Speakers

Thank you to all the speakers that made this event so successful!

Adam Scheinberg Website

Adam Scheinberg

Senior Director, Technology & Information Systems @ Massey Services

Adam Scheinberg is the Senior Director of Technology & Information Systems at Massey Services, Inc., the 12th largest pest prevention company in the United States.  After leading the network engineering team for the US Naval Sea Systems Command, he moved to Florida in 2003 and joined the Massey Services team.  In his current position, Adam is not only the chief technology strategist for Massey Services, but also oversees all aspects of technology, including the networking, systems administration, reporting, and programming teams, as well as participating in all internal projects that implement technology.  Although his background is in systems administration, Adam is also a programmer himself, having written several high traffic websites on the internet today.  Adam is also an editor at OSNews.com.

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Barry Ralston Website

Barry Ralston

Chief Architect @ ComFrame

Barry Ralston is chief architect for business intelligence with Birmingham-based ComFrame Software. He's worked in BI since 1994, and his client successes include projects in insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, and healthcare.

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Bill Reiss

Bill Reiss

Bill Reiss has been a Microsoft MVP for the last 3 years, and was just named the first official Silverlight MVP. Bill is active presenting sessions on both Silverlight and XNA Game Studio, and writes blog based tutorials for these technologies as well. He is also authoring a book on Silverlight that will be released in the Silverlight 3 timeframe.

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Brandon Kelly WebsiteBlog

Brandon Kelly

Sr. Technical Manager @ Tribridge

Brandon Kelly is a technical professional with over 10 years experience in developing and leading teams that write "killer apps". Prior to joining Tribridge in 2008, Mr. Kelly owned and operated a private micro-consultancy (estatic.org / BusinessRx) for over 4 years, where he built a technical platform that allowed software developers around the world to create high-impact web applications with ease. Mr Kelly currently serves as a Technical Manager for Tribrdge, whose success in the Microsoft consulting industry is represented by being selected as one of the top 1% of Dynamics partners worldwide in 2007, and named the Worldwide Dynamics Partner of the Year in 2008. Mr. Kelly enjoys his focus on software design and development, human factors and usability.

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Brian Scarbeau WebsiteBlog

Brian Scarbeau

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.

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Christopher Ortega Website

Christopher Ortega

Owner @ ODS of FL

Mr. Ortega has been in the IT field for over 15 years and has been involved with IT systems for 25 years. His responsibilities include enterprise architecture along with coding processes, database design and implementation, enterprise level web services and capacity planning.  His background includes working with corporate and financial systems with an extensive background in enterprise security.  His technical knowledge also includes network engineering, database design and administration, along with a knowledge of programming. 

Mr. Ortega has a 'no-holds-barred' approach to implementing and putting forth solutions for realizing business values for IT and software engineering based solutions.   He also is aggressive in speaking about how solutions should be implemented by removing the politics advocating for the best solutions.  This means that Mr. Ortega is usually called upon when everything is "broken" and there is nobody else to turn to.  He's been called upon to provide solutions for CompUSA, Time Warner, Visa, and The Golf Channel to name a few. 

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Darrell Hardy Website

Darrell Hardy

Darrell Hardy has been designing and building data driven applications for over 20 years.  Having spent several years working with a management consulting firm, 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 the business process as well as the software. Currently Darrell is the Vice President of Hardy Consulting, Inc. (http://www.hardyconsulting.com/) and manages several domestic and international accounts.  He enjoys speaking, teaching, problem solving and helping people become problem solvers.

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David McNamee WebsiteBlog

David McNamee

SharePoint Technical Specialist @ Microsoft Corporation

David is a SharePoint Technology Specialist for Microsoft and is responsible for helping large organizations make informed decisions about implementing SharePoint.  David is a professional traveler, amateur distance runner, and occasional cook.

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David Hayden WebsiteBlog

David Hayden

Consultant @ Patterns & Practices Guidance

David Hayden is an independent consultant in Sarasota, Florida. He has been building professional websites and enterprise applications for over 15 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 ( http://www.pnpguidance.net ), a development team and community resource with numerous tutorials, screencasts, and news on proven patterns & practices.

