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
Christian Beauclair, Microsoft
Senior Developer Evangelist
Christian's passion for software development and its different facets is what drives him. Christian loves interacting with developers and helping them grow their skillset.
François Beauregard, Pyxis Technologies
Mr. Beauregard is president as well as senior consultant at Pyxis Technologies. He acts as coach, facilitator and consultant for organizations wishing to enhance the productivity of their software development teams and wishing to adopt an Agile approach. He is Certified Scrum Trainer since 2005. Mr. Beauregard founded the Montréal Agile Group, an interest group on Agile software development methodologies; he regularly gives presentations during the Group's monthly meeting.
Scott Bellware, Bellware.NET
Scott Bellware is a .NET software professional living and working in Central Texas. He works primarily with C# focusing on object-oriented business applications, object-relational mapping and persistence, Test-Driven Development, and agile methodologies. He has been awarded MVP for C# in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Scott is the founder and leader of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners in Austin. He founded the Austin .NET User Group in 2001, and served as chairman of the International .NET Association's Speaker Committee between 2003 and 2005. Scott teaches Test-Driven Development to .NET developers through a series of workshops presented in conjunction with .NET User Groups in the US and Canada.
Jean-Paul Boodhoo, jpboodhoo.com consulting inc.
Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo is a .NET delivery expert who has been working with the .NET Framework since beta 1 of .NET 1.0. He spends his days working as an independent consultant; helping teams realize success through agile practices and pragmatic Behavior Driven Development techniques. He has a passion for sharing information on applied behaviour driven development with .NET, and has written articles for Visual Studio magazine, DevX, and MSDN that utilize BDD to pragmatically apply .NET. As well as presenting on popular podcast/screencast DotNetRocks and DNRTV Jean-Paul has had the opportunity to deliver webcasts for Microsoft on the topic of design patterns in the real world.
He enjoys getting active in local user groups presenting ways that developers can harness the power of .NET to realize flexible, maintainable applications. He has a passion for empowering developers to break the stereotypical developer mold and take the effort to break into the developer community to make their own mark. His efforts in the community have earned him a Microsoft MVP award. Jean-Paul can be reached at jp@jpboodhoo.com and makes continual efforts to update his blog at http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog.
When not developing Jean-Paul can be found relaxing with his amazing wife and their four beautiful kids.
John Bristowe, Microsoft Canada
John Bristowe is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Canada based in Calgary, Alberta. John is an experienced speaker and frequently presents Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) events across Canada. Prior to joining Microsoft, John was a member of the Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) programs.
Nicole Calinoiu, FinRad Inc.
Nicole Calinoiu works as a senior architect/developer at FinRad Inc., a Montreal-based ISV providing financial software solutions for investors and corporations. She has over twelve years experience in the design and development of data-driven applications, including over six years working on publicly available web applications. She is a Microsoft developer security MVP.
Mario Cardinal, .Net Expertise
Mario is an independent senior consultant specialized with agile processes and enterprise software architecture. Presently, he is software architect for the largest institutional fund manager in Canada and one of Québec's leading financial institutions. He possesses over fifteen years of experience in designing large-scale information systems. For the third year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the competency of Solutions Architect. He leads the architecture interest group at the Montreal Visual Studio User Group and the Montreal’s chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). He is also the architecture track tech chair for DevTeach Conference. Furthermore, he hosts an audio Internet talk show about software development with Microsoft .NET (Visual Studio Talk Show). 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) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD.Net).
Miguel Castro, SteelBlue Solutions
Miguel Castro is a principal consultant and trainer with SteelBlue Solutions and specializes in building and teaching how to build, .NET solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, Conference Speaker, contributor to CoDe Magazine and DevSource.com, as well as an active blogger, and has been a software developer for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact). Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups and code camps around the country. He has also been featured on the Internet Radio Talk Show, .NET Rocks, .NET Rocks-TV, Microsoft’s ARCast (Architecture Podcast), and The Polymorphic Podcast. His blog and other things of potential interest can be found at http://www.dotnetdude.com. He currently resides in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria.
Pablo Castro, Microsoft Corporation
Pablo is ADO.NET Technical Lead at Microsoft.
He works in the SQL Server product group at Microsoft, designing the future versions of the programming models for working with data. He has been involved in several releases of large scale projects as Microsoft such as SQL Server 2005 and the .NET Framework. Before joining Microsoft Pablo spent some time running a start-up focused on advanced application frameworks development, and before that he split his time between building collaborative applications and creating infrastructure for inference system creation and distributed execution used in risk analysis applications.
