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As a consultant with Clarity Consulting (http://www.claritycon.com), for over 8 years, Andrew's duties include architecting and developing solutions, both client\server and web applications, for a variety of clients in diverse fields such as transportation, financial services, and hospitality. Andrew is a 2-Time Microsoft MVP for SQL Server and serves as the President of the San Diego .Net User Group, a Board Member of the San Diego SQL Server Users Group and is the INETA Membership Mentor for Southern California. He has presented to multiple user groups and Code Camps across the U.S. on topics such as SQL Server 2005, .Net Development, and SharePoint Server 2007. You can catch up with Andrew on his Blog (http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/andrew_karcher/default.aspx).
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I am a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP I started with ASP.NET and .NET in general in 2001 while I was a consultant to bring fast and robust applications to my customers. I took .NET as the technology to follow as since the starting I have always bet my career with Microsoft and I have never been without a job. ASP.NET was the answer to all programmers that have been looking for a way to deploy their applications easier and to a big range of users. I enjoyed since 2001 working in .NET and I learned from other users as they shared their knowledge I shared mine to help as much as I can. Software is a very challenging technology that finding other users that can help you or point you to the right direction can make a big difference. Now I am working for ESRI as I find Geographic Information System a wonderful challenge. You can find my random thoughtsin GIS, ASP.NET and AJAX at http://alpascual.com/blog/al Involved in teaching and answering questions every day at http://forums.asp.net Also working in Open Source project Geo Twitter http://codeplex.com/geotwitter

Alline Oliveira Watkins is a Computer Programmer at University of California at San Diego (UCSD). She is being working hard for 2 years with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and more than 10 years with JAVA programming. Alline is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance; and an Agile Specialist at University of California, San Diego. > In the last 20 years, she has worked in various jobs including System Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, a CMM Level 5 company from India; Alline graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Brasília, Brazil.
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Brad Cunningham is a Lead Engineer at InterKnowlogy and Microsoft MVP for C#. Brad has 10 years of industry experience developing a wide range of desktop and web based applications for many different industries. His work at InterKnowlogy focuses on bleeding edge Microsoft technologies such as WPF, Silverlight, and Surface.
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a code monkey who likes to make stuff
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Bill Sheldon is a professional softare engineer in Southern California. Bill is a published author of Professional Visual Basic 2010 & .NET 4.0 (as well as all previous versions) as well as co-author of Professional Office Business Application Development both from Wrox. Bill writes for SQL Server magazine and is an experienced public speaker at events such as VSLive and Code Camps across Southern California.

I am the owner of Net Connex Technology Training and Consulting in San Diego. I have been working with Microsoft technologies since 1992 and teaching Microsoft server platforms since 1998. Get previous presentations and my blog at www.netconnex.com, or follow bstateham on twitter.

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CEO / President of StandOUT Production, the technology provider for Taste of the World Festival. Background: J2EE DEVELOPER SINCE 1996. SELF-EMPLOYED IN 1997. INCORPORATED IN 2001. GOVT SUB-CONTRACTOR SINCE 2003. 2008 began summer internships for unemployed programmers needing to make the shift into web technologies.

Carlton Nettleton is the President of Look Forward Consulting (http://www.lookforwardconsulting.com), a San Diego based Agile consultant, coaching individuals and teams on how to implement Agile principles and practices. He has nearly ten years of experience working with software products and services in both a technical and business capacity from small start-ups to FDA regulated medical products. Carlton is a respected Agile thought leader in San Diego County, founding Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD) in 2002. He became a Certified ScrumMaster in 2005 and a Certified Scrum Practitioner and Certified Product Owner in 2009.
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Craig Hubert is currently working at Computer Market Research, Ltd. as a .NET web developer. He has over 5 years of experience with .NET and SQL Server. Craig has worked with many aspects of .NET development, including class architecture, green pasture development, system re-design, advanced troubleshooting, CLR development, and web services development. Craig's experience also covers PHP, MySQL, and Salesforce development. Craig is a common attendee of the San Diego .NET Developer's Group, and is always willing to help anyone with a question.
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Craig Jones is a Java developer and Scrum coach in Orange County, CA. He is currently engaged as a Senior Consultant for Gear Stream out of Raleigh, NC, and also maintains his own blog called ChiefSimplicityOfficer.com. Craig can be reached via e-mail at craig@chiefsimplicityofficer.com or by phone at (714) 955-4035.
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I'm the CTO of Pelotonics and TweetPhoto.
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Michele Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect at IDesign (architecture consulting and training, www.idesign.net) and Chief Security Architect at BiTKOO (providing authorization and identity management software, www.bitkoo.com). She is also Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. Michele specializes in scalable and secure architecture design, federated identity, and cloud computing. Michele is a frequent conference presenter at technology conferences such as Tech Ed, PDC, Dev Connections, and NDC; and regularly publishes in several technology journals. Michele wrote the best-selling book Learning WCF – O’Reilly 2007 (www.learningwcf.com) and is currently working on the second edition to be published in 2010. Visit her blog at www.michelelerouxbustamante.com.
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David Barkol is an expert in stucco, a veteran software engineer and an outlaw in Peru. He also works for Neudesic as the Regional Practice Director for the Custom Application Development practice in Southern California. David is a member of the ASPInsiders and a co-author of ASP.NET Ajax in Action.

