Speakers 2003

Guy Barrette, Nurun   Guy Barrette is a system architect at Nurun in Montreal. Nurun is one of largest consulting firm specializing in e-business solutions. He has been working with Visual Basic since the launch of version 3. His focus is on Web applications with Microsoft technologies like IIS, ASP, MTS, COM+, Visual Basic, C#, Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server, and Commerce Server. He worked on one of the largest and successful e-commerce site in Canada: www.archambault.ca. He's been a speaker at conferences and writes the .NET book review column on the Universal Thread Magazine (www.universalthread.com). Guy is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. He is also president of the Montreal Visual Studio User Group (www.guvsm.net).

Scott Bellware, F1 Technologies   Scott Bellware is the architect and developer of Norpheme – a freely available object-relational persistence framework for .NET. Scott is a software and reuse architect for a fortune 500 financial services company in San Antonio, TX, a founder and Director of Operations of the Austin .NET User Group, an officer of the San Antonio XP User Group, and has been collaborating with F1 Technologies towards the development of a suite of developer tools supporting the Norpheme framework. He has given talks on object-relational persistence for .NET and software testing and validation for .NET applications. As a .NET early adopter, Scott has been working with central-Texas companies since April, 2001 on .NET applications development, architecture, training, and mentoring.

Mario Cardinal, Mario Cardinal Consulting   Mario is a regular speaker at conferences in North America and Europe on Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). He frequently demonstrates code generation technologies to the general public at seminars, user-groups and technical summits. He is also an accomplished author and his articles have been published in various technical journals. Mario holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management degrees from the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. He also holds the titles of Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). Mario is based in Montreal, Canada.

Eric Coté, 3-Soft   Éric Côté is currently a technical trainer for 3-SOFT in Montreal. 3-SOFT is Canada's leading software reseller. The 3-SOFT Training Center is a tech paradise for Microsoft certified training, with its top-notch instructors and great downtown location. Consultant on the Microsoft platform for the last five years, Éric Côté is now an expert on the .NET architecture. Eric holds many certifications (MCSD, MCDBA, MCT) and holds a degree from Université de Montreal (BSc). Eric's certified trainer status allowed him to instruct developers from many large corporations (Desjardins, Motorola, Bombardier, SoftImage, Télé-Quebec...) and to speak for Montreal's Visual Studio.NET user group.

Jim Duffy, TakeNote Technologies   Jim Duffy is founder and president of TakeNote Technologies, a Developer's Choice Award winner as Best VFP Training Company. He has a BS degree in Computer and Information Systems and over 16 years of programming and training experience. He is an exceptional trainer, skilled developer, and has been published in leading publications such as FoxPro ADVISOR and FoxTalk. Jim's passion for teaching and presenting combined with his humorous and quick-witted approach have consistently earned him "Excellent" reviews. Jim is a popular speaker at regional user groups and was a speaker at Visual FoxPro DevCon '97, '98, '99, & '00 as well as other regional VFP conferences. The Visual FoxPro training courseware he authored for use in TakeNote's classes is also used by training companies worldwide.

Tom Eberhard, CPU Inc.   Thomas Eberhard is the owner of CPU Inc and CIO of InfoLink Screening Services, Inc. He has been working with computers for over 24 years and writing applications in languages long before Visual Basic. During the last 5 years Thomas has worked with Visual Basic, VFP, SQL Server, ASP, COM/ COM+ to create Web applications for smaller and medium size companies, taking legacy systems to the Web. A lot of his applications use advanced object–oriented techniques. Thomas is currently working on re-designing and programming several projects with the .NET platform, taking extensive use of its OOP capabilities, tiered design and advanced business-to-business communications models. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as VSConnections and VBConnections. He is also a coauthor of OOP Building Reusable Components with VB NET by Microsoft Press.

Markus Egger, EPS Software Corp.   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.

Mike Feltman, F1 Technologies   Mike got his start in computers at the age of 15 as an assistant instructor at the University of Toledo and became an instructor at the University of Toledo at the age of 17. Mike also is a former employee of Fox Software, the original creators of FoxPro. At Fox Software Mike worked in technical support and marketing, developed in-house systems and performed product maintenance on the FoxCentral module in FoxBase+. Mike has spoken at FoxPro and database conferences and user groups throughout North America and in Europe. He has also written articles for FoxPro Advisor and FoxTalk magazines and served as technical editor on Hentzenwerke Publishing's book, "Building Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress."

