Jim Gaynor

Jim leads the Directions on Microsoft editorial team and has been writing about technology since the early 1990s. Most recently he's covered Teams, Windows Server and related OSs, and enterprise IT infrastructure.

He brings with him over 15 years supporting and teaching academic and researching technology at large universities like University of Washington and The Ohio State University, a decade in operations management for a global engineering firm, and experience as technical producer of a live service game based on the popular Magic: The Gathering property.

Jim holds a B.A. with graduate studies in philosophy and a minor in computer science from The Ohio State University.