Called a .NET and Smart Client industry pioneer by the press, Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy - experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms. InterKnowlogy is a software, infrastructure and network engineering firm dedicated to system and application architecture, software design, development, deployment and network engineering. As Lead Technical Architect, Software Development Lead, Microsoft Regional Director, author and Microsoft Partner Advisory Council member, Microsoft MVP, and International .NET Association speaker, Tim has over 20 years of industry experience. Tim has worked on technology projects for such clients as Microsoft, Pacific Life Insurance Company, Nabisco, Qualcomm, Gateway, Standard & Poors, Colonial Insurance Company, Mobile Planet, SkyMall, Kingston Technology, Cooking.com, Buy.com, the U.S. Navy and many others as a Developer, Architect and Technical Lead. Tim’s skills expand into many areas, including system and application architecture, platform, eBusiness, Internet / Extranet / Intranet Architecture and Development, and enterprise Application Development. Tim is one of the rare technologists whose expertise spans developer, system, network and infrastructure areas.
Tim sits on many types of council at Microsoft including the .NET Partner Advisory Council, the Microsoft eBusiness Partner Advisory Council. Tim was awarded with “Microsoft Regional Director of the Year” for his work in the Developer Community. Tim is the Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego County, California and sits on the RD advisory council. Regional Directors are independent 3rd party advocates of Microsoft technologies whose mission it is to inform, educate and congregate the Windows development community. Tim regularly consults & advises Microsoft at a corporate level.
Tim is one of the few technologists who is not a Microsoft employee that has worked on a software product on a product team at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. In his role as developer lead, he commuted to Redmond for six months to work in the architecture group on Microsoft Site Server Version 3.0.
Tim regularly authors pieces on technology for numerous magazines including feature articles for SQL Server Magazine, Windows and .NET Magazine, and other industry magazines. Over the past few years, Tim completed his duties as the primary author on a number of books like “Beginning SiteServer 3.0 Commerce” and “Professional Commerce Server 2000” distributed by Wrox Press Ltd. Tim was also an author on “Professional Windows DNA”. Tim performs many technical book and magazine edits for multiple publishers and sits on the board at .NET Developers Journal Magazine.
Tim was awarded for the highest rated Keynote presentations of all the Developer Days held around the world in 1998 and in 1999, took 3rd in 2000, and top 10 in 2002 by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft Technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launches events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at the events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a “Rock-Star” speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks world-wide on their behalf.
Before founding InterKnowlogy in late 1999, Tim was with several other companies, including Electronic Data Systems, Republic Tool and Manufacturing Corp., and Microsoft Solution Providers: Stellcom and Chaparral Computers and Networks. He holds a B.B.A. in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and is still active at USD, holding a seat on the Athletic Board of Directors and as the Class of 1984 Chairman. Tim is one of the very first Microsoft Certified Professionals, number 645, attaining his first certifications in 1991.
TechTalk
05 Jan 2009
2009 Predictions Year of the Next-Generation App.
Tim Huckaby writes
"...I have made some really bad predictions over the last 25 years in this business. So, it is with a careful and skeptical eye that you should view my predictions for this coming year...As developers and architects, we have been so jaded by impotent browser-based applications...Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and Microsoft Surface are going to push us..."
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Editors Picks
29 Oct 2008
You Have to Love The PDC - Let Me Count the Ways!
Tim Huckaby writes
"...this year’s PDC has really got me excited...Here is a random smattering of thoughts on this last 3 days...amazingly cool stuff in Win7 for developers...Microsoft has laid the gauntlet on the bold promise of Windows 7...The Surface is everywhere at the PDC...what is really cool is that the Surface team has “opened the kimono” at the PDC. They are officially shipping..."
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Editors Picks
10 Mar 2008
Thoughts on Microsoft Mix: The WideOpen Web
Tim Huckaby writes
"Attending the conference was time well spent for me and consequently, I’m more confident than ever that not only is Microsoft building the platform, tools and plumbing for the next generation of applications....I am speculating here, but in phase 4 we are headed for a world where:....That’s a world I want to live in and it’s happening a lot quicker than I thought it would. For now, the next 18 months of building WPF and Silverlight applications is going to be really fun."
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