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SummarySteve Lautenschlager is the founder and creator of Cambia Research. He has worked at CERN, the birthplace of the web, and in Microsoft's web division. Today he is a web consultant and frequent speaker on technology topics.
In his spare time, Steve enjoys learning about natural health, watching Mythbusters and trying to teach his nephews algebra.
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Biography
 Steve Lautenschlager has been at the forefront of technology for fourteen years. He has driven innovations at such diverse technology hubs as The European Center for Particle Physics and Microsoft Corporation. In 2002, Steve formed Cambia Research as a vehicle for developing data management and analysis solutions for businesses and individuals using Microsoft .NET technologies. Since then, Cambia Research has become more focused on web development and developer education around .NET technologies.
Steve's education began in rural Missouri. As a boy on the farm, he learned to raise corn, butcher chickens, harvest alfa-alfa, and skip rocks. His education continued in the local public schools where he excelled in science, music, writing and sports. After high school, Steve attended college at the University of Missouri in Columbia. There he studied physics while earning minors in mathematics and English. He served as President of the Society of Physics Students and Captain of the Track and Field Team. Steve was a Curator's scholar and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa his senior year.
 Steve entered graduate school to study particle physics at Duke University in 1992. He received two competitive graduate dissertation travel awards to study bottom quarks at the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, also know as The European Center for Particle physics and the birthplace of the World Wide Web. While at CERN in 1995, Steve developed novel web-based systems for automating collection, management, analysis and display of test data. His innovations included software to automatically generate 3-D profiles of phototube sensitivities. His work was profiled in CERN Courier magazine.
Using data collected at the OPAL detector at CERN, he and thesis advisor Dr. Alfred Lee, extracted the world's best measurement of inclusive b-baryon to lambda decays. This became the subject of Steve's Ph.D. dissertation which he successfully defended in 1999.
Following graduate school, Steve accepted a position as Sr. Systems Engineer with Raytheon Corporation in Los Angeles. His work included analysis, software design and development for F-18 and Joint Strike Fighter RADAR ground mapping systems.
After only two years with Raytheon, Steve moved to the Internet Hosting division of Microsoft in Redmond, WA. There he advised and consulted with some of the world's largest websites, www.microsoft.com, www.msnbc.com, and www.msn.com. He performed noteworthy research in the area of wide area load balancing (WALB) of web traffic. He also implemented the primary hardware and software infrastructure for the MSNBC Streaming video solution.
While at Microsoft, Steve became very interested in Microsoft's .NET vision. He quickly taught himself the C# programming language and began developing .NET software solutions. Steve's excitement for data management, analysis, and software development led him to leave Microsoft in 2002 and form Cambia Research.
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