Name: Rich Turner
Company: Microsoft's WinFX Strategy
Job Title: Product Manager
Bio: Richard Turner is the Product Manager for "InfoCard" in Microsoft's WinFX Strategy group. Richard is also responsible for articulating Microsoft's position on Service Orientation, SOA, ESB, EDA and how these concepts map against Microsoft's current and future application platforms.
Richard moved to the USA in Jan 2003 to join the then "Indigo" team, and quickly took up the task of communicating how to select and use Microsoft's existing technology stack most appropriately and how to prepare for WCF.
Before moving to the USA, Richard worked in Microsoft UK's Solution Development Center where he was Solution Architect for the foundations underlying the UK Government Gateway (overview here). Richard was also a Principal Consultant in Microsoft UK's Consulting Services helping customers build effective systems on top of Microsoft's technologies.
Prior to joining Microsoft in June 2000, Richard formed and ran a small company delivering consulting, training and development services specialized in powerful and scalable enterprise systems for customers around Europe. Prior to this, Richard was an architect and lead developer at companies delivering business, technical and military solutions.