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Conference Speakers
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Keith Brown, Pluralsight
Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on application security. A contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, he authors the Security Briefs column. He authored the book Programming Windows Security (Addison Wesley, 2000), coauthored Effective COM (Addison Wesley, 1999), and has recently finished a new book: The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security, which you can read online at Pluralsight |
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Andrew Brust, Citigate Hudson
SQL Live! Conference Chair
Andrew Brust is Chief, New Technology at Citigate Hudson, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in New York City. Andrew is Microsoft's Regional Director for New York and New Jersey, a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau, a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine and a highly rated speaker at conferences throughout the U.S. and internationally. He has over 15 years of experience programming and consulting in the Financial, Public, Small Business, and Not-For-Profit sectors. Andrew is a Vice-Chairman of the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) Board. He can be reached at . |
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Ted Buszkiewicz, Hewlett Packard
Ted Buszkiewicz is the Director of the Enterprise Architecture Program at Hewlett-Packard. He held previous positions leading the architecture teams in the Personal Systems Group, the Consumer Business and the HP PC and Hardcopy IT team. His previous work has included architecture development at the entity, group and enterprise levels. Prior to coming to HP, Ted was a consultant to many Fortune 100 companies including HP.
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Miguel Castro, Infotek Consulting Group, Inc.
Miguel Castro is an independent consultant in the NY/NJ Metro area who specializes in building .NET solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP and a contributor to CoDe Magazine as well as an active blogger and has been a software developer for over 19 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact), Miguel jumped on .NET (as well as Billy Hollis' book) as soon as the first public Beta was released and has provided .NET solutions for clients in New Jersey and New York in a variety of industries, including Financial Markets, Pharmaceuticals, Trucking, Insurance, Food Distribution, and Fuel Trading.
He considers himself to be a .NET Developer and Architect and has equal love for both VB.NET and C#. Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups in NY, NJ, CT, and PA where he focuses on preaching and evangelizing the world of custom WebControl development, with hopes of increasing the numbers that tackle this underused technology. Miguel contributes a lot of the components he develops to the development community which can be found along with his blog at http://www.dotnetdude.com. He currently resides in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria, who is starting her .NET training as soon as she turns two.
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Dave Chappell, Sonic Software
Dave is chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software, a provider of integration products and services for the real-time enterprise. He is the author of the book Enterprise Service Bus and a member of the JSR-208 Expert Group. Dave has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D, codeslinger, sales, support, and marketing. He has a strong passion for shaping the future of technology, and enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others. |
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Benjamin Day, Benjamin Day Consulting
Benjamin Day is an independent consultant specializing in the design and development of web and Windows database applications using Microsoft .NET technologies. With 9+ years of consulting experience, he has worked with clients such as Fidelity Investments, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Deloitte Consulting, and Ceridian Lifeworks. When not developing software, Ben plays piano with a Boston-based jazz trio and is an enthusiastic restaurant, food, beer and wine buff. He can be contacted via www.benday.com. |
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John deVaoss, Microsoft
John deVadoss is Director of Architecture Strategy at Microsoft. He has 15 years of experience in the software industry; he has been at Microsoft for 8 years, all of it in the enterprise space – as a consultant, as a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, as an architect working with some of Microsoft’s key partners, and most recently leading solutions architecture evangelism. Prior to Microsoft he spent many years as a technology consultant in the financial services industry in Silicon Valley. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architecture, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both services and access), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments. |
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Mark D'Urso, Microsoft
Mark is a developer currently working on creating the next generation content delivery and rendering system for MSDN and TechNet. He has been with Microsoft since April of 2000. During his time at Microsoft Mark has worked both on search and a variety of content rendering frameworks for Microsoft.com. |
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Stephen Forte, Corzen, Inc
Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed, North Africa Developers Conference and other conferences around the world. He has written several books on database development and currently is writing the MS Press book SQL Server 2005 Core Developers Guide . Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group.
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Ken Getz, MCW Technologies
Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. Ken has written many technical books, including ASP.NET Developer's Jumpstart with Paul D. Sheriff, and is co-author of several best selling books, including the Access 2002 Developer's Handbooks and VBA Developer's Handbook. He co-wrote and recorded for video training several courses for Application Developer's Training Company (AppDev), including ADO.NET, VB .NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, and VB6 seminars.
