Rob Tiffany⚡️

Rob Tiffany⚡️

Greater Seattle Area
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As a Research Director at IDC, Rob is a private and hybrid cloud infrastructure…

Articles by Rob

  • Walking to Omaha Beach: A Personal Journey through Normandie

    Walking to Omaha Beach: A Personal Journey through Normandie

    Remembering D-Day on this 80th Anniversary Cutting it way too close when transferring from Gare du Nord on the RER, I…

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  • What is Credentialing as a Service?

    What is Credentialing as a Service?

    When most of us think of using credentials to access a service, things like usernames and passwords to login to a…

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  • Daring Greatly in 2021

    Daring Greatly in 2021

    A small group of innovators spent 2021 in the Arena addressing Agriculture 4.0 issues including a rapidly growing…

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  • Static Properties of a Digital Twin Model

    Static Properties of a Digital Twin Model

    Static properties enumerated by a #digitaltwin model represents data that typically doesn’t change. Unlike telemetry…

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  • Telemetry Properties of a Digital Twin Model

    Telemetry Properties of a Digital Twin Model

    Telemetry represents the data flowing from a physical twin to a #digitaltwin along with the associated properties that…

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  • Digital Twin Prototypes and Models

    Digital Twin Prototypes and Models

    The #digitaltwin prototype is created before the physical twin and the digital twin model is used to define a type of…

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  • Digital Twins Defined

    Digital Twins Defined

    What are #digitaltwins and where did they come from? What are they? A digital twin is a digital representation of a…

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Experience

  • IDC Graphic

    IDC

    Greater Seattle Area

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    Rochester, Michigan, United States

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    Monterey, California, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Bandera, Texas, United States

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    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Denver, Colorado, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Area

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    Bellevue, Washington, United States

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    Redmond, Washington, United States

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    Redmond, Washington, United States

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    Redmond, Washington, United States

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    Redmond, WA

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member

    Riverview Education Foundation

    - Present 18 years

    Education

    The Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer organization established in 1991 by local Community members to enhance the educational opportunities of the Riverview School District students. It generates financial and community support for enriching the education of Riverview students.

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    Riverview IT Steering Committee

    - Present 13 years

    Children

    Guide the technology direction of the Riverview School District to enrich the learning of students.

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    Teacher

    Code.org

    - Present 9 years

    Education

    Teach children how to write computer code.

Publications

  • Mobile Strategies for Business: 50 Actionable Insights to Digitally Transform Your Business

    Blackcomb Press

    The mobile tidal wave has permanently transformed the consumer world and now it's washing up on the shores of the enterprise. This drives the need to mobilize existing applications, modernize infrastructures, build new apps for employees and customers, and bring order to your environment via enterprise mobility management. Mobile Strategies for Business guides you through this transformation and drives positive outcomes including reducing expenses, improving employee productivity, increasing…

    The mobile tidal wave has permanently transformed the consumer world and now it's washing up on the shores of the enterprise. This drives the need to mobilize existing applications, modernize infrastructures, build new apps for employees and customers, and bring order to your environment via enterprise mobility management. Mobile Strategies for Business guides you through this transformation and drives positive outcomes including reducing expenses, improving employee productivity, increasing revenue, boosting user engagement and reducing risk.

    Based on the top 50 most important enterprise mobility concepts spanning four major topic areas, Mobile Strategies for Business is the first book to clearly explain how to digitally transform your business through a simple, step-by-step process. You'll learn how to address the following organizational challenges:

    How to transform IT infrastructures that are wholly unprepared to deliver on the promise of Mobile and IoT for employees and customers. Learn how to enhance performance, scalability, bandwidth and security to support today's mobile and cloud workloads.

    How to reconcile the convergence of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon and the need to keep corporate data secure. Learn how to support the flexible work styles of your mobile employees while keeping everything safe.

    How to migrate the millions of out-of-date, insecure and unsupported desktop and Web 1.0 apps that currently run global business to run on modern mobile platforms. Learn how to unchain your line of business apps and web sites from the desktop and move them to the mobile devices your employees actually use.

    How to rapidly build mobile enterprise apps that run on any platform and work with data from any backend system. Learn how to mobile-enable your existing systems and data to empower your mobile employees and reach out to your mobile customers.

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  • Keeping Windows 8 Tablets in Sync with SQL Server 2012: Private and Hybrid Cloud Solutions for the Mobile Enterprise

    Hood Canal Press

    Give your company a competitive advantage by creating mobile business apps for the world’s first enterprise-class tablet.

    What you’ll Learn
    - Use Hyper-V to create a virtualized SQL Server, Active Directory, and IIS infrastructure that runs either in a private cloud or Windows Azure to support public and hybrid cloud scenarios
    - Microsoft wireless data sync and mobile database technologies accelerate your time to market while reducing risk to your solutions
    - Rapidly create…

    Give your company a competitive advantage by creating mobile business apps for the world’s first enterprise-class tablet.