Eric Coté, DotNet-Expertise
Eric Côté is a professional consultant and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. A DevTeach old hand, he’s been speaking since the inception of the event. He loves new technologies, playing regularly with the latest Windows Vista and building solutions using VS 2005 and SQL 2005. He lectures about the technology during his classes and his User Group engagements. He's worked as an “MCT ambassador” during the last few TechEd, the annual Microsoft event. He also played a panelist for the “ask the experts” booth during Montreal’s VS2005 launch event. You can catch up with him on his blog (http://eric.dotNet-Expertise.com) and listen to him on the bimonthly podcast called “Visual Studio Talk Show” (in French: www.visualstudiotalkshow.com).
Udi Dahan, The Software Simplist
Udi Dahan is a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP, a recognized .NET development expert, and the Chief Architect of KorenTec. Udi is known as a primary authority on Service Oriented Architecture in Israel and consults on the architecture and design of large-scale, mission-critical systems developed all over the country. His experience spans technologies related to command and control systems, real-time applications, and high-availability Internet services.
Rob Daigneau, Monster.com
Rob Daigneau has over eighteen years experience designing and implementing enterprise-class systems for a broad array of industries from manufacturing, to financial services, to retail and wholesale. Rob is a frequent speaker at conferences such as VS Live!, DevTeach, and Dr Dobbs Architecture & Design World. He is currently the Director of Application Architecture for Monster.com, one of the most visited web sites in the world. Rob also writes occasionally for magazines such as the .Net Developer’s Journal, and is the host of www.DesignPatternsFor.Net
Jean-Luc David, Microsoft
Jean-Luc has been developing C++ and .NET software for over 15 years, and is very passionate connecting with the Canadian developer community.
Jim Duffy, TakeNote Technologies
Jim Duffy is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, and the president of TakeNote Technologies (www.takenote.com). TakeNote, a Developer's Choice Award winner for hands-on training, specializes in .NET developer training and helping clients create business solutions with Microsoft enterprise technologies.
Jim is a popular conference 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 2K7, a weekly call in radio show (AM 850 The Buzz) in Raleigh, NC.
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.
Oren Eini
Oren Eini is a senior developer in We!, a consulting group based in Israel, focusing on architecture, data access and best practices.
Most often, he is working on building complex business systems using .Net 2.0, NHibernate and Castle's Frameworks, providing training and guidance for the use of Object Relational Mapping, Inversion of Control, Domain Driven Design and other exciting topics.
Oren is an active member in several leading Open Source projects, including (but not limited :-) ) NHibernate, Castle and Rhino Mocks. He had publish an article on MSDN about advance usages of Inversion of Control Containers and done a DNR TV Episode about NHibernate.
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.
Wendy Friedlander, Oxygen Media
Wendy Friedlander is a software developer for Oxygen Media and owner of Agile Solutions, LLC. Oxygen Media runs a small agile software development shop that follows XP and SCRUM practices. Primarily a C# developer, she has a strong background in C++ and loves object oriented design, distributed architecture and test driven development. In her free time she relaxes with her husband and dog, works out and plays video games.
Marc Gagnon, MGA Concept
Marc Gagnon, titulaire d'un baccalauréat en génie mécanique de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, est président fondateur d'une société conseils spécialisée en ingénierie de systèmes. Grâce à sa grande expertise, il figure parmi les pionniers du développement technologique de solutions d'affaires. Depuis plusieurs années, il agit à titre de conférencier pour diverses associations technologiques. Il a été chroniqueur en technologies pour des émissions de télévision spécialisées des chaînes Radio Canada en 2000 et Canal Z en 1998. Il a aussi participé aux chroniques technologiques des quotidiens Le Monde et La Presse.
Luc Gauthier, CGI
Luc Gauthier is the Microsoft Regional Director for Quebec City and is a Principal Consultant with CGI.
Luc has been working with Information Technology (IT) since 1992. Through his career, Luc acquired extensive experience in developing object-oriented applications, client/server applications and transactional web site.
At CGI, Luc is working in the .NET group since August 2001. This group, specialized in .NET development, has developed the CGI .NET Toolkit and support other .NET projects (.NET Frameworks, Web Services, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc.) at CGI in Quebec City, but also remotely for other CGI's office like Boston, Montreal, Toronto, etc.
