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.
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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.
Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), is a Firefighter/Paramedic, and a volunteer for the Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog
Colin Melia is a Microsoft MVP for Silverlight and Microsoft Regional Director known as an architect, trainer, speaker and author with deep and broad knowledge of the latest Microsoft technologies, proven problem solving skills, hands-on solution creation ingenuity and the ability to communicate rich and complex ideas. He is the Principal Architect at Ace of Clouds Inc. and speaks regularly with his British accent at conferences, events and code camps for Microsoft and community organisations as well as being a college academic advisor. In the summer of 2010 he developed and delivered the first Windows Phone 7 boot camp tour in North America, training dozens of developers and companies across Canada at Microsoft offices. His recent articles and reference cards have been featured on Mobile Developer Magazine & DZone and he regularly posts on his blog. Colin has 17 years of hands-on experience in 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. He has worked in the finance, telecoms, e-learning, Internet communications and gaming industries, with his business solutions recently in use world-wide at companies like HP, O2, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft & Reuters.
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.
Since that time he has worked on projects for House of Commons, Innovapost, Bell Canada, CGI, ArchiDATA, Sun Telcom, Kraft, and many other clients assuming the responsibility of Business Analyst, Software Architect, Software Developers, Analyst, Team leader and mentor. He has been and is still very active in the developers’ community by acting as a user group leader for more than ten years with the Montreal .NET community and the Ottawa .NET community.
He is also the co-founder of an international developer’s conference www.DevTeach.com which is now directed by a member of his team. Jean-René Roy is a SQL Server Microsoft MVP and is co-lead and mentor for the OttawaSQL.net BI study group.
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Amir Ahani (MCSD .NET + MBA) is a trainer and senior software consultant who lives in Vancouver, Canada. He has been teaching advanced Microsoft courses at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) since 2003. He has been also managing three lines of products at Motion Metrics International Corp since 2007.
Amir specializes in Microsoft .NET technologies and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Canada, Europe, Africa, Australia, Middle-East, South America, and the United States.
Over the years, Amir developed hands-on experience and skills in architecting and building desktop and distributed systems for mining industry and for multi-transactional systems such as banks, insurance systems and, in general, in industry contexts where the demand for security, optimization, performance, scalability, and interoperability is dramatically high.
He is also a member of the following communities: ASQ, APICS, PMI, .netBC, NPA, and ITAC. He has written a book about Practical business blueprints in C# and VB and PACKT publishing will publish it soon.
Guy Barrette is a freelance Solutions Architect based in Montreal, Canada. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for the Montreal region and a Windows Azure MVP. He's 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. He's been a speaker at developers' conferences like Microsoft TechDays and DevTeach. Guy leads the Montreal .NET Community and he is the Visual Studio Talk Show podcast co-host.
Amir Barylko started his career in 1994 working for IBM as a senior developer while he was finishing his Masters degree in computer science. Since then he worked as team leader and architect for the past 15 years.
Having started with languages like C++ and Java he spent many years coding in C# and training other developers in topics such domain modeling, abstractions, patterns, automation, dependency injection, testing, etc.
Being an incurable geek, always thirsty for knowledge, his passion for technology moved him towards Ruby on Rails a few years ago, becoming an advocate of RoR web development. Also following he's teaching passion he did his first RoR training a year ago, and recently a TDD training with great reviews.
Amir is a rare combination of high technical skills, lots of experience in a wide range of platforms, exceptional presentation skills and great sense of humor. His presentations are always rich in content and fun to attend.
Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Co-Founder of SolidQ. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of several books including Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Fundamentals, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying and Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming. He has written articles for SQL Server Magazine, SolidQ Journal and MSDN. Itzik's speaking activities include TechEd, DevWeek, SQLPASS, SQL Server Magazine Connections, various user groups around the world, and SolidQ's events to name a few. Itzik is the author of SolidQ's Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning and T-SQL Fundamentals courses along with being a primary resource within the company for their T-SQL related activities.
Mario Cardinal is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture. He is known as someone who can extract the essence of a complicated situation, sort out the core ideas from the incidental distractions, and provide a summary easy to understand. He speaks regularly about architecture and agility at international conferences. Since 2004, he hosted the Visual Studio Talk Show, a podcast about software architecture. He also leads the architecture user group for the Montreal .Net Community and is the architecture track tech chair for the DevTeach Conference. For the seventh year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. 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. He shares his free-time with his wife, Nathalie and their four children.
