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Speakers
DevTeach includes a top selection of speakers having a strong experience in various areas. Most of these speakers are presenting at major conferences around the world on a regular basis and in other areas as well such as user groups, corporate training and class training.
Note:2007 speakers will announce at the end of January.
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 | | |       | | Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company’s unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. Richard is co-host of the “.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers” podcast, host of “RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talks for IT Professionals” podcast, has been co-authoring of the “Advisor Answers” column on SQL Server for more than ten years and author of the courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series.
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 | | | | | James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a founding member of the Plumbers @ Work podcast, which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. His article, "Debug Leaky Apps: Identify And Prevent Memory Leaks In Managed Code", appeared in the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - Solutions Architect and card-carrying member of ALT.NET, a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications. He received his Masters degree from Harvard University.
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 | | | | | Scott Allen is the Principal Consultant and founder of OdeToCode LLC, and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has more than 16 years of commercial software development experience with a wide range of technologies. He's delivered products on embedded, Windows, and web platforms. Scott is an ASP.NET MVP, writes the Extreme ASP.NET column for MSDN Magazine, and is a featured speaker at conferences and workshops around the world. You can reach Scott via his blog (http://OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/), or Twitter (http://twitter.com/OdeToCode/), and listen to him on the Herding Code podcast (http://herdingcode.com).
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 | | | | | After graduating from the University of Toronto in 2005, Jonathan joined Microsoft Canada working for ISV Advisory Services. Soon after he transitioned to Redmond, WA to become the Program Manager for the Visual Basic compiler. For the past 3.5 years he's worked on LINQ and other VB language features. Recently he transitioned to the ADO.NET Entity Framework team, where he works on features pertaining to Object Services and LINQ to Entities.
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Donald Belcham is an independent contractor in Edmonton. He has worked with .NET for the last 5 years and currently works with both web and smart client applications. Donald is an avid practitioner of agile development methodologies, pragmatic coding practices and delivering quality and value to the business. A Microsoft MVP in C#, Donald is active in the community as the President of the Edmonton .NET User Group, an organizer of the Edmonton Code Camp and a speaker at User Groups and Code Camps across Canada and in the United States. His thoughts on software development, .NET and C# can be found at www.igloocoder.com
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 | | | | | Colin Bowern is an avid technologist, technology coach, and solutions architect based in Toronto, Canada. Colin's work on pragmatic solutions spanning technology, financial, music, and public sector industries for organizations such as Microsoft, Meridian Credit Union, officialCOMMUNITY, and more. Recognized by the community for interactive contributions in public speaking, community building, and writing Colin is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. You can read more about and contact Colin through www.colinbowern.com.
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 | | | | | Mario Cardinal is an independent senior
consultant specializing in software architecture. He has 20 years of experience
in designing large-scale information systems. He speaks regularly at
international conferences, including TechEd, USI, DevTeach, and others. He
leads the architecture user group for the Montreal .Net Community and is the architecture track tech chair for the DevTeach Conference. Since 2004, he has
hosted the , a
podcast about software development. For the fifth year in a row, he has
received from Microsoft the Most
Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the competency of architecture. Mario
holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management
degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. He also holds the
titles of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Microsoft Certified Technology
Specialist (Team Foundation Server), and Microsoft Certified Solution
Developer. When Mario isn’t working, he enjoys spending time with his wife,
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 | | | | | Kelly Cassidy is the Senior Business Analyst Manager at DMT Development Systems Group, working as analyst from both the business side and system side on various enterprise-level web-based applications, including the recent delivery of 130 websites and associated tools for various automotive clients. He has previously been a software and web developer, software development manager, and software project manager during his career, creating such applications as an eLearning system, international marketing websites and applications, data warehousing applications and a number of online contest applications. He is currently the president of the Winnipeg .NET User's Group and sits on the Interactive Advisory Board of New Media Manitoba.