Toni Feltman, F1 Technologies   Toni is a partner in F1 Technologies and one of the principal developers of the FoxExpress product line. She also wrote the public domain tool ProjectHookX and is a contributor to DBCX which is a public domain data dictionary tool. Toni has spoken at all of the FoxExpress Developers Conferences as well as Visual FoxPro DevCon, VFP DevConnections, The German FoxPro Developers Conference, FoxTeach, Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, The Prague FoxPro Developers Conference in the Czech Republic and various user groups throughout North America. Toni was also a judge of the 1998 and 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards. Prior to F1 Technologies, Toni worked for Fox Software, the company that originated FoxPro. Toni is also an instructor at the University of Toledo where she teaches a wide variety of computer related courses, primarily in the areas of database and Internet development.

Carl Franklin, Franklin's Net   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 VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

René Gagné, Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Cie.   Mr Gagné is with hp for the last 15 years, he occupied several functins within hp including, networking products services,Unix and Intel Servers specialist,Storage and SAN Specialist,and most recently wireless and integrated solution.

Sylvain Gauthier, Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.   Mr Gauthier has been with hp for 6 years and is part of the New Canadian Mobility Practice Team. He has been developing Wireless Solution for the past three (3) years .This group had several successes in the past years that have allowed HP Canada to become the wireless practice reference for hp on a Worldwide basis.

Cathi Gero, Prenia Software and Consulting Services   Cathi Gero is available as a consultant and developer through Prenia Corporation. Cathi is co-founder and development director of Prenia, providing custom software application solutions to businesses since 1987. Her expertise lies in developing .NET applications, developer consulting in .NET, and database solutions using Visual FoxPro, SQL Server and Crystal Reports. Cathi is a Microsoft MVP. She is the Contributing Technical Editor for the book .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers by Hentzenwerke Publishing. She has authored whitepapers for Microsoft and is a speaker at many developer conferences and user groups. Her monthly column, “Cathi Gero’s .NET Tips” appears in Universal Thread Magazine and is an example of her extensive involvement in the .NET community. Cathi is a C.P.A.

Tamar Granor, Tomorrow's Solutions   Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC, works with other developers through consulting and subcontracting. Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000, she is currently Technical Editor and co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column. Tamar is co-author of Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7, New Features in Visual FoxPro 7 and several other books. She is Technical Editor of Visual FoxPro Certification Exams Study Guide. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com). Tamar, a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional, speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups.

Kate Gregory, Gregory Consulting   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.

Yair Alan Griver, Microsoft Corporation   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.

Doug Hennig, Stonefield Systems Group Inc.   Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT) and co-author of the award-winning Stonefield Query. He is co-author (along with Tamar Granor, Ted Roche, and Della Martin) of "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0" and co-author (along with Tamar Granor and Kevin McNeish) of "What's New in Visual FoxPro 7.0", both from Hentzenwerke Publishing, and author of "The Visual FoxPro Data Dictionary" in Pinnacle Publishing's Pros Talk Visual FoxPro series. He writes the monthly "Reusable Tools" column in FoxTalk. He was the technical editor of "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0" and "The Fundamentals", both from Hentzenwerke Publishing. Doug has spoken at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over North America. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Certified Professional (MCP).

Tom Howe, Control Center, Inc.   Tom Howe is a principal in two companies, Control Center Computing, Inc. and the Legal Technology Group. Both companies offer products and services to law firms, corporate legal departments and state attorney offices throughout the United States. He specializes in application development using ASP.NET, Web Service with SQL Server. He is a regular speaker at Developer Conferences around the world including Microsoft Tech*Ed, Microsoft Exchange Conferences, Informant Conferences, Advisor Conferences, Connection Conferences and others. Tom also co-authored "Access 2000 and 2002 Development Unleashed" by SAMS Publishing and is the technical editor of the Advisor Media .NET journal. He is also an attorney and holds a J.D. degree.

Patrick Hynds, CriticalSites   Patrick Hynds, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCSA, MCP+Site Builder, MCT, is the Microsoft Regional Director for Boston and the CTO for CriticalSites. Named by Microsoft as the Regional Director for Boston, he has been recognized as a leader in the technology field. An expert on Microsoft technology (with at last count 54 Microsoft certifications) and experienced with other technologies as well (Websphere, Sybase, Perl, Java, Unix, Netware, C++, etc.), Patrick previously taught freelance software development and Network Architecture. He has been a successful contractor who enjoyed mastering difficult troubleshooting assignments. A graduate of West Point and a Gulf War veteran, Patrick brings an uncommon level of dedication to his leadership role at CriticalSites. He has experience in addressing business challenges with blended IT solutions involving leading-edge database, web and hardware systems. In spite of the demands of his management role at CriticalSites, Patrick stays technical and in the trenches acting as Project Manager and/or developer/engineer on selected projects throughout the year.

