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Speakers
DevTeach includes a top selection of speakers having a strong experience in various areas. Most of these speakers are presenting at major conferences around the world on a regular basis and in other areas as well such as user groups, corporate training and class training.
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Visual Studio Talk Show recorded a panel of speakers at DevTeach 2006. The subject of this panel was "Data access". Speakers participating: Ted Neward (host), Kathleen Dollard, Barry Gervin, Rod Paddock, Scott Bellware, Richard Campbell and Alan Griver.
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 | | |     | | Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. Steve is also an MCTS, ICSOO, Speaker Liaison for the Philly .NET User Group, and all around .NET fanatic. |
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 | | | | | Robert Angers is a senior developer and architect based in Montreal Canada. He has been a Microsoft Certified Professional since 2001. He currently is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and is an MCPD Enterprise Developer and some others. Strong with over fifteen years of development experience, has been an advocate for agile development for years. Robert has been specializing in the last year with SharePoint, Workflows. He his passionate about his work and the work of his team and helping other developers to learn and use test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object relational mapping. |
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 | | |   | | 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 helping organizations build better software using Microsoft technologies like Team System and also architecting and developing Web applications. He's been a speaker at developers' conferences like Microsoft DevDays and DevTeach. Speaking of DevTeach, Guy is on the speaker selection comitee. Guy has the following Microsoft certifications: Solution Developer and Technical Specialist Team Foundation Server. Guy is also president of the Montreal Visual Studio User Group, he's organizing the Code Camps in Montreal, he writes a monthly .NET book review column for the Level Extreme Magazine and he his the Visual Studio Talk Show Internet radio show co-host. |
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Donald Belcham is an independent contractor in Edmonton. He has worked with .NET for the last 5 years and currently works with both web and smart client applications. Donald is an avid practitioner of agile development methodologies, pragmatic coding practices and delivering quality and value to the business. A Microsoft MVP in C#, Donald is active in the community as the President of the Edmonton .NET User Group, an organizer of the Edmonton Code Camp and a speaker at User Groups and Code Camps across Canada and in the United States. His thoughts on software development, .NET and C# can be found at www.igloocoder.com
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 | | | | | Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 13 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an ASP.NET MVP, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Twin Cities Code Camp, Tulsa Tech Fest, TechEd, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international VSLive! Events. |
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 | | | | | 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. |
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 | | | | | Dave Campbell is a Software Engineer living in Phoenix, Arizona. Dave has been writing software since 1967, but professionally only since 1981 when he wrote the BIOS for CP/M-86 twice and MS-DOS-86 once. Dave has written just about one of everything possible for a PC and or Windows desktop and finished a 10-year run of win32 and Platform SDK in 2005 by developing a non-rectangular, resizable, full-border CDialog subclass for a client. Moving into the web space, Dave designs and develops large-scale web applications in C# and .NET, but his passion is for what we all now know as Silverlight. As one of the few early-adopters in December of 2006, Dave began blogging and writing articles about Silverlight that has now accumulated over 600 blog posts, 30 articles, 12 tutorials, 9 tooltips, a CoDe Magazine article, co-author of a new Manning Press book on Silverlight 2, owner of the first Silverlight User’s Group, and Microsoft MVP twice. |
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 | | | | | 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). |
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 | | | | | Eric De Carufel is a .NET solution architect for Orckestra in Montreal. He is a specialist in application development with Miscrodoft .NET framwork. He has more than fifteen years of experience in software design in various domain as transportation, food store, insurance, engineering, finance and electronic business. Eric is memeber of Groupe d'usagers Visual Studio .NET de Montreal at which he gave some presentation. Eric is a Microsoft certified developer (Microsoft Certified Application Developer - MCAD)
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 | | | | | Kathleen’s been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she’s had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. She’s worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She’s published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. She’s also a long time Microsoft MVP 1998, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group. |
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 | | | | | Jim Duffy is founder and president of TakeNote Technologies. TakeNote, a Developer's Choice Award winner for hands-on training, specializes in .NET software developer training and helping clients create business solutions with Microsoft enterprise technologies. Jim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP award recipient since 2003, and an INETA speaker. Since starting TakeNote in 1992, he has conducted hundreds of software developer training seminars and is an energetic and entertaining speaker at regional user groups and international developer conferences. Jim's expertise is with VB, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Visual FoxPro-to-.Net conversions. He has a BS degree in Computer and Information Systems and over 25 years of programming and training experience. He is an active blogger and has been published in leading developer-oriented publications including CoDe Magazine. He also served as the technical editor for ASP.NET 2.0: Visual Blueprint for Developing Web Applications. On Sunday mornings you will find him behind the microphone as a co-host of Computers 2K8, a call in radio show on WRBZ (AM 850), 850 The Buzz, in Raleigh, NC.
