Chris Pels, Secretary, founded the consulting firm iDevTech www.idevtech.com in 1986 and has been instrumental in the architecture, development, and implementation of a wide variety of business systems and databases during his 19 years as a technology consultant. He has extensive experience in database design, several programming languages, and statistical analysis. As an enterprise architect, his current focus is on service oriented system design and implementation. He has been a speaker at the VSLive, Boston Code Camp, Microsoft DevDays and numerous events in New England. Chris also holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is President of the Boston .NET User Group www.bostondotnet.org, a Microsoft XML MVP, and President of INETA NorAm. He can be reached at cpels@idevtech.com and USA+401.885.4943.

David Walker, VP Speakers Bureau, has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications and IBM Global Services. In March 2007, he returned to Winner Communications as Manager of Technical Architecture and was promoted to Manager of Software Development and Technical Architecture in June 2007.

He is the President of his own growing consulting business Professional Business Technologies, Inc. He is the current President of the Tulsa Developers .NET user group, founder and President of the Tulsa SQL Server Group and Tulsa Java Developers Group and the Vice-President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group.

He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005.

David Silverlight, VP Marketing, is an independent software developer with deep knowledge of XML and Microsoft’s .NET. An avid teacher and evangelist, he created and maintains 4 developer communities, each one tying into different facets of the development community. Here is a little bit about them....

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XMLPitstop.com is a great resource for XML and .NET developers at all levels of experience. The site is notable for its appeal to hands-on developers, offering good demo applications that provide a full working, downloadable versions of commonly sought functionality.

RealTechnologyHeroes.com uses Geek Humor to recognize people for their special talents. You can send an award to somebody or define your own award.

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Mark Rosenberg, Long Beach, California, USA
Southern California - Southern CA

Mark Rosenberg has been a software developer for the last ten years. He has been working as a trainer for Quickstart Intelligence since April of 2007. Mark has been active in the local user group community for the last two years booking the speakers and being on the board for two user groups. He has been active in setting up and running two code camps per year, one in Orange County, CA and one in San Diego, CA. He has also been presenting talks for local user groups and at code camps for the last two years. Mark was influential in organizing the INETA Southern California Community Leadership Summit held in late September, 2007.

Mike Vincent, Treasurer, is a solutions architect with speakTECH, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Orange County, California providing clients with enterprise and software architecture and development services, primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. Prior to speakTECH, he held corporate architect positions in financial services and ran his own consulting and ISV business for 18 years.

Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike founded both the SoCal .Net Architecture group which is now also IASA's SoCal Chapter and the Orange County C# Developers group which recently became OC .NET. Mike is a frequent presenter at local and regional user groups and Southern California Code Camps and has served with INETA as the California Membership Mentor.

Mike also organized the SoCal .Net Technical Summit regional conferences and is currently organizing IASA's regional architecture summit ITARC coming this fall in San Diego. He can be reached at mike.vincent@ineta.org

Morgan Baker, Vice President, is a System Analyst for the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc (NCCI). She is currently lead developer for NCCI's first ASP.NET 2.0 application. As a member of the Enterprise Solutions Committee, Morgan is also involved in setting standards, approving enterprise components and documenting processes for the organization.

When .NET was introduced, Morgan developed and taught the first C# courses at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL as an adjunct professor. She encouraged students to attend user group meetings where several became involved in the professional developer community and later found employment. During this time Morgan became active in the user group community helping organize and run the South Florida Code Camps, hosting Florida .NET User Group meetings, volunteering for INETA and became the first INETA VP of Community Activities.

Morgan was instrumental in building the foundation of Community Activities for what has become a very active and successful part of INETA.

Rob Zelt, VP Technology,

Rob is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and Leadership Team member for the Triangle .Net User Group in Raleigh, NC and an active supporter of the local developer community, he has organized and presented at Code Camps and user group events on .NET related topics including Tablet PC, WPF, and WCF.

He maintains an active .NET and technology related blog (www.robzelt.com/blog) sharing experiences relating to software, technology, and community.