Alain Leroy has been working for large enterprises for about 13 years; the first 4 of them as a designer in an R&D department, and thereafter, as consultant and trainer for multinational organizations.
He has spent most of his time focusing on large scale heterogeneous, distributed environments and the related technologies. He has contributed to projects for major banks and insurance companies, for the Belgian government and for many other industries. After 4 years at Microsoft working in the Consulting department first as Application Architect and finally as Solution Architect, he has taken over the responsibility of Strategy Advisor - Platform Architecture. Alain is an entertaining speaker and presents in all the major events - Tech'Ed, DevDays, LogOn Web Day, etc - showing how technology can be put together to deliver the best possible value to its users.