Michael Stiefel

Michael Stiefel is the principal of Reliable Software, Inc., a company he founded in 1989.  Michael specializes in consulting and training with Microsoft technologies, including COM+ and .NET.  With 20 years of experience, his expertise covers all stages of design, development and implementation of multi-tier applications.  He not only focuses on the technology issues, but also ensures that information technology goals are aligned with business goals.

 

Michael co-authored with Robert J. Oberg the book “Application Development Using C# and .NET”, published in 2002 by Prentice-Hall.

 

Michael previously consulted for Microsoft, assisting Fortune 500 clients in the development of client/server solutions, and worked for Prime Computer as a Principal Software Engineer.

Michael has served as a Visiting Scholar in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1998.  He has taught undergraduate computer science at Framingham State University and graduate-level software engineering at Northeastern University.

 

Mr. Stiefel earned a B.S. in electrical engineering, an M.S. in nuclear engineering, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, political science, and the history of technology, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

For more information about Reliable Software, Inc. and .NET, please visit www.reliablesoftware.com.

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