Microsoft Dynamics Profile: An AX MVP in America's Heartland

When he was just eight years old, Iowa native and Microsoft Dynamics AX MVP Lane Swenka built his first web site because, as he puts it, he "apparently didn't have anything else to do."

Currently, Swenka is technical engineer at mcaConnect, a Microsoft Gold Partner and winner of the 2015 Worldwide Partner of the Year in ERP award.

However, by the time he was 16 he was running his own company, Immobiliere Global, designing and hosting web sites and developing web applications.

"At the height of that while I was in college, I believe I had almost three hundred customers and about a thousand different domains," Swenka says.

That company, which he still runs today, helped him get through college at the University of Iowa where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and management of information systems.

"That was a natural for me. I was really into IT but I also enjoy business, so MIS was sort of a blend of the two," he says.

After college, Swenka took a position in the biotech field at Integrated DNA Technologies in Iowa City, Iowa, where he was first introduced to Dynamics AX.

"They were just in the beginning stages of evaluating AX," he says. "I started initially on AX 2012 in 2011. So [it was] lots of fun challenges producing DNA and how does AX adapt to a process industry organization as opposed to doing more discrete manufacturing and lean, which is what I ...