Steef-Jan Wiggers is an IT architect with over 13 years of experience as a Consultant, Technical Lead Developer, and Application Architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services, and Windows Azure. He has experience in architecting, designing, developing, and supporting sophisticated and innovative software using many different Microsoft technologies and products. Steef-Jan is very active in the BizTalk community as a blogger, Wiki author/editor, MSDN forums writer, and public speaker. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2010 for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community and has been re-awarded in July 2011.

Steef-Jan lives in the Netherlands, is married to Lian, and has three lovely children, Stan, Ellis, and Cato. Last but not the least, they are accompanied by their English Cocker Spaniel, Barry. Steef-Jan is certified in MCDBA, MCSD, MCSD.NET, MCSA, MCAD, MCTS: BizTalk Server BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and BizTalk Server 2010.

Steef-Jan works as a Specialist Knowledge Provider for Ordina, which lays the foundation of its clients’ future success by offering a coherent proposition of Consulting, IT, and Outsourcing services. Within Ordina, Steef-Jan is responsible for BizTalk Expertise Group — sharing knowledge, exchanging experience, planning meetings, and facilitate courses. He manages the Line Of Buisness (LOB) BizTalk to create/maintain LOB year plans, coordinates contacts with the BizTalk community (BTUG) in the Netherlands and Sweden, and partners with Microsoft for BizTalk.

Steef-Jan has been a Technical Reviewer of the BizTalk 2010 Patterns book written by Dan Rosanova and is currently involved as a Technical Reviewer for the forthcoming book (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide. He is also a co-author of a series of BizTalk Server Administration books.