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 | | | | | Laurent Duveau is the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting. He has more than 12 years experience in web development and is now specialized in Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. He is part of the Montreal .NET Community board and a regular attendee in local activities, also speaking at User Groups, Code Camps and Microsoft events.
Laurent is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2004, he likes to teach on .NET technologies (web dev, SQL Server and languages). He was an instructor at Microsoft TechEd convention in Orlando. He also writes technical articles for www.techheadbrothers.com and www.asp.net and is an active contributor in the asp.net and silverlight.net online forums. Laurent was awarded MVP ASP.NET by Microsoft in 2007 and 2008 and is certified MCSD.NET, MCTS, MCPD, MCITP and MCT. |
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 | | | | | 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. |
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 | | | | | 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.
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 | | | | | Elisa is a Program Manager with the SQL Data Programmability team at Microsoft focused on a number of Data Platform Development technologies including ADO.NET, XML and SQL Native Client products. Prior to joining Data Programmability, Elisa worked as a Technical Presenter Business Development Manager for Microsoft, travelling across North America. Elisa has previously working in both large and small companies, in positions ranging from Sales to Quality Assurance and from Software Development to Program Management. |
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 | | | | | 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. |
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 | | | | | Yair Alan Griver is the Group Program Manager for the billing stream underlying Microsoft’s Online services. Prior to that, he was the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties, responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Coming into Microsoft, 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.
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 | | | | | Tim Huckaby is currently focused on RIA & Smart Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, and Silverlight. He has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press.
Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft Technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launches events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at the events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a ''Rock-Star'' speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks world-wide on their behalf.
Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999 and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards.
But, there's more to life than software. A lot more. my current passions outside of the technology world are fly fishing, snow boarding, mountain biking, 2 man beach volleyball, and sports & the outdoors in general. i have been happily married for almost 20 years to Kelly and i'm immensely proud of my two teenagers, Camille (16) and Mark (13). |
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 | | | | | Joël Hébert [ASP.NET MVP] is the Director and Chief Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc. where he works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture/Development. He has developed large-scale web applications and Computer Aided Audit Tools for CaseWare-IDEA and is currently working on federal government projects. Joel is a long standing member of the Ottawa .Net Community’s steering committee and has been involved in many of its projects including; the “The Developers” TV show, Inter-User Group Challenges, and a number of MCAD/MCTS study groups. Joel is also responsible for introducing & hosting the Product Discovery Showcases at the events. |
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David for the past 10 years has focused on distributed application design and emerging Microsoft technologies on the web. Having helped design and build some of the largest systems for companies like Microsoft, Onyx Software, Saltmine, Giordanous Group, IdentityMine and more he has been on the leading edge of applying the latest tech to real world business problems. David's technology breadth includes everything from SQL Server to Windows/WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and Silverlight. David's accomplishments also include developing new technologies such as self editing XML files and related XML technologies to fuzzy logic systems and advanced web user interface design. As to Silverlight in particular David built some of the core Popfly blocks in Silverlight and built many more Silverlight applications including Chart Controls, media players, multiple Silverlight Hacks and was part of the team that built the Entertainment tonight Emmy site in Silverlight and was the lead on the Silverlight Crossfader.com community site and built the Silverlight demo for BG’s TechEd 08 keynote. |
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 | | | | | David Laribee is President of Xclaim Software, an ISV offering document, claim, and policy management software for the commercial property and casualty insurance industry. He has 10+ years experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise applications with Microsoft technologies. David has worked with the .NET Framework since the zero-day in internal IT, product development, consulting, and rapid prototyping contexts across a wide variety of industries. He writes about agile practices, software architecture, and the business of software on his blog at http://laribee.com/. |
