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 on Web applications with Microsoft technologies like IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server and other Microsoft tools. He worked on one of the largest and successful e-commerce site in Canada: www.archambault.ca. He's been a speaker at developers' conferences like Microsoft DevDays and DevTeach. Speaking of DevTeach, Guy was the tech chair for the French track in 2004 and 2005. Guy has the following Microsoft certifications: Site Builder and Solution Developer. Guy is also president of the Montreal Visual Studio User Group (www.guvsm.net) and on the INETA (International .NET Association) Relation committee. Guy writes a monthly .NET book review column for the UniversalThread Magazine and he is the Visual Studio Talk Show Internet radio show co-host (www.visualstudiotalkshow.com). Blog: guy.dotnet-expertise.com
Craig Berntson, 3M Health Information Systems
Craig has been developing custom and packaged software since 1984 and has worked with every version of Fox, beginning with FoxBase. Currently he uses Visual FoxPro 8 and 9, Microsoft SQL Server, and C++ to develop medical coding and database software for 3M Health Information Systems in Salt Lake City. He has authored articles for FoxTalk and the VFUG Newsletter and wrote the book CrysDev: A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports, available from Hentzenwerke Publishing. Craig has spoken at Advisor DevCon, Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, Southwest Fox, Essential Fox, FoxCon, several Microsoft events, and user groups around the country. He is the President of the Salt Lake City Fox User group, where he is also a frequent speaker, a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, and has been a Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP since 1997.
Mario Cardinal, Mario Cardinal Consulting
Mario is an independent senior consultant specialized in enterprise application architecture. He spends most of his time training and mentoring companies to build well-designed enterprise .NET applications. He is a Microsoft MVP (Solutions Architect) as well as a member of the MSDN Canada Speaker’s Bureau and he lead the architecture interest group at the Montreal Visual Studio User Group (www.guvsm.net). Furthermore, for the French spoken developers in Canada, he hosts a monthly audio Internet show about software development with Microsoft .Net (www.BlaBladotNet.com). Mario holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management degrees from the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. He also holds the titles of Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD.Net) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).
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 seven 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. He’s impressed by all the new features that have been added to Longhorn, the future of Windows.
Peter DeBetta, Wintellect
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.
Jim Duffy, TakeNote Technologies
Jim Duffy is a Microsoft MVP, DotNetNuke Evangelist, and the president of
TakeNote Technologies. TakeNote, a Developer's Choice Award winner for
hands-on training, specializes in training and helping clients create
business solutions with Microsoft enterprise technologies. Jim is a popular
speaker due to his knowledge, humor, and quick-witted approach. He is an
exceptional trainer, skilled developer, and has been published in a number
of leading publications including CoDe Magazine (www.code-magazine.com).
Jim's background also includes a Bachelors degree in Computer and
Information Systems and over 20 years of programming and training
experience. Jim is also co-host of Computers 2K4, a weekly call in radio show (AM 850 The Buzz) in Raleigh, NC.
Sylvain Duford, Avanade Canada
Sylvain Duford is a Senior Architect at Avanade Canada Inc. where he leads the Enterprise Integration Practice. He has been working in the information systems industry for 14 years and specializes in the design and implementation of Enterprise Application Integration solutions and Trading Partner Integration (B2B) solutions using Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Sharepoint Portal Server, and Commerce Server. Sylvain is an experienced public speaker a Microsoft MVP, and an MSDN Regional Director.
Randy Dyess, Solid Quality Learning
Randy has a large variety of experiences dealing with SQL Server over the past 8 years and has worked with environments with Terabytes of data and environments that had over a 1000 databases with only a few megabytes of data in each database. Randy is currently a lead consultant at Scalability Experts and spends his time solving both security and optimization issues.
Randy is the author of TransactSQL Language Reference Guide and numerous magazine and newsletter articles pertaining to SQL Server security and optimization issues. Randy is also the founder and principle author of the popular database security web site: www.Database-Security.Info and the popular SQL Server optimization web site: www.TransactSQL.Com.
Randy volunteers on the PASS national newsletter committee and the North Texas SQL Server Users Group local SQL Server group.
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.
Carl Franklins, 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.