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Esteban Garcia WebsiteBlog

Esteban Garcia

Principal Consultant @ M2E Solutions

Esteban Garcia is Principal Consultant at M2E Solutions, and Orlando-based software consulting firm. He has more than 10 years experience in professional software development. He is experienced in all phases of distributed object oriented enterprise application development and design on the Windows platform, and he has focused on the .NET Framework since 2001. 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 is able to provide advice on SDLC customization and build automation. He holds certifications on MCAD, MCSD.NET, IEEE Certified Software Engineer, and Scrum Master. Esteban also has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering with an emphasis in software design from the University of Central Florida.

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Henry Lee Website

Henry Lee

Owner @ New Age Solution Inc.

Henry Lee found New Age Solution Inc. in 2007. Henry's company New Age Solution reflects his commitment to providing cutting edge services for Internet Businesses. Working in close consultation with his clients, he finds personalized solutions for entrepreneurs and small-business owners, and enterprise customers of all aspects of Internet-based services, including web site design, and custom web applications.

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James McAuliffe

James McAuliffe

Senior Consultant @ Catapult Systems

James McAuliffe is a Senior Consultant for Catapult Systems. He has been working as a professional software developer since 1993, using a variety of database development tools on the Microsoft stack, and has worked with clients of all sizes, from local businesses to Fortune 500 companies. James has been using SQL Server since 1999, with a recent concentration on the Business Intelligence methodologies. He is excited to share about the capabilities that the Team Foundation System brings to database design and deployment.

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Jason Milgram WebsiteBlog

Jason Milgram

Founder/CEO @ Linxter

Milgram is the founder of Linxter and the architect of the Linxter technology. Prior to founding Linxter, he served as a technical consultant in both the public and private sectors, to include IBM, the U.S. Department of Justice, Florida Power and Light, Chase Manhattan Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kodak and Iris Associates (creator of Lotus Notes). He was also a sergeant in the US Army Reserves which he served in from 1990 to 1998. Milgram was educated at the University of Cincinnati (BA Political Science, 1993) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Sloan School of Management (Executive Certificate, Management and Leadership, 2008).

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Jeff Blake WebsiteBlog

Jeff Blake

President @ Skynet Software Inc.

Jeff Blake is a consultant from South Florida and has been doing ASP.NET development for 7 years. He has been hacking around with the latest MS Ajax technologies since he cut his teeth on the 2.0 beta icallback event handlers. He has since then moved on to ASP.NET AJAX, especially extending functionality and performance on the client side of rich internet applications. He is also really into playing around with LINQ and the ASP.NET MVC framework currently.

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Jeffery Odell

Jeffery Odell

Principal Consultant @ Catapult Systems.com

Jeff Odell – Principal Consultant for Catapult Systems. Jeff Odell has worked in the software industry for over 25 years, including tenures with Oracle Corporation, an owner of a health care software company and an independent consultant. 

He decided to focus on object oriented software development in 1990, producing systems in the healthcare industry using Smalltalk and associated development tools and techniques.  In 2002 Jeff began to work exclusively with the .Net development platform.  His professional interests include the software development process, refactoring and applying enterprise design patterns and practices.

In his free time, Jeff can be found posting entries about marathon running to his group blog at http://www.tampa262.com.

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Jim Blizzard Blog

Jim Blizzard

Developer Solutions Specialist @ Microsoft

Jim Blizzard is the Developer Solution Specialist for Microsoft enterprise accounts 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.

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Jim Zimmerman WebsiteBlog

Jim Zimmerman

CTO @ TeamZoneSports

Jim Zimmerman is currently a Visual Developer – ASP/ASP.NET MVP. He speaks on various .NET related topics including Ajax and Code Generation at Code Camps and .NET user groups in Florida. Jim is a member of the Ajax Control Toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit) and tries to blog when the kids are sleeping at http://www.jimzimmerman.com/blog. He co-authored the book, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax from Wrox press, which was published in July of 2007.  

