Ben Hoelting (http://www.benhblog.com) Senior Software Developer, Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. Graduated from Colorado State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Information Systems and a Minor in Computer Science. Ben joined the IT industry in 1996 as an intern and has worked with .NET since its inception back in 2002. Worked for the Gates Corporation (formally the Gates Rubber Company) from 2000 – 2005. He left Gates to pursue a consulting career. Currently he works for Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. in Colorado Springs. His most recent projects include a Silverlight line of business application that uses the ADO.NET Entity Framework to access the backend data store. He also still supports and adds features to a Windows forms Smart Client that requires offline support, an ASP.NET tracking system for the floral industry and a Microsoft CRM customization using ASP.NET. Ben is also a MCP, certified in both CRM Customizations and .NET Framework Application Development. Finally, Ben is very involved in the local .NET community and is the leader of the South Colorado .NET User Group.

Julie Yack, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Rocky Mountains - CO, MT, WY, UT and Virtual

Julie Yack is one of the founding partners of Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc and currently serves as Chief Operations Officer. Julie has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for her efforts in the CRM professional community. Julie is a Microsoft CRM Certified Professional, Microsoft Small Business Specialist and a Certified Scrum Master. She was named one of 101 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009 by WEmagazine.

Julie has been a vital part of three large scale publications in 2008 and is deep in progress on 2009’s Building Silverlight RIAs. She was a contributing Author for Voices for Change: Women's Words to Politicians. Julie was the Technical Editor for Wiley's The IT Girls Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva. She served as Editor and Publisher for (X)CRM as a Rapid Development Platform. All of these titles are available direct from their publishers or at www.amazon.com.

Julie's newest user group, XRMVirtual, is off to a great start and has several hundred members after its first meeting. Julie is also one of the founders of SouthColorado.NET, a user group focused on improving the knowledge base of .NET developers SouthColorado.NET is a member of INETA (www.ineta.org). Julie serves as the INETA membership mentor for a 4-state region as well as virtual groups globally and strives to help the developer community wherever possible. She was the Conference Chair for the inaugural .NET Developer vConference, reaching out globally to the .NET Developer community.

Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She runs the Kansas City Office Geeks in Leawood, KS. She organized the SharePoint Saturday Kansas City event. She is an active member of the Kansas City Development Community. She is a presenter at various SharePoint events and conferences throughout the United States. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePad. She enjoys working with SharePoint 2007, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at seven code camps, two conferences, and three user groups in the past two years. She currently lives in Olathe, Kansas where she works remotely for B&R Solutions. She lives with her cat, Gambit, and her boyfriend, Johnny. If you would like to contact her you can e-mail her at rebecca.isserman@gmail.com or fill out the contact form at her blog http://www.mosslover.com.

Brandon King is the owner of Peleta Software, an Independent Software Vendor that builds custom software for its clients. Brandon has over 13 years experience in both software development and database administration. His specialties are C#, SQL Server and ASP.NET with a special interest in composite applications and smart clients. Brandon helped found the Ozarks .NET User Group in Harrison, Arkansas, and enjoys mentoring new developers and promoting technology in his local community.

Ryan Duclos is a Technical Consultant for Perficient, Inc. (www.perficient.com) on Microsoft Technologies. He lives in LA (Lower Alabama)! He loves spending time with his family, as well as being a Community Influencer. Ryan can be found at regional events as a Speaker/Volunteer/Attendee. Ryan has been working with Microsoft Technologies since 2000. Ryan organizes and attends area User Groups events on a regular basis, and speaks primarily on SQL topics. Ryan currently helps run the Lower AL .Net User Group and the Pensacola SQL Server User Group along with promoting area events and communities in his region. Ryan can also be found blogging on http://rduclos.wordpress.com.

Ben Scheirman is an agile software developer from Houston, TX. He is a Microsoft MVP, Microsoft ASP Insider, Certified ScrumMaster, and all-around nice-guy. Ben enjoys speaking at various user groups and conferences to connect with the developer community. He also enjoys writing on his blog at http://flux88.com. Ben is writing his first book, ASP.NET MVC in Action from Manning Press. Ben is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti.

Tim Tyrrell is a Senior Programmer Analyst in the Information Systems Division at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. He works on the Sustainability and Reputation Management team building C# web applications for Wal-Mart's recycling, packaging reduction, and sustainable supplier/product efforts. He is a co-founder of the Wal-Mart .NET User Group and a Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group officer.

