Archive for the ‘Microsoft Regional Director’ tag
Meet Tomislav Bronzin – SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director from Croatia
Tell us who you are?
My name is Tomislav Bronzin, I am Solution Architect, Consultant and founder of CITUS Internet Development Company, based in Zagreb, Croatia. Besides being an MVP, title, I am also a Microsoft Regional Director for 8 years and Microsoft Certified Trainer. I have more than 18 years of real-life experience with Microsoft technologies with current interest in development of distributed applications specialized in Unified Communication Application Development, .NET Smart Client and Mobile Solutions technology, resulting in having 2 patents in those areas.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I was first MVP in the Croatia, renewing my status in past 8 years. The reason for that is my Community work, as well because I am regular speaker at Microsoft conferences in the region (including Microsoft TechEd Europe from 2004-2009, WinDays, DevDays, CodeCamps, KulenDayz, Vizija, Sinergija, NT Konferenca, etc.), as well as at several academic conferences. My colleagues MVP’s Andrej Radinger, Zeljka Knezovic and Dobrisa Adamec and me are organizing and speaking at annual Mobility Day Regional Conference.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I am participating at Live Meetings/Chats/Conferences and I am learning from available on-line resources, as well as from Train-the-Trainer workshops.
Meet Daron Yöndem – Silverlight MVP and Microsoft Regional Director from Turkey
Tell us who you are?
My name is Daron Yöndem. I’m a Microsoft Regional Director, currently a Silverlight MVP leading INETA Turkey. I’m the founder of Deveload Software, an ISV based in Istanbul. For the last five years we are focused on UX as a .NET house. We are building Silverlight and WPF apps including rich multitouch implementations. I have two books about ASP.NET AJAX and one about Internet Explorer 8 development.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got awarded on 2008 as an ASP.NET MVP and had the chance to be one of the first five Silverlight MVPs in the world. It was a great luck to have the new competency declared at the same moment as my renewal period 
I’m an MVP who likes capturing screencast, writing articles on local User Groups and physical interaction which is (for a computer geek) seminars and conferences about technical beauties. I feel very lucky leading INETA Turkey and our 30+ User Groups. We have annual events with different concepts where we get 10+ INETA Speakers and lots of MVPs contributing to the community.