Jim is the CTO of TeamZoneSports.com and has worked with several online web properties including one he is part owner of, Car Central (http://www.carcentral.com). For the last 6 years, Jim has been writing most web apps with C# and currently specializes in scalable web application development using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server 2005, SubSonic, C#, AJAX, and Team Foundation Server.  He has 12+ years experience in web development with past experience using languages such Perl, Php, C, C++, Java and Visual Basic. He also specializes in SEO for clients using organic search, PPC, and online marketing strategies.
When not glued to the computer, Jim likes to play with his wife and children at the beach in Tampa, Florida and play guitar every once in a while.

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John Meyer Website

John Meyer

Sr. Web Developer @ DotNet Zebra, LLC

A .NET developer since there was .NET, my focus in recent years has been on ASP.NET.  I'm excited about MVC and Silverlight because they fill in the major gaps in ASP.NET.

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John Dunagan Website

John Dunagan

Leader @ SW Florida .Net Developers Group

John is currently a freelance .Net developer, GUI engineer, and software trainer with 20 years of experience in IT, 4 of that as a happy member of the .Net community. He has experienced every Code Camp in Florida at least once, and is a regular participant in .Net community events across Florida. He has served as Leader of the SW Florida .Net Developer Group since March of 2006, and that Group is in planning for the 2nd Annual SW Florida Code Camp and CIO Roundtable, to take place this fall. SWFL .Net Developer Group holds a Code Camp every year at FGCU, around September.

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John Papa WebsiteBlog

John Papa

JohnPapa.net

John Papa is a Microsoft C# MVP, INETA speaker, member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for ASPSOFT who specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies including VB, C#, .NET and SQL Server. John has written over 60 articles and authored several books on data access technologies including ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server. He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as MIX,  VSLive and DevConnections, and viewed on MSDN Web Casts. John is currently working in his upcoming book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly due out in December 2008. You can always find John at johnpapa.net.

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John McFetridge WebsiteBlog

John  McFetridge

Sandkey

30 years of experience in writing software, Founder of Simware a communication company and part of the original development team for CorelDraw. Currently an .Net architect , developer and trainer for an energy company in Gainesville where we are working on the next generation of billing SOA  using Linq and WCF. Speaker at North Florida code camps.

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John Ross WebsiteBlog

John Ross

Sr. Consultant @ SharePoint911

John Ross is a senior consultant with SharePoint911 and has over seven years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies as well as government organizations. John is co-author of the book, “MOSS Explained: An Information Workers Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” and was a contributing author to “Professional SharePoint 2007 Design.”  He is also a co-author of The Ted Pattison Group's SPG301: SharePoint Planning and Governance.

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Ken Tucker Blog

Ken Tucker

I am President of the Space Coast .Net User Group and the Florida Ineta membership mentor.  I run the VB-Tips website with Cor Ligthert.  

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Kendal Van Dyke WebsiteBlog

Kendal Van Dyke

Senior DBA @ Channel Intelligence

Kendal began working with SQL Server 7.0 as a VB developer 9 years ago. He has spent the last 7 years as a production DBA working on systems that process hundreds of millions of transactions per day. He is currently Senior DBA at Channel Intelligence in Celebration, FL where he is responsible for the management, monitoring, and performance of 40+ SQL Servers.

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Kirk Freiheit Blog

Kirk Freiheit

Kirk Freiheit has been a professional developer since 1995, working primarily on smart client development (C++/MFC/C#/WinForms/WPF).  In 2006-7, he spent a year working as a developer at Microsoft on the PowerShell/MMC team.

Kirk's current development passions include .NET, WPF, and especially Windows PowerShell, which has changed the game in a great way for the Windows world.

He currently works at Symantec in Heathrow, FL.

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Marshall Harrison Website

Marshall Harrison

Developer @ Gold Systems

Marshall is a software developer for Gold Systems where he specializes in designing and implementing speech based solutions involving the latest in speech technology. He is the founder of GotSpeech.Net and  the upcoming OCSPitstop.com. He is a 3 time Microsoft MVP for Speech Server and Office Communications Server and serves as an unofficial evangelist for the technologies while seeking every opportunity to promote them. He has spoken at code camps throughout Florida and at Tech-Ed. He also offers Speech Server training and has done so for large corporations around the country as well as the Federal Government.

