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Professional Memberships
MSDN
Regional Director, Microsoft, Montreal
Position
held from September 1997 to January 2000.
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| Description |
| Exclusive
honorary nomination from Microsoft Corp. as a 3rd party
advocate. Regional Directors (RD) form a special highly-influential task
force where each RD is assigned a city as territory. There are over 140 RDs
reaching across 51 countries in the world. There are 6 RDs in Canada. RDs
enjoy a privileged relationship with Microsoft and have access to early
software betas, exclusive & confidential information on future
products and strategies, internal product groups and special events. |
| Mandate |
| Educate
and support the developer community through events, technical publications
and user groups meetings and act as a channel between Microsoft and the
Montreal IT professionals. |
| Nomination |
| Regional
Directors are recruited as the top specialists in their field and some of
the requirements include a deep technical expertise in software
development, a vast knowledge of the IT business world, technical speaking
and authoring skills, as well as sales and marketing aptitudes. |
| Highlights |
- Hosted 2
Microsoft DevDays in Montreal (1998, 1999)
- Speaker at over 20 Microsoft events, IT presentations & user group meetings
- 2-time speaker at COMDEX Montreal (1997, 1998)
- Technical reviewer on 5 technical books for IDG Books and Microsoft
Press
- Member of the advisory council for the revision of the MCSD
certification
- Participated in the Microsoft Partner Summit 98
- Hosted the Montreal PDC Review (1998) |
| Contacts |
| Jennifer Ritzinger |
MSDN RD Program Manager,
DRG, Microsoft (1999-2000) |
| Geoffrey Walker |
MSDN RD Program Manager,
DRG, Microsoft (1998-99) |
| Kostas Mallios |
MSDN RD Program Manager,
DRG, Microsoft (1997) |
| Megan Stuhlberg |
Marketing
Manager, MSDN RD
Program Manager & 3rd-Party Publishing Relations, DRG, Microsoft (1998-2000) |
| Amy
Stuhlberg |
Assistant
to the MSDN RD Program Manager, DRG, Microsoft (1997-1998) |
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