Djamel Kacel, Microsoft Canada   Djamel Kacel is a senior consultant at Microsoft Canada. Djamel has more than 10 years of experience in the consulting and development business. Djamel, who works for Microsoft since 1999, has mission of guiding Microsoft clients in the elaboration of architecture and the development of distributed .NET applications, especially with .NET servers such as BizTalk. Djamel has given trainings on .NET, Web Services, BizTalk Server 2002 and Commerce Server 2000.

Don Kiely, Information Insights   Don Kiely is Senior Technology Consultant for Information Insights in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he provides custom applications as well as business and technology consulting services. His development work involves tools such as SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Office. He writes regularly for several journals, including Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal/Visual Studio.NET magazine, Advisor Publications, and InformationWeek. He has written and co-written several books about Visual Basic, C++, and database development. He speaks about Windows programming at conferences such as TechEd, VSLive, VBITS, SQL2Max, Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, SQL Server Magazine LIVE!, and Microsoft Office conferences. In his spare time he wanders the Alaskan wilderness with his Irish Setter Mardy, looking for new vistas to explore and squirrels to chase up trees.

Nickolas Landry, Active Nick .NET   Nickolas Landry, Chief Software Architect – dotBlox Inc. Nickolas Landry is the Chief Software Architect and co-founder of dotBlox Inc., a Montreal-based consulting firm that specializes in business mobility solutions using Microsoft .NET. He specializes in mobile solutions, component-based development, Microsoft .NET, Web services, BizTalk integration, distributed & Internet systems, and XML. Nickolas publishes technical articles on .NET, including a column on mobile development for CoDe Magazine, and has been a technical editor for many books titles. Nickolas was MSDN Regional Director for Microsoft in Montreal, teaches classes on .NET and Web services, and is a regular speaker at DevConnections, Web Services XML One (SIGS-DATACOM), .NET ONE, DevDays and many other events. He is a Founding Member of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects (www.wwisa.org), has been an MCSD since 1997 and is also an IBM Certified Developer on XML. Nickolas is based in Montreal, Canada. www.dotBlox.net, www.activenick.net

Claudio Lassala, Eps Software Corporation   Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corporation, a part time Universal Thread Consultant and the Editor of the UTMag/RapoZine magazine. He had presented several lectures at Microsoft Brazil and VFP conferences as well. He is a two-years recipient for the Microsoft MVP Award and also a columnist in MSDN Brazil.

Daniel LeClair, EPS Software Corp.   Daniel LeClair is a Senior Developer for EPS Software Corp. He has been involved in database development for many years, dating back to dBase II, and has been developing systems with Visual FoxPro from its introduction in 1995. Prior to joining EPS Software, Daniel was the project leader for Eagle USA’s TALON system, winner of the 1999 VFP Excellence Award in the “Client-Server” category. He has considerable “hands-on” experience with VFP in conjunction with SQL Server. He has a BBA in MIS from the University of Houston, and currently holds MCSD certification in VFP.

Rock Legendre, WX3data Consulting   Rock Legendre, an independent consultant located in the Drummondville area, specializes in system integration and the development of Windows and Web supported database transactional applications. He has successfully developed various types of applications in finance, the automobile industry, Web services, COM objects and B2B systems. Specialized in Microsoft products, he masters a variety of tools, such as Microsoft Visual FoxPro, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Visual Studio .Net (C#). Rock is vice-president of Montreal FoxPro User’s Group (MFUG) and webmaster of SQL Server Montreal Users’ Group (SSMUG).

Julia Lerman, The Data Farm   Julia Lerman is the owner of Julia Lerman, Inc (dba The Data Farm). and has been developing software applications and consulting to businesses since 1984. Julia is the founder and leader of the Vermont .NET users group (www.vtdotnet.org) as well as a member of the User Group Relations Committee for INETA (International .Net Association) www.ineta.org. She is a contributor to Visual Studio Magazine and DotNetJunkies.com and in her pre-Visual Basic days, FoxPro Advisor. Having spent many years as a FoxPro developer, Julia is working very hard to help bring the same community spirit to .Net that is so unique to FoxPro.

