Joe Kaplan

Joe Kaplan works in Accenture’s internal IT organization, building enterprise applications using the .NET Framework. He specializes in directory services programming, for which he has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valued Professional and Active Directory Federation Services. He is the co-author of The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2006). An industry veteran of 15 years, he has helped build and deploy a variety of applications that support complex identity lifecyle management processes and federated identity scenarios. He also specializes in web application security and application authorization. Kaplan enjoys helping the directory services programming community solve their problems and welcomes the challenge of scenarios he has never considered.