Microsoft Team
Nick Edmonds
Executive Director, Microsoft Solutions
Nick is responsible for the Microsoft Solutions Practice. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing business, delivering solutions, and for developing KnowledgeTech’s capabilities with current and emerging Microsoft technologies across the company. He is also responsible for managing our partnership relationship with Microsoft. Prior to joining KnowledgeTech, Nick spent 15 years at Microsoft Canada where he held a variety of senior leadership roles within Microsoft Services.
Foad Shodjai
Architect, Business Productivity Solutions
A senior IT consultant with 20+ years of Canadian and international experience. Foad has lived and worked with corporate business in the Canada, Silicon Valley, USA, China, Australia, Israel, Colombia, and Bolivia; and has frequently traveled to Argentina, Chile and Peru for business. Foad is:
- Expert in Strategic Planning and IT Alignment with the Business.
- Familiar with many industries including Gas, Finance (billing/invoicing), Health, Air Cargo, and Higher Education
- Skilled in Project Management, Object Oriented Analysis and Design.
- Experienced in iterative and incremental development (such as RUP) of large-scale software systems.
- A professional, team player and builder, a fast learner with a passion for excellence in all things.
Jason Shantz
Architect, Custom Application Development and Integration
Jason is a skilled and experienced software engineer, architect, and consultant with a long track record of success in complicated, high-profile software development projects. He has significant experience with BizTalk Server, .NET, Windows and web application development and is a polished communicator, leader and risk manager.
- Languages: C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Transact-SQL
- Operating Systems: Windows 2000 and up
- Databases: SQL Server 2000 and up
- Application Servers: BizTalk Server 2002/2004/2006, Commerce Server 2000/2002
- Development Tools: Visual Studio .NET, Visual SourceSafe, CruiseControl .NET
- Technologies: ADO.NET, ASP.NET, COM+, HTML, XML, XSLT, WCF
Jason has sat on the BizTalk "Pathfinder" (BizTalk Server 2006) Technical Advisory Council, a group composed of some of the leading figures in the BizTalk Server community worldwide and convened to assist Microsoft’s BizTalk Server product group in determining product features and direction for BizTalk Server 2006.
Simon Chester
Architect, Healthcare Solutions
Simon is a life science trained Solutions and Application Architect with a proven track record designing complex healthcare integration solutions. A highly enthusiastic problem solver with strong communication skills and a desire to align technology with business user needs through consensus, delivering high value, adaptive, mission critical solutions:
- Standards: HL7 v2.x, HL7 v3.0, WS*, SOAP, XML
- Languages: C#, VB.Net, JavaScript, XML, XSLT
- Applications: BizTalk Server, SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Project Server, Microsoft CMS, MondoSoft, IIS, Visual Studio, Altova XmlSpy, Microsoft Office Suite
Steve Hart
Architect, Project Delivery
Steve is an experienced software development manager, team lead, technical architect and software developer with a successful and proven record of delivering professional IT services and solutions. He is always focused on employing and championing professional practices in delivering high quality IT solutions for customers and business sponsors. He is an innovative, versatile, and energetic software technologist able to communicate effectively at all levels, and to motivate and lead others.
- Successfully led and delivered an enterprise BizTalk & HL7 healthcare integration solution;
- Successfully led and delivered an enterprise document management/workflow web solution;
- Improved software quality with software configuration management practices;
- Advised senior IT management on a $100,000+ investment in document generation software;
- Successfully fulfilled mandate to revive and lead a major banking software project