Luc has a strong passion for .NET technology since the beginning in 2001.
Luc devotes his time to the Quebec City .NET User Group and members of the .NET community at-large through delivery of .NET-related presentations at his User Group and at different Microsoft events (DeepDive, DevDays, ...).
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
Bill Graziano, ClearData Consulting, Inc. / SQLTeam.com
PASS Director of Program Development
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.
Derek Hatchard, Ardent Development
Derek Hatchard is the lead software architect at Ardent Development (a .NET mentoring and consulting company) and the architect / founder of the hosted church software solution ChurchRadius.com. Derek is a Microsoft Regional Director, author, speaker, and blogger. You can reach him by email at derek@ardentdev.com or via his blogs at www.ardentdev.com/blog/ and www.2signals.com.
Nickolas Landry, Infusion Development
Nickolas Landry is a principal architect and trainer in New York for Infusion Development, 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.infusion.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 Device Application Development, and a former Microsoft Regional Director in Montreal. He is the Vice-President of IASA New York (www.iasahome.org), and is a Founding Member of WWISA (www.wwisa.org). 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 15 years of professional experience – starting with Visual Basic 1.0 – and a career almost entirely dedicated to Microsoft technologies, Nick specializes in .NET mobility, SOA, architecture & design patterns, High-Performance Compututing (HPC), Game Development with XNA, and application security. He wrote multiple articles for CoDe Magazine and several .NET mobility courses for Microsoft, has been a technical editor for many books, and holds several professional certifications from Microsoft and IBM. Contact and Blog: http://home.infusionblogs.com/nlandry.
James Lapalme, Cgi
James Lapalme travaille présentement chez CGI à titre d’architecte de solutions (technologies Microsoft), de systèmes et d’entreprise. Il est aussi responsable du leadership technologique pour VSTS, SOA et Biztalk pour la pratique Microsoft .Net CGI Montréal. De plus, il est un candidat au PhD en informatique à l’Université de Montréal. James Lapalme possède une expertise reconnue dans les domaines de la modélisation et de la conception des systèmes. Il possède une connaissance large et approfondie des technologies OO et du génie logiciel. Il compte à son actif plusieurs publications dans des conférences internationales IEEE/ACM. Il a été invité à présenter sa recherche lors de conférences internationales, notamment le Lang.Net 2006 Symposium chez Microsoft Corporate, Redmond.
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.
Julia Lerman, The Data Farm
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
James Luetkehoelter
James has been working in the database arena for well over a decade. He is currently the President and CEO of Spyglass LLC, a data-centric consultancy providing services from application design to back-end DBA services. James himself focus almost exclusively on SQL Server, although any database platform is of interest to him.
In his spare time, James catalogs the various phonetical pronunciations of "Luetkehoelter". The current total is 1,936 distinct variations.
Tim Mallalieu, Microsoft
Tim Mallalieu is a Program Manager on the ADO.NET team in Microsoft. Before working in Microsoft, Tim worked as Principal Architect for Encore Development preceded by roles as architect or development manager in startups focused on frameworks for the Enterprise, E-commerce and Online Gaming spaces. Tim's focus over the last few years has primarily been on Application Frameworks, Enterprise Architecture and Model Driven Development.
Beth Massi, Microsoft Corporation
Beth Massi is a Program Manager on the VS Core Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content for MSDN. As a member of the Microsoft community she helps run a .NET user group in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft she was a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company and was a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, mountain biking, and modifying cars.
Kevin McNeish, Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc.
Kevin McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc, and a Microsoft .NET MVP. He is a speaker with MSDN Canada Speaker’s Bureau and is also a well known speaker and trainer throughout North America and Europe including VSLive!, DevTeach (where he serves as one of the .NET chairs), SDC Netherlands, and Advisor DevCon. He is co-author of the book "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", author of the book ".NET for Visual FoxPro Developers", has authored several articles for CoDe magazine and has been interviewed on the .NET Rocks! Internet Radio Show. He is the Chief Software Architect of the MM .NET Framework and spends about half his time on the road training and mentoring companies to build well-designed, high-performance .NET applications. He has also helped many developers transition to the .NET development platform in his highly acclaimed .NET training classes and highly acclaimed Kevin McNeish’s Guide to .NET video series.
Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy is a Senior Consultant and Agile Mentor in the New York City area with Finetix., the leading Financial Services IT consulting firm specializing in delivering custom solutions to clients trading in Capital Markets. He is helping clients to implement agile practices like Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration with .Net technologies. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net)
tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller
(http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy was recognized this year with an MVP award for C#.
Eric Moreau, Moer inc.
Eric Moreau is an independent software contractor. He holds the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certification and is also a Visual Developer - 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 conferences since the first edition in 2003. Finally, he authors a monthly column in the Level Extreme .Net magazine (http://www.levelextreme.net/).
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 chief architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Microsoft MVP – Solution Architect. He is a top rated speaker at many international conferences including DevTeach, TechEd US, Europe and Malaysia, DevConnections, and others, as well as a top rated INETA speaker. His most recent book, Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce hit the shelves in January 2007, and his previous book Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 continues to be a best seller. Brian started programming to further stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the US Navy and is a TopGun and Test Pilot School graduate.
Roy Osherove, Sela Group (www.SelaCanada.ca)
Roy is the Agile Development and Team System Group lead at the Sela Group in Israel, doing training,consulting and mentoring on Agile development and Team System topics.
Roy has spent the past decade developing and architecting software solutions for various companies in Israel and Europe. He's a Microsoft MVP and writes regularly on .NET, Agile Development Techniques and other geeky stuff on his blog and various other places such as MSDN Magazine. Roy is also a regular presenter at Microsoft Conferences such as TechEd Europe and Israel, DevDays and user groups in Israel and Europe. Roy is one of the leading voices for Agile development in Israel and is the Founder of the Agile Israel user's group - Israel’s First and only Agile-Dedicated User’s group.
You can find Roy's blog at www.ISerializable.com
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.
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, runatserver consulting inc.
Dominic is graduated in electronics and computer science and holds MCSD, MCAD and MCT certifications. He is a principal .NET architect at NetAppsID, a company offering an online collaboration Web site WorkspaceMe. Dominic is also an ASP.NET trainer at Technologia. It has worked for now five years with .NET technology and it gave several sessions at DevTeach and at Montreal Visual Studio User Group (http://www.guvsm.net/).
Etienne Tremblay, EDS
Etienne Tremblay is a senior application architect for EDS Canada with 14 years of experience in enterprise application development. His primary focus has been the manufacturing and mining industries, where he has developed systems to monitor quality in car manufacturing, claim management systems, mine monitoring systems and route management systems using n-tier application model in C/C++, VB6/DCOM and in the last 6 years exclusively with the Microsoft .NET technologies both with VB.NET and C#. In late 2005 he was awarded MVP status for his work with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2005 product for which he has done talks, training, and large scale deployment in EDS.
Oksana Udovitska, Oxygen Media
Oksana is a software developer working for Oxygen Media in NYC. Before moving to Oxygen, Oksana spent five years programming in Java and Flash for the financial industry, and was a proud member of a team who created several public-facing applications for the NY Stock Exchange. While Oksana has always enjoyed the challenges of programming, she found that her solitary work in the financial district often seemed dull and unrewarding. At Oxygen, using agile practices and pair programming have helped her reconcile her social nature with the demands of the work, allowing her to become passionate about programming. After moving to Oxygen, Oksana made the transition from Java to C#. She has quickly become recognized as a strong and knowledgeable member of this outstanding team. The key to her lightening-fast transition, Oksana believes, was the Agile methodology employed by the team.
Rob Windsor, Toronto VB User Group
Rob Windsor is a senior consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting in Toronto, Canada. Rob focuses on the architecture, design and development of custom business applications using leading edge Microsoft technologies. In addition Rob is also a top rated instructor for Learning Tree International where he teaches many of the courses in the .NET curriculum. Rob is President of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group (TVBUG) and, as a member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau, is a regular speaker at User Group meetings in the Toronto area and across Canada. Rob has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the developer community.
Damir Bersinic, Microsoft Canada Co.
As an IT Pro Advisor for Microsoft Canada, Damir is passionate about reaching out to and engaging with the IT Pro community across Canada. He focuses on working with a broad range of audiences within the IT Pro community to foster relationships and convey Microsoft technologies and solutions. He is proud to be able to leverage his real life hands-on experience to relate to the challenges faced by the IT Pro community today.
Damir is an integral part of the Microsoft team that drives awareness, education and training through events and directly engaging with Canada's professional communities, including IT managers, infrastructure specialists and architects as well as systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and community leaders.
