My name is Damien Guard and I have been developing software since 1983 when I learnt on the Acorn BBC Micro by day and Sinclair ZX Spectrum by night. I moved on to developing commercial & internet banking, games, e-commerce, device drivers, intranets, extranets, content management and other custom projects.

Currently I work for Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer within Data Programmability which means I get to work on the SQL bits of the .NET Framework specifically LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework.

I was actively involved in the Guernsey Software Developer Forum where I gave a number of talks on subjects such as Subversion, Web Application Security and Microsoft's Language Integrated Query (LINQ) before I moved from Guernsey to Vancouver in 2008.

I hold a BSc degree in Computer Science (1st with Honours) and was a member of the British Computer Society from 2005-2008.

You can contact me by email via damieng@gmail.com.

Thanks for reading,

[)amien