__NOTOC__ Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer at

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. Previously a Microsoft Technical Fellow,

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Chief Architect, and the Chief Architect for the Azure Infrastructure and Management group which includes Azure Stack, System Center and Operations Management Suite. Snover is the inventor of

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, an object-based distributed

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engine,

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, and command line shell and was the chief architect for

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Biography

After studying physics at the

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(1978–1982), Snover worked as architect and development manager for Tivoli NetView at

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(IBM), and as a consulting software engineer in the DEC management group at

Apollo Computer Apollo Computer Inc., founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo wa ...

, where he led various network and systems management projects. He also worked at Storage Technology Corporation, and various start-up companies. Snover joined

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in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction for Microsoft's management technologies and products. Snover is known primarily as the "father" and chief architect of Microsoft's

object-oriented Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of pro ...

command line interpreter

, whose development began under the codename "Monad" (msh) at the beginning of 2003. He had the idea of an object-

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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. Snover was also the Chief Architect of the

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(MMC). Snover held eight

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s prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.

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* Snover, Jeffrey: Monad Manifesto – the Origin of Windows PowerShell, 2007 *

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