Sam Gentile, Adesso Systems
Sam Gentile is a Microsoft MVP (C#/.NET) and internationally known and respected speaker, writer and Chief .NET Architect with Adesso Systems, Inc. (www.adessosystems.com).He is also an INETA Speaker having delivered .NET training to user groups and companies all over the US and Canada. Sam is also a prolific .NET Blogger with his .NET Blog being viewed "as the pulse of the .NET community". His CLR blog is one of only three outside Microsoft listed on MSDN's CLR Blogger list. He has been working with .NET since the earliest pre-Beta 1 period. During his first five years with .NET, he has managed to ship six .NET based products, one of which, the Groove Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET, won a JOLT award. As a .NET Consultant, Sam has worked with Microsoft, Pacific MindWorks, and Groove to solve difficult .NET problems and help deliver products.
He is the co-author of Wrox's Visual C++ .NET: A Primer, as well as articles published by MSDN (with Chris Sells), O'Reilly, and .NET Developers Journal. Sam has been a software engineer since 1985, after graduating with a BSEE in Computer Engineering.
Cathi Gero, Prenia Software and Consulting Services
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.
Barry Gervin, Objectsharp Consulting
Barry Gervin is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting. Barry, a technical leader with over 15 years experience, has helped many development teams architect and build large-scale mission critical applications.
Barry is skilled in the Architecture and Development of Distributed Applications and Databases. Some of his notable recent work is aimed at establishing best practices for .NET development. He has been deeply involved with Microsoft's .NET platform and is a convert from the PowerBuilder development community.
In addition to consulting, Barry has been a Software Development Instructor for over 10 years and currently holds a MS Certified Trainer designation in addition to .NET MS Certified Solution Developer and MS Solution Framework Practitioner designations.
Kevin Goff, Common Ground Solutions
Kevin S. Goff is the founder and principal consultant of Common Ground Solutions, a consulting group that provides custom web and desktop software solutions in .NET, VFP, SQL Server, and Crystal Reports. He is a Microsoft C# MVP for 2005, and has been designing and developing software applications for eighteen years. Kevin is also the author of the "Baker's Dozen Productivity Tips" series in CoDe Magazine. He has received several awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for systems automation. He has also received special citations in the private sector for solutions that yielded large returns on investment. He has worked in such industries as insurance, accounting, public health, real estate, publishing, advertising, manufacturing, finance, and consumer packaged goods. In addition, Kevin provides many forms of custom training. Contact Kevin at kgoff@commongroundsolutions.net
Tamar Granor, Tomorrow's Solutions
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting. Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000. She is currently the magazine's Technical Editor and co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column.
Tamar is author or co-author of eight books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are What’s New in 9: Visual FoxPro’s Latest Hits and OOoSwitch: 501 Things You Wanted to Know about Switching to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com).
Tamar is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe, including every FoxPro DevCon since 1993. She is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She served as Technical Content Manager for the 1997-1999 Visual FoxPro DevCons and was part of the coordination team for the Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards.
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.
Kirk Haselden, Microsoft
Kirk Haselden is the development manager on the integration services team. Kirk has been developing shrink wrapped and custom software for 15 years. He's used various technologies including C++, C#, and ASP.Net. He's been at Microsoft for 8 years in various capacities including eHome and the hardware group. He's written several articles for SQL Server Magazine in an ongoing series and is currently writing white papers and a book on Integration Services with Sam's Press. He has previously spoken at PASS and at Microsoft events. You can find his blog on SQLJunkies under the name Knight_Reign.
Rick Heiges, Scalability Experts
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 Serverf 2005 Road Show in Lisbon. Rick is also on the Board of Directors of PASS which is focused on user to user education.
Robert Hurlbut, Hurlbut Consulting
Robert Hurlbut is an independent software architect/developer and consultant and owner of Hurlbut Consulting, Inc. Robert is also a recent Microsoft MVP for Visual C#. Robert specializes in application security, distributed architectures, and database architecture and development. Robert is the leader of the Boston Code Brew Group, an extension of the existing Boston INETA Groups. He also speaks at industry conferences, including WIN-DEV, Code Camp, and Heartland Developers Conference and has a .NET blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut
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.
Dan Jurden, EPS Software
Dan Jurden is a Senior Application Developer for EPS-Software Corp located in Houston, Texas. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional. He co-authored the book Creating Visual FoxPro Applications using Visual FoxExpress with BOb Archer, published by Hentzenwerke Publishing. Dan also was the Technical Editor for CrysDev: A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports also published by Hentzenwerke Publishing. He has also written articles published in CoDe Magazine and Universal Thread Magazine dealing with SQL Server and other topics. Dan has presented topics at the German DevCon 2002, Essential Fox, SQL Server Live!, and GLGDW conferences. He has been developing Client-Server applications using SQL Server and Crystal Reports for over 7 years.
