Eurotech Engineer Honored with Eleventh Consecutive Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award

Nov. 1, 2012 - PRLog -- Eurotech (http://www.eurotech.com/), a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products and systems, announces today that Bruce Eitman, a field application engineer, has earned Microsoft’s prestigious Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2012.  Eitman has been named a Microsoft MVP for eleven straight years.

The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with users and Microsoft. As a field application engineer, v Eitman works closely with Eurotech customers to ensure project success.

“We recognize and appreciate Eitman’s extraordinary contributions to the Microsoft community as he shares his knowledge and objective feedback to help people solve problems and discover new capabilities,” said Rich Kaplan, Corporate Vice President, Customer and Partner Advocacy, Microsoft.  “MVPs share a passion for technology, a willingness to help others, and a commitment to community and we are pleased to recognize Eitman as a member of this elite group.”

Eitman frequently presents at Microsoft events, answers questions in the Windows CE newsgroups and maintains a public blog at http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/.  He also earned the Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist credential in the area of Platform Builder for Windows CE 6.0 in 2008.

Eurotech Inc., a US-based subsidiary of the Eurotech Group, is a six-time winner of the Independent Hardware Vendor Excellence Award from Microsoft. Eurotech provides application-ready Windows CE and Windows Embedded Standard platforms and systems in healthcare, transportation, industrial and logistics industries and offers the Everyware Cloud solution to connect Windows-based devices to the Internet of Things.

About Eurotech
Eurotech is a listed global company (ETH.MI) that integrates hardware, software, services and expertise to deliver embedded computing platforms and sub-systems to leading OEMs, system integrators and enterprise customers for successful and efficient deployment of their products and services. Drawing on concepts of minimalist computing, Eurotech lowers power draw, minimizes physical size and reduces coding complexity to bring sensors, embedded platforms, sub-systems, ready-to-use devices and high performance computers to market, specializing in defense, transportation, industrial and medical segments. By combining domain expertise in wireless connectivity as well as communications protocols, Eurotech architects platforms that simplify data capture, processing and transfer over unified communications networks. Our customers rely on us to simplify their access to state-of-art embedded technologies so they can focus on their core competencies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.