David McCarter is a principle software engineer in San Diego. He is also a Microsoft MVP and an INETA Community Excellence Award winner. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping programmers in all aspects of programming. David published three books, the latest is David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards available at http://codingstandards.notlong.com and has written for magazines like the Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He is one of the founders and directors of the San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org). David gives talks on programming at conferences such as CodeCamp, VSLive, Microsoft DevDays, colleges, high schools and he teaches regularly at the University of California San Diego. He also runs his own software/consulting company called NicheWare. David will have a limited number of his latest book to sell at the end of each session for only $12 (cheaper than buying them from the web).
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David Pallmann is a Windows Azure cloud computing evangelist and a Practice General Manager for Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Partner and National Systems Integrator. David's blog is at http://davidpallmann.blogspot.com

Ike loves to code, loves technology, and thoroughly enjoys business. He’s been doing all three since 1996. Ike has been Microsoft Certified since the beginning. He currently holds the MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, and MCNE certifications. In addition to his responsibilities at EllisTeam, he is the current chairperson for the Beginner’s SIG of the San Diego .NET User’s Group. He also volunteers his time with SQLPass and the San Diego .NET Developer’s Group. His blog is at http://ellisteam.blogspot.com. Follow him on Twitter at ellisteam1.
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Hattan Shobokshi is a Senior Software Engineer for a regional transportation company. Hattan is experienced in developing websites using ASP.NET and Sql Server. He has been developing ASP.NET applications since version 1.0 and before that worked with Classic ASP.
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Jason Kerney is a senior programmer for a company in Carlsbad. He has been programming for 10 years, and would still consider himself a novice. Within the last year he has become aware of the Agile practices and is currently studying to understand them.

MCITP, MCDBA, MCSD.net http://www.jenunderwood.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenunderwood Jen has over 14 years of experience in business intelligence, data warehousing, reporting, analytics and enterprise architecture specializing in the Microsoft platform. She is deeply technical yet highly adept in all phases of project life cycles from strategic roadmaps to extensive "hands-on" development. Career highlights include projects for Bloomberg, the Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies. She most recently was invited to participate in the Microsoft TAP programs for the upcoming Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Gemini "PowerPivot" and SharePoint 2010 product releases and is providing input into future Microsoft business intelligence product development. She has presented at various PASS events and at user group meetings in Georgia, Florida and California.
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Jeremy Clark is a .NET application developer, developing n-tier line-of-business applications for a Fortune 100 company. After hours, he puts together demos and technical articles for JeremyBytes.com, a website focusing on .NET technologies. Other times he can be found shredding on a plastic guitar to Guitar Hero. He lives in Anaheim, CA with a seedling redwood tree and his cat, Amanda.
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Joe Guadagno is the founder and president of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group (http://www.sevdnug.org) located in Chandler, AZ. He is also a Microsoft Visual C# MVP. Joe has put on several community events like the bi-annual Desert Code Camp (http://desertcodecamp.com). He serves on the INETA North America (http://www.ineta.org) as the Marketing Director. In his "spare" time he coaches his sons baseball team and serve on the City of Chandler Parks and recreation board.
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Current working at ComputerMarketResearch.com as Chief Technology Officer. Over 18 years, working in all aspects of Software Development. Jim has been repeatedly recognized for developing innovative solutions for multi-million dollar, globally deployed software and systems. Jim is responsible for full lifecycle development of next-generation software, from initial requirement gathering to design, coding, testing, documentation, and implementation. Jim has developed and deployed: Software-as-a-Service: (SaaS) Customer Relationship Management solutions for maintaining customer/employee interactions or "touch points" for clients such as Bell South, Cingular, and Domino's Pizza, among others. Jim applied Adaptive Business Intelligence logic coupled with solid database practices to create highly-usable, stable, and scalable systems. Jim's vision of software and its future rest on the foundation of best practices, proven technologies, and excellent leadership strategies to plan, execute, maintain, and deliver tomorrow's solutions. Jim's blog for SQL Server and .NET technologies can be found at: http://www.roguecodewarrior.com

