Jim Blizzard is the Developer Solution Specialist for Microsoft in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, and is based out of Tampa, Florida. Jim worked previously for Microsoft Consulting Services in the application development space, focusing on web and smart client development, and was a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, spreading the good news of .NET to the masses in the Pacific Northwest.

Colin Borrowman is a Senior Architect / Lead Developer for docStar, a division of Astria Solutions Group. With docStar since 1996, Colin directed a team of developers to build one of the leading document imaging and document management platforms on the market today. Colin created the patent pending “AuthentiDate Image Marking Mechanism” providing document content authenticity. This lead to the creation of a new company partnered with the United States Postal Service, to provide services to medical and healthcare companies. Although the corporate office exists in upstate New York, Colin now calls sunny Tampa home and is currently leading a small team to develop hosted document management solutions using SharePoint, .NET and C#.

Sr Software Architect at Harland Financial Solutions.  Spent over 10 years in banking software as a manager, team lead and developer.

Started career on IBM's DB2 development team and have worked for several major companies such as Unisys, AT&T, Winn-Dixie, Darden Restaurants, AAA and Vistakon throughout my career.

Joe Brinkman (MVP) is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of DotNetNuke Corp. With over 22 years of IT experience and a Computer Science degree from the United States Naval Academy, he brings broad experience in a variety of software and hardware architectures. Joe was the CTO for DataSource Inc. where he led the development of Jetson, a J2EE development tool that automated many of the difficult tasks with creating and deploying EJB-based applications. Joe has also co-authored two popular books on DotNetNuke, and is currently working on a third. His areas of focus on the team include business strategy, technology architecture, and advanced technology development.

Sean Chambers is a Senior Programmer/Analyst for Flagler County Schools in Palm Coast Florida. He has expertise in open source projects ranging from NHibernate, The Castle Project, CruiseControler, TeamCity and many other open source tools and frameworks. He has been practicing TDD/Agile methodologies since 2004 and is always reviewing new techniques and tools that aid in the agile development process.

http://schambers.lostechies.com

Danny is Senior Applications Architect specializing in enterprise integration. He brings extensive experience in various fields including manufacturing, healthcare, human resources and supply chain logistics. He consults for fortune 500 customers helping them design and build integration solutions based on BizTalk Server. He has participated in various MSDN web casts. You can catch him at http://delriodanny.blogspot.com where he blogs about various integration technologies.

Mikhail Dikov is a developer at Global 360, Inc. and MVP for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server with background in CMS and BPM software. Mikhail brings over 8 years experience in Microsoft technologies such as .NET, ASP.NET and over 12 years of IT experience. Current interests include BPM, BI, SharePoint, .Net and AJAX.

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mikhail.Dikov
http://www.mikhaildikov.com/

Scott has been involved with computers in one way or another for as long as he can remember, but started professionally in 1993. After spending 6 years as a systems administrator, Scott branched out and started developing eCommerce store fronts. From there, he has worked on many different projects and has been working with .NET and C# since 2001.

He has worked at Fortune 500 companies and privately held start-ups focused on IT consulting where he gained experience in embedded systems design and software development to systems administration and database programming, and everything in between.

Although his primary focus right now is commercial software applications using Microsoft .NET technologies, he prefers building infrastructure components, reusable shared libraries and helping companies define, develop and automate process standards and guidelines.

Wes Dumey is a Senior Consultant with Durable Impact Consulting, a business intelligence and data warehouse consulting firm.  He is a well-known speaker throughout the Florida region presenting sessions on data warehousing and ETL processes.  His main interests are data warehousing and high performance ETL, and as a break from the never ending world of computers, Wes is completing a Masters degree in Economics at the University of South Florida and is happy to talk economics, data warehousing, or aviation. 

Stu is a Senior Staff Developer at an Orlando FL based fortune 100 company and specializes in intranet & smart client development for business applications.  Stu has 10 years of software development experience, 7 years of C# development experience, and is currently working on his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology.  Stu currently holds a Bachelors of Science in Accounting, and a Masters of Science in Computer Information Systems.

Stu is also responsible for Intelligent Gear; a collection of online turn based browser games designed for having strategic fun in combative environments.  Stu is credited with Game Concept & Design, Core Game Engine, and Website maintenance.

http://www.intelligentgear.com

Esteban Garcia is a Principal Consultant at M2E Solutions.  He brings more than 10 years experience in professional software development. Experienced in all phases of distributed object oriented enterprise application development and design on the Windows platform, for the past 6 years he has focused on the .NET Framework. He has been involved with different industries such as mobile technologies, financial services, telecommunications, health care, and developer tools.
Esteban excels in architecture and best practices and holds certifications on MCSD.NET, IEEE Certified Software Engineer, and Scrum Master.

