Jeffrey Snover
Jeffrey Snover | |
|---|---|
 Professional Developers Conference 2009 Technical Leaders Panel (Second Left) | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of New Hampshire |
| Occupation(s) | Programmer, chief architect |
| Employer | Microsoft |
| Known for | Powershell |
| Title | Technical Fellow |
| Website | www |
Jeffrey Snover is a Microsoft Technical Fellow, PowerShell chief architect, and the lead architect for the Enterprise Cloud Group which includes Azure Stack, Windows Server, System Center and Operations Management Suite.[1] Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft's management technologies and products.[2]
After studying physics at the University of New Hampshire, Snover worked as Development Manager and as architect at Tivoli (IBM), as well as Consulting Software Engineer DEC management group at Apollo Computer, where he led various network and systems management projects. He also worked at Storage Tech, NetView and various start-up companies.[3]
Snover was known primarily as the "father" and chief architect of Microsoft's new 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 object-pipeline and the first prototype implemented in the C# programming language. After the completion of version 1.0 in November 2006, Windows PowerShell had nearly one million download times within half a year. In 2015, Microsoft promoted Snover to Technical Fellow.[4]
Furthermore, Snover is the chief architect of the next-generation Microsoft Management Console (MMC). It is built under the graphical interface to the Windows PowerShell; all Windows administration tools of the MMC can be both completely operated through the GUI and via the command line by the administer.
Snover has over 32 years of 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.[5][6] He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.[7] He is also a science fan.[8]
References
- ^ "WinOps". WinOps. WinOps.
- ^ Snover, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover Profile". Microsoft Server. Microsoft.
- ^ Snover, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover Profile". Microsoft Server. Microsoft.
- ^ Schwartz, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover Promoted to Microsoft Technical Fellow". RedMond.
- ^ "Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Snover". Jastia Patents. Justia Patents.
- ^ Snover, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover on Channel". Channel 9. Channel 9.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Snover, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover Profile". Microsoft Server. Microsoft.
- ^ Snover, Jeffrey. "Twitter Handle". Twitter. Twitter.
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.