Kevin Griffin
Membership Mentor for Virginia

Kevin Griffin is a .NET Developer for Antech Systems, located in Chesapeake, VA. He's an ASPInsider and the leader of the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group. Often, he can be found speaking at or attending other local user group meetings or code camps. He enjoys working with new technology, and consistently works on being a better developer and building the best software he can.

Follow Kevin on Twitter: http://twitter.com/1kevgriff

Read Kevin's Blog: http://www.kevgriffin.com

Andrew Karcher
Membership Mentor for Southern California

As a consultant with Clarity Consulting (http://www.claritycon.com), for over 8 years, Andrew's duties include architecting and developing solutions, both client\server and web applications, for a variety of clients in diverse fields such as transportation, financial services, and hospitality. Andrew is a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server and serves as a Board Member of the San Diego .Net User Group and San Diego SQL Server Users Group and is the INETA Membership Mentor for Southern California. He has presented to multiple user groups and Code Camps across the U.S. on topics such as SQL Server 2005, .Net Development, and SharePoint Server 2007 and is an instructor at UCSD Extension. You can catch up with Andrew on his Blog (http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/andrew_karcher/default.aspx) or by emailing him at akarcher@claritycon.com.

Andy Beaulieu, Syracuse, New York, USA
Northeast - CT, NJ, NY, MA, RI, ME, NH, VT

Andy Beaulieu is a professional software developer with over 10 years of experience building applications for Windows and the Web. He is very involved in the .NET developer community and enjoys presenting at user groups and code camps, and communicating through his blog at www.andybeaulieu.com. He holds a B.A. in Computer and Information Science from Potsdam College of the State University of New York, as well as several Microsoft certifications including Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, Microsoft Certified Application Developer, and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Visual Studio 6.

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.

Cliff Jacobson
Membership Mentor for Georgia

Cliff Jacobson is a Senior .NET developer in the Atlanta area working at a casual games company that also produces Class 3 casino gaming equipment. Cliff has been developing both web applications and enterprise software since 1998 when doing CGI in PERL and Visual Basic with Access databases was popular. After making the natural transition to Classic ASP on Microsoft SQL server, Cliff then switched to be a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) at a CTEC in the Minneapolis area. Cliff has presented on a variety of topics from networking to web development and was often requested to be the trainer by clients.

Cliff has also worked on a variety of Windows forms applications, a ASP.NET MVC project for a client, and recently started a WPF project for an internal Point-Of-Sale application. Cliff has learned to still be surprised at how often utilities like regsvr32 or its counterpart gacutil are still sometimes used to accomplish simple tasks, which motivates Cliff to share his experiences and knowledge with others to make their jobs easier.

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

Derek Hatchard, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Quebec and Atlantic Canada - NB, NL, NS, PE, QC

Derek Hatchard is a web entrepreneur, consultant, and trainer/mentor. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, author, and speaker. He blogs at www.ardentdev.com and www.derekhat.com, and he co-hosts a developer podcast at www.devcasting.com. Derek is based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada where he runs the Dev East (Moncton) and Dev East (Halifax) user groups. In 2002, Derek helped turn a dormant Visual Basic group in Moncton into an active .NET user group (.NET NB). In 2004, Derek started the .NET Nova Scotia user group in Halifax. In 2007, those groups were renamed Dev East (Moncton) and Dev East (Halifax) respectively.

David Giard
Membership Mentor for Michigan and Ohio

David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. In the past, he has spoken at Day of .Net, CodeStock, Microsoft DevCares, Microsoft ArcReady, Dot Net University, X Conference and numerous user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA, as well as a BS and an MBA. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends (http://technologyandfriends.com). He is president of the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group. He is an avid photographer and has visually documented many of the Heartland community events. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com.

David lives in Michigan with his two teenage sons.

David Hoerster
Membership Mentor for Pennsylvania

David Hoerster, who has been working with the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early 1.0 betas, is CIBER's Microsoft Practice Director in Pittsburgh, and has worked for CIBER, a pure-play software consulting company, since 2003. Prior to that, David has worked for several software product development companies in the role of software engineer and architect and has over 15 years of industry experience. David is also owner of AgileWays, a technology services firm specializing in providing software architecture, design and development solutions based upon Microsoft technologies. David is the co-chair of the Pittsburgh .NET User's Group (PGHDOTNET) and is also a frequent speaker at Pittsburgh's user group and code camp events. As co-chair of PGHDOTNET, David's responsibilities include recruiting new members to the group, helping with the logistics of the events, and also encouraging community participation by recruiting members to speak at the regular meetings. For Pittsburgh's Code Camp events, David has been a track coordinator where he was responsible for recruiting speakers, determining appropriate track topics, helping with planning and logistics and assisting with the overall planning of the event. He has also been a frequent speaker at Philadelphia's Code Camps, where his presentations have included topics on Microsoft BizTalk Server and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

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.

