Microsoft Dynamics Profile: CRM MVP Learns, Teaches, Codes Around the World

For Microsoft Dynamics CRM developer Guido Preite, the New Year came in with a bang.

The reason: Preite was named a Dynamics CRM MVP for the second time in the most recent round of awards.

A veritable globetrotter, Preite is originally from Italy. He currently lives in China - although he's moving back to Italy soon - and works as a Dynamics CRM developer for Finnish IT company eCraft Oy Ab. And he says he'd have no problem moving to the US because he's fluent in English.

Of course, Preite is also fluent in Dynamics CRM's main programming language, which he started learning in 2010.

"A company near where I lived in Italy, Innovatech Italia S.R.L., was looking for a .NET developer," he says. "In the interview, they asked me about my background and my knowledge of .NET. They also asked if I knew anything about Dynamics CRM and I told them I didn't know anything about it."

Almost immediately after he was hired by Innovatech, a Microsoft Gold partner, Preite started working with Dynamics CRM, learning by doing.

"I got my training in Dynamics CRM 4.0 with that company and I worked there for just about two years, customizing CRM based on our customers' needs," he says. "While I was at Innovatech, I also did some training courses as a teacher."

Then, in December 2012, about five months after leaving Innovatech, he was hired as a Dynamics CRM developer by eCraft Oy Ab and moved to Finland.

"Then I became more and more involved with the design of the application - and the ...