Bio: Dudley W. Gill, D.Sc.

More than twenty-five years experience in the development of systems including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, documentation and training. Systems have been developed for major corporations, educational institutions, federal and local governments. Authored texts are Building Web Applications with C# and .NET and Java with Visual J++. Microsoft Certified Professional.

Jamie Haddock has twenty years of software development experience with mainframes and PCs. Jamie has a Master's of Business Administration with a specialization in Information Technology from the University of Denver and a Bachelor's of Business Administration with a major in Management Information Systems from Pace University. Jamie enjoys all things related to .NET with his most recent undertaking being an application that uses automation named inTriever. Jamie has also filed for a patent for the technology he invented to create a new type of program called a Retriever. Retrievers are programs that provide a single UI for submitting end user queries concurrently to any number and type of data driven websites. Jamie also helped Jeffrey Richter with the creation and editing of "Clr via C#" (Microsoft Press). Jamie is currently based out of Connecticut and is looking to relocate to the Orlando area.

Darrell Hardy has been designing and building data driven applications for over 20 years.  Having spent several years in management consulting, he brings to the table not only technical expertise but also an understanding of the business side of the equation.  His passion is for software that matches business processes and allows for improvements in those processes.  Currently Darrell is the Vice President of Hardy Consulting, Inc.  and manages several domestic and international accounts.

I am a software developer for Gold Systems where I specialize in designing and implementing speech based solutions involving the latest in speech technology. I am one of the two founders of GotSpeech.Net and  the administrator for the community. I also serve as an unofficial evangelist for Microsoft Speech Server and seek every opportunity to promote the technology. I have been developing applications with MSS for over four years becoming involved as an Early Adopter of MSS while it was still in beta and have participated in the TAP programs for each new version of Speech Server as well as Office Communications Server.

I was awarded Microsoft MVP on 07/01/06 and I'm the only person to achieve that award for Microsoft Speech Server. In November of 2006 my MVP competency was changed to Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS).

David Hayden is an independent consultant in Sarasota, Florida. He has been building professional websites and enterprise applications for over 13 years. David is a Microsoft MVP in C#, MSDN Forum Moderator, and advisor to Microsoft Patterns & Practices. David runs several developer communities and blogs. His personal website is at http://www.davidhayden.com/. He runs PnPGuidance, a development team and community resource with numerous tutorials, screencasts, and news on proven patterns & practices. He also runs FlaCodeBrew, which provides a list of developer events in the Florida Community.

http://www.davidhayden.com/

Jeremy Huckeba is a Sr. Information Solutions Developer for the national engineering firm PBS&J specializing in Microsoft and ESRI products and technologies.  Jeremy has over 11 years of experience architecting and developing web and windows applications for clients including Orange County Utilities, US Army Corps of Engineers, and Florida's Turnpike Enterprise.

In his free time, Jeremy dabbles in Microsoft XNA, creating games for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and the XBOX 360.  His latest game, Thwac-A-Mole, is a 2D-sprite game based on the arcade game made famous by Showbiz Pizza.

Microsoft Enthusiast Evangelist living in Orlando, Florida. My blog is at http://brianjo.spaces.live.com.

Brandon has been writing software applications that leverage Microsoft technologies for over 10 years.  He mostly serves clients in the Tampa Bay area and enjoys writing flexible ASP.Net web applications in C#.  Brandon currently works as a technical manager for Tribridge, a Microosft Gold Certified partner based out of Tampa, Florida

Charles Kelly
Tampa, FL 33618
ckelly@msn.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlielive 
http://charlielive.com

[95-99] Regional Director, Mid-Atlantic Region, Microsoft Developer Days Program, Redmond, WA  One of the "Original 8 Microsoft Regional Directors" 

Michael Lotter, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions, and travels throughout the United States implementing SharePoint and InfoPath-based solutions.  He is an active speaker at East Coast Code Camps and user group meetings, and is a co-author on O’Reilly’s SharePoint 2007:  The Definitive Guide.  You can also follow Michael’s work through his blog, located at http://www.sharepointhosting.com/mdlotter.

