Barry Gervin

Barry Gervin is a founding Partner of ObjectSharp. As a Principal Consultant and Instructor with ObjectSharp, Barry provides technical leadership to his valued clients, staff, and the development community. Over his 17 year career in the IT industry, he has helped many development teams architect and successfully deliver large software projects within tight schedules and budgets that consistently perform for their end users.

Barry received his Honours Bachelor Business Administration Degree from the Wilfrid Laurier University's School of Business and Economics in 1990. He currently holds several technical designations including MCSD.NET, MSF Practitioner and MS Certified Trainer.

Barry currently serves as a MS Regional Director in Southern Ontario and has received the Microsoft MVP Award for Solutions Architecture for the past 3 years.

Current Projects

• Judge for MSDN Code Awards
• Member of the MSDN/INETA Canada Speakers Bureau
• Project Architect: Large multi-site international Team System implementation in the manufacturing industry.
• Project Architect: BizTalk B2B integration project for a pre-paid vcredit card incentive program.
• Technical Auditor: Federal government public facing web-site.

Recent Projects

• Received MS Certified Technology Specialist: Team Foundation Server
• Received MS MVP Award for Solution Architecture
• Led several Team System implementations for the Insurance Bureau of Canada, Edulinx, International Time Recorder, prairieFyre, and NSERC.
• Expert Witness for prosecution in an intellectual theft lawsuit.
• Architect for a PowerBuilder to .NET Migration for a pension management system for Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
• Speaker DevTeach Canada: Advanced Version Control with Team System, Building Location Aware Applications
• Speaker VS Live Toronto: Source Code Management Best Practices
• Guest on .NET Rocks Radio Show: Language Integrated Query
• Guest on .NET Rocks TV: Language Integrated Query
• TechEd: Iron Architect Judge