Rico began his career at Microsoft in 1988, working on language products beginning with Microsoft C version 6.0, and contributed there until the release of the Microsoft Visual C++ version 5.0 development system. In 1995, Rico became development manager for what was to become the "Sidewalk" project, which started his 7 years of platform work on various MSN technologies. In the summer of 2002, Rico returned to the Developer Division to take his present position as Performance Architect on the CLR team. Rico's interests include compilers and language theory, databases, 3-D art, and good fiction. This was last published in December 2004