    What you’ll Learn
    - Use Hyper-V to create a virtualized SQL Server, Active Directory, and IIS infrastructure that runs either in a private cloud or Windows Azure to support public and hybrid cloud scenarios
    - Microsoft wireless data sync and mobile database technologies accelerate your time to market while reducing risk to your solutions
    - Rapidly create immersive Windows 8 tablet apps with .NET 4.5, C# and Visual Studio 2012
    - Modern UI design principles empower you to deliver an aesthetically pleasing UX intended for touch

    The Value Prop
    - Unlock the value of your company’s back end systems by securely delivering critical data to employees in the field so they can make decisions at the point of activity
    - Security is ensured at every tier of the solution with password protected and encrypted data-at-rest, TLS protected data-in-transit, plus corporate network authentication and authorization via Active Directory
    - Companies save money by leveraging their existing Microsoft server assets, IT Pro training, and the same .NET development skills used to build Windows and Windows Mobile apps over the last decade
    - Corporate investment in Windows 7 laptops and tablets is secured since the touch-first apps described in this book are backwards-compatible and work perfectly with a keyboard and mouse

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  • Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start

    Microsoft

    This course is tailored for developers looking to leverage C#/XAML to build cool apps and games for Windows Phone 8. This fast-paced, demo-rich online course features two mobile development thought leaders as presenters: Andy Wigley, a sought-after mobile app developer and co-author of three best-selling books on mobile application development and Rob Tiffany, mobile strategist, author, and speaker for Microsoft.

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  • Enterprise Data Synchronization with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server Compact 3.5 Mobile Merge Replication

    Hood Canal Press

    With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows® Phones, Slates, laptops, tablets and netbooks to empower their respective mobile workforces, the ability to create mobile line of business solutions that support large numbers of users is absolutely critical. In his fourth book on mobile infrastructure and development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all of your mobile…

    With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows® Phones, Slates, laptops, tablets and netbooks to empower their respective mobile workforces, the ability to create mobile line of business solutions that support large numbers of users is absolutely critical. In his fourth book on mobile infrastructure and development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all of your mobile employees.

    Step-by-step, he walks you through the process of building a secure, performant, n-tier mobile synchronization architecture designed to scale to thousands of users. You'll also learn how to create occasionally-connected .NET applications designed to thrive in unreliable wireless conditions. Take the guesswork out of mobilizing your organization by tapping into the experience of one of the world's foremost authorities on mobile and wireless infrastructure and development.

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  • Mobile Application Architecture Guide

    Microsoft Patterns & Practices

    The purpose of the Mobile Application Architecture Pocket Guide is to improve your effectiveness when building mobile applications on the Microsoft platform. The primary audience is solution architects and development leads. The guide provides design-level
    guidance for the architecture and design of mobile applications built on the .NET Platform. It focuses on partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.

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  • The Microsoft Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008

    Smartphone Magazine

    A sample line of business app that showcases the latest design principles and technologies in the mobile space.

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  • Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1

    Hood Canal Press

    With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Windows Mobile devices to empower their respective workforces, the ability to create mobile line of business solutions that can support large user populations is critical. In his third book on mobile development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all your mobile employees. He walks you step-by-step through the process of building a secure…

    With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Windows Mobile devices to empower their respective workforces, the ability to create mobile line of business solutions that can support large user populations is critical. In his third book on mobile development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all your mobile employees. He walks you step-by-step through the process of building a secure, performant, 4-tier mobile synchronization architecture designed to scale to thousands of users. You'll also learn how to create occasionally-connected Windows Mobile applications that are designed to thrive in unreliable wireless conditions. Take the guesswork out of mobilizing your organization by tapping into the experience of one of the world's foremost authorities on Windows Mobile infrastructure and development.

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  • SQL Server CE Database Development with the .NET Compact Framework

    Apress

    SQL Server CE Database Development with the .NET Compact Framework takes an in-depth look at SQL Server CE 2.0 and the .NET Compact Framework. This book illustrates how both Visual Basic .NET and C# can be used to build powerful database applications for the Pocket PC. While other .NET Compact Framework books try to broadly cover general programming issues, this book focuses strictly on database application development.

