Christopher J. Barwick (Chris) is the Enterprise Data Analytics Team Lead for Big Hammer, a division of Edgenet. There he manages data for Fortune 500 clients and oversees many multi-terabyte projects in both SQL 2005 and SQL 2008.

 

Because of these high profile projects and his passion for digging into new technologies, he is often engaged in early adopter programs with Microsoft. From a recent deep dive training at Microsoft on StreamInsight, a new product in SQL Server 2008 R2, to being an early adopter of the very first beta of the .NET Framework, Chris went on to start and run the largest F# Forum site http://www.hubfs.net. (Microsoft's F# Developer Center on MSDN actually uses his site for their forums! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/default.aspx?ppud=4.)

 

Well versed with WCF, F#, C# and WPF, you can now find Chris working with VS2010 Beta 2, System.Threading (and System.Threading.Tasks) and the new XAML Windows Workflow 4.0.