SoCal Code Camp

Michael Washington is a website developer and an ASP.NET, C#, and Visual Basic programmer. He is has been named Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET for two straight years. He is a DotNetNuke Core member and has served for over three years. He is the author of the module development chapter in Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 4 (Packt Publishing). He has authored over 100 pages of tutorials on his site (www.ADefWebserver.com) covering subjects such as Linq, Silverlight, WCF, Web Services. He is one of the founding members of the Southern California DotNetNuke Users group (www.socaldug.org). He is also the author of "The DotNetNuke 4 Module Development Guide" as well as numerous DotNetNuke modules. He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

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).

I am a Senior Software Engineer at Ixia Communications, based in Calabasas, CA. I have been developing software for over 10 years. I enjoy interacting with the members of software development community and very interested in sharing perspectives and insights with others. In my free time, I like to experiment with new tools, techniques, technology and concepts. In the process, I sometimes create something useful too ! I have started a couple of open source projects and I blog at http://www.tewari.info

Brad Cunningham is a Senior Software Engineer at InterKnowlogy, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Carlsbad, CA. 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. Recently InterKnowlogy has been breaking new ground in touch based application development. As an early adopter of touch development Brad has focused on the usability of touch applications and the challenges associated with transitioning from the desktop developer mindset to the touch developer mindset.

Ben is a principal consultant at Fairway Technologies based out of La Jolla, CA. Ben has over a dozen years of professional software development experience architecting and developing web, service and desktop applications for various industries. Current projects are focused almost exclusively on the Microsoft stack — .NET 3.5, C#, SQL Server, WPF, WCF, jQuery, AJAX and even a little Silverlight. In his spare time, Ben mucks around with various tools and languages, blogs at http://johnnycoder.com and listens to numerous podcasts.

Bill Sheldon is a professional softare engineer in Southern California. Bill is a published author of Professional Visual Basic .NET and 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.

Brian Loesgen is a Principal SOA Architect with Microsoft. Based in San Diego. Brian is a 6-time Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and has been involved with BizTalk since prior to the BizTalk Server 2000 beta. Brian has extensive experience in building sophisticated enterprise, ESB and SOA solutions. Brian was a key architect/developer of the “Microsoft ESB Guidance”, initially released by Microsoft in Oct 2006. He is a co-author of 6 books, including “BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed”, and is currently working on “SOA with .NET”. He has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a co-founder and past-President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org), and past-President of the San Diego .NET user group, where he continues to lead the Connected Systems SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the .NET Developer’s Journal. Brian was also a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Division Virtual Technical Specialist Team pilot, and is part of Microsoft’s Connected Systems Advisory Board. Brian has been blogging since 2003 at http://blog.BrianLoesgen.com

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.

CEO / President of StandOUT Productions, the technology provider for Taste of the World Festival. Background: J2EE DEVELOPER SINCE 1996. SELF-EMPLOYED IN 1998. INCORPORATED IN 2001. GOVT SUB-CONTRACTOR SINCE 2003. 2008 began summer internships for unemployed programmers needing to make the shift into web technologies.

I'm with ActivX Biosciences (no relation to Microsoft), writing and maintaining web software in support of our drug discovery platform, mostly in Java. I've been programming for over 20 years, and I hope to someday get the hang of it. http://www.xpsd.org/cgi-bin/wiki?CarlManaster

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Dennis cut his coding teeth by teaching himself BASIC on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer in the early 80's. His earliest memory of debugging a program was when he found that his mother had typed the letter O instead of the digit 0 in a hexadecimal string that defined the graphics of a program she copied from the listing in a magazine. After discovering Delphi 1.0 during college, he went to work on a fax broadcast system and other telephony projects. In the late 90's he worked with a few record labels to put software on their music CD's. This included Windows screen savers of album art work and a music player that scrolled the lyrics of each song across the screen -- all written in Delphi. After that, he spent about 5 years doing web development in PHP (even working with a PHP MVC Framework) before discovering ASP.NET and C#. He remained somewhat proud of the fact that he had never worked with Visual Basic until starting his current job where it is the company's language of choice for developing Microsoft Office customizations for the legal industry. Even though he still gets lost when looking at VB6 code, with the advent of LINQ to XML and XML Literals in VB9, he is happy to be a VB.NET developer.

