Meet the MSDN Student Flash team!

Here we are, the bloggers bringing you this little site:

James Griffith - California State University, Long Beach

My name is James Griffith and I am currently a Computer Science student at California State University, Long Beach. I serve as a Lead Student Ambassador, Microsoft MVP for C#, INETA Senior Academic Regional Director, and Student Technology Specialist for MSDNAA. I like technology almost as much as I like pizza and caffeine. I hope you enjoy our slice of the web.

Eric Maino - Grand Valley State University

My name is Eric Maino and I am driven by my passion for technology. When not on a computer writing code for the latest gadgets, I can be found playing ice hockey, rock climbing, or attending a conference somewhere warm. I am currently an undergraduate student at Grand Valley State University as well as a Lead Student Ambassador, Microsoft MVP and INETA Senior Academic Regional Director for the Midwest. I thrive on the social atmosphere, love talking technology, and I am proud to call my self a geek. I have found my inner geek, now let me help you!

Kevin Briody - Microsoft Academic Developer Team

Hi all - this is Kevin Briody from the US Academic Developer team here at Microsoft. I'll be working with James and Eric to help make this blog and the MSDN Student Flash e-newsletter a great way for student developers to stay in touch with everything going on at Microsoft and elsewhere. For my background - I'm currently responsible for US College Student Programs on the team. Prior to that I was involved on the professional developer community side with programs like INETA and MSDN User Groups. Before that I worked on the Windows Server team (waaay back in 1998-2000) and have played around in several software startups. But I'm not the developer here - I'll leave all that to James and Eric to talk tech. :)

Alfred Thompson - Microsoft Academic Relations

Hi. My name is Alfred Thompson and I work in Academic Relations at Microsoft. Prior to this job I've had a varied career, mostly in software development but also in teaching. I've taught every grade from kindergarten through college. And in software I've done everything from accounting applications packages to operating systems development. At the MSDN Student Flash blog I'll talk about interesting things from theSpoke as well as technical things that I think will be interesting to people. I have a regular blog at theSpoke and a blog on social computing at MSN Spaces.

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