Dare Obasanjo

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Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team. The Contacts team provides back-end support for Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, and related services. Obasanjo is also known for RSS Bandit, a popular .NET-based RSS reader. He is the son of the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.[1][2]

[edit] Work at Microsoft

Obasanjo has spent much of his time at Microsoft defining the public-facing XML protocols for various MSN properties. Along with various members of the Microsoft Indigo team, Obasanjo is studying POX and SOAP. Prior to joining the MSN team, Obasanjo worked on the XML I/O and Schema APIs for the .NET Framework. He also worked on Microsoft's primary XSD implementation.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "The President's Son and Microsoft Employee"
  2. ^ "Obasanjo hosts 'successor generation', urges sustained reforms"
  3. ^ "Dare Obasanjo's author biography on O'Reilly Network's XML.com"

[edit] External links

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