Dave Martinez is Principal of Martinez & Associates, a technology consultancy based in Redmond, Washington. Dave previously worked for Microsoft Corp. in the Server and Tools Division, where he was the lead Product Manager for the 1.0 release of Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Dave worked as a Product Manager for Netegrity (since acquired by CA Technologies), where he first worked with Web Access Management software, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and identity federation.

Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

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