Laurent Bugnion

I work as a senior interactive developer for IdentityMine (www.identitymine.com). This firm from Seattle is one of the leading companies in the field of advanced Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Surface computers, Windows 7 and generally User Experience. Employing developers and designers working closely together, IdentityMine was mainly active in the US market, before 2008 when it opened a european branch based in Zurich, Switzerland. I was IdentityMine's first european employee, based in Zurich, where I live with my wife Chi Meei and my two daughters Alise and Laeticia.
 
Between October 2007 and October 2008, I wrote the book "Silverlight 2 Unleashed", published at Sams (http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=978067233014...). This book is a complete tutorial about the technology Silverlight, that Microsoft released in October 2008. It is filled with code samples and illustration in full color.
 
Originally an Electronics engineer, my interests moved to software very fast and I achieved a postgrade study in Software Engineering in 1999. Before joining IdentityMine, I worked at Siemens Building Technologies from 1996, where I helped introduce WPF and other .NET 3.5 technologies at Siemens worldwide. My job involved developing with the mentioned technologies, training and coaching my colleagues, coordinating and integrating the graphics designers' work, and relationships with Microsoft.
 
Prior to that, I first wrote embedded C/C++, and then moving to desktop computers in Java, JavaScript and eventually .NET (WinForms and ASP.NET).
 
Privately, I have also been very active, developing mainly websites and web applications in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP and currently ASP.NET. I have done my best to contribute to the community, first in the JavaScript newsgroups, and then in Microsoft's newsgroups related to ASP.NET, C#, WPF and Silverlight. I blog regularly on http://blog.galasoft.ch and write on my website http://www.galasoft.ch where I also publish articles, prototypes and demos related to the mentioned technologies. In 2008, I also earned a MCTS for Windows Presentation Foundation.
 
2008 is my second year as a Microsoft MVP, first in ASP.NET and now in Client Application Development.