Product Specialists

We recognize technical leaders who have demonstrated an expertise with BizTalk360 products as “Product Specialist”. These individuals have invested time and energy building a deep-knowledge of, passion for, and experience with BizTalk360 toolsets. What’s more? They freely share their know-how with others. The program recognizes these exceptional contributions to the greater BizTalk360 community by allowing product specialists early access to products and a forum for providing feedback.

Maarit Laine

Maarit Laine

During her 15+ years in IT, Maarit has filled various roles in product development, software projects and consulting. She loves communicating and co-operating with customers and stakeholders over organizational boundaries. She enjoys working under pressure and solving acute problems. Maarit is feeling right at home in her current position as an Integration Specialist at Solita.

Outside IT, Maarit loves dancing and has an MA in English Philology.

Product Specialist
Nicolas Blatter

Nicolas Blatter

Nicolas is the Senior Technology consultant at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He has a Degree in Business Information Technology. He worked as a EDI Specialist between 1991 – 2000 at Swisscos, Digital, Compaq. From 2000 through today, Nicolas works as a BizTalk Specialist and has implemented projects with all/any of the released BizTalk versions. In addition, Nicolas also provides Consulting, Assessment, Architecture design, Training and development of solutions for different customers in Switzerland and Europe: (ABB, Würth (Austria), Mammut, Denner, Zur Rose, Victor GmbH (Germany), Ferrero (Italy), Swiss Post, ALSO and some others.)

Product Specialist
Kent Weare

Kent Weare

Kent Weare is a Senior Enterprise Architect at TransAlta, a multi-national Power Generation and Energy Trading company. Mr. Weare is an Azure MVP with expertise in BizTalk, Logic Apps, API Management and Service Bus technologies. In addition to his Enterprise Architect responsibilities, he also writes for InfoQ.com on matters relating to cloud computing.

Kent holds a Masters Degree in Information Management from Arizona State University and a Computer Science Degree from the University of Regina.

Product Specialist
Daniel Wilen

Daniel Wilén

Daniel is working partly as site manager and partly as an integration consultant at Tieto. The BizTalk platform has been my friend for many years. I’ve been working with BizTalk since those early days in 2001 and I’ve experienced every single version of the platform by being a developer and by migrating those solutions as well between the releases.

My experience is that you’ll always need a strategy in order to solve the integration issues coming up, thus I start every project by reviewing the current integration strategy. If there is no such thing, I’ll create a simple one with some simple guidelines to follow in order to create a maintainable and sustainable integration solution platform in the future. For example is the area of artifact naming in a BizTalk solution of uttermost importance when it comes to maintainability – the maintenance cost will be lowered if you design a good naming convention rule or guideline.

Finally I also find that track and trace functionality is a very important aspect, especially when it comes to building up confidence in an integrated environment where the systems hand over control to another party. Integrated processes spanning multiple systems have to be in sync, messaging going wrong must be easy to correct and restart in order to resume normal operations. And that’s why I think BizTalk360 will be an important part of a reliable and trusted integration platform.

Product Specialist
Joakim Wadskog

Joakim Wadskog

Joakim Wadskog works as Architect/Strategist Integration & e-commerce at Pdb Datasystem AB — a Swedish company with 70 employees with offices in Jönköping and Stockholm. I have many years of experience as a software architect, with the main focus on system integration on the Microsoft platform, BizTalk & Azure.

Joakim has been through variety of projects and acquired a broad knowledge of software architecture, system integration & e-commerce solutions. He works with customers from different businesses like manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, transportation and security. He has worked with Microsoft BizTalk Server since 2005 and with BizTalk360 since 2013.

Product Specialist
Steef-Jan Wiggers

Steef-Jan Wiggers

Steef-Jan Wiggers has 15 years’ experience as a technical lead developer, application architect and consultant, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services and Windows Azure. Steef-Jan is very active in the BizTalk community as a blogger, Wiki author/editor, forum moderator, writer and public speaker in the Netherlands, Europe, North America and Australia. For these efforts, Microsoft has recognized him a Microsoft MVP for the past 6 years.

Product Specialist
Eldert Grootenboer

Eldert Grootenboer

Eldert is a Microsoft Integration Architect and Azure MVP from the Netherlands, currently working at Motion10, mainly focused on IoT and BizTalk Server and Azure integration. He comes from a .NET background, and has been in the IT since 2006. He has been working with BizTalk since 2010 and since then has expanded into Azure and surrounding technologies as well. Eldert loves working in integration projects, as each project brings new challenges and there is always something new to learn. In his spare time Eldert likes to be active in the integration community and get his hands dirty on new technologies.

