Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan

Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan joined Damgaard Data in 1996 as a software design engineer on the MorphX team, delivering the developer experience for the first release of Dynamics AX after graduating from DTU (Technical University of Denmark). In 1999, he became the program manager and lead developer for the Application Integration and Deployment team that delivered on the Load 'n Go vision. For Dynamics AX 4.0, he worked as a software architect on version control, unit testing, and Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative, while advocating code quality improvements through Engineering Excellence, tools, processes, and training. For Dynamics AX 2009, Michael joined the Developer and Partner Tools team and continued driving high-quality productivity features into the toolsets delivered with Dynamics AX. Michael lives in Denmark with his wife, Katrine, and their two children, Laura and Malte.