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Pat Helland, Amazon.com
Pat Helland has 25 years of experience in the software industry and has recently joined Amazon as a senior technology manager. Prior to Amazon, Pat was an architect at Microsoft. He has worked for more than 20 years in database, transaction processing, distributed systems, as well as fault tolerant and scalable systems. From 1982 through 1990, Pat worked at Tandem Computers and was the Chief Architect of TMF (Transaction Monitoring Facility), the NonStop System’s Transaction Processing implementation. He was one of the founders of the team that implemented and shipped MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) now COM+. He was the chief architect for Yukon’s SQL Service Broker product. Pat has worked in the Architecture Strategy Team where he has focused on loosely-coupled application environments and Service Oriented Architectures. |
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Billy Hollis, DotNetMasters
Billy Hollis is an author and software developer from Nashville, Tennessee. Billy is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic .NET, VB .NET Programming on the Public Beta. He has written many articles, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He is the Regional Director of Developer Relations in Nashville for Microsoft, and runs a consulting company focusing on Microsoft .NET. |
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Josh Holmes, SRT Solutions
Specializing in mobility solutions, Josh has developed server, web, desktop, handheld and Pocket PC applications. In addition, he is an accomplished trainer and has developed software technology courses in the areas of .NET, ASP.NET, XML SPY, XML, VB.NET, C#, Compact Framework and Advanced Compact Framework. A frequent speaker and lead panelist, Josh also serves as an officer for several local non-profit technology organizations including Volunteer IT, Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group and the Ann Arbor Computer Society.
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Robert Hurlbut, Hurlbut Consulting
Robert Hurlbut is an independent software architect/developer and consultant and owner of Hurlbut Consulting, Inc. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Security Development. Robert specializes in application security, distributed architectures, and database architecture and development. He has spoken at industry conferences, including WIN-DEV, New England Code Camp, Heartland Developers Conference, and DevTeach. He has a .NET blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut. |
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Christian Kleinerman, Microsoft
Christian Kleinerman has close to 10 years of experience working with SQL Server — the last five as part of the SQL Server development team in Redmond, WA. He is currently a Program Manager in the relational engine team where he has worked on a variety of features and technologies. Before Microsoft he worked on eCommerce Web site development and previously was co-founder of a development company specializing on scheduling software. |
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Chris Kinsman, Vergent Software
ASP Live! Conference Chair
Chris Kinsman is one of the founders of Guided Design and is formerly the VP of Technology for a family of Web sites that provide information for developers. Chris teaches course on ASP.NET in both VB .NET and C# and has extensive experience with ASP, Web Farms, Clustering, Data Access, and Scalability. He just finished writing Visual Basic .NET Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO .NET and XML and C# Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO .NET and XML. Chris has spoken at a variety of conference including VSLive! and Microsoft TechEd on topics including ASP.NET Security, ASP.NET State Management, Web Service Security, ASP to ASP.NET Migration, Building Server Controls. However, most of his time is spent doing consulting with Vergent Software. Contact him at .
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Deborah Kurata, InStep Technologies
Deborah is a professional software architect, designer, and developer. She provides consulting services in the areas of project architecture and design, software development (Windows and smart-client applications), and mentoring services. She is frequently brought in to assist existing teams with establishing best practices and defining an appropriate architecture and application framework. Deborah has authored several books, including the Doing Objects in Visual Basic series (SAMS), Best Kept Secrets in .NET (Apress) and Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques (Apress), and is currently working on Doing Objects in VB 2005 (Addison-Wesley). She also writes for MSDN and CoDe magazine (www.code-magazine.com).
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Steve Lasker, Microsoft
Steve is a Program Manager for VS at Microsoft. He is responsible for many of the data design time features in Visual Studio. Steve's team owns the Typed DataSet designer, Data Wizards and the new Data Sources window. His background in broadcast engineering, e-commerce startups, and consulting has taken him through the cycles of client, browser, CE; and with .NET, returned to client-based apps that leverage the Internet as the transport.
