Brandon Gross is a Managing Consultant with EMC's Microsoft Practice, and is a BizTalk MVP.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Information Systems and Accounting from the
University of Washington. Brandon has worked on Business to Business (B2B) and Application
to Application (A2A) solutions for medium-to-large enterprise clients in a wide range of industries,
including government, resources, high-tech manufacturing, manufacturing, and software.
He has experience in a breadth of Microsoft technologies, including .NET and all versions of
BizTalk. Brandon recently architected an A2A solution that received the 2006 Global Business
Process and Integration Technology Innovation Solution of the Year award from Microsoft.
Brandon and his coauthors have created a blogging site (http: //biztalk2006recipebook.
blogspot.com/) to discuss concepts from this book.
""I would like thank my beautiful wife Cara for sacrificing time with her husband during
the writing of this book. I would also like to thank the people at Apress for their support
in getting us through the last mile. Finally, I would like to thank the wonderful group of
authors and technical reviewers who made producing this book so much fun.
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