Rob Miles is a lecturer and Microsoft MVP based at The University of Hull in the UK. He teaches Programming, Software Engineering and Embedded Development. He has been working with XNA since it was released and has been a big fan of Windows Phone 7 ever since he found out he could run his XNA and Silverlight programs on it. He also enjoys writing embedded programs in C# and once made his Christmas tree lights flash whenever he made a new blog post at www.robmiles.com. He is Competition Captain for the Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Development Challenge student competition and can be found on Twitter as @RobMiles.