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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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Visual Studio Talk Show recorded a panel of speakers at DevTeach 2006. The subject of this panel was "Data access". Speakers participating: Ted Neward (host), Kathleen Dollard, Barry Gervin, Rod Paddock, Scott Bellware, Richard Campbell and Alan Griver.
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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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Peter DeBetta is the resident SQL Server trainer and consultant for Wintellect. Peter develops software using SQL Server, .NET, and other technologies. He also teaches SQL Server Programming courses and speaks at various conferences around the world about SQL Server, including VSLive!, WinDev, Devscovery, and Microsoft's SQL Server Summit. Peter has written courseware, books and articles on the subject, including articles for MSDN Magazine and a new Microsoft Press book entitled "Introducing SQL Server 2005 for Developers". When Peter isn't working with SQL Server, you can find him singing and playing guitar, taking pictures, or simply enjoying life with his wife and new son. |
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 | | | | | Anil Desai is an independent consultant based in Austin, TX. He specializes in evaluating, implementing, and managing solutions based on Microsoft technologies. He has worked extensively with Microsoft's Server products and the .NET development platform and has managed environments that support thousands of virtual machines. Anil is an MCITP, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, and a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server – Management Infrastructure).
Anil is the author of numerous technical books focusing on the Windows Server Platform, SQL Server, Virtualization, Active Directory, and IT management. He has made dozens of conference presentations and is also a frequent contributor to online and print publications. |
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 | | | | | Rick Heiges is a Database Consultant with Scalability Experts which is one only three companies working with Microsoft in the Ascend program for SQL Server 2005 developing courseware and delivering courses to Microsoft and key clients. Recently, Rick has presented at PASS European Conference and the SQL Server 2005 Road Show in Lisbon. Rick is also on the Board of Directors of PASS which is focused on user to user education. |
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 | | | | | Don Kiely, MVP, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing secure desktop and Web applications that integrate databases, Microsoft Office, and related technologies, using tools including SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and XML. Don has authored and co-authored several programming books, many of which you’re likely to see in the bargain bin at your local mega-bookstore. He writes regularly for many industry journals. Don trains developers and speaks regularly at industry conferences, including TechEd, VSLive!, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others. Don is a full member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Colorado, but fortunately learned the error of his ways. In his spare time he roams the Alaska wilderness by foot, dog sled, skis, and kayak. |
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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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 | | | | | Michael Lato has more than 10 years of experience consulting on various database systems with a special focus in the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) field. Michael’s roles have included project manager, system designer and trainer. He is currently the senior SQL Server database developer and DBA for an international semiconductor company |
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Adam Machanic is the SQL Server Practice Lead for The Pythian Group, a leading provider of wholly and partially outsourced remote administration of the enterprise database tier, for over 100 customers around the world. He has been involved in dozens of SQL Server implementations for both high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and has optimized data access layer performance for several data-intensive applications. Adam has written for numerous web sites and magazines, including SQLblog, Simple Talk, Search SQL Server, SQL Server Professional, CoDe, and VSJ. He has also contributed to several books on SQL Server, including "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development" (Apress, 2007) and "Inside SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization" (Microsoft Press, 2007). Adam regularly speaks at user groups, community events, and conferences on a variety of SQL Server and .NET-related topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP). |
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 | | | | | Val Matison is the Director of Business Intelligence at Sytemgroup Inc., based in Mississauga, Canada. With nearly 30 years of business analytics experience, he is recognized as an expert in creating actionable information from data. He has presented sessions on data warehousing, data mining and analysis services at Comdex, Devdays, Microsoft Technical Summits and conferences in North America and Europe. One of the top Data Warehouse developers in Canada, Val Matison was listed in the Who’s Who 2000 edition of Channel Business Magazine. He is the developer of InfoViewer Technology, the view anywhere business analytics and graphics platform that visually associates key performance indicators and metrics in context with the business environment in which they were created. He is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP for 2008. |
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Brad M. McGehee, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is the founder of
SQL-Server-Performance.Com, and is its current technical editor. He is also its forum moderator and administrator. He is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, SQL Teach, SQL Connections, and SQL Server user groups, and other industry seminars. He is the author or co-author of over 12 technical books. His most recent book (as a co-author) is Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration by Wrox Press. He specializes in SQL Server Administration, Performance Tuning, and High Availability.