Jon has been privileged to wear many hats in his 10+ years of experience, including: software developer (especially data-driven web applications), database developer/analyst/administrator, network/system/security administrator, system/business analyst, operations director and Chief Information Officer. Jon enjoys working with a wide variety of people, technologies and platforms (both legacy and current), including open source (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack), as well as the proprietary environment (Microsoft, Windows, IIS, SQL Server and .NET). Jon has spent much of his time building systems in the healthcare and health insurance industries. He received a BA in Organizational Studies (with Honors) from Pitzer College, holds an MS in Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University, and has several journal publications. Jon is currently providing professional consulting services to organizations looking to understand, improve, assemble and/or integrate people and process with information systems.
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Justin Couto is the founder and CEO of Couto Solutions, a design development software firm that specializes in creating compelling Custom Social Networks for the Enterprise. Justin has been a successful entrepreneur in the software development industry for over 10 years where he has founded and sold multiple companies. He is an avid volunteer and spends his time as a Softec Board Member, as the President of the Central Coast Code Camp, as a SLO .NET User Group Team Member, running Couto Solutions and teaching a weekly software development class. Justin is also a regular speaker at Code Camps, .NET User Groups and at venues where he is invited to speak on business and technology. He covers topics that range from social networking and the enterprise, to new Technology Implementation for Businesses (Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Process Automation, etc). Justin is a talented and up and coming business person that you are sure to hear more about in the future.

Kent Cross has been a software engineer for 32 years. Over his career he has written programs for the MITS Altair 8080, the commodore Amiga, the Hughes 5118, FAA Radar systems and the scoreboard at Jack Murphy Stadium. He's a consummate punch card maker (a skill not much in demand anymore), and, yes, has debugged a paper-tape program using scissors and scotch tape. Nowadays he leads a team in developing .net, java, C++ and perl software for the defense industry. He honed his GIMP skills by digitizing hundreds of family photos, wondering all the time why we didn't convert to digital sooner.

Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight with a focus on security and identity. Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. Keith is a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, and has authored several books for developers covering Windows Identity Foundation, Windows security, and ASP.NET. Keith has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for several years.
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blog http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal What inspires someone from Fargo, North Dakota to dream of becoming a United Nations translator? Love of words, of course. A self-described language geek, Lynn is fascinated by languages and semantics. She understands that life rarely travels in a straight line, and her own career reflects this winding path. Lynn moved from a degree in linguistics to become a business executive, and then launched her own software development, training and consulting company. She’s done production work with all versions of .NET, BizTalk, K2.Net, SharePoint, SQL Server, Analysis Services, InfoPath, MOM, and Active Directory, and holds an array of certifications, including MCT, MCSD, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA and MSF. Lynn is also the author of Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence from Apress. She gets her biggest on-the-job buzz from developing architecture – translating business needs into technical solutions that provide real value and opportunities. In her spare time, Lynn gives back to the community by supporting children’s education. Her current projects include work with the Mona Foundation (Redmond, Washington) and SmartCare (Lusaka, Zambia).
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Llewellyn learned to jump horses in the 7th grade while living in France. Back in states, while studying drafting in high school, he started fire eating, sleight of hand magic, and once rode a unicycle 6 miles. After learning to juggle torches, he joined a acrobatics group in college where he specialized on the trampoline and walking a slack rope. He can calculate the cube root of any perfect cube under 1,000,000 in his head, as well as pick a standard lock. He can rollerblade down a flight of stairs, backwards. Later, he has learned to play the doumbek (a type of drum), to accompaniment a belly dancing girlfriend. Llewellyn studied Tai Chi for 2 years, can throw a knife at 20 feet, and a playing card at 50. He has taught swing dancing, and loves to salsa. He is also an accomplished speed chess player. In the last year, he has been scuba diving over 20 times, become a guitar hero, and broke his personal record of paddle balling over 200 times. Llewellyn attributes his success to the large amount of caffeine he has consumed, and enjoys computer programming in his spare time. He is also a Developmentor Instructor, Agile2010 Speaker, and guest on .Net Rocks!
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Marie has over 15 years of experience in technology recruiting for software, hardware, and firmware skill sets. Currently, she works for Microsoft and recruits for Bing and MS Advertising. She has worked for Stellcom, TalentLab, HeadFinders, and her own company Romawat Consulting. From 2001-2005 she independently recruited for companies in So Cal including TriNet Solutions, InterKnowlogy, Vytek/CalAmp, MaxIT Healthcare, Delta Design, SpaceDev, SAIC, Mitchell, Leap Wireless, and more. As an AIRS Certified recruiter, Marie is an expert at using new Boolean searches to locate passive candidates independently of the job boards. She blogs for Microsoft and other sites on a variety of recruiting and job-seeker topics Marie lives in SoCal with her family and maintains her connections to the local engineering community.
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I have worked with SQL Server since 2000 and have tried to learn a balance of all the SQL Server technologies up to SQL Server 2008.

