Michael Merz is a program manager for Microsoft Dynamics AX, where he is
responsible for the delivery of the Microsoft Dynamics AX services framework
and Microsoft Dynamics AX integration capabilities. He has over 15 years of
experience in the software industry. Prior to working at Microsoft, Michael held
various engineering and management positions in companies including Amazon.
com, BEA Systems, and early-stage start-up companies, where he worked on embedded systems,
online advertising, social networks, and enterprise software. He has an MSc in computer science
from Ulm University, Germany, and lives in Bothell, WA, with his wife, Florina, and his children,
Brooke and Joshua.
Amar Nalla is currently a development lead in the Microsoft Dynamics AX
product group. He has more than 11 years of experience in the software industry.
He started working on the Microsoft Dynamics team during the Axapta 4.0
release. He is part of the foundation team responsible for the Microsoft
Dynamics AX server components, and during the past three releases of Microsoft
Dynamics AX, he has worked on various components of the server. He maintains a blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/amarnalla/.
In his spare time, Amar likes to explore the beautiful Puget Sound area.
Parth Pandya is a senior program manager in the Microsoft Dynamics AX
product group. For Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, Parth’s area of focus was the
new security framework that was built for the release, including the exible
authentication capability and support for Active Directory groups as Microsoft
Dynamics AX users. He also contributed to the named user licensing model
that was instituted for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Parth has been with Microsoft for over
nine years, over ve of which were spent working on various releases of the Windows Internet
Explorer browser. He particularly enjoyed working as a penetration tester for the number one
target of hackers around the world.
Parth swapped the organized chaos of Mumbai, India, for the disorienting tranquility of the
Pacic Northwest, where he lives with his wife, Varsha, and three-year-old son, Aarush.
Gustavo Plancarte
is a senior software design engineer who joined Microsoft
in 2004 after graduating from ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico. He has worked
on Microsoft Dynamics AX since version 4.0. On the platform team, he is
responsible for driving the common intermediate language (CIL) migration of
the X++ programming language, the Software-plus-Services architecture of