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| | | | | Jessica Moss is a business intelligence mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and an MCDBA and MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence. She has been working with SQL Server 2005 since its release and has participated in many warehousing and reporting solutions. Jessica enjoys working with the local community and is a regular speaker at user groups and code camps. |
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Paul Nielsen, SQL Server MVP, is a hands-on database architect and the author of the SQL Server Bible series from Wiley & Son. Paul leads SQL Server Bible Workshops and speaks at several conferences. Paul will be giving the welcome address at the Colorado PASS SQL Server Code Camp next week in Denver, and he serves on the PASS Board of Directors. |
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 | | | | | Bryan Oliver has over 20 years of industry experience, 11 of which were spent working primarily with SQL Server. Bryan is a lead developer at Quest Software for a number of solutions, including LiteSpeed for SQL Server. Bryan’s position allows him to work with some of the largest and most recognizable SQL database environments in the world. He is also a valued speaker at conferences such as SQL PASS and SQL Server Summit. Born and raised in Australia, Bryan graduated from RMIT University in Melbourne and was an early adopter of SQL Server.
Prior to joining Quest Bryan was the vice president of research and development for Imceda Software.
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William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor, and subject-matter expert. He’s been in the computer industry for over thirty years. He’s worked with mainframe, minicomputer, and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, trainer, marketer, support person, and writer. After 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his new books and training seminars. His area of specialization is focused on data access and especially Visual Basic and SQL Server. He’s written six editions of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server (published by Microsoft Press) and two editions of ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic Programmers. There’s even a C# version, ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, DevConnections, and PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server). He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine, and many others. Bill is currently working on new content focusing on the .NET Compact Framework and SQL Server CE as well as the next version of SQL Server. He’s available for consulting or custom training. |
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 | | | | | Mark Arteaga is a Principal Partner with OpenNETCF Consulting from Toronto, Ontario Canada specializing in implementing Windows Mobile and Windows CE based hardware and software systems. Mark's has been working in the software industry his entire career and currently main roles are designing, architecting and leading various software projects. Mark has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the mobile and embedded developer community. |
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 | | | | | Guy Barrette is a Solutions Architect based in Montreal, Canada. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for the Montreal region and a MVP for ASP/ASP.NET. He has been working and developing with Microsoft development tools since the launch of VB 3 in 1994. His focus is helping organizations build better software using Microsoft technologies like Team System and also architecting and developing Web applications. He's been a speaker at developers' conferences like Microsoft DevDays and DevTeach. Speaking of DevTeach, Guy is on the speaker selection comitee. Guy has the following Microsoft certifications: Solution Developer and Technical Specialist Team Foundation Server. Guy is also president of the Montreal Visual Studio User Group, he's organizing the Code Camps in Montreal, he writes a monthly .NET book review column for the Level Extreme Magazine and he his the Visual Studio Talk Show Internet radio show co-host. |
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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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 | | | | | Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo is an independent consultant who spends most of his days helping teams realize success through the adoption and application of agile practices.
He has a passion for sharing information with the development community which he often tries to do on his blog at http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog. He can be reached at jp@jpboodhoo.com.
When not developing, he can be found relaxing with his amazing wife and their four beautiful kids.
