Based in Perth, Jake is a Senior Developer for Readify, specialising in WPF, VSTO, Silverlight and WP7. In his role, Jake encourages and assists organisations to innovate on the Microsoft Application Development Platform. As a VSTO MVP, he is a well-known speaker in the developer community with regular sessions at user groups across Australia, Code Camps and annual presentations at TechEd.

Jake enjoys contributing to the community through his extensive work on open source projects. He continues to share his knowledge and expertise of nine years in the IT industry through his blog, jake.ginnivan.net.