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Rocky Lhotka, Magenic Technologies
Rockford Lhotka is the author of Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects from Apress. He is a contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and he speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. |
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Russ Nemhauser, Nemhauser Media
Russ Nemhauser is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and a Microsoft Certified Professional, and has served as an Architect, Developer, Team Leader, and Project Manager over the past several years. His recent projects include enterprise applications, online commerce sites, and corporate intranets for Wall Street, Universal Studios, Microsoft, Seagram, and others. Russ speaks at several industry conferences each year write for several magazines and online software community sites. |
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Shankar Pal, Microsoft
Shankar Pal is a Program Manager in the SQL Server engine team. He works on programmability areas with special focus on XML data processing, data modeling and data management. He has published papers in MSDN Online on the XML technology and in conferences such as Very Large Data Base and ACM SIGMOD, and works extensively with customers.Prior to the XML focus, Shankar was a development lead in SQL Server working on meta-data management, and a co-inventor of the SOAP protocol. He has many patents to his credit arising out of his contributions at Microsoft Corporation. |
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John Papa, ASPSOFT
John Papa, a Sr Consultant with ASPSOFT, has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for 10 years and has developed with .NET since its early pre-beta days. He is a baseball fanatic who spends most of his summer nights rooting for the Yankees with his family and his faithful dog, Kadi. John has authored or co-authored several books on ADO, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server, is the author of a the Data Points column in MSDN Magazine and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive. You can catch John on his blog at http://codebetter.com/blogs/john.papa |
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Jennifer Perret, Microsoft
As Program Manager for data access in the SQL Server product group at Microsoft, Jennifer focuses on SQL Server data access technologies, such as SQL Native Client, MDAC, and ADO.NET, and evangelizing the use of data access enabled applications against SQL Server. She is currently the PM owner for BID – Data Access Built In Diagnostics, SQL Server Compatibility, and a few other key projects. In her ten year career at Microsoft she has successfully pulled the ‘hat-trick’ by working in all three roles; Test, Development and now as a PM. Throughout these ten years she has been able to work for Access, JET Database, JET Replication, and now the SQL Server division. |
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Keith Pleas, Guided Design
Smart Client Live! Conference Chair
Keith is one of the founders of Guided Design and has worked for more than two years on the team developing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Keith is an internationally known writer and speaker and is the Editorial Chair for Smart Client Live!. He is also a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine and has developed Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith also sits on the INETA board and is the liaison for the INETA Speakers Bureau.
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Brian A. Randell, MCW Technologies
Brian A. Randell teaches Microsoft .NET curriculum using Visual Basic .NET and C# for DevelopMentor. When not teaching, Brian works as a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner, specializing in custom application development with Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products.
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Walt Ritscher, Scandiasoft
Walt Ritscher has trained thousands of corporate developers during the last ten years. An active speaker, his teaching schedule has taken him throughout the world providing developer training at corporations, universities and software conferences .He has collaborated on several books and videos published for the developer market including Œearly adopter¹ .Net courses at Microsoft Press. Walt¹s industry expertise has placed him on various national technology advisory boards. He is also deeply involved in the local developer community — founding the .NET Developers Association in Redmond, WA.
Walt has accumulated plenty of experience as a developer — he is fluent in database, component, and win-forms technologies. As a web programmer he has worked on several prototype ASP.NET projects including the Microsoft Community Starter Kit. His company, Scandiasoft, produces developer tools.
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Richard Hale Shaw, Richard Hale Shaw Group
Black-Belt Virtual Track Chair
Richard is the founder of the Richard Hale Shaw Group, which has consulted and trained software developers since 1993. He's created and chaired numerous technical conferences, including C# Live! and Black Belt tracks of the VSLive! conference series. An articulate writer and speaker on topics dear to the hearts of software developers and an outspoken critic of broken devtools, Richard specializes in consulting and training on .NET programming in C# and COM/+ programming in C++. You can reach him at www.RichardHaleShawGroup.com.
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Paul Sheriff, PDSA, Inc
Paul D. Sheriff is a recognized leader in the Visual Basic industry and the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California. Paul is a frequent speaker at Microsoft Developer Days, Microsoft Tech Ed, Microsoft "MSDN Presents", industry conferences and user groups across the country. You can see Paul teaching .NET on Microsoft WebCasts and with Blast Through Learning videos (www.blastthroughlearning.com). Check out Paul's new book ASP.NET Developer's Jumpstart with co-author Ken Getz. |
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Martin L. Shoemaker, Richard Hale Shaw Group
Martin is a software developer with 20 years experience in the industry. He has worked in the fields of color science, on-line shopping, time-series databases, material handling, medical imaging, and customer relations management. He has twice been recognized by Microsoft Corporation as an MVP for Visual Development with C#. As an instructor and consultant for the Richard Hale Shaw Group, he offers his guidance and expertise to clients who need high-quality design services with UML, as well as custom software in the Windows and .NET environment. He’s obsessive about Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML, and he thinks you should be, too.
