Congratulations Chris!


Chris, a friend and former co-worker, has recently been promoted to Architect. I think it's cool that I have a friend that I can now refer to as "The Architect".

Chris is a .NET developer and has a blog where he writes about Visual Studio/SQL/Microsoft Tech and tech stuff in general. Check it out at http://chrisghardwick.blogspot.com/

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