Bryan Costanich is the Director of Education at Xamarin, makers of MonoTouch and Mono for Android. He's a former Microsoft engineer, published author and renowned software architect. He's also a mobile development expert. In addition to having published to the Apple App Store, his recent project, MuveMusic, which runs on Android is the fastest growing music subscription service on the planet. When not working in tech, you can find Bryan monkeying around in Hollywood, or out in the mountains.
Rob Daigneau has more than 20 years’ experience designing and implementing applications and products for a broad array of industries from financial services, to manufacturing, to retail and travel. Rob has served in such prominent positions as Director of Architecture for Monster.com and Manager of Application Development at Fidelity Investments. He is currently the Director of Server Applications at BlueMetal Architects. Rob has been known to speak at a conference or two.
Rob’s book on Service Design Patterns was recently released in the prestigious Martin Fowler Signature Series.
In his free time, Rob plays guitar with his daughter, hits the slopes when there's snow, and enjoys long walks in his woodsy corner of the world.
Benjamin Day is a consultant and trainer specializing in software development best practices using Microsoft’s development tools with an emphasis on Team Foundation Server, Scrum, Windows Azure, and Silverlight. He is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, a certified Scrum trainer via Scrum.org, and a speaker at conferences such as TechEd, DevTeach, and VSLive. When not developing software, Ben likes to hang out with his wife and cats, play jazz piano, and geek out on all things food. He can be contacted via http://www.benday.com and http://blog.benday.com.
Kathleen’s been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she’s had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. She’s worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She’s published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. She’s also a long time Microsoft MVP 1998, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.
Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp. (and it's various properties, such as CODE Consulting, CODE Training, and VFPConversion). He is also the Publisher of CODE Magazine and the co-host of CodeCast. He is a Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and one of the longest-serving MVPs (1996-present). Markus is the founder of other business ventures, such as Tower48 (digital software escrow), Xiine (digital reading), JockTock (sports social network), and more.
Markus has worked on a large number of software projects for some of the world's largest companies (including a number of Fortune 500 companies). Markus has worked as a contractor to the Microsoft Visual Studio team, and has worked closely with various product groups at Microsoft. Besides his activities around CODE Magazine, Markus has been published extensively in practically all large industry publications (mainly in English, but on occasion in German as well). He has received various and numerous awards and recognitions, many related to his active involvement in the community and his regular appearances at events of all sizes. Markus has also been involved in the creation and continued support of various user groups, such as D2SIG (WPF and Silverlight) and HDNUG (.NET).
In his spare time, Markus is an enthusiastic Ice Hockey player (and supporter) as well as an avid windsurfer, traveler, and general enthusiast of sports such as scuba diving or mountain biking. On rainy days Markus either reads, enjoys a computer game, or researches new technologies.
Medhat Elmasry was born in Ethiopia. He holds a Masters Degree in Computing Science from Bradford University, England. Medhat moved to Canada from Egypt in 1993 with his wife, son, and daughter. He has since worked for The Loewen Group, Alderwoords, and HSBC. He is currently an instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). He specializes in web development at BCIT and is involved in most of their ASP.NET courses. Medhat is also a SharePoint contractor at Sierra Wireless in Richmond, BC. He is the founder and president of the .NET users group in Vancouver (aka .netBC) and co-owner of bcjobs.com. He occasionally speaks at user groups, code camps, and the DevTeach conference.
Llewellyn Falco is an instructor for DevelopMentor. He is the creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests, and Java Lambdas (www.approvaltests.com ). He spends most of his time programming in Java and C#. Llewellyn splits his career between creating new programs and helping clients to modernize their existing legacy systems and has found joy in both. He also volunteers creating courseware and teaching kids to program (www.teachingkidsprogramming.org ) and on the SmartCare medical records project in Lusaka, Zambia. Find his blog at llewellynfalco.blogspot.com.
Carl Franklin is the host of the acclaimed
.NET Rocks! and dnrTV podcasts, and
executive producer of Hanselminutes
and Run As Radio. Carl was an early
adopter of .NET, spending 5 years
providing hands-on training for his
company, Franklins.Net. Carl is a
Regional Director for Connecticut, and
also an MVP. Carl is also a musician
and audio/video producer. Contact Carl
at carl@franklins.net
I have over twelve years of experience in the software developement field using Microsoft technologies and I've been using .NET in enterprise projects for 8 years now. I was involved in many enterprise projects for large corporations like Desjardins, Domtar, Cascades and Alcoa but I was also part of a few projects for various government branches. I like to learn new technologies related to .NET, use the new tools that are designed for .NET and I love to share it all with my peers. Yes, I'm a confessed .NET addict, a C# MVP and I'm currently working at DMR, a Fujitsu company, as a Senior Consultant.