John Kane, JTK Consultants, LLC
John Kane has 24 years experience in the IT industry working for Fortune 500 corporations and small startup companies before joining Microsoft in 1995. John was instrumental in getting the Microsoft SQL Server fulltext newsgroup started and is an active poster there. While working at Microsoft, John developed and delivered a public WebCast "SQL Server 7.0 Full-Text Search and Basic Troubleshooting Methods" (http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/webcasts/wc110299/wcblurb110299.asp) as well as delivered several internal and external presentations on SQL FTS. Since leaving Microsoft, John has extensively researched IR and NLP techniques and software to enhance and extend SQL Server Full-Text Search for a book to be published in 2005. He maintains a SQL Full Text Search Blog at http://spaces.msn.com/members/jtkane.
Don Kiely, Information Insights
Don Kiely, MVP, MCSD, MSDE, is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing desktop and Web applications that integrate databases, Microsoft Office, and related technologies, using tools including SQL Server, Visual Basic, ASP.NET and XML. Don has authored and co-authored several programming books, including Visual Basic Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To and Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows Registry. He writes regularly for many industry journals, including InformationWeek, IEEE Computer magazine, Visual Studio .NET (VBPJ), and many other magazines. Don trains developers and speaks regularly at industry conferences, including TechEd, VSLive!, DevConnections, and others. 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 establishment ways. In his spare time he roams the Alaska wilderness by foot, dog sled, skis, and kayak, with his dogs Mardy and Izzi.
Kevin Kline, Quest Software
Kevin Kline is the Director of Technology for the SQL Server Solutions group at Quest Software, a leading provider of database management and application monitoring tools. Kevin is also the President of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS - www.sqlpass.org) and frequently contributes to database technology magazines, web sites, and discussion forums. Kevin is author of "SQL in a Nutshell" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlnut/) and "Transact-SQL Programming" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wintrnssql/) by O'Reilly & Associates . When he’s not working, Kevin likes to romance his wife, play to his four kids, write, and garden.
Duane Laflotte, CriticalSites
Duane Laflotte, is the Security Practice Manager for CriticalSites and is also the senior hacker on the audit team. With his expertise in both application development and enterprise networking he is able to architect complete solutions for CriticalSites clients a well as find the weaknesses in existing solutions. Duane's unique "value add" is his vision into the mind of the hacker. Under his leadership the Security Practice is often hired to test Fortune 100 network security by way of the CriticalSites Security Audit. To date, the Security Practice has been 100% successful in his white hat hacking efforts. Duane's technical accomplishments include: numerous XML Web Service development projects, BizTalk integrations, the development of an LDAP Server, multiple enterprise Active Directory deployments, and lead architect for the first Windows Logo Certified .Net application in the world. Duane often speaks at technical conferences and events including: TechEd US, Mobility Days, DevDays, Code Camp and many more.
Nickolas Landry, Infusion Development Corp.
Nickolas Landry is a senior .NET architect and trainer in New York for Infusion Development Corp., a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large financial firms in the New York and Toronto areas (www.infusiondev.com). Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, a member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau, a Microsoft MVP on the .NET Compact Framework, a Founding Member of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects (www.wwisa.org), and a former Microsoft Regional Director in Montreal. His primary goal is to help businesses connect their information, systems, and people together in a seamless integration to achieve complete enterprise agility. Aside from his work in designing business solution architectures using .NET technologies, Nick provides mentoring services in architecture, design and .NET development, authors and teaches .NET classes, performs system audits, and profiles technologies for various enterprise scenarios. With over 13 years of professional experience – starting with Visual Basic 1.0 – and a career almost entirely dedicated to Microsoft technologies, Nick specializes in .NET mobility, OOP & SOA, architecture and design patterns, and Web services. He wrote “Mobile CoDe.NET” articles for CoDe Magazine, has been a technical editor for many books titles, and holds several professional certifications.
