Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover
Professional Developers Conference 2009 Technical Leaders Panel (Second Left)
Nationality American
Education University of New Hampshire
Occupation Programmer, Chief Architect
Employer Microsoft
Known for Powershell, Windows Server, Azure Stack
Title Technical Fellow
Website www.jsnover.com

Jeffrey Snover is a Microsoft Technical Fellow, PowerShell Chief Architect, and the Chief Architect for the Azure Infrastructure and Management group which includes Azure Stack,[1] System Center and Operations Management Suite.[2] Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell and was the chief architect for Windows Server.[3]

After studying physics at the University of New Hampshire (1978–1982), Snover worked as architect and development manager for Tivoli NetView at Tivoli Software (IBM), and as a consulting software engineer in the DEC management group at Apollo Computer, where he led various network and systems management projects. He also worked at Storage Technology Corporation, and various start-up companies.[4] Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft's management technologies and products.[4]

Snover is known primarily as the "father" and chief architect of Microsoft's object-oriented command line interpreter Windows PowerShell, whose development began under the codename "Monad" (msh) at the beginning of 2003. Snover had the idea of an object-pipeline and implemented the first prototype in the C# programming language. After the completion of version 1.0 in November 2006, Windows PowerShell was downloaded nearly one million times within half a year. In 2015, Microsoft promoted Snover to Technical Fellow.[5]

Snover was also the Chief Architect of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). All Windows administration tools of the MMC can be both completely operated through the GUI and via the command line by the administrator.

Snover has extensive industry experience with a focus on management technologies and solutions. He held eight patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since.[6][7] He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.[4] He is also an active teaching influence in the online learning community and a science fan.[8][9][10]

References

  1. "Azure Stack - It's More Radical Than You Think". Channel 9. Channel 9.
  2. "WinOps". WinOps. WinOps.
  3. "The Cultural Battle To Remove Windows from Windows Server". YouTube. Devops Enterprise 2015 Talk.
  4. 1 2 3 "Jeffrey Snover Windows Server". Microsoft Server. Microsoft. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  5. Schwartz, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover Promoted to Microsoft Technical Fellow". RedMond.
  6. "Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Snover". Jastia Patents. Justia Patents.
  7. Snover, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover on Channel". Channel 9. Channel 9. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  8. Snover, Jeffrey. "Twitter Handle". Twitter. Twitter.
  9. "MVA". Microsoft Virtual Academy. Microsoft.
  10. "Stack Overflow". Stack Exchange.

Bibliography

  • Snover, Jeffrey: Monad Manifesto – the Origin of Windows PowerShell, 2007
  • Valentina Grigoreanu, James Brundage, Eric Bahna, Margaret M. Burnett, Paul ElRif, Jeffrey Snover: Males' and Females' Script Debugging Strategies. IS-EUD 2009: 205-224

Further reading

  • Oakley, Andy (2005). Monad (AKA PowerShell). O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-10009-4.
  • Jones, Don; Hicks, Jeffery (2010). Windows PowerShell 2.0: TFM (3rd ed.). Sapien Technologies. ISBN 978-0-9821314-2-8.
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