Andy Sithers, Microsoft
Andy can claim one of the more interesting routes into the software industry. A doctorate in Pharmacology led to a number of academic positions where he had to extol the usefulness of software to university students and staff alike. Since leaving his ivory tower, Andy has worked variously as a Technical Writer, Consultant and Software Developer on a wide range of projects and products – from scientific data capture and analysis through to .NET-centric data synchronisation. Luckily his software efforts are scattered far and wide – Bristol, Brisbane, and Belfast take care of the B’s!.
More recently Andy was a Team Leader and Software Architect for a data solutions company, and introduced .net as a way to produce great applications for UK and US Retailers.
His role at Microsoft sees Andy working with University faculties, schools and departments to build long-term relationships that will ensure the best and most appropriate use of emerging Microsoft tools and technologies.
Since he likes the rain, Andy lives in South Wales with his wife and three children, all of whom are rather patient with him.
He can be reached at asithers [@] microsoft.com, twitter.com/sithers, blogs.msdn.com/sithers, or for the playful, found lurking on Xbox Live.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Hi Andrew,
My name is Jide Johnson and I am a student who was successful in receiving the recent £2000 sponsorship on behalf of my entrepreneurial body at the university of hertfordshire.
I attended the Briefing at Microsoft headquarters on Friday 6th November and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
The reason Im sending this email is to find out whether you could possibly send me the same video that demonstrated a showreel of new microsoft related technology that you showed at the briefing when you gave your talk.
It had a string of clips including a supermarket. Id like to add this video to the Microsoft presentation that we are holding in each of the relevant departments in the university.
Im aware its on Youtube, but If we had an actual original Video, It would be more presentable. As I am also an Animator, Id quite like to push it in the animation and games department a well as computer Science and business.
Please send me any files or links that you may have to this video,
and any other useful information in addition, as we are going full throttle on the MS campaign now.
Yours sincerely,
Jide Johnson / UH Entrepreneurs Head of IT & Design Relations / Studying Animator