John started programming with SQL Server in 1994. He has been involved into many implementations of large scale database applications and data warehouse projects. While he was a lead of a small database team in National Money Mart Company, he automated majority DBA tasks over a very complex distributed SQL Server system with almost 1000 instances involved. As an SQL Server expert, he successfully passed Microsoft Certified Master of SQL Server at beginning of year 2009 and became to the first Certified Master of SQL Server outside Microsoftin Canada. Now he is an independent SQL Server consultant specialized in performance tuning, database design, data processing, and troubleshooting.
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.
Joël Hébert [ASP.NET MVP] is the Director and Chief Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc. where he works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture/Development. He has developed large-scale web applications and Computer Aided Audit Tools for CaseWare-IDEA and is currently working on federal government projects. Joel is a long standing member of the Ottawa .Net Community’s steering committee and has been involved in many of its projects including; the “The Developers” TV show, Inter-User Group Challenges, and a number of MCAD/MCTS study groups. Joel is also responsible for introducing & hosting the Product Discovery Showcases at the events.
Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, and developing software for over 20 years. Phil is a Microsoft MVP and also holds MCSD, MCDBA, CSM, and CSP certifications. Phil is an international speaker and a passionate member of the developer community, speaking at events all around the world as well as serving as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group.
Jessica Kerr originated in Edmonton, AB, but now hails from St. Louis, MO. She programs in Java and JavaScript for her day job, but her nighttime forays into more interesting languages like F# have revealed that .NET is a fascinating place. She is busy taking over the world (or at least the local user group community) while writing articles for general consumption at developerFusion.com and NFJS magazine. In between, she tries to keep two children alive without squashing their innate craziness.
Lynn Langit recently left 4 years at Microsoft as a Sr. Developer Evangelist to return to private consulting and training. Before joining Microsoft, Lynn ran her own development and training company. There she build out SQL BI solutions for customers as diverse as Microsoft corporate, Orange County, CA-based non-profits and Zambian (Africa) Electronic Medical Records. In addition to building, Lynn has been a techinical trainer for 12 years. She is also the author of several books on Microsoft BI, the latest of which is 'Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008'. Lynn is also passionate about providing the next generation with the highest quality technical education. She is the co-founder of a non-profit, 'Teaching Kids Programming'. Courseware from this all-volunteer group is based on Agile practices and is designed to teach kids ages 10 and up how to program. TKP courseware is currently used in 15 US states and 10 countries. In 2012, TKP will add courseware to introduce kids to 'BigData'.
Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (http://www.learn2develop.net), a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest mobile technologies. Wei-Meng has many years of training experiences and his training courses place special emphasis on the learning-by-doing approach. His hands-on approach to learning programming makes understanding the subject much easier than reading books, tutorials, and documentations. Wei-Meng wrote Beginning Android Application Development (Wrox, forthcoming 2011) and Beginning iOS 4 Application Development (Wrox).
I have been programming since 1995; I worked on back-end and front end until 2005; from that point on I concentrated solely on front-end development. My career started with C, C++ for the first 4 years, then I switched to Java and J2EE for 3 years, then PHP for a few years, HTML, CSS, mySQL were prominent then. In 2005 I concentrated on ActionScript full-time (Flash), and since 2009 I work on Android and iOS. I am in the process of building a start-up, applied for 2 patents this year on user experience paradigms for mobile; one for mCommerce and one for a Discovery Engine.
Thomas Lewis is a Principal Developer & Designer Evangelist at Microsoft focused on HTML5, Windows 8 and the web designer/developer community in Canada. When he is not thinking about the brutality of HTML5, Microsoft, and Design, he is plotting the eradication of Internet Explorer 6 from the planet.
Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint as well as Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is a community champion for business application developers and is responsible for producing and managing online content and community interaction for the BizApps team. She has over 15 years of industry experience building business applications and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. You can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9, and her blog http://www.bethmassi.com/. Follow her on twitter @BethMassi
Charles Max Wood is the host of several podcasts including Ruby Rogues, Rails Coach, Teach Me To Code, and Teach Me To Code Screencasts. He transitioned from IT to Computer Programming in 2006. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University. He lives in Lehi, Utah with his lovely wife, Heather, and 4 children.
