Co-Chief Technology Officer
Dan is a nationally recognized IT executive with over 32 years of experience. He has spoken at Angelbeat as well as dozens of Microsoft national conferences, including TechReady, TechNet Conferences, and Ignite, as well as numerous Microsoft product launches. In 1998 Dan founded and since then has served as President of Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc., a computer reseller, systems integration, and custom software development firm with approximately 10 employees. Bay State was incorporated in 2002, and starting in 2015, Bay State started doing business as JIT Solutions IT.
From 2008 to 2023, Dan was also a Senior Software Engineer and Chief Technology Strategist for the Northeast region for Microsoft. For Fortune 100 companies, Dan was Microsoft’s public face and voice, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue annually. Dan’s primary technical responsibilities were to manage and serve as technical lead for onboarding enterprise companies onto Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
For Windows Server, Dan was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (“MVP”), Microsoft’s highest honor for outside experts. Dan has over 30 IT certifications, almost all of which are Microsoft certifications. Dan was a part-time instructor at the New England Institute of Technology (2004 to 2016) and Lincoln Technical Institute (2010), as well as a technical advisor to the Giza project at Harvard University (2017 to 2018). Dan is co-author of Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (Microsoft Press), and he was a technical reviewer and the author of four chapters in, Microsoft Public Cloud Services: Setting up Your Business in the Cloud (Microsoft Press).
In addition to his extensive system administration experience, Dan has managed more than 40 software development projects, almost all of which have been business information systems. His clients have included Accenture, Cigna, Fidelity Investments, The Hartford, Harvard University, Microsoft, MIT, NASDAQ, TJX, United Parcel Service, and Xerox. Key development tools have included Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, C#, HTML, JavaScript and PowerShell. For most of these projects, Dan used Agile and Scrum software development methodologies.
Dan has over 25 years of experience in developing Customer Relationship Management (“CRM”) systems, most often using Salesforce’s Sales Cloud SaaS package. Dan has two Salesforce certifications: Salesforce Certified Developer and Salesforce Certified Administrator.
Dan is the founder of the Boston Area Windows Server User Group and is a current or former Board member of two virtualization user groups in Boston. Dan has been a frequent speaker to dozens of Boston IT user groups.