Michael is Vice President of Development at PDSA, Inc. and brings over 32 years of Information Technology experience to bear at his position. Prior to joining the PDSA team, Michael was the Director of Information Technology at the Long Beach division of Boeing. He was responsible for all aspects of computing – strategic planning, architecture, application lifecycle, asset management, and outsource management – where he managed a budget of over $90 million dollars and 140+ people. Michael’s responsibilities at PDSA are to manage all projects and personnel while ensuring quality services are delivered on time and on budget to our valued clients. He has been instrumental in defining and executing a solid internal business and engineering process to ensure quality services. Michael also has been an instructor at UCLA and University of California, Irvine's extension program since 1985. He instructs or has instructed the following courses: Microsoft.NET, Advanced Visual Basic, and Relational/Distributed Database Management and Design. Michael holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from UCLA, and has published several articles on database management, SQL Server and Visual Basic. He has also spoken at industry conferences, such as Advisor’s DevCon and Informant Conferences on Microsoft Technologies and best practices.
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Michael Morozov is a Principal Consultant with Neudesic specializing in custom application development using Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, Compact Framework, MS SQL Server. Michael is a MSCD.NET with 15 years of industry experience.

Mike Vincent is a solutions architect based in Orange County, California providing clients with application lifecycle management and software architecture training and consultation primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 20 years in addition to marketing management and engineering positions. Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike is Vice President of INETA Noram. He founded the SoCal .Net Architecture group, the Orange County C# Developers group, now OC .NET and SoCal Team System and has organized several regional conferences. Mike is a frequent presenter at developer events. He is a Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management MVP, Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Practitioner and Scrum Developer Trainer.

ohai: Nov 2009 - present. Flash games. Sony Online Entertainment: January 1999 – Nov 2009. Some of the projects I worked on at SOE: Technical Director, Free Realms, EverQuest II (and three expansions), PlanetSide, EverQuest login server, Trivial Pursuit Online
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Denny Cherry has over a decade of experience managing SQL Server, including MySpace.com’s over 175 million user installation, one of the largest in the world. Denny’s areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, replication and troubleshooting. Denny uses these skills on a regular basis in his current role as a Sr. Database Administrator and Architect at Awareness Technologies. Denny currently holds several Microsoft Certifications related to SQL Server as well as being a Microsoft MVP. Denny is a longtime member of PASS and Quest Software’s Association of SQL Server Experts and has written numerous technical articles on SQL Server management.
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Mike has been programming a various dialect of languages since the late 90's some of those languages include VB, DarkBasic, PHP, JScript, VB.net, VRML it was only till he reached maturity as a developer when he discovered his passion for C# and the .net framework in late 2003. Since then mike has served as an MIS for manufacturing firms, a reverse engineer developer for a major imaging solutions VAR and a backend programmer for a major ACH platform. He now has landed a full time gig at free livin' entertainment as Director of Technology and architect of their flagship tour operator product. Mike has been featured on channel 9 and has earned acclaim with his team--Team 5 for thier award winning project which won "Most Inovative use of Technology" durring windows 7 start up week at Microsoft offices in Irvine Ca.

