I’m Mark Bloodworth. I’m an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, I led the architecture team at an international media company based in London. I’m interested in tools, technologies and techniques that make us effective. My background is in software development - primarily Microsoft technologies with a little Java thrown in for good measure. Outside work, I wrote nspectre and have maintained it with the able assistance of other contributors.
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Hey Mark! I just sent a similar message to Marc so I hope you don’t find me cheeky but rather appreciate that I am trying to do something great by inviting a few Architect Evangelists to our event in Sweden this fall! ;~)
Just finished reading your input on the Role of an Architect in the Architecture Journal. Great Lexicon - I had a lot of fun reading it. Tried myself to get into that issue but I could not compare to the noteworthy, experienced people who wound up making the issue.
Anyway my company dotway.se is part of creating a conference oredev.org and I would like to strengthen our position on the architecture track with some good .NET architects. I do not know you from more than your article and the fact that you are an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. These factors are enough for me to begin a discussion with you if you might be interested to come to our event in November!
I will go on in greater detail in regular email (with a propor invite .pdf and so on) so please get back to me!
Cheers,
/Magnus