 John Alexander
John Alexander is the Marketing Technologist for G.A. Sullivan. A featured speaker at various industry events, John has been nominated and chosen by Microsoft for the fourth straight year as an MSDN Regional Director. He has consulted as a technical advisor on .NET e-Business Architecture by G.A. Sullivan, published by SAMS. In addition, John is co-authoring Building Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET with Billy Hollis, to be published in 1Q2002 by Wiley Computer Books.
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Michael Amundsen
An internationally known author and lecturer, Michael Amundsen travels throughout the world speaking and teaching on a wide range of topics including .NET, the Internet, team development, and other subjects. He has more than a dozen books to his credit and is currently co-authoring a new book, ASP.NET For Developers.
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Daniel Appleman
Daniel Appleman is President of Desaware, a leading vendor of component software. He is also the author of three best-selling books on Visual Basic: Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API and Developing COM/ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 6, both from SAMS, and Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers, from Apress.
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Francesco Balena
Francesco Balena is a contributing editor to VBPJ, Editor in Chief of Visual Basic Journal, VBPJ's Italian licensee, and co-founder of Software Design, a software firm that specializes in VB add-ons. Francesco has written several books in Italian, and is author of Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (MSPress). Contact Francesco at or visit his Web site at www.vb2themax.com, where you'll find plenty of VB tips, routines, articles and utilities.
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Laura Barker
Laura Barker, MCSD, is a Senior Project Manager and Business Analyst at Empowered Software Solutions. Laura's latest endeavors include managing a large insurance application developed in .NET, writing a chapter on the Mobile Internet Toolkit for Syngress Publishing, writing for .NET Magazine, speaking at the Chicago .NET User Group and co presenting .NET Overview sessions for Chicagoland businesses.
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Dave Bost
David Bost is a Senior Consultant with Solution Partners, a Chicago-based consulting company and Microsoft Solution Provider Partner. David has specialized in Microsoft-centric architecture and implementation for the past seven years, helping various large and small companies bring their applications to the Web. He is also a frequent contributor and speaker for many of the Microsoft Developer User Groups in Chicago. You can reach David at .
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Judy Bowman
Judy Bowman is the author of two SQL books (one in its 4th edition) and has done much work on curriculum development and teaching. She has created classes including introductions to SQL, advanced SQL, SQL performance, specific classes on SQL issues when moving from one RDBMS to another. Judy has also been teaching these subjects as well as most of the Sybase set.
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Andrew Brust
Andrew Brust is the President of Progressive Systems Consulting, New York. Progressive specializes in developing and training developers for client/server and other custom database applications. Andrew's industry experience includes banking, government agencies, small business, and non-profit organizations.
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Kathleen Dollard
Trained as a chemist, Kathleen Dollard moved into full-time programming while working on laboratory information systems in the 1980s. Since then she has developed a range of applications for the investment, finance, environmental, and government sectors. Kathleen is a moderator on the DevX forums, a Microsoft MVP, writes for Visual Studio Magazine, and is writing a book on Visual Basic.NET.
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Peter Drayton
Peter Drayton is an independent consultant, author, and instructor for DevelopMentor, where he teaches C# and .NET. Before joining DevelopMentor, Peter spent ten years working and consulting as a developer, architect and technical manager for a number of startups in the San Francisco Bay Area and Cape Town, South Africa. Peter co-authored C# Essentials (O'Reilly), is working on the upcoming C# in a Nutshell (O'Reilly), and has been living the "Nothing but .NET" lifestyle since mid-2000.
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G. Andrew Duthie
G. Andrew Duthie is the Founder and Principal of Graymad Enterprises, providing consulting and training in Web and e-commerce development. In addition to his work as a consultant and architect, Andrew has spoken at numerous industry conferences since 1998. He is the author of ASP.NET Step By Step, published by Microsoft Press, and ASP.NET in a Nutshell, published by O'Reilly and Associates.
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Josef Finsel
Josef Finsel is a software consultant with G.A. Sullivan, an industry leading global software development company with five locations that have achieved designation as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for E-Commerce Solutions. He's also author of several articles for VBPJ and VSM as well as the forthcoming book The Handbook for Reluctant DBAs (Apress, ISBN 1-893115-90-9).
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Ken Getz
Ken Getz is an instructor and courseware author for AppDev, teaching their VB, Access, and XML classes. He's also a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies, and a Microsoft Solution Provider specializing in custom application development with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products. Ken wrote several of the add-ins that ship with Microsoft Office 2000 Developer, and he's written a one-day course for Microsoft on this topic. He has also written several books on VB and VBA, including the best-selling Access Developer's Handbook series from Sybex.
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John Goodson
John Goodson is Vice President of product operations for DataDirect Technologies, the leading supplier of components for connecting data and applications across diverse environments such as Java, .NET and Legacy. In his role, John leads the product strategy and development efforts for the companyÕs connectivity technologies. For nearly ten years, John has worked with Sun, Microsoft and leading database vendors on the development of database connectivity standards including ODBC, JDBC, ADO and XML.
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Jonathan Goodyear
Jonathan Goodyear, MCSD, is a contributing editor for Visual Studio Magazine and co-author of Debugging ASP.NET, by New Riders Publishing. He is the founder of angryCoder, the first eZine built with ASP.NET. He recently started his own consulting practice, ASPSoft. Jonathan has also worked as a consultant for Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and as the Internet Architect for the Home Shopping Network's e-commerce presence.
