Jeffrey Snover
Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer at Google.[1] Previously a Microsoft Technical Fellow, PowerShell Chief Architect, and the Chief Architect for Windows Server and the Azure Infrastructure and Management group which includes Azure Stack,[2] System Center and Operations Management Suite.[3] 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.[4]
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Nationality | American |
Education | University of New Hampshire |
Occupation(s) | Programmer, Chief Architect |
Employer | Microsoft |
Known for | PowerShell, Windows Server, Azure Stack |
Title | Technical Fellow |
Biography
After studying physics at the University of New Hampshire (1978โ1982), 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.[5] Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction for Microsoft's management technologies and products.[5]
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. He 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.[6]
Snover was also the Chief Architect of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
Snover held eight patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since.[7][8] He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.[5]
References
- "LinkedIn - Jeffrey Snover Profile". LinkedIn. LinkedIn.
- "Azure Stack - It's More Radical Than You Think". Channel 9. Microsoft.
- "WinOps". WinOps. WinOps.
- "The Cultural Battle To Remove Windows from Windows Server". YouTube. Devops Enterprise 2015 Talk.
- "Jeffrey Snover Windows Server". Microsoft Server. Microsoft. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- Schwartz, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover Promoted to Microsoft Technical Fellow". RedMond.
- "Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Snover". Jastia Patents. Justia Patents.
- "Jeffrey Snover". Events: Speakers. Channel 9. Microsoft.
Bibliography
- Snover, Jeffrey: Monad Manifesto โ the Origin of Windows PowerShell, 2007
- Grigoreanu, Valentina; Brundage, James; Bahna, Eric; Burnett, Margaret; ElRif, Paul; Snover, Jeffrey (2009). "Males' and Females' Script Debugging Strategies". Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development. IS-EUD 2009. LNCS. Vol. 5435. pp. 205โ224. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00427-8_12. ISBN 978-3-642-00425-4. ISSN 0302-9743.
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.