Tim Huckaby 

 

Called a .NET and Smart Client industry pioneer by the press, Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy - experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms.  InterKnowlogy is a software engineering & consulting firm dedicated to system and application architecture, software design, development & deployment.  As Lead Technical Architect, Software Development Lead, Microsoft Regional Director, author and Microsoft Partner Advisory Council member, Microsoft MVP, and International .NET Association speaker, Tim has over 20 years of industry experience.  Tim has worked on technology projects for such clients as Microsoft, Pacific Life Insurance Company, Nabisco, Qualcomm, Gateway, Standard & Poors, Colonial Insurance Company, Mobile Planet, SkyMall, Kingston Technology, Cooking.com, Buy.com, the U.S. Navy and many others as a Developer, Architect and Technical Lead.  Tim’s skills expand into many areas, including system, platform, and application architecture, Internet / Extranet / Intranet Architecture and Development, and enterprise Application Development.  Tim is one of the rare technologists whose expertise spans developer, system, network and infrastructure areas.

 

Tim sits on many types of council at Microsoft including the .NET Partner Advisory Council, the Microsoft eBusiness Partner Advisory Council.  Tim was awarded with “Microsoft Regional Director of the Year” for his work in the Developer Community.  Tim is the Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego County, California and sits on the RD advisory council.  Regional Directors are independent 3rd party advocates of Microsoft technologies whose mission it is to inform, educate and congregate the Windows development community.  Tim regularly consults & advises Microsoft at a corporate level.

 

Tim is one of the few technologists who is not a Microsoft employee that has worked on a software product on a product team at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.  In his role as developer lead, he commuted to Redmond for six months to work in one of the architecture teams on Microsoft Site Server Version 3.0.  This is where Tim learned how Microsoft builds software.

 

Tim regularly authors pieces on technology for numerous magazines including feature articles for SQL Server Magazine, Windows and .NET Magazine, .NET Developers Journal, MSDN, Technet and other industry magazines.  Over the past few years, Tim completed his duties as the primary author on a number of books.  Tim performs many technical book and magazine edits for multiple publishers and sits on the board at .NET Developers Journal Magazine.

 

Tim was awarded for the highest rated Keynote presentations of all the Developer Days held around the world in 1998 and in 1999, took 3^rd in 2000, and top 10 in 2002 by Microsoft Corporation.  Tim has done presentations on Microsoft Technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launches events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, and the PDC, along with 3^rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at the events.  Tim was selected by Microsoft as a “Rock-Star” speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks world-wide on their behalf.   

 

Before founding InterKnowlogy in late 1999, Tim was with several other companies, including Electronic Data Systems, Republic Tool and Manufacturing Corp., and Microsoft Solution Providers: Stellcom and Chaparral Computers and Networks.  He holds a B.B.A. in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and is still active at USD, holding a seat on the Athletic Board of Directors and as the Class of 1984 Chairman.  Tim is one of the very first Microsoft Certified Professionals, number 645, attaining his first certifications in 1991.