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Andrew is the owner and lead developer for AwesomeSauce Apps, an iPhone development company in Northwest Arkansas. He has published numerous apps in the App Store, both under the AwesomeSauce banner and as a consultant for other companies. He has been an active iPhone developer for over three years, and has been active in the Northwest Arkansas chapter of CocoaHeads since its inception. |
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Brian Sullivan is a developer analyst for Falcon Applications, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 5 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR. |
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Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC Brazil and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups across North America and Brazil. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP Award since 2001 (for Visual FoxPro in 2001-2002, and for C# ever since), an INETA speaker, and also holds the MCSD for .NET certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor. More detailed information regarding his presentations and articles can be found in his MVP Profile (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Claudio.Lassala). You can also read more about Claudio on his blog (http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com) or on Twitter (http://twitter.com/claudiolassala) |
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Corey Roth is a consultant at Stonebridge specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry.. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, LINQ, and SilverLight. For his contributions to Visual Studio 200, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint. He is also Vice President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group |
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Dennis J. Bottjer is a solutions architect, consultant, teacher, blogger and speaker. As a three time Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP, he specializes in SharePoint and Web Development. Dennis has over 12 years of industry experience with an emphasis on the Financial and Banking Sectors. As an associate for a Fortune 100 Financial Services Company, Dennis was a key contributor during the development of an underwriting system and fulfillment system. Dennis builds community by regularly participating in user groups and community events. He has been a user group president and is currently an INETA.org membership mentor. Dennis lives in Tulsa, OK with his wife Carrie, daughter Kate, son Will. |
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Devlin Liles a Senior Consultant at Improving Enterprises. Since 2007 he has been presenting on software development practices and tools to audiences around the Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma area. He is a regular presenter at the Tyson .NET user group and is a regional presenter at user groups and events. He founded the Tyson Development Conference as an internal Software Craftsmanship conference during his tenure there, as well as led the Tyson User group for a year and a half. |
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Jim Wooley is a frequent speaker, member of the INETA Speaker Bureau, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing and speaking at code camps and regional events. In addition to speaking at numerous user groups and code camps in 7 states, Jim has presented at product launch events, MSDN conferences, DevLink, DevWeek, CodeMash, CodeStock, and TechEd. |
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Jimmy Bogard is a Principal Consultant at Headspring Systems. He is an agile software developer with seven years of professional development experience. He has delivered solutions from conception to production for many clients. The solutions delivered by Jimmy range from shrink-wrapped products to enterprise e-commerce applications for Fortune 100 customers. He is also a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and is an active member in the .NET community, leading open-source projects, giving technical presentations and facilitating technical book clubs. Currently, Jimmy is the lead developer on the NBehave project, a Behavior-Driven Development framework for .NET, AutoMapper, a convention-based object-to-object mapper and the facilitator of the Austin Domain-Driven Design Book Club. Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, the C# Insiders group and received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009 and 2010. |
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John Teague has been developing .Net applications since version 1.0. While most of his work has been developing web applications, he tries not focus his attention on specific frameworks or applications stacks. Instead, he focuses on building applications using solid object oriented design principles and patterns with a behavior driven approach. John is the owner and principle consultant of Avenida Software, a software development, Agile coaching and training firm. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies and small 3 person startups, in a variety of industries including e-commerce/retail, medical and financial. He has worked on building scalable high performance e-commerce websites and international B2B web applications. He is very active in the .Net and Agile community in Austin, TX. He has organized the Austin Code Camp Conference for the past 3 years and presented several sessions as well. John has also presented private and public training courses on Ajax, Object Oriented Design Principles, and Test Driven Development. |
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Lee Brandt has been programming professionally for more than a decade and currently works as a Project Lead Consultant with AdventureTech. He speaks regionally about software development practices and has mentored teams on improving their approach to lean software development though achieving technical proficiency. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, one of the leaders of the Kansas City .Net User Group, and serves as the Regional Mentor for .Net user groups in Kansas and Missouri. |
