Johan Hedberg is based in Stockholm where he works as a consultant, solutions architect, and certified trainer. His employer, Enfo Zystems, is one of the largest consultancy firms in Sweden and the Nordic region that's solely dedicated to integration. Johan has over 10 years of experience in architecting and developing enterprise-grade solutions based on Microsoft technologies. He works closely with Microsoft through the Business Platform Technology Advisory and Virtual Technology Solution Professional programs, and with the community as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and one of the founders of the BizTalk User Group Sweden. He blogs at http://blogical.se/blogs/johan. You can follow Johan on Twitter: @JoHed
Kent Weare was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He developed a love for ice hockey, football, and technology. He attended the University of Regina, where he obtained a degree in Computer Science. After completing his undergraduate degree, he spent time in India, completing a post-graduate diploma in Object Oriented Technology. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada but remains a die-hard Saskatchewan Roughrider football fan.
Kent began his career at a small Internet startup before taking on a junior role with the Saskatchewan Government. Since then, he has worked on projects for the Canadian Federal Government, a multi-national bank in the United States, healthcare projects in Eastern and Western Canada, and has spent the last five years employed by a large electricity distribution company in Calgary. Kent's current responsibilities involve managing a Middleware team and architecting integrated solutions for the energy sector.
During Kent's time at the Federal Government, he had an opportunity to participate in his first BizTalk project. Seven years later, he is still "hooked" on BizTalk, having worked with every BizTalk version released since then. In 2008, Kent was awarded his first Microsoft MVP award for BizTalk Server. He continues to be active in the BizTalk community and recently received his fourth consecutive MVP award. Kent maintains active blogs at http://kentweare.blogspot.com and http://www.MiddlewareInTheCloud.com. He may also be seen presenting BizTalk-related material at local and international user groups.
Previous Publications by Packt Publishing:
Book name: Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration
ISBN:1849681902
Role: Lead Author
Morten la Cour has worked with the MS BizTalk Server platform for seven years. Besides designing and developing Integration solution for customers, he has also worked on deployment and maintenance of BizTalk applications and BizTalk Server environments.
He has taught several BizTalk server courses in development, deployment, and management.
Besides working with MS BizTalk Server, Morten has 13 years of experience on the Microsoft development platform, including the .NET Framework and SQL Server. Other experience includes XML, XSLT, XPATH, and Oracle databases.