Four Lean TECHniques Team Members Renewed Microsoft MVP Awards
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Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award goes to exceptional community leaders for their technical expertise, leadership, speaking experience, online influence, and commitment to solving real world problems. It is a selective group: fewer than 500 recipients are based in the United States.
This year, four members of the Lean TECHniques team renewed their MVP status:
- Scott Sauber, Director of Engineering: Developer Technologies (DevOps and .NET). Fifth year in the program.
- Matt Gordon, Director of Data & Analytics: Data Platform (Real-Time Intelligence and Azure SQL: Database, Pools, Serverless, Hyperscale, Managed Instance, and Virtual Machines). Ninth year in the program.
- Alec Harrison, Staff Engineer: Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Azure (Microsoft Foundry and Azure Infrastructure as Code). Fifth year in the program.
- Daniel Ward, Staff Engineer: Developer Technologies (.NET). Fourth year in the program.
The Microsoft MVP status recognizes individuals who go above and beyond to support other technologists and help improve the technology industry as a whole along the way.
“I’m continually impressed by what Scott, Matt, Alec and Daniel take on,” said Tim Gifford, Chief Innovation Officer at Lean TECHniques. “The technology industry is changing so rapidly, and they aren’t just keeping pace. They stay out in front of it all, while giving time back to the community and supporting others on their learning journeys too. Lean TECHniques is lucky to have them on our team.”
How The Award Is Earned
Microsoft re-evaluates every MVP each year against what they contributed over the prior twelve months: technical writing, conference talks, open source work, and mentoring. Scott, Matt, Alec and Daniel continue to dedicate time outside of client work to support the broader tech community. It’s important work that feeds back into how we serve the organizations we partner with.
Congratulations to Scott, Matt, Alec, and Daniel on the MVP renewal. The commitment to getting better and sharing what you learn raises the bar for the rest of us.