Desktop Alert Inc. Appoints Former Microsoft Program Manager Justin Van Patten as Chief Technical Officer

Justin Van Patten, original architect and lead developer for the Desktop Alert Mass Notification Platform, has recently resigned as program manager on the .NET Framework Core Platform team at Microsoft, where he worked on the .NET Framework Base Class Libraries, to rejoin Desktop Alert Inc. as Chief Technical Officer. In 2003, during enrolled at Rochester Institute of Innovation, Justin designed and developed Desktop Alert's first .NET Platform in two coop semesters.

"The Desktop Alert team is ecstatic that Justin is back on board! With his parent’s approval, Justin worked for our company as a 14 year old computer phenom dating back to the late nineties. Afterwards graduating from RIT, Microsoft gave Justin the offer and we wished him then. Justin's decision to come back to Desktop Alert speaks so then to our company mission, vision, value statements and culture. Desktop Alert is a leader in emergency notification research and our employees share evenly in the accomplishments of the organization," said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

Mr. Van Patten's assignment as company CTO will insure that the company stays perched atop the latest Microsoft technological advancements including however not limited to Windows, SQL Server, Internet Explorer, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, and the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.