Tim is a Chicago native that now lives in Bentonville, Arkansas with his wife, Courtney, and 4 year old twins, Gavin and Ella. He has a Master of Information Systems Management (MISM) degree from DeVry University Keller Graduate School of Management (Oakbrook Terrace, IL) and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Antonio Chagoury is the CEO and Chief Software Architect of Inspector IT Inc (www.inspectorit.com), a .net and DotNetNuke solutions provider based in the Washington DC Metro Area. As a member of the DotNetNuke Core team and project lead of the Blog module as well as the Installer utility, he is an active contributor and supporter DotNetNuke and Open Source. Antonio Chagoury is the Co-Founder and President of the Capital DotNetNuke User Group (www.capitaldug.org) an effort intended to get DotNetNuke Enthusiasts in one room once a month to discuss a wide range of topics as well share ideas knowledge and experience on the platform. Antonio’s technical specialties range from Enterprise Software Architecture and Engineering, Business Systems Integrations, SOA, and of course all development based on the .net framework. He considers DotNetNuke Software Development and Consulting, Web 2.0, Office 2.0, and Enterprise 2.0 his hobbies. Antonio has lived and travelled extensively in Europe, Africa and the Middle-East and settled in the Washington DC area in 1999. He speaks English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. He blogs (in English) regularly at www.cto20.com.

Chris Williams, Director of Membership, is a Technology Evangelist for Magenic. He is the founder of several .NET User Groups on the east coast, and most recently the Twin Cities XNA User Group and Twin Cities Developers Guild, both in Minneapolis, MN. He is a rabid blogger at BlogusMaximus.net, author of the very popular NINE Questions series and owner of the VB Community site www.ILoveVB.net. His most recent project is the Charity Fragathon, a fundraiser event for Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. He's also a Visual Basic .NET MVP, MCT, MCSD (.NET) Early Adopter, MCAD, freelance game developer, occasional author, tech editor, conference speaker, vintage arcade game collector and most recently received the INETA Community Champion award. He also plays a pretty mean guitar in Rock Band. Lastly, yes, the rumors are true, he loves Visual Basic so much he even named his dog VB.

Dan Rigsby is a Lead Software Engineer for Interactive Intelligence in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dan has been an avid .Net developer since late 2001 starting with ASP.Net, but today concentrates on SOA, WCF, Smart Client applications, and a host of other areas. Dan is very active in the community as a developer, speaker, blogger, officer at IndyNDA, and moderator on the MSDN forums. He is always eager to help out others when he can and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for his work with Connected Systems in Wcf. As a certified ScrumMaster, Dan has been involved in agile techniques and project management. Read more about Dan and development adventures at http://www.danrigsby.com/ or connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.

David Hockenberry is the Lead Software Engineer at VertaSource in Buffalo, NY. He is a graduate of Binghamton University with a degree in Computer Science. David has been working professionally with .NET since 2003 when he was a junior in college. In January 2008, he started to lead the Western New York .NET Users Group (WNY DNUG). The WNY DNUG has been very successful in the last year, having between 40-75 developers at each monthly meeting, giving away a ton of swag, and bringing in speakers from all over the United States. In the coming months his main focus is to line up speakers, sponsors, and venues for the upcoming year of WNY DNUG meetings. Outside of work David is engaged to his beautiful fiancée Katie and is a volunteer wrestling coach at his graduating high school. On the weekends you may find him riding his ATVs, working on a Dirt Modified racecar that he sponsors, or watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.

Will Strohl is an ASP.Net architect and developer based in the Orlando Area. Having been in the web development field for over 10 years, he began professionally in 2000. Currently, Will is the Technology Director for an exciting new online travel company called RezHub.com. He is also an active member and President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group, and a member of the reformed DotNetNuke® Media Module Project Team. He regularly speaks at local events about DotNetNuke® and the various ways it can be used and managed. Most recently, Will has been publishing DNN videos on JumptStartTV, and is a contributing editor for Professional DotNetNuke 5 by Wrox.

Lori McKinney, Director of Marketing, is a Software Consultant for Intergraph Corporation's Process, Power & Marine division where she works developing web applications. She has 20 years experience developing software. Before joining Intergraph, she worked as a research engineer at Amoco Research Center in Tulsa, OK, modeling cuttings distribution for various drilling fluid/bit/geology combinations for a engineering simulator for drilling. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa.

