About the Reviewers
Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), MCSA, MCAD, MCTS on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, MCTS on SharePoint, MCTS on SQL Server and a longtime expert on other Microsoft-related technologies. He has a master's degree in computer engineering from Politecnico of Turin.
Currently, he works as a senior project manager and solution architect for EID, a company of Navlab group, one of the biggest Microsoft Dynamics groups in Italy (where he's also the chief technical officer). His main task is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft SharePoint, Azure, cloud apps and .NET applications in general, data analysis, and BI solutions) and he's often focused on engineering distributed service-based applications. He works as a full-time NAV consultant (with more than 15 years of international NAV projects) and solution developer and he is available for architecting solutions based on the Microsoft's ERP, for NAV database tuning and optimization (performance and locking management) and for architecting cloud solutions and apps. He's the author of different Microsoft Certified for NAV add-ons.
Stefano writes many articles and blogs on different Microsoft-related topics and he's frequently involved in consulting and teaching. He has worked with Packt in the past on many technical Microsoft-related books and he's recently the author of Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, a book about enterprise solution development with the NAV ERP, Azure Cloud services, and Microsoft technologies. In its free time, Stefano is a runner and a cyclist.
Bert Wolters is currently a lead consultant in hybrid datacenter at the Dutch company Inspark. Bert started his professional life in the Dutch Military, but around 1999 found his talents to be in IT, helping out the platoon and unit leaders with small IT issues in the field. By the time he started on his first Microsoft certification in 2005, he had found his new vocation in life. His ability to look at all sides of a story (issues/problems, solutions, and implementation), was formed by the wide variety of jobs he took. Having a background in the business side of IT as well as Incident and Change Manager, and in the field as engineer and consultant, helps him deliver the most comprehensive solutions for businesses whether technology or business-case driven.
Since 2010, he further specialized in Microsoft infrastructure technology, focusing on system and platform management and is still riding Microsoft’s wave of innovation, looking forward to, and experimenting with, every single new infrastructure feature of Microsoft Azure. Because of this focus, he decided to resign from the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUg), and the System Center User Group in The Netherlands (SCUG_NL), and chair the Experts Live Foundation.
He currently advises companies on how to get the most out of their Azure platform implementation or System Center Suite and provides knowledge on Microsoft’s hybrid cloud, Hyper-V, Azure Stack, Microsoft OMS, and StorSimple.
I would like to thank my girlfriend and daughters for putting up with all of my efforts to gain and share knowledge. I also give thanks to Mohamed Waly for accepting me in his team of reviewers.
Sjoukje Zaal is a Microsoft Azure MVP, a Principal Architect and Lead Productivity and with over 15 years of experience providing architecture, development, consultancy, and design expertise. She works at Ordina, a system integrator based in the Netherlands. She is very active in the Microsoft community as co-founder of SP&C NL and MixUG, writer, public speaker and on MSDN/TechNet.