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Max Trinidad WebsiteBlog

Max Trinidad

Senior Programmer/Tech Support @ Claire's Stores, Inc

Max Trinidad is a native of Puerto Rico and has been working with computers since 1979. He has worked with Dbase III/IV, Clipper, RPG, OS/400, OCL/JCL, HTLM and most current MS development technologies. Currently, a Senior IT/Developer at Claire's Stores Inc. providing support for Windows Servers, SQL applications, Virtualization, and IBM i5 series building Visual Studio solutions. In 2009 got his Microsoft MVP award in Powershell.

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Michael Lotter WebsiteBlog

Michael Lotter

SharePoint Solutions Architect @ B&R Business Solutions

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://blog.michaellotter.com.

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Michael Antonovich WebsiteBlog

Michael Antonovich

Asst Director Web Services @ Orange County Public Schools

Mike Antonovich is currently the Assistant Director of Web Services for Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, FL where he manages the SharePoint portal team implementing the Internet, intranet, collaboration, project, team, and school sites.  His team is currently in the process of converting all OCPS schools sites to SharePoint.  He recently published his 6th book: Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide.  Links this this book and his other books can be found on his personal website.  Mike has been using SharePoint since 2007, SQL Server since 1998, and FoxPro for a dozen years before that.  He has presented at SQL Saturday #1, #4, #8, and #10.

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Michael Knopf Website

Michael Knopf

Programmer Analyst @ NASA

Michael has extensive expertise in ASP.NET, HTML, XML, XHML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual C#.NET, ORM, Test Driven Development (TDD), and MS SQL, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Source Control systems, with more than 6 years in the industry. He now works for NASA as a Programmer Analyst at Kennedy Space Center.

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Noah Subrin Blog

Noah Subrin

Technical Lead @ SRA International

Noah is a Technical Lead for SRA International and supports a large government customer in Chamblee, GA. In this role, he leads a team of software developers who support critical customer functions including e-Workforce Management and data warehousing. Noah has extensive experience as a software developer, consultant, and architect and has published several articles on the SQL Server World Wide User Group website. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .Net (MCSD .Net) and has worked for several Microsoft partners. Noah has presented at several Code Camps in the Southeast as well as the Microsoft Community Summit in Orlando last year.

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Oleg Sych WebsiteBlog

Oleg Sych

Senior Lead Consultant @ Catapult Systems

Oleg Sych a Senior Lead Consultant for Catapult Systems. He has been working as a professional software engineer since 1993, building distributed enterprise applications since 2000 and working with .NET technologies since 2002. Oleg holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science, MCSD, MCPD Enterprise and MCTS TFS certifications. His professional interests include framework design and enterprise application architecture. In his spare time, Oleg writes and speaks about code generation. Check out his blog at http://www.olegsych.com for in-depth coverage of Text Templates in Visual Studio.

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Paul Jackson Website

Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson has been a professional software developer for almost twenty years.  Starting in Visual Basic 1.0 before defecting to PowerBuilder and Java for a few years and then returning to .Net.

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Paul Lockwood Blog

Paul Lockwood

Paul has nineteen years IT experience and three IT degrees including a Masters in AI and Robotics. He has used .Net exclusively since early 2001 and specializes in larger web based projects. He owns a small Atlanta based .Net consulting company but has previously worked in five different countries for companies including: London Stock Exchange, UBS, SwissRe, Philips.com, Accenture and EDS.

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Plamen Ratchev Website

Plamen Ratchev

Tangra, Inc.

Plamen Ratchev has over two decades experience in the software architecture and development field. He has enjoyed building solutions for UNIX, DOS and Windows platforms, with main focus on SQL Server since version 4.21.

Plamen is founder of Tangra, specializing in relational database applications analysis, implementation, and tuning. His particular interest is in design patterns, performance and optimization.

