About the Author

Awarded with a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellowship, Ashish Ghoda is a customer-focused and business values-driven senior IT executive with over 13 years of IT leadership, enterprise architecture, application development, and technical and financial management experience.

He is founder and president of Technology Opinion LLC, a unique collaborative venture striving for strategic excellence by providing partnerships with different organizations and the IT community. He is also the associate director at a Big Four accounting firm.

Ashish actively contributes to the IT community. He provides strategic advice about achieving IT goals and defining the product and technology road maps of organizations, conducts training in and speaks on IT leadership areas and Microsoft technologies, and architects and develops customer-centric software services.

He is the author of Accelerated Silverlight 3 (co-authored with Jeff Scanlon)and Pro Silverlight for the Enterprise from Apress, and several articles on Microsoft technologies and IT management areas for MSDN Magazine, TechnologyOpinion.com, and advice.cio.com. He is also the technical reviewer of Silverlight Recipes Second Edition and Silverlight 3 Recipes, also from Apress. Ashish reviews research papers submitted for the Innovative and Collaborative Business and E-Business tracks of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) and World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI).

He has a master 's degree in information systems from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and has earned Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) certifications in .NET.

Visit his company site at www.technologyopinion.com, and blog site at www.silverlightstuff.net to get the latest information on the technology and different services.