Product Specialist
Milen

Milen Koychev

Milen Koychev is Capitan (CEO and Founder) @ DATA Passion, a modern integration company and Microsoft Partner located in Hamburg / Germany. His integration journey started more than 11 years ago as an integration consultant working at an international Power Generation and Energy Trading company where he was responsible for the one of the biggest German integration platforms.

Milen simply loves to integrate! He and his team of integration experts deliver solutions based on BizTalk Server and Microsoft Azure. They implement Enterprise Application (EAI), EDI / EDI on Azure and API Management scenarios every day.

Milen cares not only on implementing, but also helps customers building automated internal support services based on BizTalk360 so that his customers can pay more attention to their business and be more profitable while stop worrying about the system’s health.

Product Specialist
Jordy-Maes

Jordy Maes

Jordy Maes is an Implementation Consultant & Teamlead Integration at Inetum Realdolmen. He specialises in Operations focused on integration, analysing new projects and improving current applications. He has been working with Microsoft BizTalk Server since version 2010 and started with integration right after he finished his ICT education. Jordy loves working with clients who have challenging assignments and solving technical difficulties.

In his spare time, he likes to familiarise himself with new technologies and exploring the world through his camera.

Product Specialist
Bart

Bart Scheurweghs

Bart Scheurweghs is a Senior Integration Architect at Integration.team, a company specialised in connecting data, processes and devices on premise and in the cloud, using Microsoft technologies.

Bart started his integration career with BizTalk Server 2000 and from then on continued guiding integration solutions end-to-end for different customers in any sector. Bart uses his experience to help customers build robust and advanced integration solutions.

Product Specialist
Maxime

Maxime Delwaide

Maxime is a talented IT professional that has been working with BizTalk for the last 5 years. Since the beginning of his career, he has developed a great expertise on proactive monitoring of complex environments and automating operations. His focus with BizTalk has always been to get the most out of the product and reduce operations effort has much as possible. He has done multiple implementations of BizTalk360 to help customers gain insights on their BizTalk operations and be proactive to maximize the efficiency of the BizTalk environment.

Product Specialist
David

David Grospelier

David is the co-founder of MiddleWay, a French consulting company specialist in middleware solutions based on Microsoft technologies. He worked as a middleware architect since 2004 for different consulting companies before creating its own company in the beginning of 2006. He wrote the only French book about BizTalk in 2010 and was awarded as an integration MVP in 2010.

He is leading MiddleWay with its partners, and is actively involved on the design, implementation and support for critical middleware projects for private and public companies in France, Switzerland, Monaco and also across Europe. MiddleWay was awarded as BizTalk360 partner of the year in 2015 after multiple successful deployments of BizTalk360 majorly in France.

Product Specialist
Daniel-Toomey

Daniel Toomey

Currently serving as Principal Consultant at Mexia, Dan is a Microsoft MVP (Azure), a Microsoft Certified Solution Associate in Cloud Platform (MCSA), a Microsoft Certified Azure Developer (MCPD), and a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in BizTalk Server 2010. He’s also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a published Pluralsight author. During his many years of experience in the Australian IT industry, he has helped a number of large private and government organisations solve their enterprise integration problems using Microsoft Azure, BizTalk Server, WCF, and SSIS.

Dan is a frequent speaker at Australian community events, including the Brisbane Azure User Group (which he currently leads). He has authored two courses for Pluralsight and is also an active blogger http://www.mindovermessaging.com.

Product Specialist
Kien Pham

Kien Pham

Kien Pham is an Integration Architect at Finnish IT company Digia. Digia has a centralized business unit, providing integration solutions and services and Kien works in the organization’s Microsoft Integration Team. He has worked over 7 years in various large customer projects as a developer, designer and technical architect based on Microsoft technology products and services (e.g. BizTalk, Azure, BizTalk360). Kien has strong experience of designing and implementing EAI solutions. In addition to software development, Kien has a broad experience of infrastructure based on-premise and cloud solutions.

Product Specialist
Simon Abissa

Simon Perrin

Simon Perrin is a Senior Integrator Architect at ABISSA, a company that creates pragmatic, reliable and high-performance digital solutions.

A BizTalk integrator since 2001, Simon is passionate about finding the best tools to offer his clients. He was called upon to take interest in multiple technologies used for the different sectors of the clients entrusted to him (Health, Transport, State Services, International Organizations, Public Institutions, Insurance, etc). Simon is passionate about sailing.

Product Specialist
Samir KHAMLICHI

Samir Khamlichi

Samir Khamlichi is a TECHNICAL OFFICER INTEGRATION at CELLENZA, a company specialised in Micorsoft technologies (Cloud Azure, Integration and Data) and agile best practices. He intervenes on architecture, design, industrialization of developments and consultancy on projects around Integration.

In IT since 2008. He has been working with BizTalk since 2011. Since 2016, he also works on Azure Integration with iPaaS technologies such as Logic Apps.

Product Specialist