Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. He is currently employed at RDA Corporation in Philadelphia, PA, as a Software Engineer and a team member in their Architectural Guidance evangelism team. Steve is also an MCP, ICSOO, Speaker Liaison for the Philly .NET User Group, and all around .NET fanatic.
Sean Blanton has been with OpenMake Software for 10 years as a software management consultant and Meister product development. He has worked with over 100 companies in application lifecycle management process and design, agile development environments, continuous integration and build automation with .NET, Java, Perl and other languages. Most recently he has developed .NET lifecycle and build management and JBoss application deployment automation with OpenMake Meister at American Family Insurance in Madison, WI. Sean also has a Ph.D. in physics and vacations in the Southeastern U.S. and the Aegean coast of Turkey.
Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic, and is also a Microsoft MVP. He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes", "CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", ".NET Security", and "Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. He also runs the Twin Cities Code Camp and the Twin Cities Languages User Group. Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.
Dave Bost is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast. Dave has been a Software Developer and Solution Architect for over 15-years. Prior to joining Microsfot, Dave cut his technical teeth working with many Fortune-500 companies as a technical mentor and consultant.
Dave started his technical passion back in the days of the Commodore-64 when he wrote his first assembly-language program that produced a hot-air balloon to sail across his Commodore 1701 Video Monitor. From there, he was hooked. This led to a Computer Science degree at Northern Illinois University, where he soon started his professional career in the Unix/C world and a short time later, starting his Microsoft developer career. For the past decade, Dave has spent most of his time building web-based applications for the Microsoft platform. As a technologist, Dave doesn't spend all his time in the Microsoft world as he likes to spend his time dabbling with the latest technologies, tools and movements coming out of the software industry.
Outside of his professional life, Dave enjoys discovering new music with his Zune Pass, defending the universe against 13-year olds on box Live, and playing golf (whenever his wife lets him). You can read Dave's blog at http://davebost.com/blog or listen to the Thirsty Developer Podcast at http://thirstydeveloper.com.
Larry Clarkin is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism group, covering the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. He joined Microsoft in early 2007, bringing with him 15+ years of experience in both application development and architecture. He has worked in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, insurance, and financial services. Larry has a passion for technology and how it can be applied to solve business and social issues. Larry is very community-focused and is a frequent participant and presenter at Microsoft and non-Microsoft user groups. Larry is also a co-host of the technology podcast The Thirsty Developer. You can read his blog at http://eraserandcrowbar.com.
James has over thirteen years of experience in web application development. With a primary focus on Microsoft technologies, James works with iCrossing clients and internal teams to design, develop and implement technical solutions around the .NET framework.
Before joining iCrossing, James started his own company called AgileBlue, Inc. and worked as an independent consultant for Volkswagen as a technical architect and developer. The project followed Agile methodologies and was a large multi-year project that streamlined the credit and funding process for Volkswagen Credit and their dealerships in North America.
Prior to starting AgileBlue, James worked with Agency.com, dating back to 2000 as the Microsoft Practice Lead. His responsibilities included architecting and developing solutions for their Microsoft centric clients as well as ensuring Microsoft projects that were being developed across the organization were following best practices.
Aaron Erickson is an author, speaker, and thought leader - an advocate for delivery of competitive advantage through the strategic use of technology. For over 15 years, Aaron has been helping companies in a diverse set of industries more effectively leverage their technology portfolio. In 2007, Aaron was awarded with a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his contributions to the broader technical community, and currently serves the Magenic Chicago office, where he works with Magenic's Chicago client base to help them get the most from their technology investments.
Jim Fiorato has 9 years of experience in delivering web-based software solutions built on the Microsoft platform. He is currently an architect at Hubbard One, where he is responsible for the design and development of a suite of software targeted towards the legal industry. Jim also frequently writes about his thoughts and experiments with Microsoft technologies, the software development lifecycle, and programming languages on his blog; writebetterbits.com.
Brian Gorbett is a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) Division, responsible for engaging communities around developer tools and platform technologies. An active Web developer and technologist, Gorbett has contributed to national publications on Microsoft technologies and still codes on a daily basis.
Before joining Microsoft, Gorbett managed a team of developers and designers responsible for delivering next generation rich Internet applications. He is a Certified ScrumMaster and regularly speaks on agile development and foundation principles in development.
With a design and development background, Gorbett has more recently been working with Silverlight and the Expression tools, demonstrating the flexible workflow with designers and developers. He resides in Chicago, IL, but can be found on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Second Life, BrianGorbett.com, or just about any other social network.
Gary M. Gumbiner, MCT, MCSD .NET, MCPD is a Principal for Great Barrier Technologies, Inc. specializing in .NET Training and Development. His career spans over 15 years including a variety of IT development projects and training engagements. Gary holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business, Northwestern University, as well as B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University. Previously Gary worked as Director of Site Selection Technology for McDonald's Corporation, Oakbrook, IL.
Fakher Halim is a CISSP certified software architect with over 25 years of experience in enterprise integration and B2B e-Commerce. He did his Masters in Physics and started his career with digital electronics/hardware development, and microprocessor based embedded systems. He programmed in assembler, Fortran, C, C++, Pascal, Java, and VB before creating .NET based integration solutions in C#. He created software for Discover Card, BP/Amoco and Siemens and did his MCP, MCSE, MCT before creating the .NET based products/Add-Ons which were then certified by Microsoft and SAP.
