Software Developer for Black Marble, James is a Windows Platform Development MVP with over 5 years of experience in mobile app development. His experience has come from a combination of academic studies, personal and enterprise development. Although his main focus is building innovative and robust user experiences with apps for Windows using the universal app model, James also has experience with embedded systems using .NET Micro Framework and Gadgeteer, web development with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and node.js, and integrating these with backend systems hosted on premise and in Microsoft Azure cloud services.James’s passion for learning new technologies gives him the opportunities to teach others about development, lessons learned and best practices through his online blog, personal YouTube channel, developer communities and talks at events including arranging sessions at local universities and schools to encourage students to be passionate about what they do.