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  • Pocket PC Database Development with eMbedded Visual Basic

    Apress

    The Pocket PC is the fastest growing platform for building handheld-based enterprise applications. Free from the memory limitations and underpowered processors of other handheld platforms, Pocket Access and eMbedded Visual Basic are providing the Pocket PC with the same one-two punch that Microsoft Access and Visual Basic gave Windows application development in the early 1990s. As the first rapid application development tool for the Pocket PC, eMbedded Visual Basic increases developer…

    The Pocket PC is the fastest growing platform for building handheld-based enterprise applications. Free from the memory limitations and underpowered processors of other handheld platforms, Pocket Access and eMbedded Visual Basic are providing the Pocket PC with the same one-two punch that Microsoft Access and Visual Basic gave Windows application development in the early 1990s. As the first rapid application development tool for the Pocket PC, eMbedded Visual Basic increases developer productivity and allows for the creation of a wide range of database applications to empower an increasingly mobile workforce.

    This is the first book on the market to focus on Pocket PC development using Microsoft's free eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0. Pocket PC Database Development with eMbedded Visual Basic is designed to get software developers up to speed building Pocket Access database applications using eMbedded Visual Basic on the Pocket PC. Author Rob Tiffany has put his own Visual Basic background to work in developing advanced Pocket PC applications for large energy companies. It's from this perspective that he guides professional Visual Basic and Access programmers into the world of Pocket PC software development.

    This book ramps up your skills in fast-paced but pragmatic fashion. After describing the subset of the SQL language that Pocket PC developers need to know, the author guides you through Microsoft's ADOCE and ActiveSync technologies with no-nonsense examples. Tiffany effectively shares his "been there, done that" experience to help programmers avoid the shoals can sink efforts to build Pocket PC applications that communicate with either local Pocket Access databases or remote SQL Server databases.

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  • Developing Java Servlets, Second Edition

    Sams Publishing

    I was the technical editor of this comprehensive, code-intensive book for professional Java developers that explained the Java Servlet API architecture, client/server development concepts and professional programming techniques for building sophisticated e-commerce and database Servlet applications.

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  • How to Upgrade JBuilder's Speed and Its Servlets

    JBuilder Developers Journal

  • JSP vs JSP

    Java Developers Journal

  • Servlet Development with JBuilder

    JBuilder Developers Journal

  • Using Servlet Debugger 2.0

    Java Developers Journal

Courses

  • Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start

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Projects

  • Moab

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    A distributed Edge computing Internet of Things system utilizing digital twins.

  • JSR to create JavaServer Pages 1.0

    As a member of the Java Community Process, I worked on the original JSR to create JavaServer Pages. An abstraction to Java Servlets, it was ultimately designed to compete with Microsoft's Active Server Pages.

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  • Lumada

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    An Industrial Internet of Things platform utilizing Asset Avatars (digital twins).

  • Windows Mobile Accelerator

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    A mobile supply chain and warehousing management system for large enterprises.

  • NetPerceptor

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    A cloud-based, mobile device management platform designed for smartphones and industrial handheld devices.

Honors & Awards

  • President Technology Award

    Hitachi

    Received the top award in Hitachi from the CEO for creating the most important technology product of the year, the Lumada IoT platform.

  • Executive Briefing Center Outstanding Customer Focus Award

    Microsoft

  • Microsoft Gold Star

    Microsoft

  • Microsoft Gold Star

    Microsoft

  • Microsoft Gold Star

    Microsoft

  • Ship It Award

    Microsoft

    Ship it award for shipping Windows Mobile 6

  • Killer Mobile App Developer

    Microsoft

    Going up against employees across Microsoft globally, I won the award for best mobile app by creating a supply chain management solution for Windows Mobile.

  • Embedded MVP Award

    Microsoft

  • Embedded MVP Award

    Microsoft

  • 10 Internet of Things Influencers You Need to Know

    Dataconomy

    http://dataconomy.com/10-internet-of-things-influencers-you-should-know

  • 10 Mobility Influencers on Twitter You Can’t Afford to Miss

    Visage Mobile

    http://visagemobile.com/mobilityblog/2013/05/08/9-mobility-influencers-on-twitter-you-cant-afford-to-miss

  • 29 IoT Thought Leaders to Watch In the Next 4 Years

    DADO Labs

    http://dadolabs.com/iot_thought_leaders/

  • The 50 Must-Read IT Blogs

    BizTech Magazine

    http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2013/09/50-must-read-it-blogs-2013

  • The Best Business It Blogs of 2014

    Exigent Networks

    http://www.exigentnetworks.ie/news/current-news/the-best-business-it-blogs-of-2014-infographic

  • The Internet of Things Landscape 2015: Top 100 Individuals and Brands

    Onalytica

    http://www.onalytica.com/blog/posts/the-internet-of-things-landscape-2015-top-100-individuals-and-brands/

  • Top 30 Internet of Things Experts

    Inc Magazine

    http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/introducing-the-top-30-internet-of-things-experts.html

  • Top 50 Influential Mobile Industry Personalities to watch out for in 2015

    ContractIQ

    https://contractiq.com/influentials-mobile-50-2015

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