Claudio Lassala, Eps Software Corporation
Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. and a part time Universal Thread Consultant. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events as well as several conferences and user groups in Brazil and North America. He is a Microsoft MVP, MCAD, and also a columnist at MSDN Brazil. He is also the author of several training videos for VFP that can be found in the Universal Thread, and have several articles published in various magazines.
Daniel LeClair, GSF Development Consortium
Daniel LeClair is a Senior Developer for GSF Development Consortium. 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
Rock Legendre, president of WX3data an consultation firm 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#).
Julia Lerman, The Data Farm
Julia Lerman is an independent consultant who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. She lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group. Julia is well known in the .NET community as an INETA Board member, .NET MVP, ASPInsider, author, conference speaker, and prolific blogger. You can read Julia's blog at thedatafarm.com/blog.
Adam Machanic , Data Manipulation Group
Adam Machanic is an independent database-focused software consultant, writer, and speaker based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has implemented SQL Server for a variety of high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and also specializes in .NET data access layer performance optimization. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Beth Massi, GiftRAP Corporation
Beth Massi is a senior Microsoft .NET software architect for a health care software product company called GiftRAP Corporation. She is currently working on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro 8. In the past she has worked for the Visual FoxPro team at Microsoft and has been a consultant for Flash Creative Management. She has helped build back office infrastructures and front-end web sites using Visual FoxPro, SQL-Server, Visual Basic and other Microsoft web technologies. She is well-versed in distributed application development, and has given presentations and written articles on distributed application architectures. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, and Web-based applications using Microsoft development tools.
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
Rushabh Mehta, Solid Quality Learning
Rushabh is a business intelligence consultant for Solid Quality Learning and the principal ETL architect for Raymond James Financials. In the past 4 years, Rushabh has been instrumental in the design and development of major data warehouse initiatives for clients in retail and finance. He has architected and developed BI and ETL processes for systems ranging from a What-if analysis system that determine pricing strategies for a retail client; to a multi-terabyte financial decision support system. As the principle ETL architect, Rushabh is currently helping Raymond James Financials shape and achieve their enterprise BI strategy.
Rushabh is also currently serving on the board of directors at PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) and he regularly speaks at conferences on SQL Server and Business Intelligence. He has also authored courseware for SQL Server Integration Services which is delivered through Solid Quality Learning.
Eric Moreau, Concept S2i Inc.
Eric is a Senior Consultant for Concept S2i inc., a consulting company of Montreal. He holds the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certification and is also a Visual Develop - Visual Basic MVP. He is mainly programming client/server applications using VB/VB.Net and MS SQL Server (and all the stuff surrounding it) particularly in the financial 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. He was also a speaker at the DevTeach 2003 & 2004 Conferences. Finally, he authors a monthly column in UTMag (www.utmag.com).
Ed Musters, Oasis Computing Inc.
"Where more than 2 developers are gathered in .NET's name, Ed will be there." Ed Musters is Chief Technology Officer for Association Server (http://www.AssociationServer.com). Ed is President of the Toronto .NET User Group (http://www.TorontoUG.net) - one of the largest in North America boasting over 2500 members and regular meeting attendance of over 150 developers. Ed has extensive experience using the Microsoft Solutions Framework to empower development teams: Industry-leading processes, principles, and best practices for successfully delivering information technology solutions faster, with fewer people, less risk, while enabling higher quality results. Ed's authoring credits include Wrox Professional .NET Framework and articles for Pinnacle .NET Developer. Speaking credits include DevTeach, Microsoft Tech Ed, The .NET Show on YTV Television, Developer Days, local MSDN events, and North America wide MSDN Web Casts. Ed has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for .NET/C# two years in a row.
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.
Brian Noyes, IDesign Inc.
Brian Noyes is a Microsoft MVP and internationally known and respected speaker, trainer, writer and consultant with IDesign, Inc. (www.idesign.net). He speaks at TechEd US and Malaysia, Visual Studio Connections, VSLive!, DevEssentials, and other conferences, and is one of the top rated speakers on the INETA Speakers Bureau. He has published numerous articles on .NET development for MSDN Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, asp.netPRO, .NET Developer's Journal, and other publications. His latest book, Building Windows Forms Data Applications with .NET 2.0, part of the Addison-Wesley .NET Development Series, will hit the shelves in the spring of 2005. Brian got started programming to stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the Navy, applying his skills and interest to programming aircraft and avionics simulations, prototypes, and support applications while stimulating his adrenal glands attending Top Gun and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School.
