My name is Bill Chesnut, I am BizTalk Practice Manager for Stargate Group in Melbourne Australia.

My career started in IT some 25-years ago with the US Defence as an IBM Systems Programmer.

I made the switched to the Microsoft Windows platform 12-years ago, and has been involved with Windows development ever since.

I have worked on numerous enterprise projects using Microsoft C/C++, Visual Basic and SQL Server. Most recently,

I have been driving various application integration projects using VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, SQL Server and BizTalk Server to connect a variety of Microsoft Business Solutions applications with other systems.

I am very involved in the Microsoft User Group Community as leader of the Melbourne .Net User Group.  

I have also started the Melbourne BizTalk User group.