Eric Hexter
Membership Mentor for Southern Texas

Frank La Vigne, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Mid-Atlantic - DC, DE, MD

Frank La Vigne is a Microsoft Tablet PC MVP and Lead Architect/Designer for Applied Information Sciences (AIS) in Northern Virginia. Frank started in software development when he was twelve, writing BASIC programs for the Commodore 64. He began his professional career writing Visual Basic 3 applications for Wall Street firms in 1993. He then moved on to be the first webmaster for a major book retailer. Frank then went on to develop a large multinational online banking project in Germany. In 2004, Frank became heavily focused on Tablet PC application development. Since then, he has been working on various tablet-based solutions. Frank was president of the Richmond.NET User Group and organized the first Richmond Code Camp. In 2006 , he moved to Northern Virginia and began helping the CapArea.NET user group. Recently, he organized the Silverlight DevCamp DC, the first community driven Silverlight event on the East Coast. See his blog at http://www.FranksWorld.com.

George Durzi is a consultant at Clarity Consulting in Chicago. He organizes the annual MOSSCamp SharePoint developer event, and actively blogs about topics such as SharePoint development, TFS, Office Communications Server, and WPF. George has presented at DevCares, MOSSCamp, Office Developer Conference, TechReady, and TechEd North America 2008.

Nolan Zak, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Pacific Canada - BC, YT

Nolan Zak is an ASP.NET application architect. He has been leading the Victoria .NET Developers Association since June 2004 and has also operated three successful code camps. Nolan mentors other user group leaders on how to run their groups successfully. He also participates in regular discussions with other user group leaders on how to create successful online/offline communities.

Javier G. Lozano
North Central - IA, MN, ND, NE, SD

Javier is an ASP.NET Insider and MVP that specializes in ASP.NET, system architecture, and training. During the day, he enjoys helping Imagetek, an enterprise content management provider based in Grimes, Iowa, to deliver quality products and services to their clients. Outside of work, Javier has helped co-found the Iowa .NET Users Group as well as the Iowa Code Camp.

On his blog, http://blog.lozanotek.com, you can find posts on ASP.NET, Silverlight, architecture, and design patterns just to name a few topics. Javier is an avid supporter of the community and likes to give back by speaking at user groups, local/regional .NET events, participating in forums, and by writing articles. In his spare time, Javier loves spending time with his family and enjoys writing about himself in the third person.

Julie Yack
Director of Membership

Julie Yack, MBA 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 several large scale publications 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 Director of Membership for INETA and strives to help the developer community wherever possible.

Michael Paladino
Membership Mentor for Arkansas

Michael Paladino is a software developer for Rockfish Interactive in Rogers, AR. He has over 8 years of experience developing web and desktop applications based on mostly Microsoft technologies.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.

Paul Mehner is an instructor and consultant for Wintellect, a training and consulting firm dedicated to helping clients ship better software faster. His expertise is with Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation. For more than three decades, Paul has been a software developer, architect, project manager, consultant, speaker, mentor, instructor, and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of the South Sound .NET User Group, one of the oldest recorded .NET user groups in the world, and was one of the earliest committee members of INETA. Paul currently specializes in .NET technologies for state government business systems. He has also provided community college instruction on .NET software development and he is an active trainer at software community events such as Code Camps. Prior to being reborn as a .NET protagonist in 2000, Paul's experience included over 20 years supporting many flavors of the UNIX operating system. Paul began his early computing career in 1977 on a homebuilt breadboard computer.

Rob Windsor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ontario Canada - ON

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 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

Shawn Weisfeld (shawn@shawnweisfeld.com, http://www.shawnweisfeld.com)
Director of Community Activities, INETA NORAM
Membership Mentor for North Texas, INETA NORAM

Shawn is a Staff Developer at a Fortune 100 company, currently located at the Dallas TX facility. There he specializes in intranet and smart client development for internal line of business applications. Besides his day job Shawn is also an Adjunct Professor at The Florida Institute of Technology (http://www.fit.edu). He also does freelance software development work for local small businesses and training. In his free time, he volunteers with INETA NorAm (http://www.ineta.org) as a member of the Board of Directors and Mentor for North Texas.

Shawn started his career at his family business in Port St. Lucie, FL, while working on his undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of Central Florida. After a year off Shawn moved back to Orlando to pursue a Masters degree in Management Information Systems at The University of Central Florida and has since earned a second Masters degree in Computer Information Systems from Florida Institute of Technology. Shawn was awarded the Microsoft C# Most Valuable Professional award for 2007 - 2010. Shawn is an avid technology presenter and since July of 2005 Shawn has presented at many user group events, and even got to speak at the launch of Visual Studio. Shawn has served as the President of the Orlando .NET UG (http://www.onetug.org) from 2006 – 2008, and started the Developer Round Table UG (http://www.developerroundtable.com) in 2009. Shawn regularly attends, and records for INETA LIVE (http://live.ineta.org), many of the local user groups in the D/FW metroplex, including; D/FW Connected Systems UG, Dallas .NET UG, Dallas ASP.NET UG, Dallas C# Programming Sig, Dallas VSTS UG, North Dallas .NET UG, North Texas PC UG, UT Dallas .NET UG. So be sure to say hello if you see him.

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.

Zach Young is a FileNet Solution Architect at JB Hunt Transportation in Lowell, Arkansas. His job includes researching existing technologies, assisting development teams with architecture designs, and integrating current enterprise systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration at The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Zach is the President of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group and co-founder of the Virtual Alt.Net (VAN) user group. In addition to working with these groups, Zach volunteers his time to assist his church with lighting and the sound board during services. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, reading technical books, and being outdoors. Zach regularly blogs at www.zachariahyoung.com.