Ken Levy, Microsoft Corporation   Ken Levy is the Visual FoxPro Product Manager at Microsoft. Ken is a long time recognized member of the FoxPro community and has developed many high profile applications and tools in all versions of FoxBase/FoxPro through Visual FoxPro 6.0 since 1986. Ken was previously the Director of Technology at XMLFund, LLC and led a team of technologists in identifying and evaluating investment prospects while assisting portfolio companies in technology and marketing. Ken was formerly with DataChannel, Inc. as a Senior Architect working on technical marketing efforts for XML based enterprise corporate portal products. Ken spent over 4 years as a software engineer consulting for Microsoft on the Visual FoxPro team from version 3.0 through 7.0 and is the author of many components of Visual FoxPro including the Class Browser and Component Gallery. While working as a consultant at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ken developed several public domain open source programs including GenScrnX and other developer tools used worldwide for in-house and commercial applications. Ken is a former technical contributing editor and writer to many software magazines, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Michael Levy, G.A Sullivan   Mike is a software consultant with G.A. Sullivan, a Microsoft Gold Partner. Mike specializes in Microsoft SQL Server and related database technologies. He holds multiple Microsoft certifications including Solution Developer (MCSD) and Database Administrator (MCDBA). Mike is a frequent contributor to various technical journals, co-author of Developing Client/Server Applications with Visual FoxPro (Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2000) and has spoken at multiple conferences, seminars, and user-groups.

Andrew MacNeill, AKSEL Solutions   Andrew MacNeill is owner of AKSEL Solutions, specializing in developer and end-user development and training for Visual FoxPro and web-based solutions. He is a technical editor at FoxPro Advisor and has been writing since 1995 for various magazines around the world. He has been a speaker at various conferences and user groups.

Val Matison, Matison Information Architects   Val Matison is an internationally recognized database expert. His work experience includes many unique projects including the design of the computer systems for the Toronto SkyDome and the development of a specialized application for the Euro Tunnel. He currently specializes in OLAP applications using SQL Server. Val Matison was listed in the Who’s Who 2000 edition of Channel Business Magazine as a top channel innovator. He frequently speaks at conferences in North America and Europe on database techniques such as data warehousing and mining, client server application development and large systems architectures. He frequently demonstrates database technologies to the general public on behalf of Microsoft Canada at Comdex, Developer Days, and MSDN technical summits. He is also an accomplished author and his articles have been published in various periodicals and books. Val Matison is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Trainer.

Kevin McNeish, Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc.   Kevin McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc, and a Microsoft C# MVP. He is co-author of the book "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", and author of the book ".NET for Visual FoxPro Developers". He is the creator of the Mere Mortals Framework for .NET and for Visual FoxPro, which won the Universal Thread's User Choice Award for "Best Framework". He is also a well known speaker and trainer throughout North American and Europe. He spends about half his time on the road training and mentoring companies to build well-designed, high-performance .NET desktop, Internet and Smart Device applications

Eric Moreau, Concept S2i Inc.   Eric Moreau is a Senior Consultant for Concept S2i inc., a consulting company in Montreal. He holds Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) certifications. He is mainly programming client/server applications using VB and MS SQL Server (and all the stuff surrounding it) particularly for the banking industry. He works with VB since version 4 and teaches it since version 5. He is a member of the Montreal Visual Studio User Group (www.guvsm.net) where he gives some sessions.

Ted Neward,   Ted Neward is an independent software development architect and mentor in the Sacramento, California area. He is the author of a number of books, including "Server-Based Java Programming" (Manning), the forthcoming "Effective Enterprise Java" (Addison-Wesley) and "SSCLI Essentials" (OReilly) and co-author of "C# In a Nutshell" (OReilly) with Peter Drayton and Ben Albahari. He is also an instructor with DevelopMentor, where he teaches and authors both the Java and .NET curriculum. He speaks frequently for technology user groups (most often for the Sacramento Java User's Group), and writes technical papers for www.javageeks.com and www.clrgeeks.com. He currently labors on behalf of the University of California, Davis, architecting a rebuild of the Davis Accounting and Financial Information Services software system. Past clients include companies like Pacific Bell, EdFund, Synergex and Intuit.

Rod Paddock, Dash Point Software, Inc.   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.

