Kevin Griffin
Director of Membership

Kevin Griffin has been working as a professional developer since 2006, where his first job was working on components for the Symantec security suites. Kevin is the owner of Griffin Consulting, Inc. As an Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, Kevin spends a lot of time teaching and mentoring developers to learn new technologies and to be better developers. Over three years ago, Kevin started the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group and now serves as a Director of Membership for INETA. You can find Kevin speaking at conferences, code camps, and user groups across the country.

Bill Jones Jr., Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Carolinas - NC, SC

Bill Jones Jr., as a Solutions Architect, specializes in software development using .NET, VB.Net, ASP.NET, C# and SQL Server. He is well versed in all phases of the development cycle - process, class abstraction, data structures, reporting and user interface. In his spare time, Bill founded and continues to lead the Enterprise Developers Guild, the .Net User Group in Charlotte NC with more than 2300 members. Bill is delighted to be designated as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Basic .Net. He has also qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional in both Visual Basic.Net and C#. He is the INET Membership Mentor for the two Carolinas and has been awarded as an INETA Community Champion for Lifetime Achievement.

Chris Ortman
North Central - IA, MN, ND, NE, SD

Chris Ortman is a developer at Innovative Systems in Mitchell SD. He specializes in web development and is a git enthusiast.

Michael Cummings
Membership Mentor for Massachusetts

D'Arcy Lussier, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Great Plains Canada - AB, MB, SK, NT, NU

D'Arcy Lussier, as part of the emerging Canadian Developer Community 2.0, has been an active member of the developer community for many years. In addition to being part of the leadership for the Winnipeg .NET User Group, he has organized various user group tours which saw Roy Osherove, Jean-Paul Boodhoo, and Jean-Luc David among others, make their way across central Canada for the benefit of Canadian user groups. In addition to his community efforts, D'Arcy holds an MCSD and has been developing with .NET since the initial beta. His focus over the last six years has been on web development with ASP.NET. He has presented at the Winnipeg .NET User Group, the Calgary Code Camp, and the Twin Cities Code Camp on ASP.NET.

Dennis J. Bottjer
Membership Mentor for Oklahoma

Dennis J. Bottjer is a solutions architect, consultant, teacher, blogger and speaker. As a three time Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP, he specializes in SharePoint and Web Development. Dennis has over 12 years of industry experience with an emphasis on the Financial and Banking Sectors. As an associate for a Fortune 100 Financial Services Company, Dennis was a key contributor during the development of an underwriting system and fulfillment system. Dennis builds community by regularly participating in user groups and community events. He has been a user group president and is currently an INETA.org membership mentor. Dennis lives in Tulsa, OK with his wife Carrie, daughter Kate, son Will and three cats.

Blog: www.DennisBottjer.com

Twitter: Follow Me @dbottjer

Doug Spindler
Membership Mentor for Northern California

Douglas R. Spindler grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. He wrote his fist computer program was when he was 12 years old on a Teletype machine with paper tape and a 300 baud modem connected to the University of California at Berkeley. After writing a program too long for tape he began using punch cards then cassette tapes on an IBM-PC. Doug attended the University of California and received a degree in Molecular-Cellular and Developmental Biology while still maintaining an interest in computers and technology. While in college Doug became involved in technology user groups and later founded Pacific IT Professionals or Pac IT Pros. The interest in the Pac IT Pros community still continues to grow. Doug's monthly Pac IT Pros meetings are simulcast live to 9 other IT Pro community groups on the west coast. Microsoft recognized Doug's work in the IT Pro community and invited him to become a member of Microsoft's IT Pro Council which lead to him supporting IT Pro communities across the US, South America, Europe and India. Doug is the creator of TechDays, technical training events "where IT Pros learn IT today, and deploy IT tomorrow". Doug works as a Technology Consultant for the past twenty-five years. He has designed solutions for the US Department of Energy, UCSF Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, Lawrence National Laboratory, GTE, and several financial institutions. Doug also teaches Microsoft technology classes at a Bay Area College, is an author, lecturer and on occasion can be found on the local evening TV news broadcast commenting on technology. Doug has earned several Microsoft certifications which include MCSE 2003, MCITP Server 2008, and Microsoft Certified Trainer. Doug is a four time award winner of Microsoft's prestigious MVP award and was selected by Windows IT Pro Magazine's as their first IT Pro Hero. Doug lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his four kids, and 12 Microsoft Servers.

Gaines Kergosien
Membership Mentor for Tennessee

Caleb Jenkins is the founder and a Principal Mentor with Proaction Mentors in Dallas, TX. He also blogs as a Silverlight & Windows Phone Expert Ninja

Microsoft MVP, INETA National Speaker; Caleb was the lead software architect for Six Flags corporation, worked for Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist, has worked as a technical editor for Wrox Press and has consulted and mentored developers for several fortune 100 companies. As a long time community leader ,Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .NET architect, Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise .NET Solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; American Airlines, Countrywide Mortgage, Six Flags Corporation, Travelocity, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrift Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few.