Kevin McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc, and an eight-time recipient of the Microsoft. .NET MVP Award. He is a well-know .NET and iOS speaker and trainer throughout North America and Europe including DevConnections, VSLive!, DevTeach, SDC Netherlands, Advisor DevCon, as well as numerous Code Camps and Boot Camps. He is author of the upcoming book iPhone and iPad App Development for Everyone, co-author of the book "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", author of the book ".NET for Visual FoxPro Developers", as well as many software development magazine articles. He has also been interviewed multiple times on the .NET Rocks! Internet Radio Show. He is the Chief Software Architect of the MM .NET Framework as well as the upcoming MMiOS Framework. e-mail: kevinm@oakleafsd.com, Web: www.oakleafsd.com. Phone: 434-979-2417
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.
Charles Nurse graduated from Oxford University in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry. He then moved to Canada and in 1983 he graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Ph.D, also in Chemistry. While at Oxford he took his first Computer Programming courses in Algol 60 and Algol 68 – precursors of Pascal, and was responsible for maintaining a “Molecular Modeling” program written in Fortran, so he brings over 30 years of Computer Programming experience.
After a 12 year career in Sales, he created his own consulting company in 1998 so he could work on his first love – Software Development - and since 2006 he has been Senior Architect for DotNetNuke Corporation the creators of the DotNetNuke Open Source Web Application Platform.
Charles has been working with the .NET Framework since its first release, specializing in Web Applications using ASP.NET and he is a Microsoft MVP and an ASPInsider.
He has spoken at many major conferences including the Software Developers Conference (SDC) (www.sdc.nl), DevConnections (www.devconnections.com), DevTeach (www.devteach.com) and Microsoft Tech Days, and he is a frequent speaker at local User Groups and Code Camps. He has just been selected to speak at VSLive in 2011 in Las Vegas (www.vslive.com).
Yaroslav has been involved in SharePoint solution architecture and implementation since 2003. He is also a Microsoft MVP since 2009 and keeps a close touch with SharePoint product team. Yaroslav frequently presents at local and Canadian tech events as well as online; you can alwas find a fresh bit of SharePoint information on his blog: www.sharemuch.com. To learn everything Yaroslav knows about SharePoint, check out his two new books Top 60 custom solutions built on SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 branding in practice
Jean-René Roy has been developing IT solution for large and small enterprises since 1987. In 1991 he founded the consulting firm Technologies SoftDesign Inc.
Tamer Salama started out his software development career in 2003 as a
Java developer. In 2005, he was fed-up with the overhead that Java
brought to web applications development and started exploring Ruby on
Rails. He was hooked. For the past 7 years, he has developed with the
framework for various domains including Manufacturing, End-user, B2B
and Oil & Gas. He currently consults for Cenovus Energy designing and
developing small/mid-size Ruby on Rails applications.
Tamer is the founder and president of Noria Technologies, a
Calgary-based tech consulting and custom-development shop. He has 18
years of combined Engineering and Software development experience and
holds a MSc. in Engineering and a MSc. Information Systems.
Edwin Sarmiento is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP from Ottawa, Canada specializing in high availability, disaster recovery and system infrastructures running on the Microsoft server technology stack. 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.
Ben Scheirman is a software craftsman, speaker, author, and blogger. He enjoys programming on a multitude of platforms, most recently Rails and iOS. When not programming, Ben enjoys playing guitar, geeking out about beer, and spending time with his wife and five wonderful children. Ben is the Director of Development for ChaiONE in Houston, TX. Read his blog online at http://benscheirman.com.
Dylan Smith is an ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) consultant for Imaginet where he spends his time helping teams become more successful at delivering software. Dylan has over a decades experience designing and architecting mission critical applications. In the past 7 years Dylan has focused on agile development techniques and practices. He has led the shift to agile and lean development practices across multiple teams, projects and companies.
Charles Sterling aka "Chuck" has over 15 years of Developer tools experience at Microsoft. He came to Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for the United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. An MCSE and MCSD, he started out at Microsoft in developer support focusing on FOXPRO, Visual Basic and the platform SDK, then worked as an engineer for the database teams on ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and specializing in Microsoft SQL Server. From there Charles took a position with the Solutions Integration Escalation Team, which focused on assisting Microsoft customers with the integration of disparate software technologies into viable enterprise solutions, on this team Charles focused on Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) doing numerous talks at conferences, writing papers and teaching classes on the topic. Charles’ role in Redmond before moving to Australia for the last seven years was the product manager for the .NET Framework. Chuck is currently back in Redmond working as Program Manager in the Visual Studio Team System Team.