Principal for +N Consulting Inc (Santa Monica, CA), Nuri brings over 15 years of development and leadership experience in internet, E-Commerce and corporate space. He currently serves as Solution Architect focusing on .Net technologies and platforms. Nuri has successfully championed initiatives in ASP.NET, database, data mining, E-commerce, integration projects and custom component development for specific business needs. In recent years Nuri has been active in the coding community, providing training, mentoring and contributing to the coding community, focusing on cutting edge technologies, C# and core framework programming. His passion for efficient computing and his SDLC perspective bring a unique and valuable contribution to every project he engages in. http://www.plusnconsulting.com
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Phil Robinson is an independent database developer and BI consultant with more than ten years experience working with SQL Server. His industry experience includes financial services, manufacturing, sales/marketing and employee management services. His current areas of focus are data repository design, data mining, ETL and data visualization using SQL Server 2005/2008 business intelligence tools. Phil is active in the community as a SQL Saturday #44 organizer and currently serves as president of the San Diego SQL Server User Group

Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangalist for them. Paul has authored literally hundreds of books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, WPF and SQL Server. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).
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Rajmund's brain always molds and adapts all ideas/concepts that he encounters into new inventions/approaches. Had never written same line of code twice. Worked on creating million dollar technologies instantly adopted and reused across entire company and product line. Creates his own design patterns to develop with better structured approach. Had experience with media (real time market data and trading client) as well as government and banking. Likes to explore new technologies and then apply these concepts to current development problems. Enjoys a unique capability of seeing things what others can't really see such as adopting new technologies in solving problems in current IT projects.

Bob Reselman is a nationally known software developer, technical writer, blogger (CodingSlave.BlogSpot.com) and author of a number books and articles about programming and the practice of software development. Bob's books include ASP 3.0 by Example (Que, 2000, ISBN 0789722402) and the controversial novel, Coding Slave. You can get a list of Bob's publications here: http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=B5B3B077-2836-4DAD-9E50-CBF37B827152. You can read Bob's blog at: CodingSlave.BlogSpot.com. In the past Bob held the position of Platform Architect for the computer manufacturer, Gateway and was a Principal Consultant for the transnational consulting company, Cap Gemini. Now he lives the good life in LA with his wife Arlo and their pet, Itchy the Dog. Also, he's been known to make exciting, animated presentations that are thought provoking and useful, which is not too shabby considering that some of the stuff can be pretty geeky.
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Rick Martinez is a developer for a medical company. Rick is experienced with SQL SERVER and .NET Framework-Application Development.

Information Systems professional with over 11 years of experience designing, building and supporting enterprise-level distributed applications in energy and financial services sectors. Specialize in Microsoft technologies. Born in former USSR, MS in Applied Mathematics & Cybernetics, PhD in Engineering. Download slides I used in my session from my blog http://riyadsthoughts.blogspot.com/.
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Steve Bearman is an independent software developer with his company, Suzy B Studios, where he innovates, designs, and develops web and client software for all sectors from science through finance. Always available to help develop software, he often leads development teams. Along the way he has managed both marketing and operations for a manufacturing corporation, taught graduate computer science, and published technical papers dealing with data. He has a special fondness for good algorithms and appropriate technology.

Scott Mitchell, author of eights ASP/ASP.NET books and founder of 4GuysFromRolla.com, has been working with Microsoft Web technologies since 1998. Scott works as an independent consultant, trainer, and writer. His latest book is Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4.0 in 24 Hours. He can be reached at mitchell@4GuysFromRolla.com or via his blog, http://ScottOnWriting.NET.
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Scott's career in software began in 1993 at IBM. Along the way he developed enterprise solutions for both Microsoft and Cardinal Health. He currently is an independent consultant, as well as a DevelopMentor instructor.

Steve Evans is an IT Pro with over 10 years of experience. He is a Microsoft MVP in Directory Services, a MCSE, and an accomplished speaker. He also has a background as a developer. He bridges the world between Developers and IT Pros and frequently speaks at Code Camps, User Groups and other technology events. Steve publishes a technical blog at http://serktools.com. You can follow him on the twitter username @scevans where you can interact with him and get updates on his upcoming screencasts, podcast appearances, and live webcasts.
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Steve Hendricks is a Database Administrator and a sought after speaker on technical and non-technical topics, most notably the job search process. As a DBA since 1997, his career implementing medical related systems has allowed him to see and solve many of the problem that we encounter on a daily basis. As a hiring manager, he has rerviewed thousands of job applicants resumes and conducted seemingly as many interviews.