David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP and a principal software engineer/architect in San Diego. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping programmers in all aspects of programming. David has written for magazines like the VB Programmers Journal and has published three books (the latest is "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" available at: http://codingstandards.notlong.com). He is one of the founders and directors of the 15 year old San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org). In 2008 David won the INETA Community Excellence Award for his involvement in the .NET community. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008. 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).

David Pallmann is an Azure cloud computing evangelist and a Director of Consulting for Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Partner and National Systems Integrator. David's blog is at http://davidpallmann.blogspot.com

I've been working in software development for about ten years now, and have presented at several code camps in the past. I've done data and object modeling, worked extensively with .Net 2.0, NHibernate, and enterprise architecture. I've recently moved into mobile and spatial stuff, and would love to help some other code campers take the mobile plunge!

Been working with BizTalk since its beta form of 2004 focusing primarily in the healthcare sector. Before that I worked on Mercator, actually working for the company for a time. Have vast experience in B2B and A2A interfaces and common challenges that face such situations. I am a BizTalk MVP.

Greg Stevenson has been a developer for over 30 years. He is active in several organizations including being the organizer for the Orange County: Getting Things Done (http://www.meetup.com/GTD-IN-OC/) and the SoCal Palm pre’ers (http://www.meetup.com/palmpre/) meetup groups that are related to sessions he is presenting at SoCal Code Camp.

John Kuhn is a Senior Software Engineer and Project Manager at PDSA, Inc., where he works with a diverse portfolio of clients to develop solutions for e-commerce, content management, data migration, business intelligence and business process automation. He has more than fifteen years experience as a developer, working in bio-technology, healthcare and consulting, with experience in project management, software design & architecture, enterprise application integration and business intelligence. John has been developing business and reporting solutions on Microsoft platforms since 1992, including FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, SQL Server, Visual Basic and .NET. He started working with early releases of .NET and Visual Studio 2002, and with Reporting Services beginning with Reporting Services 2000. He has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a certificate in Information Technology Management from University of California, Irvine Extension, and is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET. In his spare time, he supervises a never-ending list of remodeling projects on his home near Los Angeles, California.

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

Author of multiple books, including C# 3.0 Unleashed/Sams and LINQ Programming/McGraw-Hill. Owner of Mayo Software a custom .NET software development company. Microsoft MVP.

Jon's an ASP.NET MVP who gets to play with cool web tools for a living, working at Vertigo Software. His weblog is at http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway and he's got a new podcast at http://herdingCode.com

Jason Jung is a Senior Consultant at Neudesic in custom application development. MCTS in web, mainly focusing on .NET development, he has worked on high profile ASP.NET applications using C#. He has also been actively engaged in large scale projects that require various architectural artifacts and coding patterns. Also, he has recently been engaged with large clients for WPF and Silverlight projects.

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).

Xp / Agile coach. If you'd like to see one of my previous talks, try http://tinyurl.com/56hsfy I also run the approvaltests package on sourceforge

Marie has over 10 years of experience in technology recruiting for software, hardware, and firmware skillsets. She has worked for Stellcom, TalentLab, HeadFinders, and is currently employed by Microsoft. 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. Marie is knowledgeable about the new recruiting tools provided by Web2.0 including Social Networking and blogs as a replacement for resumes. Although she works for MS, Marie lives in SoCal with her family and maintains her connections to the local engineering community.

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 was also was asked to speak at industry conferences, such as Advisor’s DevCon and Informant Conferences on Microsoft Technologies.

Mike Vincent is a solutions architect based in Orange County, California providing clients with application lifecycle management, software architecture and development services, primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 20 years in addition to engineering and marketing management positions. Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike is Vice President of INETA Noram. He founded both the SoCal .Net Architecture group which is now also IASA's SoCal Chapter and the Orange County C# Developers group, now OC .NET. Mike is a frequent presenter at user groups, regional events, and code camps. He is a Visual Studio Team System MVP.

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.

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

Software programmer over 25 years, CS faculty, co-founder of OTI Technologies and Siskon, amatuer {photographer, musician & digital artist (2D & 3D just for fun) :)} from San Diego. My interests are (some are purely academic) programming languages, parallel computing, scientific software development, applied mathematics, chaos & dynamical systems, global optimization, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, fuzzy sets, wireless networks, cloud computing, Web 2.0, RIA, and recently iPhone development. http://bilimyolu.com

My name is Joe Seymour and I currently work as a Senior Software Engineer of Interknowlogy. I have been in the software industry for about 8 years, and have no idea what I did without it. You can find me hacking on C#, Visual Studio, WPF, Silverlight, XAML, Azure, and whatever else new pops up.

