Erik is a Principal Engineer in the Apple Platform Experience (APEX) team at Microsoft. He has worked on Office for Apple platforms at Microsoft for over 23 years, including 10 years as a lead for various teams developing RDC, Excel, Visual Basic, and other components of Office for the Mac. In Erik\\'s current role he facilitates technical partnerships for Office and other teams at Microsoft with Apple\\'s Developer Tools and OS organizations. When not reading tea leaves to try to predict Apple\\'s future road maps he can be found driving his children all over Seattle for their various events!