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Randy Patterson Blog

Randy Patterson

Senior Lead Developer @ Catapult Systems

Randy Patterson – Senior Lead Consultant for Catapult Systems. Randy has been developing software professionally since 1990 and working with C# since 2001.  He has helped start the Tampa .NET Users Group and the International Association of Software Architects Group – Tampa Chapter. His professional interests include Enterprise Application Architecture, Unit Testing and Design Patterns & Principles.

In his free time, Randy can be found posting entries to his blog at http://www.RandyPatterson.com

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Roy Lawson Website

Roy Lawson

Senior Consultant @ Catapult Systems

Roy Lawson is a Senior Consultant with Catapult Systems in Tampa Florida and .NET developer since 2002.  He is also the president of the Lakeland .NET User Group (www.cfdotnet.org) which meets the second Tuesday of each month at USF Polytechnic.  His goal is to help make Lakeland a technology epicenter in our region and give businesses access to local resources and knowledge they need to build innovative IT solutions.

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Ryan Duclos WebsiteBlog

Ryan Duclos

Technical Consultant @ Perficient, Inc.

I am currently a consultant for Perficient, Inc. (PRFT) on Microsoft Technologies. I live in LA (Lower Alabama)! I love spending time with my family. I also enjoy being a Community Influencer in my area.

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Ryan Morgan Website

Ryan Morgan

Senior .NET consultant @ Arrow Consulting & Design

Ryan Morgan is a senior .NET consultant with Arrow Consulting & Design, a software development and web design company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Currently, Ryan is currently working on an Army Research Labs funded WPF project in partnership with Columbia College. Ryan has architected and delivered solutions for global companies including Microsoft, Starwood Hotels (Sheraton, Westin and W Hotels brands) and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In addition to the large-scale projects, the Ryan leads a team that has delivered hundreds of e-commerce and custom development projects for small to medium-enterprise clients including www.palmbeachnutrition.com, www.perfectweightamerica.com, www.recruitradar.com and www.friendssharing.com. Most recently, Ryan co-authored Professional DotNetNuke 5 from Wrox and spoke in the Open Force track at DevConnections in Las Vegas.

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Sayed Hashimi WebsiteBlog

Sayed Hashimi

Independent Consultant @ Sedo Technologies

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi has a computer engineering degree from the University of Florida. He is the author of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine : Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Microsoft Press 01/09), co-author of Deploying .NET Application: Learning MSBuild and Click Once (Apress 05/2006), and has written several publications for magazines such as the MSDN Magazine. He is a developer and independent consultant in Jacksonville, Florida. He is an expert in the financial, education, and collection industries.

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Scott Densmore WebsiteBlog

Scott Densmore

Scott Densmore is a software developer at a large entertainment company in Orlando (the one with ears). Prior to that he has was with Microsoft on various teams including: patterns & practices where he was dev lead for Enterprise Library 1, 2 and PM for 4; CodePlex working on the WebSite and TFS; and the Home and Entertainment devision building WPF apps in notepad. Prior to Microsoft, Scott worked building retail pricing software and integration for large retailers. Scott has more than 15 years of experience in professional software development, design and architecture. Scott spends his much time contributing to open source projects and community trying to teach continuous improvement and agile values. 

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Scott Dorman WebsiteBlog

Scott Dorman

BST Global

Scott is a C# MVP and 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.

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Sean Chambers Website

Sean Chambers

Senior Developer @ Telligent Systems inc.

Sean Chambers is a Senior Software Developer for Telligent Systems Inc. He has expertise in open source projects ranging from NHibernate, The Castle Project, Cruise Control, 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. Blog: http://schambers.lostechies.com

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Shawn Weisfeld Website

Shawn Weisfeld

President @ Developer Round Table

Shawn is a Staff Developer at a fortune 20 company. There he specializes in intranet & smart client development for internal line of business applications. Besides his day job Shawn also is an Adjunct Professor at The Florida Institute of Technology. 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/). 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 and 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 & 2008. Shawn is an avid technology presenter and since July of 2005 Shawn has presented at over 25 user group events, and even got to speak for Microsoft at the launch of Visual Studio.

