MVP! MVP!

First – it being the weekend and all – the MVP award. Curt Spanburgh, a consultant and systems engineer with Microsoft Gold Certified solution provider Solutions Consulting Group, has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Dynamics CRM.

Microsoft selects MVPs based on a technical professional’s meaningful contributions to newsgroups, user groups, message boards, books and in speeches. Microsoft names MVPs across its product lines. Currently, eighteen are listed as Dynamics CRM MVPs.

The team includes: Marco Amoedo of Spain’s Plain Concepts, a specialist in Microsoft Technologies; Jürgen Beck, an independent consultant, programmer, trainer and author since 1995; Scott Colson, originally a VisiCalc spreadsheet developer; Andreas Donaubauer, CEO of Microsoft partner CHD in Germany; Aaron Elder, director of software development for Invoke Systems; Geoffrey Gabel in France; Michael Hoehne, freelancer and creator of www.stunnware.com Frank Lee, President of Workopia, Inc.; Ronald Lemmenn, an application developer for Avanade Netherlands; Larry Lentz, CRM specialist and founder of Lentz Computer Services; Mitch Milam, Microsoft CRM specialist since 2004; John O’Donnell, a Microsoft Dynamics CRM specialist with Crowe Chizek who has worked with the product from the “Beta 1.0 days in 2002”; Matt Parks, the Global CRM Solutions Architect for Avanade and has been working with Dynamics CRM since the v1.0 Beta; Guy Riddle, a Microsoft CRM specialist since 2002; consultant Anne Amelia Stanton; Javier Vega, a Microsoft CRM specialist in Panama; and Matt Wittemann of gTECHserv, a managed services and technology consulting firm.

Spanburgh is the only MVP at SCG, a San Diego-based firm with Microsoft Partner Program competencies in Microsoft Business Solutions; Business Process and Integration Solutions; and Data Management Solutions. Spanburgh was first named a CRM MVP in 2006, and has been working with the product since the first version was in beta.