• People at my former employers: Rene Brauwers, Eldert Grootenboer, fellow MVP Edward Bakker and many others. 
• At my current company DutchWorkz : Rutger van Hagen and colleguaes.
• The BizTalk Crew: Saravana Kumar (BizTalk360), Nino Crudele, Sandro Pereira, and Tord G. Nordahl
• Fellow Microsoft Integration MVP’s: Richard Seroter, Kent Weare, Mikael Håkansson, Johan Hedberg, Stephen W. Thomas, Mick Badran (Azure), Micheal Stephenson, Tomasso Groenendijk, Nicholas Hauenstein, Salvatore Pellitteri, Sam VanHoutte, Glenn Colpeart, Bill Chesnut, Leonid Ganeline, and Ashwin Prabhu, who I got learn even better and supported me in this program.
• The BizTalk community: Mikael Sand, Lex Hegt, Colin Meade, Naushad Alam,Howard S. Edidin, Johann Cooper, Mark Brimble, Mitch VanHelden, Sven Van den Brande, Jérémy Ronk,  Maxime Labelle, Jean-Paul Smit, Dean Robertson and the collegueaes at Mexia, Martin Abbott, and many others that make the BizTalk community strong! 
• Andrew Slivker from Sentinet.
• Finally my wife Lian and children Stan, Ellis and Cato for their support.

I’m looking forward to another great year in the program.

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. View all posts by Steef-Jan Wiggers