Les Pinter, Pinter Consulting   While working toward a Ph.D. in economics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Les Pinter teamed up with two high-school friends to market the fourth word processing program ever written for microcomputers - the Magic Wand. A year later, Les had sold the Magic Wand to a 23-year-old Bill Gates and began Pinter Consulting. He bought copy number 253 of FoxBASE, and published a newsletter about FoxBASE and FoxPro for over 10 years, including a Russian edition. Les continues to publish articles on FoxPro, SQL, VB.NET and ASP.NET on his website and in Les Pinter's Database Journal, a bimonthly newsletter. Les has been a speaker at numerous FoxPro conferences in the US, Mexico, France, Spain, Russia and Canada. He gives seminars in five languages, most recently at the MCFUG FoxPro Developer's Seminar in Mexico City, where Pinter Consulting de Mexico's corporate office is located. Les lives in San Mateo, California with his wife Ying-Ying Chang. He is a private pilot, and once played lead guitar in the road band for Jerry Lee Lewis.

Cathy Pountney, Optimal Solutions, Inc.   Cathy Pountney is a developer with Optimal Solutions, Inc., where she focuses on the School Finance 2k application, which is written completely in Visual FoxPro and implemented in numerous school systems throughout Michigan. She's also the President of Frontier Software Solutions, Inc., which she founded in 1989, when she first began using Fox products. In her 20 years of developing software, she's written applications for a variety of businesses and different vertical markets. She's even had the privilege of working as a contractor onsite in Redmond with the Microsoft Fox Team on VFP 7.0. In addition to developing software, Cathy has written several articles for FoxTalk and The Information Systems Consultant and currently has a book available from Hentzenwerke Publishing: The Visual FoxPro Report Writer -- Pushing it To the Limit and Beyond. Cathy is active in the Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group and speaks at FoxPro conferences and user groups across the United States.

Roman Rehak, Competitive Computing   Roman Rehak is a senior developer at Competitive Computing in Burlington, VT. He specializes in SQL Server development, database performance tuning and writing DBMS utilities. He regularly contributes SQL Server related articles to Visual Studio Magazine and other technical publications. He is an active member of Professional Association for SQL Server, he was a speaker at the last PASS conference and this year he was selected to be the track leader for the "Database & Application Development" track for the upcoming "2003 PASS Community Summit" conference in Seattle. Roman holds multiple Microsoft certification titles and is currently working on upgrading his certifications to .NET.

Mac Rubel, EPS Software Corp   Malcolm C. Rubel is Director of Sales and Marketing for EPS Software in Houston Texas. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College where he learned BASIC from Professor John Kemeny and has his MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books on the Xbase language including FoxPro 2.0 Power Tools. He is a contributing editor to FoxPro Advisor and, until recently, had a monthly column appearing in at least one publication for eleven years. He is the author of the FoxPro Power Developer's Library, a cross-platform suite of utilities for FoxPro 2.5/2.6 and Visual FoxPro, and Raidar, the Development Debugger for FoxPro 2.5/6 and Visual Raidar for Visual FoxPro. He has also spoken at many national and regional conferences over the years and is a five-time Microsoft MVP. He is currently working hard to become an RMG (Registered Maine Guide.)

Drew Speedie, Vision Data Solutions. Inc.   Drew develops Visual FoxPro applications and provides technical direction on FoxPro projects at Vision Data Solutions, Inc. He is the chief architect of the Visual MaxFrame Professional application framework and is also responsible for creating VDSI's VFP and VMP training classes. For the past several years, Drew has been a contributing editor to FoxPro Advisor Magazine. He has been a judge for the Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards each of the years they have been awarded. Drew is a frequent speaker at various international FoxPro events.

Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies   Rick Strahl is president of West Wind Technologies on Maui, Hawaii. The company specializes in Web and distributed application development and tools with focus on Windows 2000, ISAPI, Visual FoxPro, .NET and Visual Studio. Rick is author of West Wind Web Connection, a powerful and widely used Web application framework for Visual FoxPro and West Wind HTML Help Builder, a documentation tool for developers. He's also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, and a frequent contributor to magazines and books. He is co-publisher and co-editor of Code magazine, and his book, "Internet Applications with Visual FoxPro 6.0", is published by Hentzenwerke Publishing.

Chuck Urwiler, EPS Software Corporation   Chuck Urwiler is a Senior Developer and Consultant with EPS Software Corporation , where he develops applications using Visual FoxPro, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, and SQL Server. Over the past several years, Chuck has provided training for thousands of developers as well as designing and implementing mission-critical applications using Microsoft tools and technology. He continues to share his knowledge with the developer community through presentations at user groups, Microsoft seminars, and Developer Conferences for VFP, SQL Server and .NET. Chuck is a co-author of Building Client/Server Applications with VFP and SQL Server by Hentzenwerke Publishing and has served as a technical editor on several other books regarding SQL Server, MSDE and e-Commerce. Chuck is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and a Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA).

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