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 | | | | | Rob Daigneau is the President and founder of ArcSage. He has over twenty years experience designing and implementing enterprise-class applications and products for a broad array of industries from manufacturing, to financial services, to retail and travel. Prior to ArcSage, Rob served in such prominent positions as Director of Architecture for Monster.com and Systems Manager at Fidelity Investments. Rob has provided thought-leadership through his many appearances at technology conferences throughout the world. He is currently working for Addison Wesley on a book of Service Design Patterns for REST and WS*. |
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 | | | | | Chris Dufour (MVP ASP .NET, MCAD, IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 UDB V8.1) is a Toronto-based software architect. He is currently working as a software architect for Compuware, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Chris is passionate about the developer community and has contributed projects like the ‘Code Camp Event Module’ and ‘Extended SQL Data Provider - SqlEx’ to the open source community on CodePlex. He is also the president of the East of Toronto .NET User Group and co-founder and organizer of the Toronto Code Camp and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the developer community.
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 | | | | | Aaron Erickson is a software developer/technology writer/agilist based out of Chicago, IL. His life's work is to help convert the human intellectual capital into results for companies that empower both the knowledge workers who produce software, and the people for whom that software is designed to serve. He frequently speaks at events such as TechEd, VSLive, and .NET user groups - with a goal of furthering the exchange of ideas - be they technology contributions - or observations about the technology consulting business. He is the author of the book, The Nomadic Developer, a career guide for technology consultants. In his spare time he likes to buy random ingredients at the store and have "iron chef" night with his wife, play video games with his kids, and occasionally, log on to World of Warcraft where he has a level 80 Rogue named EffSharper on the Bloodscalp server.
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 | | | | | Kate Gregory is the Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and a founding partner of Gregory Consulting. Based in rural Ontario, Gregory Consulting has been providing consulting and development services throughout North America since 1986, specializing in software development with leading-edge technologies, integration projects, and technology transfer. They also provide training, mentoring, and technical writing services. Kate is the author of over a dozen books including Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start. She teaches .NET, XML, UML, and C++ and is in demand as an expert speaker, with numerous cross-Canada tours for Microsoft Canada, and sessions at DevDays, DevTeach, TechEd (USA, Europe, Africa) and VSLive Toronto, among others. Kate is a C++ MVP, a founding sponsor of the Toronto .NET Users Group, the founder of the East of Toronto .NET Users group, a member of the INETA speakers bureau, and a member of adjunct faculty at Trent University in Peterborough.
Kate has almost three decades of scientific and engineering programming experience in a variety of programming languages including Fortran, PL/I, C++, Java, Visual Basic, and C#. Her recent programming work is almost exclusively in Visual C++ and Visual Basic.NET, on a variety of projects, for both Enterprise and ISV clients. Since January 2002 she has been Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and since January 2004 she has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for Visual C++. In June 2005 she won the Regional Director of the year award. She maintains strong relationships with the C++ and Windows teams in Redmond.
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 | | | | | "Shaun Hayward works as a programmer/analyst/architect for a large Canadian manufacturer of roofing products. He has been developing solutions for more than a decade. Specialties include C#, Visual Basic, WinForms, Visual Studio Tools for Office, SQL Server, and Object Oriented Analysis & Design. One of his pet projects for the past 6 years has been designing a new system for electronic genealogy (family history) with recent endevours of using a hybrid of Dynamic, Functional and Logic programming.
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 | | | | | Tim Huckaby is currently focused on RIA & Smart Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, and Silverlight. He has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press.
Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft Technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launch events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a “Rock-Star” speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks world-wide on their behalf. Tim has done keynote demos for numerous Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999 and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards.
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 | | | | | Bruce Johnson is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp and a 25-year veteran of the computer industry. He spent half of that time working in the MultiValue database and UNIX marketplace, but the past 14 years have been spent on projects at the leading edge of Windows technology, including using .NET since the introduction of version 1.0. His experience includes the creation of commercial web applications using AJAX, the implementation of Web Services in a financial institution and the building of various Windows-based applications for software vendors. As well as his experience in system design and development, he has also given over 200 presentations at user conferences all over North America and is the co-author of three Microsoft Press Pro Certification Training Kit books (Windows Forms, Web Development and Distributed Applications) |
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 | | | | | Mano Kulasingam is a founding partner and principle interactive designer /developer with Digiflare, focusing on presentation layer technologies like Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and SharePoint. He also has several years of experience developing B2B and B2C eCommerce and Content Management Web applications using ASP.NET and C#. His design skills include working with the latest professional design tools including Microsoft Expression Studio. He is recognized as a Microsoft MVP for his involvement in the Silverlight and Blend user community. He is a co-founder and host of the Toronto Silverlight User Group.
