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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, a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), and a member of the INETA North American Speakers Bureau. |
| Chris Hammond is a Technical Evangelist with Engage Software (www.engagesoftware.com) in St. Louis, Missouri. Chris has worked with DotNetNuke (DNN) since its inception and been a DNN Core Team member for nearly five years. Solidifying his role within the DNN community as a leading expert and evangelist on the platform Chris has been a frequent presenter at conferences, user groups and companies around the world. Chris is a recently publish WROX Author coauthoring DotNetNuke 5 User's Guide, and provides tips and tricks through his blogs at DotNetNuke.com and EngageSoftware.com. He is also an active DNN Community member, providing support in the DNN Forums. You can read more about Chris on his personal blog at www.chrishammond.com. |
| Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-Lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years experience in IT and has worked at various companies like Aetna, IBM, UNICEF and State of Connecticut. He was twice awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Groove:Architecture - http://tinyurl.com/sbcmvp and is also an Acting Director of the Connecticut .NET Developers Group http://www.ctdotnet.org He moderates Microsoft Groove workspaces - http://ctdotnet.org/Groove.aspx He is active within Facebook & Twitter and blogs when he can at http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee When he is not computing, he is flying. |
| Arthur P. Villa has been providing technical solutions for over twenty years to business clients in both the private and public sectors. Since October of 2000 Art’s main focus has been business development, project team build-out, high-level project conceptualization, and project management as President of Breakthrough Business Solutions, Inc. (www.breakthroughbiz.com). Art has been actively involved with the developer community through his entire development career. Highlights include organizing/running the LA C# Developer Group (2001-present) and the SoCal .NET Developer Group (2005-present), board member of LA Fox (2000 – 2008), and co-organizing the 2008 LA Code Camp event at USC. |
| Jay Smith is PMO Architect and Evangelist for Tyson Foods, Inc. where he works with teams to improve the development process and to learn new concepts and designs. Jay has help to develop several internal user groups that creates an environment where IT professionals can share best practices.
Jay is a founding member of the President for the Northwest Arkansas .Net User’s Group and has served on the NWA Dnug board 4 year, two years as president.
Jay currently serves on the INETA Technology Team and Speakers Committee where he continues to work to improve the community we all enjoy.
You can read more about Jay on his blog http://www.jaysmith.us or follow his tweets at http://twitter.com/jaysmith.
You can also check out Jay's community focused podcast User Group Radio at http://usergroupradio.com. |
| Teresa Hennig is a business consultant, author and community leader, who loves project management and helping others. Her company, Data Dynamics Northwest, offers consulting and database solutions. Teresa’s acumen for quickly grasping a client’s industry, processes and needs, permits her rapid partnering in creating cost effective custom solutions. To match expertise and resources to needs, Teresa forges liaisons with developers and clients across the country, and she uses a similar approach with international projects and partnerships.
Motivated by new challenges, Teresa has enjoyed several “once-in-a-lifetime” triumphs; including creating and deploying a paperless patient tracking system for a teen clinic in Uganda, climbing Mt. Rainier, and raising money to cure paralysis. Teresa is also the president of two developer groups, a sponsor and mentor for user groups in three other states, a key player in several INETA initiatives, and a participant in several Microsoft projects. Her two monthly newsletters have an international audience. As the lead author of several technical books, Teresa is privileged to help her colleagues to become published authors; and as one stated, it was “a dream come true.” She has earned Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award annually since 2006. Whether working with clients, partners, fellow developers or charitable causes, Teresa energizes and empowers people.
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| Chris Eargle began coding shareware in his teens for the Legend of the Red Dragon by Seth Able Robinson. From there, he developed a career unintentionally following the products of Anders Hejlsberg: from Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C#. Currently, he is an enterprise architect at South Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance in Columbia, SC.
Chris is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Visual C# and an INETA Community Champion. He is the president of the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild and enjoys speaking at code camps, conferences, and user group meetings. |
| Randy Walker, Director of Speakers has been instrumental in helping the developer community as an INETA Mentor and Microsoft MVP. He is the founder of Harvest I.T., a small business ISV (Independant Software Vendor) that services Vendorville, the Walmart Consumer Package Goods Industry. In Randy’s blog, http://www.mysoftwarestartup.com, he tries to help other small technology startups. Randy has been an avid VB programmer for the past 12 years and encourages the use of Microsoft’s .Net platform for enterprise business use. |
| Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc., in Scottsdale, Arizona.
myKB.com is a technology company specializing in commercial ASP.NET
applications. His product line includes CloudDB.com, myKB.com,
KBAlertz.com, and a few others. Scott also runs the Arizona .NET User
group, an Arizona based INETA User Group. Scott created AZGroups.com
which is a simple calendar that is shared between many Arizona based
user groups, to act as a single calendar to post and share local
community events. Scott also works with INETA as a User Group Mentor
for User Groups in the Desert region (AZ, NM, NV). INETA is also proud
to include Scott Cate as an INETA Speaker to travel around North
America and deliver .NET related content to other NorAm user groups.
Scott was a founding board member, and now a current member of
ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early feedback to the
Microsoft ASP.NET Team. Scott has also been awarded the ASP.NET MVP
every year, since 2004. In the authoring category, Scott has
co-authored an AJAX book titled "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET",
authored two full length ASP.NET AJAX (C# and Visual Basic) Video
Training Courses for AppDev, as well as the non-fiction novel titled
"Surveillance" ( http://surveillance-the-novel.com ).
Outside of community and work efforts, Scott enjoys the perfect
family. It sounds to good to be true, but really it's true. Scott and
Jamie have two perfect children, that are perfect in every way. Jamie,
Cameron, and Courtney are what make all the hard work worth while.
Finally, Scott has set a 2009 New Years Community Resolution, to
repost Sara Ford's very famous ""Visual Studio Tip of the Day"" in video
format. His goal is to create all 382 posts in video format before
the end of 2009. The videos are posted in blog format on
http://ScottCate.com/Tricks
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| Greg Pugh is a .NET developer / consultant in Durham, NC.
I started my technical career in the IT infrastructure world and switched from chips to salsa 5 years ago and never looked back - coding is a blast. Learning and teaching about design patterns and modular architectures is my constant interest and my current passion is exploring OO best practices and applying them using the ASP.NET MVC framework sprinkled with Ajax and jQuery for flavor. I started hosting VB/Access user group meetings in the early 90's and switched to .NET as soon as it came out (www.TRINUG.org). We host a monthly meeting with big name presenters and a couple of code camps a year, and what I really enjoy is our ~6 per month Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings where local developers present and we can get our hands on the code and have some lively in depth discussions. I help keep the group alive with my weekly newsletter backed up with a Google calendar. We use a wiki (trinug.pbwiki.com) to make sharing content easy and Google groups to keep things interactive.
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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 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 Presenter Mentor User Group, www.presentermentor.org. This group is dedicated to developing local technical speakers.
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 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 Presenter Mentor User Group, www.presentermentor.org. This group is dedicated to developing local technical speakers.
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