Ivo Salmre has been working for Microsoft for more than eleven years focusing on the design and production of software development tools—first for desktops and servers, and then specifically focusing on mobile device software development. Ivo was the lead program manager in the design of the .NET Compact Framework. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1993 (graduating cum laude) and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. After living for ten years in Seattle and a bit over one year in London, Ivo now works at the Microsoft European Innovation Center (EMIC) in Aachen, Germany, doing research on advanced mobile device programming models. Ivo was born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1971.