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 | | | | | Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers, and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog, Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast. |
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 | | | | | Shan McArthur is VP - Technology of ADXSTUDIO Inc.. Shan is also one of the co-leaders of the xRM virtual User Group and is Canada's only CRM MVP. Shan is an experienced speaker and frequently presents at many Microsoft events and conferences including PDC08 and 09. With almost 20 years experience as a developer and software architect, Shan has a broad experience that includes business application development and ISV product development with a very strong background in web development. He has been deeply involved in Microsoft's .Net platform, Dynamics CRM, and Windows Azure. His article "An Introduction to xRM for a .Net Developer" has been published on MSDN.
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 | | | | | Colin Melia is the hands-on Principal Architect for DreamDigital, a hands-on Architect for over 17 years, a technical speaker and trainer on Microsoft technologies, as well as a user group leader in Ottawa.
He has expertise in the areas of rich UI with WPF/Silverlight, cloud development with Azure and BI with SQL Server, along with in-depth knowledge of core technologies such as .NET, OData, WCF, WF, LINQ and WIF. He has developed award-winning simulation technology with rich UI, cloud-based learning portals and workflow-driven BI systems. He also created the first streaming video community site with Windows Media. Colin has worked in the finance, telecoms, e-learning, Internet communications, learning and gaming industries, with his latest business solutions currently in use by thousands of users world-wide in corporations like GE, HP, O2, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft & Reuters.
Being British, the constant confusion caused by his likeness to High Grant is indeed a burden but he can live with it, and while you may have seen him moonlighting as the acerbic judge on American Idol, he’ll be sparing you the low-cut v-neck t-shirts.
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 | | | | | Ed Musters, SharePoint MVP, is a SharePoint Architect for Infusion Development. Ed has instructed the exclusive Critical Path SharePoint Training courses extensively across North America over the last several years. Ed holds all certifications in SharePoint including WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 for Development and Administration. Ed also teaches Microsoft Official Curriculum Developer .NET training. Ed has been a featured speaker at DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria (2009/2008), at the SharePoint Summit in Montreal (2010/2009), at SharePoint Saturdays (2009) in Toronto and Birmingham, at Microsoft Tech Days 2009, at the Great Indian Developer Summit (2008) in Bangalore India, the Toronto SharePoint Camp (2010/2009), and the Toronto Code Camp (2010/2009). Ed also speaks to user groups across Canada, including Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver. |
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 | | | | | "Andy Nogueira (MCTS, MCPD, MCAD) has over 11 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He is the Team Lead for the Microsoft Practice Group at nonlinear creations Inc. (nonlinear.ca), a Microsoft Gold Partner that is specialized in creating unique solutions on the Social Computing, Collaboration, ECM, Search, SEO and RIA spaces for clients worldwide for more than 14 years.
He is responsible for designing and implementing several successful technology solutions based on .NET and/or MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) integrated with technologies such as FAST Search, Windows Workflow, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Silverlight.
He is also a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in WSS 3.0 (Application Development) and MOSS 2007 (Configuration and Application Development).
He is also a well-known conference speaker having spoken
at Toronto SharePoint User Group, Toronto Code Camp 2008, SharePoint Summit Montreal 2008, SharePoint Code Camp 2009, Toronto Code Camp 2009, Saturday SharePoint Toronto 2009."