Thomas Mueller has been working with databases for almost 15 years. He currently is the Chief Data Officer at AMG-SIU, a healthcare consulting company in Santa Ana. Thomas got his BS in Digital Media & Computer Science in 1999 and received his MS in Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University in 2004. In addition to databases, his interests include data mining, knowledge management and LEGO®.
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ictor, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Solutions Advocate is an independent Windows Presentation Foundation / Silverlight / Windows 7 Mobile / Surface developer, instructor (classroom / video tutorials / written articles), published author (Foundation Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight (2008), Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight (2009)), and public speaker. Victor has over 10 years experience in the web and software development industries and has worked with large Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Universal, Warner Bros., Disney, Mattel, and Paramount Pictures. Victor has worked on some of the most cutting edge WPF and Silverlight applications that have been developed to date; including the Microsoft Surface Winebar CES demo , Surface Air Hockey with simulated physics, and the Surface EventPhotos application which both debuted at PDC in 2008. Victor was also part of the team that launched the Microsoft Silverlight Entertainment Tonight Emmy mini-site, one of the very first Silverlight applications to market. In his spare time Victor continues to write books under the Friends of ED flagship Foundation series in hopes of presenting the powerful new Microsoft technologies of WPF and Silverlight to developers and designers around the globe. Along with development and writing books, Victor reaches out to the community by teaching WPF and Silverlight in the way of traditional classroom courses at the Rich Media Institute in Venice, California. Victor produces video tutorials on his personal blog and recently for Microsoft in the form of Expression Starter Kits. Victor holds online interactive workshops as well as public speaking engagements (most recently Flashapoolozastock IV in October 2009). Victor recently co-founded the first Los Angeles Silverlight user group (LASLUG) with Microsoft.

Wolf Paulus is an internationally experienced software developer and innovator, dedicated to excellence, and motivated by enthusiasm to trying new things. He is currently focusing on Java, Mac OS X, embedded-systems / mobile devices, and Open Source technologies. He developed TiffanyScreens, an innovative presentation sharing tool for peer groups, created the Thinlet rapid application development (RAD) Tool Theodore. Wolf is the founder and principal developer of the open source XUL Engine SwixML, which Sun Microsystems' CTO calls "the strongest straightforward design of declarative GUI implementations". SwixML represents ideas that are now heavily re-used in Google's Android SDK. (Graphical User Interfaces are described declaratively in XML documents that are parsed and rendered into UI widgets hierarchies at runtime). He is committer at the hessdroid open source project, a binary web service protocol for Android, and frequently presents at conferences and user groups on topics ranging from Embedded Technology to Declarative Programming, emphasizing UI Generation at Runtime. Wolf worked in St.Peterburg, Russia, leading a team of Russian engineers creating smart bots, in Frankfurt Germany, leading Deutsche Bank's development of an electronic banking and security trading application , and led software component development contracted from Aten Development, Lyon, France . He received a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn, which has one of the highest ranking computer science programs among universities in Germany, a Specialized Certificate in Embedded Computer Software from the University of California, San Diego, and is a Sun Certified Java Programmer SCJP and Web Component Developer SCWCD. Wolf and his family currently reside in San Diego, California and can be found on the Net at http://wolfpaulus.com.
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Woody Zuill, a recovering professional 5-String banjo picker, got into programming for the same reason he got into music - to meet women. He has been focused on improving his skills and capabilities for the last 27+ years. His turn-ons include Clean Code, Testable Code, and Thrashing (but only in the right context). His turn-offs are the Waterfall Methodolgy, Death Marches, and Thrashing (but only in the wrong context). He has years of experience in providing custom graphics for televised sporting events where deadlines actually have meaning, and spends his spare time writing about himself in the third person.

Woody Pewitt is the Product Manager at MindTouch where he helps MindTouch can make innovative products and solutions to enable customers get greater returns for their organizations. Before joining MindTouch he worked at Microsoft in Southern California doing several Evangelism jobs where he got to work with all kinds of people who are interested in Microsoft development technologies. He is an experienced developer, teacher/trainer and is a part-time instructor at University of California San Diego. Woody has worked on software and system architecture, code, development and infrastructure reviews and analysis of several fortune 500 companies for salability, security, performance and standards & practices. He is also an accomplished author, having written Microsoft Official Curriculum and has authored several published magazine articles. Prior to his time in technology Woody was an electronic technician in the United States Navy. Woody and his wife Sam have 2 boys that keep them on the run!
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William Smith is a consultant with Acumen Solutions, Inc. Currently he is working on Salesforce.com implementations but has over 10 years experience in application development.