The people behind INETA

INETA relies on all of the hard working volunteers on the Board of Directors and in the various committees to plan and deliver INETA programs and benefits to user groups worldwide. These individuals contribute massive amounts of their free time to help INETA help you, the user groups of the world. We gratefully acknowledge their efforts, and thank them on behalf of the entire community.

INETA Speaker Bureau Committee

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Member Bio

Chris Williams, Director of Speakers, 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.

David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications and IBM Global Services. In March 2007, he returned to Winner Communications as Manager of Technical Architecture and was promoted to Manager of Software Development and Technical Architecture in June 2007.

He is the President of his own growing consulting business Professional Business Technologies, Inc. He is the current President of the Tulsa Developers .NET user group, founder and President of the Tulsa SQL Server Group and Tulsa Java Developers Group and the Vice-President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group.

He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005.

Caleb Jenkins is a training mentor and consultant in Dallas, TX, with Improving Enterprises, Inc. (www.ImprovingEnterprises.com). Improving specializes in delivering enterprise solutions and mentoring on the Microsoft and Java platforms.

Host, cameraman and editor for http://CommunityCast.tv; as a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist, 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, 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 or blog at www.calebjenkins.com

Jay Smith is PMO Architect and Evangelist for Tyson Foods, Inc. where he works with teams to improve the development process and to learn new concepts and designs. Jay has help to develop several internal user groups that creates an environment where IT professionals can share best practices.

Jay is a founding member of the President for the Northwest Arkansas .Net User’s Group and has served on the NWA Dnug board 4 year, two years as president.

Jay currently serves on the INETA Technology Team and Speakers Committee where he continues to work to improve the community we all enjoy.

You can read more about Jay on his blog http://www.jaysmith.us or follow his tweets at http://twitter.com/jaysmith.

You can also check out Jay's community focused podcast User Group Radio at http://usergroupradio.com.

Omar Villarreal is a Development Process Consultant for Notion Solutions, Inc. in Irving, Tx. He is passionate about helping development teams implement better project management and development processes as well as to produce better quality software in record times through the use of the right tools and he has been doing that and since the early beta releases of Team System.

Omar is a Team System MVP, MCP, President of the Dallas .Net Users Group, Founder and President of the Dallas Team System Users Group and has organized two Code Camps in Dallas, Tx. Omar also speaks about Team System at regional community events but when there is none of that going on, he rides his mountain bike at different off-road trails in the D/FW area. You can read the blog posts he writes when he finds time between all these activities at http://www.TeamSystemRocks.com/blogs/omarv.