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 | | | | | Colin leads the technology team at officialCOMMUNITY where they build online communities for music recording artists. His past work includes a Senior Consultant role with Microsoft Consulting Services working with enterprise customers on their adoption of Microsoft technology. Colin has delivered a number of in-person talks and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) webcasts since the early part of the decade on topics ranging from .NET Development to infrastructure deployment. In addition to technical talks, Colin is an ASP.NET MVP participating in the community through active contribution on the forums, publishing code examples, sharing experiences through his blog, and attending local user group events. On the publishing end Colin has provided technical review services for Addison-Wesley's .NET development series, the Windows Server 2003 series from Microsoft Press, and co-authored Windows Server 2003 and 2008 MCSE study guides for Syngress Publishing. |
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| | | | | Bill Brockbank is a Solution Architect at Navantis Inc. a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and focuses on the development of custom applications development using the Microsoft .NET framework. Bill works in the workflow space with Microsoft Technologies, Captaris Workflow, K2.NET and SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS). He has been developing applications on the Microsoft Windows platform for more than 16 years. Bill is one the co-organizer of the first Toronto SharePoint Camp, along with a regular contributor to the Toronto SharePoint User Group. |
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 | | | | | Rob Burke is an IT consultant with expertise in .NET web, line-of-business and interactive installation development. His background is in artificial intelligence, graphics, interactive installations, and a dash of biometrics. Rob just finished a three-year tour-of-duty in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Group, where he trained developers, architects and designers who work with .NET. Rob worked extensively in Dublin, Ireland, for Microsoft, and now Rob works in Toronto as the newest member of ObjectSharp. More about Rob at his blog, at http://www.robburke.net |
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 | | | | | Mario is an independent senior consultant specialized with agile processes and enterprise software architecture. Presently, he is software architect for the largest institutional fund manager in Canada and one of Québec's leading financial institutions. He possesses over fifteen years of experience in designing large-scale information systems. For the third year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the competency of Solutions Architect. He leads the architecture interest group at the Montreal Visual Studio User Group and the Montreal’s chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). He is also the architecture track tech chair for DevTeach Conference. Furthermore, he hosts an audio Internet talk show about software development with Microsoft .NET (Visual Studio Talk Show). 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) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD.Net). |
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 | | | | | Jean-Luc has been developing C++ and .NET software for over 15 years, and is very passionate connecting with the Canadian developer community.
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 | | | | | Benjamin Day is an independent consultant specializing in the design and development of applications with Visual Studio Team System. He is a Microsoft MVP for C#, conference speaker, and leads the Beantown.NET User Group. Ben also provides consulting and training on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server and is a member of the Visual Studio Team System Customer Advisory Council at Microsoft. When not developing software, Ben plays piano with a Boston-based jazz trio and is an enthusiastic restaurant, food, beer and wine buff. |
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| | | | | Mike Diehl is a Technical Program Manager for Imaginet Resources Corp, a Canadian Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Mike has been architecting and building multi-tier applications using the Microsoft.NET Framework ever since Visual Studio.NET Beta 1, and has been working with and speaking on Microsoft technologies across North America, Europe, and Asia for over a decade. He also holds a number of Microsoft certifications, including MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, and MCT. |
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 | | | | | Jim Duffy is founder and president of TakeNote Technologies. TakeNote, a Developer's Choice Award winner for hands-on training, specializes in .NET software developer training and helping clients create business solutions with Microsoft enterprise technologies. Jim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP award recipient since 2003, and an INETA speaker. Since starting TakeNote in 1992, he has conducted hundreds of software developer training seminars and is an energetic and entertaining speaker at regional user groups and international developer conferences. Jim's expertise is with VB, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Visual FoxPro-to-.Net conversions. He has a BS degree in Computer and Information Systems and over 25 years of programming and training experience. He is an active blogger and has been published in leading developer-oriented publications including CoDe Magazine. He also served as the technical editor for ASP.NET 2.0: Visual Blueprint for Developing Web Applications. On Sunday mornings you will find him behind the microphone as a co-host of Computers 2K8, a call in radio show on WRBZ (AM 850), 850 The Buzz, in Raleigh, NC.
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 | | | | | Chris Dufour (MCAD, IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 UDB V8.1) is a Toronto-based software architect. He is currently working as a software architect for Cyberplex, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and focuses on the development of custom business applications using the Microsoft .NET framework. 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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 | | | | | Markus Egger is the owner of EPS Software Corporation and specializes in object-oriented development, Internet development, training and consulting. He has written numerous articles for publications including Fuchs, FoxTalk, FoxPro Advisor and Microsoft Office & Database Journal. Markus is Publisher of CoDe Magazine, a .NET publication focusing in technologies such as COM+, .NET and Web Development. He is the author of Advanced Object Oriented Programming with Visual FoxPro 6.0, from Hentzenwerke. |
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 | | | | | Oren Eini is a senior developer in We!, a consulting group based in Israel, focusing on architecture, data access and best practices.
Most often, he is working on building complex business systems using .Net 2.0, NHibernate and Castle's Frameworks, providing training and guidance for the use of Object Relational Mapping, Inversion of Control, Domain Driven Design and other exciting topics.
Oren is an active member in several leading Open Source projects, including (but not limited :-) ) NHibernate, Castle and Rhino Mocks. He had publish an article on MSDN about advance usages of Inversion of Control Containers and done a DNR TV Episode about NHibernate.