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 | | | | | Amanda Laucher is a software developer/architect focusing on Microsoft technologies. She is currently based in Columbus, OH and working with The Sophic Group. She has been speaking at code camps and user groups all over the United States, and spreading her love of some of the lesser known programming languages. |
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 | | | | | Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for over 20 years. Julie is currently writing "Programming Entity Framework" for O'Reilly press (pub. date October 2008). 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 arounc the world and author of articles in well-known technical publications. 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. Julie is the author of O'Reilly's "Programming Entity Framework" (pub. date October 2008). You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.devsource.com/devlife. |
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Fabrice est architecte logiciel et un consultant avec plus de 13 ans d'expérience dans l'industrie logicielle. Il a une expérience variée, allant des services de conseil, coaching et de formation, jusqu'à la création de sa propre entreprise. Son haut background technique lui a permis de travailler avec Microsoft, Borland, KPMG et la Société Générale. Il travaille avec Microsoft .NET depuis les premières bêtas en 2001, et il est maintenant un expert sur cette plate-forme travaillant en tant qu'architecte logiciel pour de grosses entreprises. Fabrice est nommé MVP C# par Microsoft depuis 2004 en reconnaissance à la fois de l'expertise pratique dont il fait preuve et sa volonté de partager son expérience avec les communautés techniques Microsoft. |
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 | | | | | Beth is an Online Content and Community Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team responsible for producing content for business application developers and driving community features onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com/). She also produces content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/), and a variety of other developer sites. As a Visual Basic community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and 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, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast. |
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 | | | | | Kevin McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc, and a Microsoft .NET MVP. He is an INETA speaker in the U.S. and 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. |
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 | | | | | 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/). |
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 | | | | | Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.
He is the author or co-author of several books, including Effective Enterprise Java, C# In a Nutshell, SSCLI Essentials, Server-Based Java Programming, and a contributor to several technology journals. Ted is also a Microsoft MVP Architect, BEA Technical Director, INETA speaker, PluralSight instructor, frequent conference speaker, and a member of various Java JSRs. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, and eight PCs.
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 | | | | | 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.
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 | | | | | Carl Perry is a Lead Program Manager on the Data Programmability team at Microsoft. He currently works on the Entity Framework, focusing on Metadata, Mapping, EDM, and EntityClient. He has been has focused on data access throughout his entire Microsoft career and has previously owned SqlClient and the ADO.NET Provider model. |
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 | | | | | Mr. Remillard is co-founder of InCycle Software - a leading firm providing Application Lifecycle Management consulting services for Microsoft .NET development teams. Mr. Remillard is a Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Most Valuable Professional (MVP). His primary area of evangelism are best practices in the software development lifecycle and continuous improvement for software development teams. Mr. Remillard has been a speaker at multiple conferences such as the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference. He is also co-president of both the New York and Montreal Visual Studio Team System User Groups. |
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 | | | | | Erik Renaud is a .net coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. His current mandates concentrate on large financial institutions creating new teams that directly support their primary activities. Erik has over 10 years of software development experience, coaching teams to architect, model and analyze software solutions. He ultimately helps them develop the solution using cutting edge .net technologies and offers guidance packages that accelerate the development phase. He is a certified ScrumMaster, which helps him lead teams to success, and often offers training in object oriented technologies. He can be contacted at erik.renaud@nVentive.net, or seen anywhere kendo is practiced. |
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 | | | | | Frédéric co-anime le Centre de Compétence Intégré .NET d'OCTO Technology. A ce titre, il apporte chez ses clients son expertise de la plateforme .NET, mais également ses connaissances méthodologiques pour les aider à mieux développer leurs projets.
