Melbourne-based Damien Watkins has been involved with the .NET phenomenon since 1998, when Microsoft approached a number of universities worldwide to provide feedback to the .NET framework. An academic at the time, Watkins lectured at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, and the Department of Software Development at Monash University. He was given the chance to visit the software giant’s US headquarters in Redmond with researchers and developers from all over the world. Since then he has set up his own business, Project42, and travels the world providing training, consulting and mentoring to companies that wish to develop component-based software architectures for the Internet.
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