J.D. Meier

From Guidance Share

I'm currently a Program Manager for the patterns & practices:http://msdn.com/practices group at Microsoft which produces patterns & practices, where I focus on software engineering and quality attributes. I've performed more than 750 architecture and design reviews for customers and use that experience to create customer-facing guidance. In addition to books, I've authored several knowledge base articles, MSDN Magazine articles, and online MSDN articles.

My Books

• Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (ISBN: 978-0735625716)
• Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications (ISBN: 978-0735625709)
• patterns & practices Security Engineering Explained
• Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability (ISBN: 0-7356-1851-8)
• Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures (ISBN: 0-7356-1842-9)
• Building Secure ASP.NET Applications (ISBN: 0-7356-1890-9)

My Blogs / Sites

• [1] - A focus on effectiveness.
• [2] - A focus on software success.
• J.D. Meier's Blog (MSDN)

My Microsoft Projects

• Created prescriptive guidance for adopting Team Foundation Server.
• Created the patterns & practices Performance Testing approach that works well with both agile and formal software methodologies.
• Created Guidance Explorer - a tool to help developers organize and share the growing body of prescriptive guidance.
• Created an updated Threat Modeling approach specifically for Web applications and agile methodologies.
• Integrated key performance engineering activities into MSF Agile.
• Integrated key security engineering activities into MSF Agile.
• Created the patterns & practices Performance Engineering approach.
• Created the patterns & practices Security Engineering approach.
• Created prescriptive performance guidance for .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0.
• Created prescriptive security guidance for .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5.