My name is Chris Pietschmann. I am a Microsoft MVP on the Windows Live Platform, and the Owner of Simplovation LLC. Simplovation is a software development consulting company that specializes in Mapping/GIS related application development. I am on the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin .NET User Group. Also, I am a husband, father and pursuing a degree in Neuroscience.

The pietschsoft.com domain name has been my internet home since 2003, and been the home of my Blog and my internet presence hub since 2004.

My Open Source Projects

• Virtual Router - Wifi Hot Spot for Windows 7 and 2008 R2 - Coordinator/Developer - http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com
• MvcMaps - Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC - Coordinator/Developer - http://mvcmaps.codeplex.com
• jHtmlEditor: simple, light weight, extensible WYSIWYG HTML Editor built on top of jQuery - Coordinator/Developer - http://jhtmlarea.codeplex.com
  
• Virtual Earth Toolkit - Coordinator/Developer - http://vetoolkit.codeplex.com
• Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper - Coordinator/Developer - http://vejs.codeplex.com
• LINQ to JavaScript - Coordinator/Developer - http://jslinq.codeplex.com
• dotNetExt - Coordinator/Developer - http://dotnetext.codeplex.com
• PietschSoft.VE - Coordinator/Developer - http://pietschsoftve3.codeplex.com

Community Involvement

• Wisconsin .NET Users Group Executive Committee - Since 2007 - http://wi-ineta.org
• Community Coding Contest - 2008 and 2010 - http://communitycodingcontest.org

Social Networks

• StackOverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/users/7831/chris-pietschmann
• DotNetKicks - http://www.dotnetkicks.com/users/crpietschmann
• FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/crpietschmann
• Twitter - http://twitter.com/crpietschmann
• Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=539908792
• Digg - http://digg.com/users/crpietschmann
• Linked .NET Users Group - http://www.lidnug.org/Members/crpietschmann.aspx (LIDNUG blog: http://www.lidnug.org/Blogs/crpietschmann-on-LIDNUG.aspx)

Forum / Message Board Participation

• MSDN Social / Forums - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Profile/en-US/?user=Chris Pietschmann
• CodePlex - http://codeplex.com/site/users/view/crpietschmann
• ASP.NET Forums - http://forums.asp.net/members/crpietschmann.aspx
• Silverlight Forums - http://silverlight.net/members/crpietschmann.aspx
• Channel 9 - http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/crpietschmann

Awards

• 2009 - Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Platform
• 2008 - Microsoft MVP - Virtual Earth

Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Platform
Owner, Simplovation LLC
http://simplovation.com
http://pietschsoft.com

2010-03-04: I updated the website to use a new theme, and the neat image within the site header was barrowed from here: http://www.fortytwo.us/pics/index.php?action=view&album=My%20Graphics&image=9&sortby=name&order=asc