Microsoft Office Business Applications - Professional Profile

Chris Keyser is the lead architect for Microsoft's Global ISV team. Chris likes to write code and has a strong interest in Web services, and distributed and real-time systems. He spent the decade prior to joining Microsoft working for a series of start-up companies (B2B/e-commerce, voice biometrics, and physical layer network switching), using a variety of technologies in real-time and business-system development. For the first five years out of college, Chris raised havoc in the United States Navy as a nuclear engineering officer on board the USS Virginia. That was a total immersion experience in systems engineering, an education that is very useful to this day. He graduated from college with a double major in computer science and history in 1984.

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