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Shervin Shakibi WebsiteBlog

Shervin Shakibi

CTO @ Computerways Inc

Shervin Shakibi is a Microsoft Regional Director and an ASP.Net MVP. In addition to being an author and Technical editor on many .NET books he has been a popular speaker at events such as Microsoft Tech Ed, PDC and Developer Days. Shervin has been developing Enterprise applications since 1987 and a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1994. Experienced in the delivery of scalable, stable and open enterprise-level built on .NET and Microsoft SQL Server, Shervin is an industry recognized Consultant, trainer, speaker and writer on Business Intelligence and Microsoft .NET vision. He founded the FlaDotNet Users Group which has meetings in 3 cities in Florida area delivering Microsoft SQL Server, .NET knowledge to the community

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Stan Schultes WebsiteBlog

Stan Schultes

Stan Schultes is an Architect and Software Developer at a mid-size, high tech manufacturing company, where he designs and builds engineering design automation systems. He has been building enterprise manufacturing software for more than 25 years, and building Microsoft solutions since 1994. He has led application development teams in companies as diverse as a small startup to the Fortune 200. Stan is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic, and is very active working and speaking within the Florida developer community and beyond, and he runs the SarasotaDev.net developer group. He is a former columnist and Contributing Editor with Visual Studio Magazine, has written in MSDN online, and has recently wrapped up work on the upcoming WROX Professional DotNetNuke 5 book. Stan is a prolific speaker at community events such as the MSDN DevCon, Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 launch events, Day of Patterns & Practices, Code Camps, user groups, and more. He has recorded more than 15 MSDN WebCasts, and is currently developing new episodes of the popular It's All About the Tools! developer seminar series with Russ "Toolshed" Fustino.

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Tracy Wittenkeller Website

Tracy Wittenkeller

Tracy Wittenkeller is the president and founder of T-WORX, INC, a leading provider of professional DotNetNuke skins and website solutions. He has been working with DotNetNuke since its inception over five years ago and has successfully been offering skins commercially since November 2004 through his company's website (www.t-worx.com), snowcovered (www.snowcovered.com (and the DotNetNuke Marketplace (http://marketplace.dotnetnuke.com). As a result of his company's success in the commercial skin market, Tracy has developed custom DNN skin packages and website solutions for a large variety of companies all over the world. He works with many DotNetNuke core members and has also donated his time to different aspects of the DotNetNuke open source project. More recently he has done some work with Sharepoint themes and looks to build a niche in the Enterprise market. He has been a professional designer for web, print and electronic presentation media for over 17 years. He also does a lot of public speaking at important .NET conferences in person and online, including DotNetNuke OpenForce07 in November, 2007. Tracy is the author of DotNetNuke Websites—Problem Design Solution, published by Wrox in July, 2008.

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Walter Williams Website

Walter Williams

Owner @ CHB Consulting, Inc.

Walt is the president and owner of CHB Consulting, Inc. The company produces custom software for clients, as well as software packages which are on the market.

Walt has been designing, building and testing software for over 25 years. He has worked with database information since dBase and Access 1. With the introduction of Visual Basic 3, Visual Basic has been his language of choice for all database applications.

Today he continues to work with database information using Visual Basic.NET 2008 and SQL Server.
He enjoys giving technical presentations, and training & assisting others as they learn to use this technology.

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Wes Dumey WebsiteBlog

Wes Dumey

Senior Consultant @ Durable Impact Consulting

Wes is a Senior Consultant with Durable Impact Consulting, a business intelligence and data warehousing firm. Wes has experience working with large clients on multi-terabyte warehousing projects. Wes’ interests are real-time datawarehousing and business economics.

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Will Strohl WebsiteBlog

Will Strohl

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 Technology Director for an exciting new online travel company called RezHub.com.  He is also an active member and President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group, and a member of the reformed DotNetNuke® Media Module Project Team.  He regularly speaks at local events about DotNetNuke® and the various ways it can be used and managed.  He also won the INETA Community Champions award for 2008 Q3.  Most recently, Will has been publishing DNN videos on JumptStartTV, and is a contributing technical editor for Professional DotNetNuke 5 and DotNetNuke 5 User Guide by Wrox.

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