Lori is a member of HUNTUG, Huntsville VS.NET User Group, and MOSSMOSIS Huntsville as well as INETA and Culminis. She served three years on the Board of Directors for HUNTUG and currently volunteers on the INETA Technology Team. She was named a Microsoft MVP in 2007 for Windows Server Customer Experience.

Lori lives with her husband and son near Huntsville, AL.

Michael Paladino is a software developer for EagleOne in Fort Smith, AR. He has over 6 years of experience developing web and desktop applications based on mostly Microsoft technologies. He started his career using classic ASP and moved into Windows Forms and ASP.NET within the last 4 years. He has also been increasingly involved with creating and maintaining SQL Server databases and has experience with a number of open source toolsets and frameworks such as SubSonic, DotNetNuke, and Umbraco. Michael is passionate about building the .NET community and is one of the co-founders and current president of the Fort Smith .NET User Group. You can contact Michael through his blog at http://www.mpaladino.com, via email at paladinomichael@gmail.com or via Twitter at twitter.com/mpaladino.

Jason Townsend has been developing professionally for over 10 years. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.B.A with Specialty in Information Technology Management from the University of Tulsa. He currently works for ConocoPhillips as a Sr. Analyst in Global Web Application Services where he helps in mentoring junior developers as well as developing applications using the latest Microsoft software stack. Before joining ConocoPhillips, Jason led a team of developers in developing natural language speech applications using proprietary platforms and the Microsoft software stack. Jason is also the President of the Bartlesville .NET User Group (http://www.bdnug.com) and routinely accepts speaking engagements ranging from Windows Communication Foundation to Microsoft Speech Server 2007. When he isn’t busy mentoring budding developers, or learning the newest technology Jason is spending time with his wife and four kids. Jason routinely blogs at http://www.okcodemonkey.com and can be reached via email at okcodemonkey@gmail.com.

John Baird began his computer programming career while in the US Navy. In 1982, he helped form and direct the first PC-based computer processing department for training and manpower in the Department of Defense. After leaving the military in 1988, John began a varied career as a consultant developing business applications ranging from computer-based training to vertical market software for resellers. Today, John is working for the industry leader in financial software for fund administration. In response to a Microsoft proposal, John started the Northern Delaware .Net User Group (www.nodenug.org) in September 2007. For his community service and dedication to mobile technologies, John was recently awarded MVP status for device application development.

Vishal Shukla has been programming since 1991 mainly on Microsoft technologies from GW Basic, Turbo Basic to .net 3.5. Vishal works as a System Architect for the Palm Beach County. He has been actively involved with local user group communities. He has been giving presentations at code camps, TechEd Tweener and various user group events. He also contributes by publishing technical articles on sites like codeproject, vbdotnetheaven and his own site. He started "Connecting Islands" user group for Palm Beach county employee, and has helped arrange various .net community events in Palm Beach area.

Adnan Masood works as a Sr. Software Engineer / Tech. Lead in a Monrovia-based financial institution where he builds SOA-based enterprise applications using Microsoft .NET Framework. He is a regular speaker to technical conferences and code camps, is attributed and published in print media and on the web, and holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Adnan is actively pursuing his doctoral degree in Machine Learning and is highly involved in the .NET community as co-founder of the San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers group. He holds various technical certifications including MCPD.NET, MCSD.NET, and SCJP-II and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). His blog can be found at www.AdnanMasood.com and he can be reached via email at adnanmasood at gmail.com.

Brian Hendrson works at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (http://www.fhcrc.org) in Seattle as a Software Engineer. He is passionate about software design and developing inspiring user experiences. Beyond the office he is involved in both the .NET and Agile developer communities as a contributor and a speaker. Brian's software expertise covers UI/UX, design, patterns and crafting software components. He enjoys playing with RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) and RESTful services. When not in front of a flat screen you can find Brian in the sky (flying), in the mountains (hiking), or on the water (kayaking).

Sujata Devraj is a software architect/technical lead currently working in the public safety software arena. With over a decade of experience in various environments/languages such as C, C++ (MFC/COM), VB 6.0, C#, ASP/ASP.NET/AJAX, mobile applications, XML, SQL etc. currently heavily focused on .NET 3.5 framework technologies such as WPF(XAML), Silverlight, WCF, LINQ, and BizTalk Server 2006.

