Dan Read

Sr. Principal Technology Consultant

Dan Read is a Senior Principal Technology Consultant who has been with Northridge since 2005. Dan has worked in the software industry since 1994, in a variety of roles. He specializes in system architecture, strategic analysis, and business process. In addition to upstream activities like analysis and solution design, Dan is often directly involved in the development and delivery of custom .NET line-of-business systems, system migrations, and SharePoint portals. Working with Northridge clients on SharePoint-based solutions has become a specialty for Dan in recent years. In 2011 he earned both the MCITP and MCPD SharePoint certifications from Microsoft. Technology interests include software design, development methodologies, business intelligence, SEO, interaction design, and enterprise search. For a number of years last decade, Dan was active as a software development author and editor, maintaining an award-winning software development web magazine, blogging community, and book publishing imprint, which still maintains publication of two classic software books that have been translated into Korean, Russian, and Japanese.