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.
Etienne Tremblay is an Associate Director in charge of the Microsoft technologies center at Fujitsu Canada in Montreal. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and he specialized in Microsoft technologies in the last 12 years, specifically in managing the development process, he also has expertise in the mining and manufacturing industries. He has spoken at DevTeach since 2005 and is a member of the Microsoft Team System Advisory Council and a Microsoft MVP.
Craig Utley is a Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and a former Program Manager with the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) where he focused on Business Intelligence. Craig has been involved in the Microsoft BI space since the betas of SQL Server 7.0, when he helped write Microsoft's first data warehousing course. Since then he has consulted at a variety of businesses worldwide on their BI solutions as an independent consultant, a ProClarity consultant, and a member of SQLCAT. Thanks to his time on SQLCAT, Craig has seen some of the largest Microsoft data warehouses in the world and has worked directly with the Analysis Services development team. Craig is also a former MVP in C#, which he had to give up when he joined Microsoft in May 2006. Craig is a current member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and maintains an interest in the .NET space. He is the author of over 35 articles and 3 books, the most recent of which is about PerformancePoint Server 2007.
Shaun Walker (MVP, ASPInsider) is CEO of DotNetNuke Corporation. Shaun has 15 years professional experience in architecting and implementing large scale software solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is the original creator and maintainer of DotNetNuke, a Web Application Framework for ASP.NET which has spawned the largest and most successful Open Source community project on the Microsoft platform. Based on his significant community contributions he was recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2004 and an ASPInsider in 2005. He is a frequent speaker at User Groups in his local area and is a contributing author to the WROX Press book "Professional DotNetNuke 4 - Open Source Web Application Framework".
John Waters is the lead architect and developer of a number of high profile software products and solutions, including the Velocity ERP system, the HC Standard Critical Asset Tracking system, and numerous financial software systems. John has spoken at conferences all over the world on topics ranging from Parallel Computing to Windows Phone development. Currently, John is working on Windows Azure Cloud Computing and Mobile Development. John previously founded and run several consulting companies in Sweden, and has worked at Falafel Software in California since 2003.
Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Allin Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Boston. He has over seventeen 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 regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and videos to MSDN, TechNet, and the Pluralsight On-Demand library and is the co-author of Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4 for Wrox. Rob is the founder and past-president of the North Toronto .NET User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.
Richard Buamet has been working for Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management ( now under RBC Global Asset Management Inc.) for the last 10 years as a SQL Server DBA. He has also been the local PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Chapter leader for the last 4 years and a member since 2002. He has spoken at the local chapter as well as DevTeach in Vancouver, Microsoft TechDays in Vancouver, and Techfest in Vancouver.
James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades specializing in agile development using Ruby and .NET. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), behaviour-driven development (BDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He blogs on CodeBetter.com as well as his own blog, is a technical contributor for Pluralsight, writes articles for MSDN Magazine and CoDe Magazine, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups. He is the creator of psake, a PowerShell-based build automation tool, to save developers from XML Hell. James is the Ruby Track Chair for DevTeach, Canada’s largest independent developer conference. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.
Todd McDermid has been developing software for two decades, and most of that software has used SQL Server for data storage. He has primarily been involved with Manufacturing and Supply Chain projects, both in ISVs and as an internal IT resource. In recent years, he’s discovered Business Intelligence and the Microsoft platform – turning him into an evangelist for using BI to support performance management in his current organization. To assist in achieving that goal, he’s used Integration Services to populate a Data Warehouse, using standard as well as custom built SSIS components. Along the way he’s earned his MCSD.Net and MCTS (on SQL08BI). He’s currently a moderator of the MSDN SSIS forums, coordinator of two CodePlex open-source projects, and frequent blogger on SSIS topics.
Paul Turley is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server, specializing in Business Intelligence and a multi-disciplined consultant. He has been architecting, managing and developing applications and business solutions for large and small businesses since 1992, and has developed custom database, BI and reporting solutions for diverse industries. His expertise includes project lifecycle management, database modeling and design using SQL Server versions 6.0 through 2011, application development and user interface design, and enterprise BI solutions using SQL Server Reporting Services, Integration Services and Analysis Services, actively working with product teams at Microsoft to advance the next generation BI platform. He teaches, develops training courseware, speaks at industry conferences and has authored and co-authored several technical books.
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