ManGuard Systems, Inc. has been a vertical market, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) solutions (software) company for 26 years. We have developed applications that have been acknowledged as “best practice” in the EH&S. Kathy started the business originally as a consulting business, recognized the need for software to perform those functions, and it became a case of “the tail wagging the dog”. Kathy started in a mile-square automotive plant (cast engines at one end, drive cars off the line at the other) performing on paper the functions that became the software. She is obsessive about combining accuracy (can you say EPA and OSHA) and workflow efficiency. She has participated in consulting projects addressing enterprise design and workflow as well as overseeing design, build, and implementation of specific functional modules for the ManGuard software down to the single user level. In the business since dual floppy disk PC’s started to replace mainframe timeshare applications, their code has been rebuilt 7 times so far to reflect changing technology, with another rebuild in progress.

Eduardo Márquez is a .Net Architect at a Jacksonville, Florida based company.  He has over 30 years experience developing systems.  His interests are architecture, security, patterns, languages and mobile computing.

Consulant .NET Architect, C# developer and mentoring.

Many years experience in C#, C++ ,Windows development. One of original dev team for Coreldraw, founder of communication company called Simware.

Lately have been concentrating on Linq and WCF.

Mark Miller is a C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great UI. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush and Refactor!, as well as the DXCore extensibility layer for Visual Studio. Mark is a member of INETA and a popular speaker at conferences around the world and has been writing software for over two decades.

If you were able to attend the previous DotNetNuke sessions in Tampa, Orlando and Ft. Lauderdal Code Camps live or watch them on-demand at www.ArrowNuke.com, you know that Ryan Morgan has a wealth of experience and has already figured out the easy way to develop modules and services and design professional skin packages for DotNetNuke. Ryan developed countless DNN sites and custom modules including the newest release of www.PerfectWeightAmerica.com and the commercially available Podcaster module, as featured in DotNetNuke for Dummies and Professional DotNetNuke 4 from Wrox.

CEO / President and founder of Computer Ways, Inc., a Microsoft Partner. Mr. Noderer holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology with graduate and continuing education courses from University of Rochester and Northeastern University. He spent over 20 years designing multiprocessor computers, writing microcode and managing projects before starting Computer Ways, Inc. in 1994.

Dave is a Microsoft MVP and is very active in .net User Group communities. He spent 3 years as an officer and director of INETA (International .NET Association) where he oversaw the enrollment and support of hundreds of user groups worldwide. For the past eight years he has been running the Florida .NET User groups currently meeting in Ft Lauderdale, Miramar and West Palm plus a very successful annual South Florida Code Camp which attracted over 600 developers when held in 2008.

He has also been involved in community activities over the years participating in and helping organize and plan leadership programs in both Ft Lauderdale and Deerfield Beach. Currently Dave is an officer on the board of directors of the Deerfield Beach Historical Society, a member of Kiwanis and the Online Chair for the American Cancer Society, Deerfield Beach, Relay For Life.

Dave lives a few blocks from the beach in Deerfield Beach, FL, continues to develop software and enjoys visits from three grown children.

Randy Patterson has spent over 15 years as a software developer and is currently working for Catapult Systems as a Senior Lead Consultant.  He also started the Tampa .NET Users group in 2000 when .NET was in beta and is currently helping to start the International Association of Software Architects, Tampa Chapter.

Bill Reiss is a Tampa based XNA Game Studio MVP and has also been very active in the Silverlight community since the product's inception. Bill presents to user groups, schools, and other groups on XNA and Silverlight topics, and provides XNA and Silverlight tutorials and sample projects on his Blue Rose Games site. Bill is currently authoring a beginners book on Silverlight 2.0 which should be available in the early fall of 2008.

Chris Rock is a .NET / SQL Server consultant currently working with End To End Training in Altamonte Springs, FL. He has over 10 years of experience developing websites and applications.

He has a blog at http://www.rocksthoughts.com and has written several articles for sqlservercentral.com and sqlteam.com

Jesus Rodriguez is an Enterprise Architect and Consultant specializing in large-scale SOA and BPM projects. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft’s Product Teams including Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server. He derived his extensive experience with business process integration and messaging through numerous implementations of disparate systems founded on the principles of SOA and BPM. Jesus is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities and an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include several articles for various publications including MSDN, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld and Web Services Journal as well as speaking engagements at top industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, SOAWorld, Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference, Web Services Security Conference and the Microsoft MVP Summit. Similarly Jesus has conducted a number of Web Casts on varying SOA technologies. He is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration and has a true passion for technology. Contact Jesus at jesusmrv@gmail.com or through his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx .

Diego Samuilov has worked in Microsoft's environments since he started his professional career in 1990. Since then, he has been through all possible positions related to the Software Development lifecycle. Having worked as a developer, analyst, technical lead, project lead, auditor and, since 1996 a project manager for projects in the Server and Desktop environments. He enjoys the software development process which has played a great part in his skills development.
Since the introduction of Windows CE in 1998 he has been involved in one form or another in the development of several solutions for the mobile environment. He leads his consulting company; BlueKatana, Inc in the mobile development effort and participates in public and private developer community events. He actively collaborates with the community at support forums and blogs.
Web:    http://www.BlueKatana.com
Blog:    http://www.BlueKatana.com/Diego

Brian Scarbeau is a Microsoft MVP and a seasoned computer science trainer. He has his MBA and Certifications as a WebMaster and Network Instructor. He has spoken at various Code Camps about DotNetNuke® and he has developed DotNetNuke® curriculum and a series of webcasts for Microsoft Corporation. He was also selected by Microsoft Corporation to be part of a Faculty Advisory Board. He has traveled the United States and Canada conducting training seminars on .NET products. Presently, he is on the Board of Directors for the Computer Science Teacher's Association and he started the Orlando DotNetNuke® User Group. His blog is here: http://geekswithblogs.net/bscarbeau

Stan Schultes is a Sarasota, FL – based developer/architect, author, and a regular speaker at regional developer events. He’s a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic and a former Contributing Editor and columnist to Visual Studio Magazine. Stan has presented over a dozen MSDN webcasts, and showed the Team System demos at the Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event in Orlando. He’s currently developing a suite of web services and design tools in an engineering-driven custom product design environment. Visit http://www.vbnetexpert.com for presentation slide decks, webcast and technical links, blog, and other developer information.

Robert Sponaugle is a Managing Partner and consultant with Independent Computer Engineering.  Mr. Sponaugle’s practice specializes in helping organizations in the areas of enterprise architecture, business intelligence and all phases of the SDLC using Microsoft technologies.  He has over 15 years experience, and works in numerous verticals including retail, education, insurance and professional service industries.  Mr. Sponaugle is a graduate of the University of South Florida, and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Management Information Systems.  Living in Florida for almost three decades, he currently resides in Tampa with his wife, son and two Beagles.

Will Strohl is an ASP.Net architect and developer based in the Orlando Area. Having been in the web development field for over 10 years, he began professionally in 2000.  Currently, Will is the Lead Developer and Architect for an exciting new online travel company called RezHub.com.  He is also an active member of the newly formed Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group.

Feel Good About Travel®
http://www.rezhub.com

Make an Impact Without Impacting Your Trip
http://www.greentravelhub.com

The Mighty Blog | DotNetNuke® Skins by SSD

Oleg Sych is a Senior Lead Consultant for Catapult Systems. He has 14 years of experience in the software industry, has been building distributed enterprise applications since 2000 and using .NET technologies since 2002. Oleg holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science, MCSD and MCPD Enterprise certifications. Oleg’s professional interests include framework design and enterprise application architecture. He is currently researching code generation with Text Template Transformation Toolkit.

Visit www.olegsych.com for presentation slides, source code examples and more.

Andy Warren is the President of End to End Training, an Orlando based provider of SQL Server training focusing on beginning to intermediate users. Andy is also currently serving as the President of the Orlando SQL Server Users Group (oPASS) and coordinated the worlds first SQLSaturday in Orlando. Andy is a well known speaker in the SQL Server community, participating in many local events as well as the annual PASS Summit. Andy was also was a founding principal of SQLServerCentral.com. Visit his blog at http://blogs.sqlservercentral.com/andy_warren/default.aspx

Tracy Wittenkeller is the president and founder of T-WORX, INC, a leading DotNetNuke design and development company. Tracy has been working with DNN since its inception more than five years ago and has successfully been offering skins commercially since November 2004 through his company’s website, www.t-worx.com, through www.snowcovered.com and through the DotNetNuke Marketplace. Tracy works with many DNN core members and has also donated his time to different aspects of the DNN open source project. He has been a professional designer for web, print and electronic presentation media for over 18 years. Tracy is writing a book for the Developer to Developer Wrox series titled DotNetNuke Websites available this June: http://www.amazon.com/DotNetNuke-Websites-Problem-Design-Solution/dp/0470190647/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202580628&sr=8-1.

Jim is a frequent speaker, MVP, author of "LINQ in Action" and the King of LINQ. He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including leading the Atlanta VB Study Group and serving as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region. Jim runs the www.ThinqLinq.com web site which uses LINQ for the data access to discuss LINQ related topics. He also maintains a blog at www.Devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/default.aspx.