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Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight
Aaron is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on XML and Web services technologies on the Microsoft .NET platform including such areas as BizTalk Server 2004 and Indigo. Aaron has spent years developing course materials and teaching professional developers throughout the world. Aaron frequently speaks at developer conferences throughout the year including TechEd, VSLive!, PDC, and Win-Dev to name a few, and he's on the advisory board for the Utah .NET User Group where he's involved locally. Aaron has written numerous books, articles, and whitepapers including the Essential XML Quick Reference (Addison Wesley, 2001), Essential XML (Addison Wesley, 2000), and his popular XML column , The XML Files, in MSDN Magazine. He currently writes MSDN Magazine's Service Station column in conjunction with his blog of the same name. In addition to his writing, Aaron has written various XML-related tools and samples that have proven helpful to developers. Microsoft recognizes Aaron as an MVP for his contributions to the XML Web Services community.
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Mark Townsend, Oracle Corporation
A 15-year Oracle veteran, Mark Townsend is Senior Director of Product Management in Oracle's Server Technology Division, where he's currently responsible for the rollout and R&D planning of database releases. His role involves regular discussions with developers, customers, and partners to better understand their IT and business requirements and challenges.
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Peter Varhol, Progress Software
Peter is principal product manager for developer tools at Progress Software. He writes on software development topics in a variety of different technology publications, and speaks on application architecture and design at industry conferences. Peter's credentials include graduate degrees in computer science and mathematics, and he has taught both subjects at the university level.
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Bill Vaughn, Beta V Corp.
William (Bill) Vaughn is President of Beta V Corporation. He's developed for, taught, and written about mainframe and personal computers since '72, including 14 years at Microsoft. He's the author of the best-selling books ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers—Second Edition and ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers. While at Microsoft, Bill taught and wrote courses at Microsoft University, wrote data access documentation for Visual Basic (versions 2-5), was the Enterprise Product Manger for Visual Studio, and spent his last two years training Microsoft developers.
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Gordon van Huizen, Sonic Software
Gordon Van Huizen is Sonic Software’s Strategic Technology Advisor, as well as chief technology officer (CTO) for Sonic’s parent company, Progress Software Corporation. In this role, he provides insight and feedback on the company's technology strategy and standards initiatives, as well as coordinating technical strategies and architectures across all of the Progress business units.
Prior to his latest appointment, Van Huizen was Chief Technology Officer for Sonic Software, working closely with Sonic’s strategic partners, customers and product group to help chart the course of Sonic’s SOA products. During his tenure, Van Huizen helped establish the enterprise services bus (ESB) as a significant market trend and was honored by InfoWorld magazine as one of the top 25 CTOs. Previously, he served as vice president of product management at Sonic, overseeing the launch of Sonic ESB® and SonicMQ® 5.0. In this role, Van Huizen provided a driving force in bringing the industry’s first enterprise service bus (ESB) to market. He also played an instrumental role in the acquisition and integration of eXcelon Corporation in 2002.
A popular speaker and authority on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Van Huizen has delivered keynote speeches at numerous conferences. He has written for industry publications such as Network World, Business Integration Journal, Java Developer's Journal and JavaWorld, and he contributed to Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition.
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Dan Winn, Microsoft
Dan Winn is a Program Manager in the SQL Server Relational Engine team at Microsoft. In his 5 years with the team he has worked on a variety of technologies including the Dynamic Management Views, SQL Trace, SQL/CLR, Visual Studio Integration and T-SQL Exception Handling. Hailing originally from the east coast, Dan got a degree in Computer Science from Princeton University and now lives in Seattle. |
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Roger Wolter, Microsoft
Roger Wolter has close to 30 years experience in the computer industry – the last 7 with Microsoft. He is currently a Program manager on the SQL Server team specializing in SQL Server Service Broker and SQL Server Express. His projects at Microsoft have included COM+, SQLXML, the Soap Toolkit, SQL Server Service Broker and SQL Express. |
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