Sujata is the current chairman of the .NET Users Group in Huntsville, AL and the group's liaison to INETA. She is actively involved in finding ways to get the user community more engaged and connected, by organizing events such as the first ever .NET code camp. As a testament to these efforts the membership of the user group has grown several fold in the last few years, and a bridge established with neighboring community leaders and groups.

Judy Calla assumed leadership of Central Penn .NET Users Group in December, 2003. Since her first meeting in January, 2004, the membership list has grown to over 400. From the beginning, it was her intent to share leadership of the group and form a Board of Directors. The Board has grown to nine members, all of who take an active part in the essential tasks of guiding and managing the group.

Judy has been a full-time programmer since 1989, and a Visual Studio developer since 2001. Besides leading Central Penn, she is a speaker at user group meetings and Philadelphia Code Camps, focusing on beginner topics in Visual Studio and SQL Server. She developed the Central Penn Boot Camp, a 4-week, 1-night-a-week series for programmers new to client server development, object oriented programming, Visual Studio, and SQL Server.

Jess Chadwick is the Lead Code Monkey on the Infragistics Website Team, responsible for keeping all their various web properties up and running. He has over 7 years experience with .NET technologies ranging from embedded devices in startups to enterprise-scale web farms at Fortune 500s. He is actively involved with the community, acting as Leader of the NJDOTNET Central New Jersey .NET user group, , founder of the “NJDOTNET Agile” and “NJDOTNET Dojo” spin-off groups, and actively contributing to various open source projects.

You can visit his website (with his blog and live demos) at http://www.jesschadwick.com/.

Joseph Guadagno has been very involved in his local development community. Joseph Guadagno started the Southeast Valley .NET User Group in December of 2007. This user group serves the Microsoft .NET developers of the Southeast Phoenix metropolitan area. He has organized a weekly lunch gathering of all technology people in the area. He handled the gathering of $45,000 worth of giveaways for the Phoenix hosted Scott Guthrie event and an average of $4,000 dollars a month for his user group giveaways.

Joseph is a Sitefinity CMS MVP. He has had articles published in Windows Developers Journal and CodeProject. Joseph heads up 3 open source projects for Sitefinity development and .NET plug in framework.

On a personal note, Joseph coaches his sons’ baseball team and volunteers for the Big Brother Big Sister program in Arizona.

Programmer and BI Developer Kristin Ferrier has nearly a decade of SQL Server experience and is President of the Oklahoma City Developers Group. She spent 8 years developing applications for diverse industries using PowerBuilder, VB6, and eventually .Net for the front-end languages. SQL Server always drove the back-end. During that time she obtained her MCAD, taking 2 of the exams in VB.Net and the third in C#.Net. In 2007, with her passion for database development, she jumped at the opportunity to join the Business Intelligence team at Sonic Drive-In where she works on anything from MS Analysis Services 2005 cube development, the latest enterprise database warehouse project, or any project where she can be a key problem solver.

Lou Vega is a software engineer working for CSSI, Inc. He's been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Device Application Development and is also an MCAD, and MCSD. He's both a founding member and current president of the Greater Charleston .NET User Group and is quite active in the developer community speaking at user groups and code camps as well as helping to organize and promote events. An avid old-school gamer, he occasionally finds time to pursue that hobby. When not connected to a computer he can usually be found home with his wife and children.

Philip Wolfe, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
North Central - IA, MN, ND, NE, SD

Philip Wolfe is one of the top .NET leaders in the Midwest region. He has been the president of the Omaha .NET user group (http://www.OmahaMTG.com) off and on for the past six and a half years, assistant director of the Heartland Developers Conference (http://www.heartlandDC.com) for the last four years, and INETA Membership Mentor for Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota for the last two years. He is very involved in the community by speaking at MSDN events, conferences, teaching .NET courses at the post-secondary level, and helping to start three separate Microsoft technology-related user groups. Philip has also served as a community liaison to Microsoft.

Since 1997, Philip has been using the latest in Microsoft technology to develop key business solutions. As a leader in .NET technology, he helped start the .NET user group in Omaha in 2001 and was one of the first 100 people in the world certified in .NET by Microsoft. Since then he has helped organize the nation's largest professional user group conference, Heartland Developers Conference, for the last four years and he has helped start three new user groups in the Omaha area for SQL Server, BizTalk, and Team System. He specializes in Windows Workflow applications, web-based portal applications, and Microsoft Patterns & Practices. He has also been involved in developing four Microsoft certification exams.