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 | | | | | Medhat Elmasry was born in Ethiopia. He holds a Masters Degree in Computing Science from Bradford University, England. Medhat moved to Canada from Egypt with his wife, son, and daughter in 1993. He is an instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). He specializes in web development and is involved in most of the ASP.NET courses at BCIT. Medhat is also a senior software engineer consultant at Sierra Wireless Inc. He is the founder and president of the .NET users group in Vancouver (A.K.A. .netBC) and co-owner of bcjobs.com. |
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 | | | | | Cathi Gero, C.P.A., is founder and development director of Prenia Corporation, providing custom software applications, training, and architectural designing to businesses and developers. Cathi is a Microsoft C# MVP and is an active member of the .NET community. She has extensive experience developing applications using the .NET Framework, Visual FoxPro, SQL Server, and Crystal Reports as well as other technologies. She is a speaker at national conferences, author of white papers for Microsoft, and technical editor for the book '.NET For VFP Developers'. She also has a monthly column, “Cathi Gero’s .NET Tips” which appears in Universal Thread Magazine. Most of the year Cathi travels to various companies providing onsite training, mentoring, and development experience. |
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 | | | | | Kate Gregory is a founding partner of Gregory Consulting Limited (www.gregcons.com), providing consulting and development services throughout North America since 1986. Based in Peterborough, Ontario, the firm develops software, primarily for the web, as well as components for web pages and other applications. Typical projects involve the .NET Framework, XML, Web Services, Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, ASP, Java, and Perl. A new mentoring service provides an opportunity for firms to speed their adoption times for new technologies dramatically. Migration, conversion, and integration of existing applications are a current focus.
Kate is the author of numerous books for Que Books, including four editions of Special Edition Using Visual C++, most recently the .NET edition - www.usingvisualc.net for details. She has a regular column at codeguru.com on Visual C++. Kate teaches (and develops courses on) .NET, XML, UML, C++, Java, and the Internet for a variety of corporate clients. She is in demand as an expert speaker, having completed four cross-country tours for Microsoft Canada in the last fifteen months. Kate is an adjunct faculty member at Trent University and a member of many advisory boards. Since January 2002 she has been the Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto.
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 | | | | | Yair Alan Griver is the Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produce the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Alan is focusing on making Microsoft’s products the best data environments for developers. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company. Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.
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 | | | | | “Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread the good word about developing software, most often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years and before that he was a Principal Consultant at STEP Technology for nearly 7 years. He was also involved in a few things Microsoft-related like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen to him. He's written in a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on Professional ASP.NET. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts weekly at http://www.hanselminutes.com.” |
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 | | | | | Derek is a web entrepreneur, consultant, and trainer/mentor. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, author, and speaker. He blogs at www.ardentdev.com and www.derekh.com, and he co-hosts a developer podcast at www.devcasting.com. |
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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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 | | | | | Jeff C. Kelly has been designing and delivering enterprise collaboration, content management, and project management solutions for more than ten years, including seven years with SharePoint technologies. His first exposure to SharePoint was with the beta version of SharePoint 2001, known as Codename “Tahoe”. He has architected and delivered global, multi-language portal solutions, and content management systems in the public sector, financial services, media and advertising. His “PSA One” project management and costing solution won the “Solution Shootout” at the Microsoft Project Conference 2004. At Toronto SharePoint Camp 2007 Jeff spoke on Workflow in SharePoint Server 2007. |
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| | | | | Tim Knechtel is a K2 Technical Specialist who has worked at K2 since 2004. Tim focuses on delivering custom customer demonstrations, training and proof of concepts that show how K2 can be used to automate a customer’s business processes making the customer more efficient, agile and auditable.
Before joining K2, Tim Knechtel worked at Microsoft for 9 years focusing on products like Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, Active Directory and Project Server.