Raymond Yu is a senior DBA and director with Kintera Inc., a Blackbaud Company, in San Diego, CA. Raymond has more than 10 years of experience in software development and database design & administration in several vertical industries. His work at Kintera has been managing all aspects of SQL server databases in a large SaaS (software as a service) environment, from modeling, design, implementation, production architecture and monitoring, to data warehouse. Raymond Yu has a Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University, holds several professional certificates from Microsoft and Oracle, and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

Rob Bagby is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. He has consulted on Microsoft technologies for over 10 years and began developing on the .NET framework when the pre-beta bits were first released to the public. Rob has developed various applications for customers ranging from local companies to Fortune 500 firms. Rob was developing AJAX applications before AJAX was AJAX. In 1998, he co-architected and developed a browser-based front-end for OLAP using XML/HTTP when both IE5.0 and SQL Server 7.0 were still in Beta. Rob has a Masters degree in International Finance from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management.

Steve Bearman is an independent software developer with his company, Suzy B Studios. He has developed software throughout his professional career: originally in direct support of science and engineering, later for the broader range of technology, medicine, business, ecommerce, and finance. He has taught graduate-level computer science, and has published technical papers dealing with the collection and use of data. For five years he managed operations and marketing for a manufacturing corporation. Some of his recent large software projects include supporting international clients for a large, networked GPS-based fleet management system he developed; developing software for a large hedge fund; and designing and developing ASP.NET software in support of NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network. He has many great colleagues and enjoys collaborating on projects of all sizes.

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 bridges the world between Developers and IT Pros. Steve is in the process of starting Serk (http://serktools.com), a company to write tools for IT Pros. With 10 years of IT experience he is taking that expertise and applying it to the creation of tools and services to help his IT brethren do their jobs more effectively. Steve speaks at Code Camps and User Groups up and down California helping developers better understand the world of IT Pros and teaching them what they need to know about Operating Systems, Directories, and Servers, oh my. When not doing something related to work he has a wife that is a full time student, two young daughters, a house addition he is building himself, and a plethora of pets. All the information you need to interact with Steve online can be found at http://serktools.com.

Scott graduated from Neumont University in Salt Lake City, Utah and now works at InterKnowlogy as an Associate Software Engineer. He specializes in Silverlight, WPF and WCF.

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®.

Tom is a CISSP and CSSLP with over 35 years of experience in software and systems development. He has been working with .NET since 2001 and Microsoft’s Secure Software Lifecycle since 2004.

Woody Zuill is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer and team lead, as well as a ScrumMaster, doing ongoing development for a large application that is used all over the world to provide highly customizable customer care and billing to pay media operators. Woody has been programming computers for about 25 years, but has only taken it seriously for the last month or so although he holds an MCSD and is a Certified ScrumMaster (whatever that is). He has years of experience in the custom manufacturing of graphics and signage for televised sporting events where deadlines actually have meaning, and spends his spare time writing about himself in the third person. His blog address: http://zuill.us/WoodyZuill/

Two things drew me to software development - the pleasure of writing code and the enjoyable challenge of presenting abstraction through interface and interaction to human beings in a way that is understandable and fun. Thus for me, developing interfaces is an interaction between user and developer. … I have been coding C, C++, and C# for the last 12 years. In that time I have mostly focused on user interface component design and development. This trek has brought me through legacy APIs of the Mac and Windows to today where my focus is on .NET development, primarily with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. … I really think Microsoft has made an immense move forward with WPF and Silverlight. More than ever, these technologies empower developers to innovate new designs and interactions as well as promote rapid development, best practices, and high quality. My enthusiasm has brought me out of the cubicle as software engineer to become consultant, trainer, and promoter of this really cool technology.

German Eichberger is a Software Engineer with Sony Online Entertainment, an instructor with UCSD Extension and Mesa College. In previous roles he was a Senior Software Engineer for the Digital Fish Library, the head of UCSD Extension's IT programs, and a project manager/software architect for PwC Consulting. He earned a Master in Computer Science doing computer vision research. His interests are Java, Web Frameworks, and SOA.