Dynamics Profile: Japanese Microsoft MVP works to broaden country's NAV, CRM, Azure awareness

Taiki Yoshida, who lives and works in Tokyo, says he was thrilled to receive the Microsoft Dynamics Business Solutions MVP award in October. There's just one thing - he was unsure which specific product the award recognizes.

That's because as a solution developer using Microsoft products, Yoshida has experience in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics 365, Office 365, and Azure, as well as C# development.

"I was nominated in April by a Japanese CRM MVP, who told me that she nominated me for my CRM as well as for my NAV knowledge," he says. "But I don't know what the award was for."

Be that as it may, Yoshida says after he was nominated for the award last April, "I wasn't too sure I had done enough activities so I increased my activity to contribute towards the community," says Yoshida, a Microsoft products and solutions engineer.

Community involvement began with seminars

Yoshida became involved in the Dynamics NAV community in 2015 when he began presenting seminars on Dynamics NAV hosted by a former employer in Japan. The seminars revolved promoting Dynamics NAV and Dynamics CRM as well as Power BI and Microsoft Azure.

"Then I started working on more seminars, including the combination of Dynamics CRM and Azure Machine Learning," he says. "I also did activities like promoting Power Apps. I'm a very unique MVP, I suppose. In the beginning I was a NAV consultant for about three years, and then I turned into a CRM/Dynamics 365 consultant, and now I'm working on Azure and other products. So, I'm an all-arounder, in terms of Microsoft technologies."

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