After 8 ½ years at Microsoft it is time to move on to the next phase of my career. April 15 was my last full day at Microsoft. I am pursuing the life of the independent contractor and returning to something that has been a passion of mine since before I came to Microsoft: teaching developers how to use developer products. There is a very important role to be played by people who help others learn how to use tools like Visual Studio to its fullest. I want to be one of those people.

I have joined MCW as a senior consultant. I'm honored and thrilled to be able to work with them.

I'll be writing articles and speaking at conferences (I'll be speaking at VSConnections in Las Vegas in November and at other shows as soon as I can). I'll be hanging out in newsgroups and forums. And after so many years of talking to developers about how to develop with Visual Studio, now I get to do it for a living. Is developing with Visual Studio everything I said it was? Boy, do I hope so!!! I'll let you know.