Caleb lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busies himself playing Candy Land and Xbox 360 with their four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speaks at conferences, and writes code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually he'll post some of the gazillion interviews that he's recorded on CommunityCast. You can follow Caleb on twitter (@calebjenkins or at his blog www.developingUX.com

Jay Harris - @jayharris
Membership Mentor for Michigan

Jay Harris is a code wrangler, a software consultant, and is president of Arana Software. He has been developing on the web for over 15 years, since the Blink tag lured him away from Visual Basic 3 back in 1995. With a career focus on user experience, he is a strong advocate of practices and processes that improve quality through code, ranging from automated testing, continuous integration, and performance analysis. Jay is also an active speaker and leader in the developer community, a Microsoft MVP in C#, an ASPInsider, and an organizer of many conferences and user groups in the Ann Arbor area.

Originally from Rochester, New York, he and his wife, Amy, have lived in Michigan since 2003. They like Michigan, but still consider themselves tourists, and probably always will.

John Baird is the founder of Xamlware, Inc., a professional consulting firm specializing in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development. John has 30 years of experience designing, coding, and implementing software solutions.

John co-founded the Northern Delaware .Net Users group, is heavily involved in the local .Net communities, and travels extensively presenting to user groups, code camps and special interest groups. John has also published a number of articles for CoDe magazine.

John is also a 3 time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP award and is one of the first MVP’s for Windows Phone 7.

John Petersen has been developing software for 20 years, starting with dBase, Clipper and FoxBase + thereafter, migrating to FoxPro and Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic. Other areas of concentration include Oracle and SQL Server - versions 6-2008. John is the Philadelphia Microsoft Practice Director for CEI America (www.ceiamerica.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner. From 1995 to 2001, he was a Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP. Today, his emphasis is on ASP MVC .NET applications. He is a current Microsoft ASP .NET MVP. In 1999, he wrote the definitive whitepaper on ADO for VFP Developers. In 2002, he wrote the Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Databases for Que Publishing. John was a co-author of Visual FoxPro Enterprise Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock, Ron Talmadge and Eric Ranft. He was also a co-author of Visual Basic Web Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock and Richard Campbell. In 2004, John graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree. He passed the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar exams and was in private practice for several years.

Armanda Turney
Membership Mentor for Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky

Armanda is a freelance web designer and marketing consultant with clients nationwide as well as in the Ft. Wayne area. Armanda attended the University of Tampa and graduated with a few science related B.S. degrees. She took a few years off when her children were younger and returned to the work force in 1999 as a full time web developer and consultant. At one point, Armanda oversaw the Merchant Account program at a local bank. That experience coupled with her marketing, & computer experience along with a little scientific method to get things done, provided a strong background to make the jump to the web. Armanda has recently accepted the volunteer position of Ineta Representative for Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky.

Perry Neal

Roberto Hernandez
Membership Mentor for Virtual Groups

Roberto is currently a Managing Consultant for Excella living in the Northern Virginia region right outside Washington, DC. He has been designing and writing software solutions using Microsoft technology for the past 12 years. He is passionate about doing things right and finding the right “simple” solution for the job. He is originally from the Dominican Republic, and is the proud father of two beautiful daughters that make his life special<.p>.

Rob Windsor
Membership Mentor for Ontario Canada

Rob Windsor is a Senior Consultant and the Director of Training with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. Rob focuses on the architecture, design and development of custom business applications using leading edge Microsoft technologies. In addition Rob is a top rated instructor - authoring and teaching courses on .NET development, SharePoint and software architecture. As a member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau, Rob has had a chance to present at conferences, code camps, and user group meetings in Toronto and across North America. He is President of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the developer community.

Scott Cate is a Co-Founder and CTO of EventDay.com , in Scottsdale, Arizona.
EventDay.com offers world class Event and Conference Management technology. Scott also runs the Arizona .NET User
group, an Arizona based INETA User Group. Scott created AZGroups.org
which offers a community calendar that is shared between many Arizona based user groups. 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 fiction novel titled Surveillance.

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

Ken Tucker
Membership Mentor for Florida

Ken is the President of the Space Coast .Net User Group and a frequent speaker at Florida Code Camps. Ken is also a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic.

Woody Pewitt
Membership Mentor for Southern California and Hawaii

Woody Pewitt is the Product Manager at MindTouch where he helps MindTouch can make innovative products and solutions to enable customers get greater returns for their organizations.

Before joining MindTouch he worked at Microsoft in Southern California doing several Evangelism jobs where he got to work with all kinds of people who are interested in Microsoft development technologies. He is an experienced developer, teacher/trainer and is a part-time instructor at University of California San Diego. Woody has worked on software and system architecture, code, development and infrastructure reviews and analysis of several fortune 500 companies for salability, security, performance and standards & practices. He is also an accomplished author, having written Microsoft Official Curriculum and has authored several published magazine articles.

Prior to his time in technology Woody was an electronic technician in the United States Navy. Woody and his wife Sam have 2 boys that keep them on the run!