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 | | | | | David Laribee is President of Xclaim Software, an ISV offering document, claim, and policy management software for the commercial property and casualty insurance industry. He has 10+ years experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise applications with Microsoft technologies. David has worked with the .NET Framework since the zero-day in internal IT, product development, consulting, and rapid prototyping contexts across a wide variety of industries. He writes about agile practices, software architecture, and the business of software on his blog at http://laribee.com/. |
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 | | | | | Justin Lee is a software consultant for ObjectSharp Consulting. His interests lie mainly with languages, operating systems, software architecture processes and best practices, and low-level hardware architecture. Justin is an MCSD.NET, a Microsoft C# MVP, and the founder of the 1st .NET user group in Singapore. He is open to discussion about Open-Source, Linux, Mono, and other alternatives to Microsoft and .NET. He is proficient in C#, C++, Java and various other languages. He has been doing freelancing for a few years now, and is currently branching out into other areas including training, consultancy, business and marketing. He has also recently obtained his Bachelors in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. |
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 | | | | | Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for over 20 years. Julie is currently writing "Programming Entity Framework" for O'Reilly press (pub. date October 2008). Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences arounc the world and author of articles in well-known technical publications. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board. Julie is the author of O'Reilly's "Programming Entity Framework" (pub. date October 2008). You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.devsource.com/devlife. |
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 | | | | | Peter Madziak is a Senior Consultant and Instructor with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. He is a technical leader with over 10 years experience helping development teams architect, design and develop large software projects. Peter's primary focus over the past few years has been on helping customers understand SOA (Service-oriented architecture), Workflow/BPM (Business Process Management), Web Services (both RESTful & WS-*), EDA (Event-driven architecture), and more importantly how all of these technologies and architectural styles can be reconciled into an architecture that aligns well with what the business needs.
As a SOA & BPM expert for ObjectSharp Consulting, Peter helps customers implement solutions using technologies such as: BizTalk Server 2006, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow (WF), SQL Service Broker, and ASP.NET 2.0 Web Applications.
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 | | | | | Beth Massi is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN (http://msdn.com/vbasic/) and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps run the 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. |
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 | | | | | Kevin McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc, and a Microsoft .NET MVP. He is an INETA speaker in the U.S. and a speaker with MSDN Canada Speaker’s Bureau and is also a well known speaker and trainer throughout North America and Europe including VSLive!, DevTeach (where he serves as one of the .NET chairs), SDC Netherlands, and Advisor DevCon. He is co-author of the book "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", author of the book ".NET for Visual FoxPro Developers", has authored several articles for CoDe magazine and has been interviewed on the .NET Rocks! Internet Radio Show. He is the Chief Software Architect of the MM .NET Framework and spends about half his time on the road training and mentoring companies to build well-designed, high-performance .NET applications. He has also helped many developers transition to the .NET development platform in his highly acclaimed .NET training classes and highly acclaimed Kevin McNeish’s Guide to .NET video series. |
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 | | | | | Matt is the EAI practice lead for Objectsharp Consulting based in Toronto and is also a BizTalk Server MVP. Matt helps customers implement BizTalk solutions and is also the author and instructor for a 5 day BizTalk 2006 developer course. |
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 | | | | | Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.
He is the author or co-author of several books, including Effective Enterprise Java, C# In a Nutshell, SSCLI Essentials, Server-Based Java Programming, and a contributor to several technology journals. Ted is also a Microsoft MVP Architect, BEA Technical Director, INETA speaker, PluralSight instructor, frequent conference speaker, and a member of various Java JSRs. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, and eight PCs.
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| | | | | Geoff Norton is a developer for Novell working on the Mono Project located in Toronto. He's a founder of the Cocoa# and ObjectiveC# projects and is in charge of the Mac specific development for the Mono project, including a native System.Windows.Forms driver and native Gtk# support. |
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 | | | | | Roy is the Agile Development and Team System Group lead at the Sela Group in Israel, doing training,consulting and mentoring on Agile development and Team System topics.
Roy has spent the past decade developing and architecting software solutions for various companies in Israel and Europe. He's a Microsoft MVP and writes regularly on .NET, Agile Development Techniques and other geeky stuff on his blog and various other places such as MSDN Magazine. Roy is also a regular presenter at Microsoft Conferences such as TechEd Europe and Israel, DevDays and user groups in Israel and Europe. Roy is one of the leading voices for Agile development in Israel and is the Founder of the Agile Israel user's group - Israel’s First and only Agile-Dedicated User’s group.
