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Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Marc Hoeppner: Marc’s technical expertise is based on 20 years of experience as an ISV and Microsoft lead developer/architect, after initially studying physics and meteorology at university. He started working with Assembler, C/C++ and MFC for the first six years, learning the ropes as a software developer and later team/project lead, and from very early on played a key role in dealing with and presenting to customers. Prior to NeoGeo, he built mission-critical systems for garbage incineration plants, maintenance and management systems for power plants as well as client/server and n-tier information management systems. In 1996 he started his own company, NeoGeo New Media GmbH and worked as a consultant and developer for Microsoft-based technologies. Since 2000 NeoGeo started to become an ISV by building its own products such as neoMediaCenter .NET, an information worker solution for digital/media assets, browser-based, but also integrating directly into Office. Marc specializes in ASP.NET, C#, Web Services and SQL Server and has in-depth, first-hand knowledge of all these topics. To his customers, he is known as an extraordinary presenter on technical subjects, both in English and in German. Since most of the customers are not developers, but rather marketing or IT managers, Marc makes a point of presenting even complex technical matters in a way that they are easy to understand, and therefore raises the potential for making “the right decision” in a business context. As managing director of NeoGeo he is also responsible for a wide range of business aspects, such as communicating with partners, including Microsoft, other companies or universities, developing business by sourcing and working directly with customers, and taking care of the “peopleware” of NeoGeo. Highlights: - Architect, Software Developer, Consultant, Speaker/Presenter - Business concepts - Client/Server and n-Tier Systems, mostly web-based - ASP.NET, C#, .NET Framework, SQL Server, T-SQL, SharePoint, Office Automation, MSMQ, ActiveDirectory, Load Balancing/Clustering, Windows Server 2000/2003, etc.

NET Framework

Zoom App. works with Silverlight Streaming

Marc Hoeppner writes "....the Zoom Client is the first application based completely on Silverlight 1.0 and JavaScript. It has broad functionality and implements many features that many of the current flash-applications are not supporting. The silverZoom Client can be placed on any website like HTML- or PHP-based applications. There really is no ASP.NET prerequisite since the silverZoom is written in XAML and JavaScript." Read post »
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Marc Hoeppner

Managing Director NeoGeo New Media GmbH Elmshorn, Schleswig Holstein, DE Send email to Marc Marc's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, Active Directory, Architecture, ASP .NET, C#, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, SQL Server, Visual Studio .NET
Years of Experience 20
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Distribution, Sales and Inventory, Human Resources and Payroll, Manufacturing, Project Management, Retail Sales, Supply Chain Management, Biotech applications, Engineering applications