At the end of June I accepted a position as principal consultant with Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner headquartered in Irvine, California. They are a trusted consulting firm developing custom solutions for medium to large corporations, and they have some cool product development, too. A number of my friends and Microsoft MVPs are current or former Neudesic employees. You know who you are.

Neudesic is establishing a Portland practice as part of the PacWest region, so I will have the occasional trip up to their office in Bellevue, Washington. And that is awfully handy to Microsoft’s main campus, now isn’t it? I grew up in Bellevue (it’s across Lake Washington to the east of Seattle) and have friends and family in the area, so trips up there now and then are going to be fun.

Even though I took a job that is ostensibly in Portland, the second week I was in Illinois consulting for a client that needed some guidance on WF, WCF, and .NET. I presented the final assessment to developers, managers and executive staff which the CEO concluded by saying, “That was the best presentation of a technical problem and its solution I’ve ever heard.” Wow. Thank you, sir!

Neudesic is expanding, particularly in the Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco offices. If you have got some major Microsoft technology mojo and you’re interested in working for a consulting firm that is going cool places and doing exciting things, then contact me using the Email link on the right of the page. Microsoft’s cloud initiative (Azure, AppFabric, BPOS, etc.), mobile, and SharePoint are all hot hot hot right now, and rock solid .NET skills are always in demand.

A story on NPR's All Things Considered considers if cloud computing will work in the White House.

Both Google and Microsoft are lobbying the Obama transition team to adopt cloud computing to get work done in the White House. In the story, security expert Kevin Jackson discusses how cloud computing can make data and computing more secure than traditional systems. It would also improve collaboration, an area that government is particularly bad at. Vince Cerf, the so-called father of the Internet, who now works at Google, opines that cloud computing would also be a good paradigm for the new administration to help achieve the new openness that has been championed.