You can find Roy's blog at www.ISerializable.com
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 | | | | | Rod is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA, specializing in application development and software training. Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET, VB 6, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Dash Point Software was the winner of the 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Award and a finalist in 1998. Dash Point was also a finalist in 1996 at Windows World Open. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the XML Connections conference in October 2002. Rod is the editor for CoDe Magazine and his writing credits include articles for database publications such as Data Based Advisor, FoxTalk and Dbase Advisor. He has also authored a number of books including Visual Basic 5 for Web Development, Visual Basic 6 for Web Development, and Visual FoxPro 6.0 Enterprise Development. Rod is also the V.P. of Technology for Red Matrix Technologies and the architectural visionary behind the DataClas middle-tier component and SQLAudit product lines.
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 | | | | | Jeffrey Palermo is a software management consultant and the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. Jeffrey specializes in Agile coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. Jeffrey is an MCSD.Net , Microsoft MVP, Certified Scrummaster, Austin .Net User Group leader, AgileAustin board member, INETA speaker, INETA Membership Mentor, Christian, husband, father, motorcyclist, Eagle Scout, U.S. Army Veteran, and Texas A&M University 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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 | | | | | Owen Rogers is an Agile coach and consultant with ThoughtWorks. Over the past 6 years, he has helped more than 10 teams make the transition to Agile, specifically XP. He has recently returned from China where he spent 6 months coaching a distributed team in delivering a new .NET 3.0 rich client for a large global bank. He is a regular speaker at Agile conferences and is one of the primary organizers of Vancouver's first conference on Agile. He is also the project lead for a number of open source tools including CruiseControl.NET, dbdeploy.net and NMock. |
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 | | | | | Mauro has more than 20 years experience in software development. He authored several software packages sold in Brazil, USA and Portugal. Later he focused on teaching software development. He has developed courseware on Windows, SQL and .NET development using several programming languages such as C, C++, Pascal, Delphi, C# and VB.
Mauro spoke in several industry events such as the Borland Conference (Orlando’94, San Diego’95), Windows DEVCON (London’07), the Brazilian versions of PDC (2003, 2004) and TechEd (2001-2006), IDG events and many more. Mauro is an accomplished magazine columnist having written 100s articles for several publications including IDG’s, Fawcette’s and MSDN Magazine Brazil and sites such as MSDN (USA, LATAM and Brazil). He co-authored two books in 2006, including “SQL Server Database Essentials” by Microsoft Press.
He taught the first .NET class in Brazil in September 2000 and has since been hired by Microsoft and others to teach .NET classes. He taught classes for Microsoft on VS.NET 2005 and WCF in Brazil, South Africa, Costa Rica and Dubai. He delivered many classes for Microsoft’s early |
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 | | | | | Joel Semeniuk is a founder and VP of Software Development at ImagiNET Resources Corp, a Manitoba based Microsoft Gold Partner in Ecommerce and Enterprise Systems. Joel is also the Microsoft Regional Director for Winnipeg, Manitoba. With a degree in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba, Joel has spent the last twelve years providing educational, development and infrastructure consulting services to clients throughout North America. Joel is the author of "Exchange and Outlook: Constructing Collaborative Solutions", from New Riders Publishing and contributing author of "Microsoft Visual Basic.NET 2003 KickStart" from SAMS. Joel has also acted as a technical reviewer on many other books and regularly writes articles for .NET Magazine and Exchange and Outlook Magazine on a variety of infrastructure and development related topics. |
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 | | | | | Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangalist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com). |
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 | | | | | François Tanguay 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. He presently helps large scale institutions achieve their desired results through VSTS, agile processes and software frameworks. For over 10 years, his modeling skills and inventive ideas have guaranteed interesting discussions. Renowned as a « Microsoft patterns & practices champion », you’ll be sure to find him blogging about « Enterprise Library », « Entity Framework », LINQ, IoC, MVC, DDD et PPP. He can be reached at francois.tanguay@nVentive.net. |
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 | | | | | Etienne Tremblay is a senior application architect for EDS Canada with 14 years of experience in enterprise application development. His primary focus has been the manufacturing and mining industries, where he has developed systems to monitor quality in car manufacturing, claim management systems, mine monitoring systems and route management systems using n-tier application model in C/C++, VB6/DCOM and in the last 6 years exclusively with the Microsoft .NET technologies both with VB.NET and C#. In late 2005 he was awarded MVP status for his work with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2005 product for which he has done talks, training, and large scale deployment in EDS. |
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