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 | | | | | Brian Noyes is chief architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Microsoft MVP – Solution Architect. He is a top rated speaker at many international conferences including DevTeach, TechEd US, Europe and Malaysia, DevConnections, and others, as well as a top rated INETA speaker. His most recent book, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce hit the shelves in January 2007, and his previous book Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 continues to be a best seller. Brian started programming to further stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the US Navy and is a TopGun and Test Pilot School graduate. |
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 | | | | | Erik Renaud is a .net coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. His current mandates concentrate on large financial institutions creating new teams that directly support their primary activities. Erik has over 10 years of software development experience, coaching teams to architect, model and analyze software solutions. He ultimately helps them develop the solution using cutting edge .net technologies and offers guidance packages that accelerate the development phase. He is a certified ScrumMaster, which helps him lead teams to success, and often offers training in object oriented technologies. He can be contacted at erik.renaud@nVentive.net, or seen anywhere kendo is practiced. |
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 | | | | | Peter Ritchie is a software development consultant. Peter is president of Peter Ritchie Inc. Software Consulting Co., a software consulting company in Canada's National Capital Region specialyzing in Windows-based software development management, process, and implementation consulting. Peter has worked with such cliets as Mitel, Nortel, Passport Canada, Innvapost from mentoring to architecture to implementation. Peter's range of experience ranges from designing and implement simple stand-alone applications to architecting n-tier applications spanning dozens of computers; from C++ to C#.
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 | | | | | Edwin Sarmiento works as a SQL Server DBA/Systems Engineer for The Pythian Group in Ottawa, ON in Canada. Prior to joining Pythian, he was a senior systems engineer/DBA for Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore. He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases. He lives up to his primary mission statement - "To help people grow and develop their full potential as God has planned for them." He wants the whole world to know that the FILIPINO is a world-class citizen and brings JESUS CHRIST to the world.
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 | | | | | "James Schwartz is an Internet Architect with imason inc. in Toronto, Canada. With a focus on solution design and development, James spends most of his time as a technical lead for solutions using Microsoft-based technologies.
James' recent focus has been in the not-for-profit sector and has demonstrated his ability to lead large-scale technology implementations.
In his personal time, James is actively involved with Big Brothers and Sisters of Toronto, is an advocate of urban cycling, enjoys traveling and the outdoors, plays hockey and writes articles to promote healthy and sustainable living. "
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 | | | | | Joel Semeniuk is a founder of Imaginet Resources Corp; a Canadian based Microsoft Gold Partner. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP in Team System, and INETA speaker, and has a degree in Computer Science. With over 18 years of experience, Joel specializes in helping organizations around the world realize their potential through maturing their software development and information technology practices. Joel is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management tooling, techniques, and mindsets and regularly speaks at conferences around the world on a wide range of ALM topics. Joel is also the co-author of "Managing Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System" published by Microsoft Press as well as dozens of other articles for popular trade magazines. |
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 | | | | | Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, Inc. is a consultant on software architecture and development, and the alignment of information technology with business goals.
His current work involves:
* Distributed application development and implementation such as Software as a Service
* Software best practices in Microsoft .NET
* Technologies such as Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, and SQL Server.
* Advising on IT strategy and planning, including budgeting, hiring, and growth management, including the appropriate use of Agile development
* Requirements analysis, project plan development, and design document development.
He was a member of the OASIS Technical Committee that developed the SOA Reference Model. He is also a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP.
He was a Lecturer in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his research and teaching focus was understanding how people build mental models in order to solve problems. As Adjunct faculty, Stiefel has taught graduate and undergraduate software engineering courses at Northeastern University and Framingham State University.
Michael Stiefel's education is from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a Interdisciplinary Ph.D degree in Nuclear Engineering, Political Science, and History of Technology; M.S. in Nuclear Engineering; and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is an active member of the IEEE Consultants Network.
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 | | | | | "Paul and Kimberly are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Paul worked on the SQL Server team for nine years in development and management roles, writing many of the DBCC commands, and ultimately with responsibility for core Storage Engine for SQL Server 2008. Paul writes extensively on his blog (SQLskills.com/blogs/Paul) and for TechNet Magazine, for which he is also a Contributing Editor.
Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.
They have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
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 | | | | | Rob Windsor is a developer, trainer, writer and Senior Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. He has over fifteen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a member of both the INETA Speakers Bureau and the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau and is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He is President of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community. |
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