Michael Herman
Chief Technology Officer
Founder and CEO

In October 2001, Michael Herman founded Parallelspace Corporation with a vision for a family of Truly Collaborative™ business solutions built on the Groove Networks distributed business collaboration platform. An important milestone was reached in April 2002, when Groove Networks singled out Parallelspace as "one of the most innovative developers of collaborative business solutions" for Groove Workspace.

Subsequently, Parallelspace has focused on creating active collaboration solutions based on the Microsoft SharePoint products and technology platform.

Michael has more than 20 years of professional experience in managing the development and launch of innovative software products at Alias/Wavefront, IBM, Star Data Systems and most recently, more than 5 years with the Microsoft Corporation. Michael’s responsibilities at Microsoft included world-wide partner readiness for the launch of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

In his 1991 Windows World keynote speech, Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, singled out Alias Upfront for Windows as the most innovative new graphics product for Microsoft Windows. As the Upfront software architect and development manager, Michael was responsible for leading the team that created the first commercial 3-D computer graphics product for Windows.  Michael has more than 19 years of experience developing solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform.

Michael graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics degree in Computer Science and subsequently returned to complete his Masters of Mathematics degree in Computer Graphics, also from the University of Waterloo.
 

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