Richard Campbell, Campbell Associates
Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company’s unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. Richard is co-host of the “.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers” podcast, host of “RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talks for IT Professionals” podcast, has been co-authoring of the “Advisor Answers” column on SQL Server for more than ten years and author of the courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series.
Rick Claus, Microsoft
Richard Claus is a bilingual IT Pro Advisor working for Microsoft Canada. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Rick will be focused on engaging “the IT Pro community” by establishing relationships and giving support to various IT Pro focused initiatives. He is very excited to have this opportunity to reach out and share his passion for Microsoft technology with the Canadian IT Professional community.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Rick most recently worked as an Enterprise Architect. His previous design experience includes Active Directory implementations and migrations, highly available Exchange messaging solutions, and overall systems management using SMS 2003. Besides design and consulting work, Rick brings over 16 years of IT experience, ranging from front line “in the trenches” admin duties, to training / mentoring / facilitating individuals and teams on how to use Microsoft technologies more effectively in their organizations.
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.
Tamer Farag, Microsoft
Tamer joined Microsoft Egypt in August 2000 as a SQL Server Technical Specialist. In July 2002, he was promoted to a Senior TS position. Due to his focus on BI, he’s been identified as an expert in the Middle East and was involved in large BI projects in the Middle-East region. Starting from October 2004 Tamer moved to Microsoft Canada. Some of his proudest accomplishments include delivering the general Keynotes for SQL 2000 and Visual Studio 2003 launches in Egypt, general Keynote in the Middle-east Developers’ Conference (MDC 2004), 3 sessions in DevTeach 2006 in Montreal, 2 sessions in Microsoft Convergence 2007 in San Diego as well as more than 50 sessions to developers around SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
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 Server 2005 Road Show in Lisbon. Rick is also on the Board of Directors of PASS which is focused on user to user education.
Scott Howlett, imason inc.
Scott Howlett is a Principal with imason inc. in Toronto, Canada. With lots of in-the-trenches development experience, Scott now focuses the majority of his time in leading development teams through the design and build phases for critical line-of-business applications. He uses an unique blend of proven best-practices and innovative approaches to address complex problems.
Scott brings a wealth of real-life experience to the software development practice in design, architecture and implementation. Recent work in the Financial Services and Banking sectors has demonstrated an aptitude in getting traction on large-scale .Net projects with a serious emphasis on security.
Scott holds an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and is a long-standing Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. Outside of his professional services work, Scott is a Media Center and SmartPhone enthusiast with a real passion for wake boarding and snow boarding.
Robert Hurlbut, Hurlbut Consulting
Robert Hurlbut is an independent software architect/developer and consultant and owner of Hurlbut Consulting, Inc. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Security Development. Robert specializes in application security, distributed architectures, and database architecture and development. He has spoken at industry conferences, including WIN-DEV, New England Code Camp, Heartland Developers Conference, and DevTeach.
Kathi Kellenberger, Bryan Cave Llp
Kathi Kellenberger is a DBA for an international law firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO. She is a frequent contributor to SQLServerCentral.com, SQL Server Standard Magazine, and JumpstartTV.com and is co-author of "Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services" (Wrox Press). She speaks on SQL Server topics for local user groups and spoke at the 2005 and 2006 PASS Summits. Kathi is the manager of the 2007 PASS Program Committee and co-chairman of the St. Louis PASS Chapter.
Don Kiely
Don Kiely, MVP, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing secure desktop and Web applications that integrate databases, Microsoft Office, and related technologies, using tools including SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and XML. Don has authored and co-authored several programming books, many of which you’re likely to see in the bargain bin at your local mega-bookstore. He writes regularly for many industry journals. Don trains developers and speaks regularly at industry conferences, including TechEd, DevTeach, DevConnections, and others. Don is a full member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers, for some strange reason. 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 ways. In his spare time he roams the Alaska wilderness by foot, dog sled, skis, canoe, and kayak.
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 (www.quest.com/sql_server). Kevin has been a SQL Server MVP since 2004. Kevin served as a founding board member of PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server - www.sqlpass.org) and president from 2004-2008. Kevin has written many computer books, including the popular "SQL in a Nutshell" and frequently contributes to database technology magazines like SQL Server Magazine, web sites like SQLBlog.com, and discussion forums. When he’s not working, spends time with his four kids, writes, gardens, and plays Spanish guitar.