He is the creator of MegaXML product www.MegaXML.com. He works for TPG - a "Microsoft Gold Certified Partner" and an "SAP Software Partner"
Based in Chicago, Walt Hodgson is a Senior Consultant with Neudesic, one of Microsoft's leading .NET professional services firms and Gold Certified Partners. Walt has over ten years of enterprise application development experience and a broad and deep understanding of Microsoft products. His emphasis is in SharePoint architecture, SharePoint deployment and Enterprise search.
Certifications
MCTS - WSS Config.
MCTS - MOSS Config.
MCTS - WSS Dev.
MCTS - MOSS Dev.
Experiences
Prior to becoming a senior consultant with Neudesic, Walt was a technical architect with First Consulting Group, a leading healthcare and life sciences consulting and outsourcing firm. There he lead the implementation of numerous portals for both internal and external clients using Microsoft technologies. He focused on knowledge management, customer and client collaboration systems and enterprise search. Walt has over 6 years experience implementing and customizing sharepoint systems.
Prior to FCG Walt founded a web development and hosting company where he actively managed client engagements from start to finish.
Kirstin Juhl is software developer and consultant for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.
Kirstin has been developing software since 1996 when she started a career in engineering. She has been full-time in software development since 1999 and specializes in middle/back tier and database design and development.
Kirstin holds a B.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an M.S.in Software Engineering from the University of St. Thomas. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two children, and when not speaking at software events enjoys mountain biking all over the Midwest.
Sreenivasu Nutulapati has over 16 years of experience in IT with specialization in integration area. He is currently working at Calamos Investments as Sr.Developer/Architect.
Dan Rosanova is a Managing Consultant at Risetime, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that specializes in BPM, ECM, and Web Solutions. Dan has been a developer for more than nine years and an architect for four. Specializing in BizTalk and high volume systems he has worked in Telecommunications, Financial Services, and Document Management spaces and been responsible for the technical design and delivery of systems ranging from Accounting, HR, Web Portals, and IVR systems. Dan has worked with the .NET Framework since its first release and has written for both Risetime and Nova Enterprise Systems about topics including Data Access Architectures, XML in .NET and SQL Server, Unit Testing BizTalk applications, and MSMQ in the .NET Framework. Dan holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from DePaul University in Chicago.
Paul Schaeflein, MCTS, manages the development team for Barracuda, LLC, an independent software vendor (ISV) building tools for SharePoint Technologies. Previously, Paul was an independent consultant specializing in solutions built using ASP.NET and SharePoint.
Paul is a contributing author to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices and has written numerous articles and whitepapers. Paul spent 5 years teaching programming and has presented at numerous User Groups and MOSS Camps (Code Camps for SharePoint).
Dan Sniderman is a Senior Consultant for Magenic, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Dan has twenty-five years of experience in software development. Since 1993, Dan has specialized on developing business applications on the Microsoft platform. Most recently, Dan has worked with C#, VB.NET, Windows Forms, ASP.NET and ASP.NET Ajax. For the past year Dan has focused on using and customizing Team Foundation Server. In addition to a BA from the University of Illinois, Dan has a MCSD.NET and MCTS in Team Foundation Server. Dan recently published an article on TFS in the .Net Developers Journal. Dan also is a professional trombonist.
Chris Sutton is a consultant and technical trainer in Eastern Iowa and has been working with ASP.Net since the .NET November beta in 2002. He helps facilitate CRineta.org, the Ineta group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and he coordinated the first Iowa Code Camp in May of 2008. Chris is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and holds the MCPD:Enterprise certification as well. He has been consulting and speaking on the ASP.NET MVC Framework since the beginning of 2008 and loves developing for the web. Getting to spend time with his wife and kids makes his tech work worthwhile. He also enjoys hiking and biking in the summer and snowshoeing in the winter.
Chris Williams is a Technology Evangelist for Magenic. He is the founder of several .NET User Groups on the east coast, and most recently the Twin Cities XNA User Group and Twin Cities Developers Guild, both in Minneapolis, MN. He is a rabid blogger at BlogusMaximus.net, author of the very popular NINE Questions series and owner of the VB Community site www.ILoveVB.net. His most recent project is the Charity Fragathon, a fundraiser event for Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
He's also a Visual Basic .NET MVP, MCT, MCSD (.NET) Early Adopter, MCAD, freelance game developer, occasional author, tech editor, code camp & user group speaker, vintage arcade game collector and plays a pretty mean guitar in Rock Band. The rumors are true, he loves Visual Basic so much he even named his dog VB.
Dave Ziffer's software passion is to improve the quality of both software tools and development methods. From his early years at Bell Labs (77-83) through his various business ventures that have taken years off his wife's life, he has pursued one idea: namely that systematic, comprehensive design yields unexpected quantum benefits in software quality and capability. His current mission is to demonstrate the surprisingly practical advantages of using this philosophy, as compared to the more mundane outcomes that we've come to expect from the highly pervasive minimalist approach. Dave is the owner of Project Pro Inc., a software consulting firm in the western Chicago suburbs.
