Mark Michaelis is an enterprise architect and trainer at Itron Corporation and an IDesign architect specializing in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Since 1996, Mark has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for areas such as C# and VSTS, and he serves on several Microsoft software design review teams, including C#, WCF, and VSTS. He holds an M.S. in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, speaks at developer conferences both nationally and internationally, and has written several other books and articles.