Frédéric a rejoint OCTO Technology en 2005 après avoir travaillé plusieurs années pour EADS, puis pour une start-up dans le domaine médical. Il est diplomé en 1997 de l'ESIEA et titulaire d'un DESS Paris VI |
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 | | | | | 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. |
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 | | | | | Dominic Sévigny is the president of RunAtServer Consulting, a business specialised in ASP.NET consultation and offering an expertise in web development known for its senior developers quality. Dominic is also recognized as a very dynamic speaker. Indeed, from time to time he is offering conferences on web technologies such as ASP.NET and Ajax. He attended many conferences at Groupe d’usagers Visual Studio de Montréal and DevTeach, where he was nominated « Best Speaker » in 2007. He is the exclusive teacher for all ASP.NET and AJAX training in the biggest training center in Montreal : Technologia. |
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 | | | | | François Tanguay is a .net coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. He presently helps large scale institutions achieve their desired results through VSTS, agile processes and software frameworks. For over 10 years, his modeling skills and inventive ideas have guaranteed interesting discussions. Renowned as a « Microsoft patterns & practices champion », you’ll be sure to find him blogging about « Enterprise Library », « Entity Framework », LINQ, IoC, MVC, DDD et PPP. He can be reached at francois.tanguay@nVentive.net. |
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 | | | | | 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. |
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 | | | | | David Woods is an independent contractor based in Edmonton, Alberta. He has worked his way from BASIC (and still has his Apple II to prove it) to .NET and still enjoying programming. Dave is a Microsoft Security MVP and currently works on developing enterprise applications. |
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Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Founder of Solid Quality Learning. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (MSPress), Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (MSPress), and a co-author of Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (APress). He has written many articles for SQL Server Magazine as well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN. Itzik's speaking activities include Tech Ed, DevWeek, PASS, SQL Server Magazine Connections, various user groups around the world, and Solid Quality Learning's events to name a few. |
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 | | | | | 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.
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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. |
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 | | | | | Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. Prior he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York (Baruch College). Stephen is also a certified scrum master. |
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 | | | | | 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, VSLive!, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others. Don is a full member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. 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, and kayak. |
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 | | | | | James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a founding member of the Plumbers @ Work podcast, which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. His article, "Debug Leaky Apps: Identify And Prevent Memory Leaks In Managed Code", appeared in the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - Solutions Architect and card-carrying member of ALT.NET, a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications. He received his Masters degree from Harvard University.
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Adam Machanic is a Boston-based independent database consultant, writer, and speaker. He has been involved in dozens of SQL Server implementations for both high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and has optimized data access layer performance for several data-intensive applications. Adam has written for numerous web sites and magazines, including SQLblog, Simple Talk, Search SQL Server, SQL Server Professional, CoDe, and VSJ. He has also contributed to several books on SQL Server, including "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development" (Apress, 2007) and "Inside SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization" (Microsoft Press, 2007). Adam 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). |
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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 Teach, 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.
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 | | | | | 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.
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 | | | | | Jessica Moss is a business intelligence mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and an MCDBA and MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence. She has been working with SQL Server 2005 since its release and has participated in many warehousing and reporting solutions. Jessica enjoys working with the local community and is a regular speaker at user groups and code camps. |
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 | | | | | 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.
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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. |
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 | | | | | Roman Rehak 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. |
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 | | | | | Scott is very PASSionate about SQL Server, and enjoys every opportunity to talk about the product. He started the Vancovuer PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Chapter 4 years ago with his favorite SQL DBA, Richard Baumet. Scott is an independent consultant working with clients to solve their data woes and extract insight from their business data. In July 2008 he received MVP status for SQL Server. Scott was also recently appointed the position of PASS Regional Chapter Mentor for Canada. |
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William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty-five years. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. His latest are Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server (7th Edition) and Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server Compact Edition. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the critically acclaimed Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See www.betav.com or www.betav.com\blog\billva.
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