Ian Grieve is a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Dynamics GP and is also a certified Dynamics CRM consultant specializing in the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics GP and CRM projects. He is the ERP Practice Manager at Perfect Image Ltd. and a Microsoft Partner and VAR in the North East of England.

Ian has worked with Microsoft Dynamics GP since 2003 and, since then, has dealt with all aspects of the product life cycle from presales to implementation, to technical and functional training, to post go-live support, and subsequent upgrades and process reviews.

Alongside his work with Microsoft Dynamics GP, he has fulfilled a similar role since joining Perfect Image, dealing with Microsoft Dynamics CRM with special emphasis on project delivery and the training of end users on the management of sales, marketing, and service.

Ian is the author of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Financial Management, Implementing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client and Microsoft Dynamics GP Workflow 2.0, coauthor of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook, produced the Microsoft Dynamics GP Techniques online learning course, and was the technical reviewer for several Microsoft Dynamics CRM books published by Packt Publishing including Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook.

In his spare time, Ian runs the azurecurve – Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant (http://www.azurecurve.co.uk) blog dedicated to Microsoft Dynamics GP and related products.

The most recent offshoot of running his blog is that Ian started writing plugins to extend the functionality of the blogging platform, WordPress. A new site, azurecurve WordPress Development (http://wordpress.azurecurve.co.uk), contains information on his plugins, and so does the new blog, where he discusses how development of plugins is done.