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Micah is a Senior Manager on Walmart's Global Associate Communications team, focused on delivering innovative technology solutions to the challenge of communicating to 2.1 million associates in 15 markets around the world. Over the past 7 years, Micah has worked both as a designer and implementation manager in almost every area of the business. Today his primary focus is usability, accessibility and technical development for Walmart's internal communication platforms. Micah infrequently updates his blog at http://micahlaney.com, and frequently tweets at @micahlaney. |
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Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, and developing software for over 20 years. Phil is a Microsoft MVP and also holds MCSD, MCDBA, CSM, and CSP certifications. Phil is an international speaker and a passionate member of the developer community, speaking at Code Camps and Days of .NET all across the country as well as serving as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group. Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), is a Firefighter/Paramedic, and a volunteer for the Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog. |
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One of the first Microsoft MVP award winners in Arkansas, Randy helped start the NWA .Net User Group and has helped educate and motivate regional developers to the .Net Framework. Randy is the owner of Harvest I.T. Inc which provides Retail Link automation to Walmart Vendors and has 15 years of development experience. |
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Rob Vettor is a C# MVP, INETA Regional Speaker and Microsoft .NET Architect/Technical for Jack Henry and Associates, a large financial services software company. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon and American Express. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs and rooms full of NET computer books. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com, and check out Rob’s blog at www.robvettor.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 15 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an ASP.NET MVP, an author, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, MCPD: ASP.NET 3.5, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, DevLink, DevTeach, Tulsa Tech Fest, DevWeek, TechEd, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international events. |
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Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA . Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US Coast Guard and US Navy. Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. 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 DevTeach 2005 conference in Montreal Canada . Rod was made an MSDN Canada speaker in 2004 and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP. Rod is also editor in chief for Code Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development. Rod can be contacted via his web site www.dashpoint.com or his blog http://blog.dashpoint.com |
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Ryan is an independent iPhone developer and founder of the Northwest Arkansas chapter of CocoaHeads, an Apple development group. He is an enthusiastic student of a wide variety of programming languages. Ryan is a software developer at SOAPware Inc, an electronic medical records company in Fayetteville. |
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Tim Rayburn is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems Development. He has worked with Microsoft technologies for over 13 years, and is the Founder of the Dallas/Fort Worth Connected Systems User Group, the organizer of the Dallas TechFest, and blogger at TimRayburn.net. When he’s not pursuing the ever moving technology curve, he is an avid gamer, from consoles to table-top RPGs and is the host of a podcast called Radio Free Hommlet. He welcomes questions about any of the above to tim@timrayburn.net. |
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Toi B. Wright is an independent consultant who has been working as a software developer for over 25 years. She has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has been a Microsoft MVP in ASP/ASP.NET since 2005. Ms. Wright recently completed a book titled "ASP.NET 4 24-Hour Trainer" that is available at your favorite book retailers. In the book she covers both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 2 by using hands-on lessons to teach important concepts. Everything is shown using both technologies. Ms Wright was the organizer of the original We Are Microsoft - Charity Challenge Weekend, www.wearemicrosoft.com. She is the Founder and President of the Dallas ASP.NET User Group, www.dallasasp.net. She has been involved with various user groups around Dallas since 1994 and has been running one or more user groups since 2000. She most recently helped organize the new Geeks in Pink group, www.geeksinpink.org, for women in technology. |
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Zach Young is a FileNet Solution Architect at JB Hunt Transportation in Lowell, Arkansas. His job includes researching existing technologies, assisting development teams with architecture designs, and integrating current enterprise systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration at The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Zach is the President of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group and co-founder of the Virtual Alt.Net (VAN) user group. In addition to working with these groups, Zach volunteers his time to assist his church with lighting and the sound board during services. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, reading technical books, and being outdoors. Zach regularly blogs at www.zachariahyoung.com. |
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For over 15 years Zain has been working with the latest Microsoft technologies. He’s been a consultant and trainer since 1995. He currently creates the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks series. Also, he created Online Community Evangelism; which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like LinkedIn, Facebook, and elsewhere. He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of online environments but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer. Zain’s efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, and many others. He has been interviewed by Forrester Research, Gartner, and the Science Channel for his work. He is a frequent speaker at events in LinkedIn, Facebook, and other online venues. Zain also lectures world-wide on a variety of developer topics. |
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