About Colin Bowern
Colin Bowern is the Vice President of Technology at officialCOMMUNITY in Toronto, Canada. Through his work with the clients, Colin and the team help recording artists build and manage an online community to connect with their fans. Colin came to officialCOMMUNITY from Microsoft where he was a Senior Consultant with the Microsoft Consulting Services unit working enterprise customers on their adoption of Microsoft technology. During his time at Microsoft, Colin worked with several product groups to incorporate customer feedback into future product releases as well as the MCSE certification exam development. Colin holds two Microsoft DeliverIt! awards for work done with in the financial industry in Canada to drive the adoption of .NET as a development platform and developing an SMBIOS inventory tool that was incorporated into the Windows Pre-installation Environment.
Colin has delivered a number of in-person and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) webcast sessions since the early part of the decade on topics ranging from .NET Development to infrastructure deployment with the Microsoft platform. In addition to technical talks, Colin participates in the community through active contribution on the MSDN and ASP.NET Forums, publishing code examples, sharing experiences through his blog, and attending local user group events. On the publishing end Colin has provided technical review services for Addison-Wesley's .NET development series, the Windows Server 2003 series from Microsoft Press, and co-authored an Windows Server 2003 MCSE study guide for Syngress Publishing.In addition he also holds a Masters of Science from the University of Liverpool.
Past and present certifications include:
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
- Microsoft Certified Application Developer
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
- Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
- Cisco Certified Network Associate
- Cisco Certified Design Associate
- CompTIA Network+