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.
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.
Carol Roy, Microsoft
Carol Roy is working for Microsoft Canada since three years. His actual role is .NET Architect Specialist for the public sector. In this role, Mister Roy is working with architects to show them how they can leverage Smart Client application, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture with .NET. Before Microsoft, Mister Roy spent eleven (11) years in IT consulting in developing and architecting solutions on n-tier client/server, graphical user interface, object-oriented and transactional web site. Mister Roy gained this experience with large organization like Air Canada, Hydro-Québec, Desjardins and Quebec’s government.
Martín Salías, Universal Thread
Martín Salías (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is Research & Development Director at Merino Aller, a software company producing ERP and MRP applications for the Latin-American and Spanish markets. He has twenty years as a developer and has used all versions of FoxPro since FoxBase+, and several other languages from Assembler and C to C# and VB.Net. He is also the Editor in Chief for Universal Thread Magazine.
Christoph Schittko, Momentum Software
Christoph works as Principal Architect for Momentum Software, an IT and ISV consultancy firm specializing in Service Oriented Architectures. He has over 10 years experience developing and architecting software solutions in a wide variety of industries. He serves on the board of directors of the Austin .NET User group and writes and speaks on everything Web services and XML at industry conferences and User Groups. He has been a Microsoft XML MVP since 2003 and contributes to community projects such as Web Services Contract First(wscf) and the Mvp.Xml project. Christoph holds an advanced degree in Electrical Engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.
Joel Semeniuk, ImagiNET Resources Corp.
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.
Dominic Sevigny, NetAppsID
Dominic Sévigny est diplômé en électronique et en informatique et détient les certifications MCSD, MCAD et MCT. Il est architecte principal de solutions .NET chez NetAppsID, une entreprise offrant des solutions Web d’échange et de partage des connaissances. Il travaille depuis maintenant quatre ans avec la technologie .NET et est intervenu comme conférencier lors de plusieurs événements dont la conférence internationale pour les développeurs DevTeach à Montréal ainsi qu’au groupe d’usagers Visual Studio de Montréal.
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.
David Stevenson, FoxTalk 2.0
David Stevenson is a long-time software developer, consultant and speaker, who is well known in Visual FoxPro circles and online support groups. He has helped numerous businesses and other developers as a consultant with a specialty in rearchitecting and repurposing legacy applications and converting them to web interfaces. In addition, he is the Editor of FoxTalk 2.0 (www.foxtalknewsletter.com) and former Editor-In-Chief and Associate Publisher of CoDe Magazine.
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.
Steve Swartz, Microsoft
Architect – XML Web Services Group Steve Swartz is one of the two Box Architects for “Indigo”, Microsoft’s next generation web service offering. He has worked on distributed systems development technologies since coming to Microsoft in 1997: MTS, COM+, Enterprise Services, and now Indigo. Prior to joining Microsoft, Steve worked for a country rock bar, a defense contractor, a supercomputer company, a university research group, and a failed internet startup. Steve studied economics, mathematics, and football at Ohio State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Etienne Tremblay, EDS
Etienne Tremblay is a senior application developer/architect with 13 years of experience in enterprise application development. His primary focus has been the manufacturing and mining industries, he as developed quality systems, claim management systems, mine monitoring systems and route management systems using n-tier application model in C/C++, VB6/DCOM and in the last 5 years exclusively with the Microsoft .NET technologies both with VB.NET and C#. He recently joined the Next Generation Technology and Architecture group and is responsible for evaluation development tools for use within EDS specifically the upcoming Visual Studio Team System 2005
William R. Vaughn, Beta V Corporation
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.
Bernard Wong, Microsoft
Bernard is currently Microsoft's developer community champion for the Southern California and Southwest districts where he can often be found presenting developer seminars (www.msdnevents.com) on the various .NET technologies. He has created and delivered presentations and demonstrations at numerous developer conferences, executive keynotes, trade shows, user groups, product briefings and other events across North America, Europe and Asia during his lengthy career with the company. He is currently the chairperson who organizes the Fundamentals track of the Developer Connections conferences (www.devconnections.com). Prior to joining Microsoft, Bernard worked as a consulting engineer, programmer and general music industry lackey, a role which he hopes to return to some day. In his spare time, he can be found programming a wide array of synthesizers and other electronic music instruments (both virtual and classic).
