- Meet Lance McCarthy, Manager, Technical Support at Progress
- Microsoft MVP | Windows Development and
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Visit my LinkedIn Profile
- Twitter @l_anceM
Bio, by peers:
Lance McCarthy, Microsoft MVP, is an exceptional community leader with an acute expertise for all things .NET and C# (especially on the XAML stack) as well as HoloLens/Mixed Reality applications. Lance is very helpful online, guiding and answering questions from Microsoft developers on Twitter as @lancewmccarthy. He organizes & hosts events in the Boston area such as user group nights, mini-code camps and full hackathons (like this successful one in Boston)
As a Developer Ambassador at Microsoft and Nokia, Lance sought out and engaged developers through outreach programs and provides them with technical support and resources to make them successful on the Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms.
During the day, Lance is the Manager of US Technical Support at Progress Software, covering the Telerik and Kendo DevTools. Previously he spent 9 years there as a engineer himself, specializing in .NET tooling. Lance and his team supports developers and teams from Fortune 500 companies with their enterprise and consumer applications using Telerik and Kendo UI components.
Lance was also an Assistant Professor at Harvard University, where he helped students build, market and publish successful Windows & Windows Phone applications. He also spent a few years as a quest lecturer at Boston University for the cloud computing students.
He has also appeared on podcasts such as the Windows Developer Show (here, here and here), has been a technical editor for publications and books, has won several app building contests and hackathons (including first place the Microsoft Build 2013 hackathon), and is a published developer with over a dozen apps in the Microsoft App Stores.
For more information about Lance, go to j.mp/LanceMcCarthy
Hackathon veteran, major events won:
- iSmack at Microsoft Build 2013 Conference
- Readicle at AT&T Hackathon
- Latte Locator at AT&T MIT Hackathon – published in the store here (blog here)
- Video Diary at Microsoft Hackathon – published in the Microsoft Store here
- Fund Runner at PayPal BattleHack
- DJ Upvote at AT&T Boston 2015
