David Silverlight, VP Marketing, is an independent software developer with deep knowledge of XML and Microsoft’s .NET. An avid teacher and evangelist, he created and maintains 4 developer communities, each one tying into different facets of the development community. Here is a little bit about them....

Community-Credit.com is a development community that rewards techies for their contributions to the development community. Developers get points for things like examples, discussions, blogs, article, etc. At the end of each month, the geeks with the most points win prizes.

XMLPitstop.com is a great resource for XML and .NET developers at all levels of experience. The site is notable for its appeal to hands-on developers, offering good demo applications that provide a full working, downloadable versions of commonly sought functionality.

RealTechnologyHeroes.com uses Geek Humor to recognize people for their special talents. You can send an award to somebody or define your own award.

GeekTradingCards.com is a site that has a more creative way of displaying your contributions to the development community.... In the form of a trading card.

Jay Lazzaro has been working with Microsoft technologies for the past 12 years primarily in ASP and SQL creating applications for the world's largest SCUBA diving training agency PADI. Currently he is a technical lead for PADI working to rebuild their core business system from COBAL to .Net.

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Lori McKinney is a Software Consultant for Intergraph Corporation's Process, Power & Marine division where she works developing web applications. She has 20 years experience developing software. Before joining Intergraph, she worked as a research engineer at Amoco Research Center in Tulsa, OK, modeling cuttings distribution for various drilling fluid/bit/geology combinations for a engineering simulator for drilling. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa.

Lori is a member of HUNTUG, the Huntsville New Technology User Group, and Huntsville VS.NET User Group as well as INETA and Culminis. She served three years on the Board of Directors for HUNTUG and currently volunteers on the INETA Technology Team.

Lori lives with her husband and son near Huntsville, AL.

Lou Vega is a founding member and current president of the Greater Charleston .NET User group. He is very dedicated in a wide variety of areas relating to software development. His contributions on various forums show his breadth of knowledge as well. You can also tell that he is an old school gamer. If you view his bio, you can see a wide variety of contributions. When he is not contributing, he works as a software engineer for CSSI, Inc. He's an MCAD and MCSD for .NET and has been developing in .NET since 2002 with experience writing Active Directory management applications for large scale deployments. In late 2004 he began development of a Pocket PC Aviation Weather program for the U.S. Navy and enjoyed working on that so much that in 2005 he started BrainThump, LLC, his own company developing Pocket PC software including Binary clock and SpaceWx - the first Pocket PC Space-Weather application.

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Rick Bartlett has over 20 years of experience in the areas of application development, database administration, and project management.

Specializing in ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net, SQL Server, JavaScript, Delphi and related technologies.

Rob Zelt, VP Technology,

Rob is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and Leadership Team member for the Triangle .Net User Group in Raleigh, NC and an active supporter of the local developer community, he has organized and presented at Code Camps and user group events on .NET related topics including Tablet PC, WPF, and WCF.

He maintains an active .NET and technology related blog (www.robzelt.com/blog) sharing experiences relating to software, technology, and community.

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Stephen Rose has spent the past 15 years working both as a trainer and consultant. I am a firm believer that a good teacher does what he teaches. I have taught for both private companies as well as state universities.

I am an MCSE for Windows 2003, 2000 and NT. I specialize in network infrastructure design and server virtualization.

In my career I have been lucky enough to work with companies like ADP, Miller Brewing, 5th 3rd Bank, NFL, Department of Justice, UCLA, Columbia College, California State University, IBM, McDonalds, Pacific Western and many, many, more.

I am a partner in Odyssey Consulting Group (www.ocgpros.com) along with fellow ASP .NET MVP Daniel Egan. We have clients throughout the United States and Canada

I was born in Montreal, Canada (Go Habs!) and was raised in Chicago (Yup….Cubs fan) and I know real pizza (Gino’s).

To learn more, visit my tech blog @ http://mcsegeek.wordpress.com or my Fast Company blog @ http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/srose/

Wes MacDonald has fourteen years of EDP experience as a Software Architect, Systems Analyst, Designer, Developer, DBA and LAN administrator. His quick grasp of new technologies and desire to keep at the vanguard of micro computer technologies makes Wes an invaluable asset to any project. Wes excels in obtaining and understanding the business rules and all user interface activities. As a Senior Developer/Architect Wes has been responsible for all aspects of software development including installations, configurations of database and application server software required during development. Wes has been involved with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server since its Beta 2 release back in mid 2005 and has since been very involved in the .NET User Group community and federal government departments expressing the benefits of adopting TFS.