Jeff Sanders is a group manager/solution architect with Avanade in the East region of the U.S., where he focuses on BizTalk, SharePoint Server, WCF, WF, and .NET, and reducing complexity. Avanade is a global IT consultancy specializing in applied solutions based on the Microsoft enterprise platform and is co-owned by Accenture and Microsoft. Jeff speaks at local and regional user groups and code camps. He was a cowriter of the BizTalk 26 R2 Microsoft certification exam, as well as other Microsoft PRO-level exams, and has served on Alpha reviews. He is one of few to have achieved a perfect score on the BizTalk 26 exam. He was a technical reviewer of Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 29 (Apress, 29) and WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ (Packt Publishing, 28). Jeff holds a degree in journalism and mass communications from Elon University.