A New Role for Me
I am a MindManager fanatic. I will always be one because I love the product and how it has transformed the way that I think and work. Over the past four years at Mindjet, I have had a few roles, but my favorite one has been the one of
technical evangelist, promoting the MindManager solution platform with the
Mindjet Labs. In doing so, I found my calling and wanted to advance in my career by perfecting my craft within a company that lives by Technical Evangelism. Last week, I was offered and I accepted the position of Developer Evangelist at
Microsoft Corporation. This is an amazing opportunity for me where I will learn from the best in the industry and be able to focus my career on what I love most.
To do my job, I will need the best tools to both understand and explain Microsoft technology to others, and so
I am taking MindManager with me. I will become one of the many MindManager evangelists within Microsoft. It turns out that Microsoft is one of Mindjet’s largest customers and Mindjet just became a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. As you can see from the
solutions on the Mindjet Labs and the
integrations that come with MindManager, Mindjet’s partnership with Microsoft is a very important one, and my new role will help support that even more.
My last day at Mindjet will be March 28th and I will report for work at the San Francisco Microsoft headquarters the next day on March 29th. Michael Deutch will assume ownership of the Mindjet Labs. You can now reach him at
labs@mindjet.com. I will continue to write in my
Synergist blog about MindManager, but now more from a partner/enthusiast perspective. If you have any questions about my transition, please feel free to send me an email at
michaels@mindjet.com through March 28th. After that, you can reach me through LinkedIn at
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mscherotter.
It has been an amazing journey at Mindjet and I thank all of you for helping me making it so.
Educated as an architect, Michael has made his career in software development about combining technology in interesting ways.
After getting his Bachelor's of Architecture from the University of Arizona, Michael received a Master's of Architecture from UCLA specializing in Design Tool Development.
From there, he joined Tartus, Inc., a sofware consulting firm specializing in building architectural sofware. At Tartus, Michael rose to the role of lead software architect for BC Framer, a custom CAD solution for Boise Cascade Corporation. In this role he designed and lead development of the software through six successful release cycles.
At Mindjet, Michael started by managing the software development teams for the first tablet-pc enabled version of MindManager and MindManager X5.
From 2003 to 2007, Michael was in business development and marketing roles as a Business Solution Architect and as the Solution Platform Product Manager for MindManger. Michael designed and built the first enterprise integration for MindManager, the Accelerator for Salesforce.com which served as a reference implementation for future enterprise integrations. In this role, he created, directed, and maintained the Mindjet Labs and became the evangelist for the MindManager Solution Platform.
Now Michael is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation.
