A good friend and a wonderful colleague of mine, Arnulfo Wing. Has found himself in the position of looking for new opportunities. I have worked with Arnulfo for about a year through Quick Solutions and for many months on my current project. Arnulfo has many characteristics that made him a valuable addition to the project. He was the BizTalk resource for a fairly complex rules implementation. The project of moving the rules out of BizTalk and into something the client felt more comfortable managing was no easy task. It took about 7 months and had up to 4 developers working on the C#-based solution.
Through our many conversations, Arnulfo showed his depth of knowledge of the system. Both within BizTalk and the application that BizTalk supported. He also showed a great desire to help others understand what many look to as a "black box". He was instrumental in extracting the rules, orchestrations, literally every piece of information pertinent to the project out of the BizTalk instances so that development wouldn't have to start on the new rules engine with a blank slate.
Arnulfo also showed genuine interest in what was happening in other parts of the solution. Though BizTalk was his primary responsibility, he was available to assist in troubleshooting, design questions, and ensuring delivery.
Arnulfo has a thirst for knowledge of new technologies and methodologies. I've seen him at many area user groups. Talked to him about local conferences. He is more than "Just BizTalk". Given his ability to grok very complex systems, his excellent people skills, his depth and breath of knowledge, and his client-facing demeanor, I can see Arnulfo being able to fill many positions. These include Developer, Team Lead, and Architect.
Arnulfo's blog is available at http://arnulfowing.blogspot.com/. There you can see some of the experience he has accumulated from Hyper V corrupt drives to setting TFS to run on multiple servers... and of course, there's BizTalk.
