My name is Michael Zammuto. I am a Vice President of ChoicePoint and the Chief Technology Officer of the company’s Insurity division. Insurity is a leading provider of information services and software to the insurance industry. The company is doing a lot of very interesting things and I expect to blog about many of them in the future.

Until February of this year I was a manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was part of the Connected Systems Division's Server Leadership Team which owns Microsoft's SOA server technologies. I played a role in bringing together CSD and in developing the company’s next generation SOA strategy, code named Oslo. I also helped deliver Windows Server System products and technologies including Windows Workflow Foundation, BizTalk Server, RFID Services, Host Integration Server, EDI, adapters, accelerators and a range of technologies for the .NET Framework, Windows and Office including the Compact Framework, minCLR, COM+, RPC, MSMQ, and many others.

Before joining Microsoft, I founded Sapago Inc. I am really proud of what we accomplished with Sapago. Our retail RFID and barcode-based personal shopper systems won the "CRN/Microsoft Best of Show" award at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference and was named one of "5 Gadgets Your Business Can't Live Without" by The Crafts Report. These products were featured in Internet Retailer, RFID Journal, Retail Bulletin, Demand Chain News or many other sites.

I am the former chief technology officer of Ecometry Corporation which offers an integrated enterprise software suite used by 400 companies including Nordstrom, Coldwater Creek, Brookstone and J. Peterman. Ecometry is a solution for companies selling through multiple sales channels and provides merchandising, marketing, order entry, forecasting, accounting, ecommerce interfaces, call center, point of sale, campaign management, shipping, customer service and warehousing, among other functions. I appeared last summer on the CNN show, Global Office. That interview focused on the changing role of technology executives and their representation in Boards and planning committees.

My main areas of interest is in software and systems design especially integration, workflow engines, RFID and .NET in retail. I have done a couple of different legacy conversions to .NET as well as legacy integration using web services and other methods.

I have been both a CTO and a CIO. I am the former CIO of Inktel Direct, a direct marketing firm whose services include database management, inbound & outbound call center services, ecommerce, fulfillment, lettershop, and custom CRM solutions.

Prior to that, I was the startup CTO of LawCommerce in San Francisco. LawCommerce provided a B2B marketplace, technology products, purchasing services, research and document services and online legal education and professional certification courses all targeted to legal professionals. In 2002 the company was purchased by legal services giant Lexis-Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.

My background is in software design and architecture mostly using C, C++ or Java I have been using .NET including Win Forms, ASP.NET, components and web services for four years. My current language of choice is C#. I have put some tutorials on this site in the articles section and have published some .NET web services running that you can program to. I also read a lot and have posted some book suggestions.

Please enjoy the site and provide me with your feedback. I have included links to articles that I have written and articles that I have been interviewed for as well as some technology tutorials, biography and project list. Thank you for visiting.