Adam Machanic, Data Manipulation Group
Adam Machanic is an independent database software consultant, writer, and speaker based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has implemented SQL Server solutions for a variety of high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and also specializes in .NET data access layer performance optimization. Machanic has written for SQL Server Professional, CoDe, and TechNet magazines, serves as SQL Server 2005 Expert for SearchSQLServer.com, and is co-author of "Pro SQL Server 2005". In addition, he regularly speaks at user groups, community events, and conferences on a variety of SQL Server and .NET-related topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP). Machanic's latest book, "Expert SQL Server 2005," is due out in May 2007.
Brad M. McGehee, Red Gate
Brad M. McGehee, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is the founder of
SQL-Server-Performance.Com, and is its current technical editor. He is also its forum moderator and administrator. He is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, SQL Connections, and SQL Server user groups, and other industry seminars. He is the author or co-author of over 12 technical books. His most recent book (as a co-author) is Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration by Wrox Press. He specializes in SQL Server Administration, Performance Tuning, and High Availability.
Rushabh Mehta, Solid Quality Learning
Rushabh is an Independent Consultant and a Business Intelligence Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors. He has been the lead architect for many large scale and complex Business Intelligence solutions for large enterprise clients such as Publix, Raymond James Financials, Jackson Hewitt, Checkers and most recently on a multi-terabyte Health Services solution for the US Department of Defense. Additionally, he has been a mentor for a large number of client such as Veterans Health Administration, Intuit, Zillow.com, Cymer, Navy Medical Center, Talbots, FM Global and Sunoco. Rushabh is also a BI trainer and has taught BI courses in countries around the world. Through his work experience, Rushabh has been instrumental in creating multiple best-practices in the implementation of the BI technologies.
Rushabh also serves on the Board of The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) as the Director of Technology. In his current position, Rushabh is responsible for the overhaul of their technology infrastructure in order to better serve the SQL Server user community. Rushabh is also a SQL Server MVP and a frequent speaker at large conferences as well as PASS Chapters around the world.
Daniel Nerenberg, Independant Consultant
Daniel Nerenberg is an MCT,MCSE,MCSA,MCTS, and an independant consultant based out of Montreal. He is the President of the Montreal IT pro user group (http://www.mitpro.ca). He is also one of the LazyAdmins. (www.thelazyadmin.com)
Daniel is passionate about technology and the amazing problems that can be solved with its application. Driven by the desire to see cool technology bring people together in global and local communities he is always ready to learn, and share ideas about the next big thing.
Paul Nielsen, www.SQLServerBible.com
Paul Nielsen, SQL Server MVP, is a hands-on database architect and the author of the SQL Server Bible series from Wiley & Son. Paul leads SQL Server Bible Workshops and speaks at several conferences. Paul will be giving the welcome address at the Colorado PASS SQL Server Code Camp next week in Denver, and he serves on the PASS Board of Directors.
Roman Rehak, MyWebGrocer
Roman Rehak, SQL Server MVP, is a Senior Database Architect at MyWebLink.com in Colchester, VT. He specializes in SQL Server development, database performance tuning, ADO.NET and writing database tools . He regularly contributes SQL Server related articles to Visual Studio Magazine, SQL Server Magazine and other technical publications and presents at user groups and conferences in US and Canada. He is an active member of Professional Association for SQL Server, he speaks at the annual PASS conferences and was also selected to be the track leader for the "Database & Application Development" track for the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 PASS conferences. Roman also serves as the Tech Chair for the SQL Server track at the annual DevTeach conferences in Montreal and is the president of the Vermont SQL Server User Group.
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.
Joe Webb, WebbTech Solutions
Joe Webb, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, serves as Chief Operating Manager for WebbTech Solutions, a Nashville-based Microsoft Certified Partner. He has over 12 years of industry experience and has consulted extensively with companies in the areas of software development, database design, network architecture, and technical training.
In addition to helping his consulting clients, Joe enjoys writing and speaking at technical conferences. He has spoken at conferences in Europe and the United States and has authored two books: “The Rational Guide To: SQL Server Notification Services” and “The Rational Guide To: IT Consulting”. Joe also serves on the Board of Directors for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and occasionally instructs as an Adjunct Professor at local colleges and universities.
Joe has earned the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) accreditations as well as other non-Microsoft certifications such as the Linux Professional Institute’s Level I certification (LPIC-I). He may be reached at joew@webbtechsolutions.com.
