Silvano is a Senior Program Manager in Customer Advisory Team, Azure Data Platform. He joined the company in 2003, after years of experience as a self-employed consultant, speaker, and trainer. Working with SQL Server data access, management, and analysis for more than 16 years, he began his career in industrial automation, working with 8 and 16-bit microcontrollers and assembler compilers. He specialized in distributed applications on the Microsoft platform using .NET Framework and, since 2009, has been busy designing and implementing data-centric and hybrid solutions on Windows Azure.