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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Since that time he has worked on projects for House of Commons, Innovapost, Bell Canada, CGI, CNSC, Kraft, and many other clients assuming the responsibility of Business Analyst, Software Architect,ETL and BI 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 IT 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.
James Kovacs is a Technical Evangelist for JetBrains. He is passionate in sharing his knowledge about OO, SOLID, TDD/BDD, 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, intended to save developers from XML Hell. James is the Ruby Track Chair for DevTeach, one of Canada’s largest independent developer conferences. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.
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Reza is an author, a six-time SharePoint MVP and a co-founder of Knowledge Artisans, a collective of SharePoint MVPs.Reza and his team have helped many customers architect and build large-scale, mission-critical SharePoint applications since 2001.
For more on Reza's recent publications, see http://amzn.to/Yvfj11.
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 a Practice Lead for Application Development at Slalom Consulting. 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.
Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Home Page.
Carl is also the Microsoft Regional Director for Connecticut, an MVP for Kinect, co-host of .NET Rocks! and The Tablet Show, a .NET Rocks! spin-off dedicated to developing for tablets, phones and other mobile devices, as well as mobile web.
Carl is the creator of GesturePak ($99), the first gesture recognition library for Microsoft Kinect for Windows. GesturePak records your motion as .you create gestures, then notifies your app when your user has performed one or more of your gestures.
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.
Steffan Surdek is currently a senior consultant and agile coach at Pyxis Technologies. Steffan worked in IT for over eighteen years in collaboration with many distributed teams around the world. In the last few years, Steffan was an agile trainer and coach in large companies such as IBM and the TD Bank Group. Steffan speaks at many conferences and user groups about agility with distributed teams. Steffan is co-author of the book « A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum » written in collaboration with the IBM Scrum Community. He blogs on his website at http://www.surdek.ca.
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