Gil Kirkpatrick is Director of Engineering at NetPro. He recently was architect and lead engineer for Directory Analyzer for Active Directory, the first and only monitoring and troubleshooting tool for Active Directory. Kirkpatrick's professional software experience dates back to 1976, when he started writing applications and software tools in DataBasic for the Pick operating system. Since then, he has had the good fortune to design and develop many different kinds of software, including embedded real-time systems, network protocols, compilers, distributed databases, and client/server applications. For the last eight years, he has focused on commercial enterprise-class directory-based applications and directory-management software. Kirkpatrick lives in Fountain Hills, Arizona with Kiry, his wife, and their two children, Molly and Scott.