Charles Young has more than twenty years' experience of software architecture, design, and implementation, and has worked on numerous projects as a developer, trainer, and consultant. He works as a Principal Consultant at Solidsoft, a UK-based company specializing in integration, workflow, and business process management on the Microsoft platform. Charles has wide experience of applying BizTalk Server, WCF, and WF to real-world problems. He has blogged extensively on the use of BizTalk Server and Business Rules, and is a regular speaker at architectural conferences and seminars.

Ewan Fairweather has worked for Microsoft for four years. He currently works as a Program Manager in the BizTalk Product Group on the Customer Advisory Team (CAT). The BizTalk CAT is responsible for improving customer experience with BizTalk through: defining and delivering the enterprise services that the product requires, providing prescriptive guidance on best practices to all customers, and improving future versions of the product through customer feedback and key learnings.

Prior to this, Ewan spent over three years working for Microsoft UK in the Premier Field Engineering team. In this role he worked with enterprise customers, helping them to maintain and optimize their BizTalk applications. This involved providing both proactive and reactive onsite assistance within the UK and the rest of Europe. Ewan has also worked in a dedicated capacity on some of the world’s largest BizTalk deployments, predominantly within financial services.

Ewan co-authored the successful Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book and has written many whitepapers for Microsoft including the Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization guide which is available on Microsoft’s MSDN website. Prior to joining Microsoft Ewan worked as a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI) for a regional training organization delivering advanced routing and networking courses. Ewan holds a first class honors Bachelor of Science degree in Computing with Management from the University of Leeds. Outside of work, Ewan’s hobbies include reading, taking part in as many sports as possible, and regularly going to the gym.

Zach Bonham is a software developer working primarily with Microsoft's connected systems technology. Zach is active in the Dallas/Fort Worth user group community and is a member of Microsoft's Connected Technologies Advisor Group. You can catch up with Zach at http://zachbonham.blogspot.com.