2008 Community Excellence Award Winner Profile: Julie Lerman


Julie Lerman Quick Facts:
  • Served on INETA Board of Directors 2002-2005, Speakers Bureau Committee 2005-2007
  • MVP for SQL Server
  • INETA Speaker as well as DevConnectrions, TechEd Speaker
  • Author of numerous articles for well-known publications
  • Leader of Vermont .NET User Group, www.vtdotnet.org
  • Blog: TheDataFarm.com/blog/
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 North America Board of Directors.

In addition to INETA, Julie has been the spirited leader of the Vermont .NET User Group based in Burlington, VT, her home state. She has worked tirelessly to build a vibrant community that provides great value to all the developers in that area.

When asked why she loves giving back to the developer community, Julie spoke of the camaraderie, love of the profession, meeting great people, sharing knowledge, and just being part of something fun and rewarding.

Anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Julie in person or hearing her speak knows that she epitomizes the true meaning of community with her unbounded enthusiasm that is infectious. She loves to share her enthusiasm for technology and bring people together so that they may benefit from interacting with one another, thereby building a better community for everyone.

Thanks Julie for all the time you have given and how you have made our community better in so many ways!

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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