2008 Community Excellence Award Winner Profile: Bill Evjen


Bill Evjan Quick Facts:
  • Founder of INETA, served on INETA Board of Directors 2001-2005
  • Microsoft Regional Director, MVP for ASP .NET
  • INETA Speaker as well as TechEd, DevConnections, VSLive Speaker
  • Author of numerous books including Wrox Professional ASP.NET 3.5
  • Leader of St. Louis .NET User Group, www.stlnet.org
  • Blog: GeeksWithBlogs.net/evjen
Bill Evjen is an active proponent of the .NET technologies and community-based learning initiatives for .NET. He has been actively involved with .NET since the first bits were released in 2000. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Bill founded one of the first .NET user groups, St. Louis .NET User Group, www.stlnet.org. By 2001, Bill was already laying the foundation for the International .NET Association. He pitched the idea to Microsoft to receive funding and went on to build the highly regarded INETA Speakers Bureau consisting of the top ..NET presenters in the world. Catch the excitement by viewing the INETA video. Those early days of INETA were truly inspiring as the initial team of volunteers witnessed the phenomenal growth of user groups worldwide. We owe it all to you Bill!

In his professional life, Bill is an acclaimed author and speaker on next-generation Web Services and related technologies. He has written more than 18 books including Professional ASP.NET 3.5, Visual Basic ..NET Bible, Web Services Enhancements, ASP.NET Professional Secrets, Wrox Professional VB.NET 3rd Edition, Wrox Professional C# 2008, and XML Web Services for ASP.NET. In addition to working in the .NET world, Bill is a Technical Architect serving for Lipper (http://www.lipperweb.com) which is part of Reuters, the international news and financial services company. Bill graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, with a Russian language degree. When he isn’t tinkering on the computer, he enjoys spending his free time in his summer place in Toivakka, Finland.

2008 Community Excellence Award Recipients

Dave Noderer Julie Lerman Bill Evjen David McCarter Bill Jones Jr.

Dave first heard of INETA in September 2001. Excited, he went to PDC 2001 to find Bill Evjen and get involved. He joined the INETA Board of Directors in the summer of 2002, leading the User Group Relations Committee. New user groups were starting worldwide, and Dave was very... Julie Lerman has been involved in INETA since its early days and was an integral part of the growth from the original concept of a few user group leaders to a worldwide organization today. Julie worked on the User Group Relations Committee, eventually took on the role of Chairperson, and then move on to become a member of the INETA.... Bill Evjen is an active proponent of the .NET technologies and community-based learning initiatives for .NET. He has been actively involved with .NET since the first bits were released in.... David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP and a principal software engineer 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 Visual Basic Programmers Journal and has published three books... Bill Jones Jr. is a VB.NET MVP, INETA User Group Leader, INETA Membership Mentor, speaker, Code Camp organizer and does way too much to list it all here. But the impact he has had on his community extends outside his town of Charlotte, North Carolina. Bill has been influential with the starting of many of the other UG's in his region...
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