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Jim Gray
Jim Gray is part of Microsoft's research group. His work focuses on databases and transaction processing. Jim is active in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He is also a member of the PITAC, and edits of a book series of books on data management.
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Richard Grimes
Richard is a writer and speaker about COM, ATL and .NET. He is the .NET columnist on VCDJ and regularly contributes to MSDN Magazine. His book about .NET for Addison Wesley will be published in early 2002.
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Richard Hale Shaw
Richard Hale Shaw is a consultant and trainer on COM/DCOM, Visual C++/MFC/ATL, Visual J++, and MTS for software developers worldwide. Richard was integral in creating the Visual C++ Developers Conference.
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Sohail Haque
As Director of Solution and Account Management at MERANT, Sohail Haque is intimately familiar with customersÕ and developersÕ needs for robust and reliable application development tools. In this capacity, Haque has held a leadership role in the development of MERANTÕs PVCS Dimensions product line. Prior to this role, Haque was a technology architect for the Dimensions product line. Prior to MERANT, Haque served as the Director of Engineering and West Coast Operations of Pretzel Logic where he was responsible for management of engineering and product marketing. Haque began his career at SQL Software, the company that developed the predecessor to PVCS Dimensions.
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Ken Henderson
Ken Henderson is a nationally recognized DBMS consultant and author. Since the 1980s, he has written for an assortment of computer trade publications and has authored six books on database development, including The Guru's Guide to
Transact-SQL (Addison-Wesley, 2000). He has consulted for such top-tier clients as the U.S. Air Force, H&R Block, Traveler's Insurance, and the CIA. Currently, Ken serves as the CTO for a Dallas-based software development firm.
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Nick Hodapp
Nick Hodapp is a Product Manager for Microsoft Visual C++ and C#. Previously he enjoyed an eight-year career in the Midwest developing proprietary Windows-based GIS software for telecommunication and power utilities. Nick enjoys the fast pace of the software industry and insists he can remain afloat.
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Michael Hotek
Michael Hotek is an MCSE and MS SQL Server DBA specializing in replication and data warehousing with MS SQL Server. Michael is also proficient in back-end technologies such as Sybase and NT and front end tools such as Powerbuilder and Visual Basic. He can be found on the MSSQL list, SMS lists and Microsoft newsgroups frequently, helping out folks with their SQL Server questions.
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Michael Iem
Michael Iem is currently a Product Manager for Visual Basic .NET in the .NET Developer Solutions Group at Microsoft Corporation headquarters in Redmond, Washington. A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Michael is a regular speaker at industry events such as VS Live Events, Microsoft TechEd, and the Professional Developers Conference.
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Trey Johnson
Trey Johnson builds data warehousing and business intelligence solutions at Encore Development as a Data Warehouse Architect. He has been working with SQL Server since 1994 providing Decision Support and Business Intelligence solutions. Trey is very active within the SQL Server Community and the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). Trey has served on the Board of Directors of PASS and now serves as an Executive Committee member of the PASS Board as their Vice President of Marketing. He has spoken at a number of SQL Server conferences on Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Data Mining and has been both an author and contributing author of SQL Server publications.
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Dave Kapelansky
Dave Kapelansky has responsibility for technical sales support throughout North America for Compuware Corporation's QACenter functional and load testing products. With over 27 years of application development and quality assurance experience, Dave has an extensive background that extends across mainframe, distributed and Web environments. Prior project initiatives highlighted application development that adopted various emerging technologies such as radio frequency devices, electronic imaging of back office systems and distributed customer call centers utilizing Web enablement to provide self service capabilities.
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Don Kiely
Don Kiely is Senior Information Architect for Third Sector Technologies in Fairbanks, Alaska, which develops desktop and Web applications integrating databases, XML, and related technologies. Don has authored and co-authored several programming books, has written articles for VBPJ, XML Magazine, and others. Don is a VB, XML, and SQL Server instructor for AppDev, and speaks regularly at industry conferences.
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Todd Kimble
Todd Kimble is a partner and Director of Consulting Services for Clarity Consulting Inc., a Microsoft Solution Provider Partner. Todd has been developing enterprise systems for over 13 years and has architected multiple large-scale multi-tier and Web-based applications. Todd has spoken at many industry conferences, including Tech-ED, the Windows 2000 launch event, and Microsoft's Developer Days. Reach him at .
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Chris Kinsman
Chris Kinsman is an instructor with Deep Training. He teaches courses on ASP.NET in both VB.NET and C#. In a previous life Chris was the CTO for a large scale Web site. Chris is a contributing editor for Visual Studio Magazine and is currently working on an ASP.NET book for SAMS. Chris is not a full time speaker, most of his time is spent doing consulting with Vergent Software. He can be reached at: .
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Pranish Kumar
Pranish has been working as a Program Manager for Microsoft for about two years, during which he spent all of his time working on the Visual C++ Libraries team, predominantly on ATL Server. Pranish has completed degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New South Wales.
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Deborah Kurata
Deborah Kurata is a consultant and cofounder of InStep Technologies, a consulting group that designs and develops object-oriented and component-based Windows applications. Deborah is the author of Doing Objects in Visual Basic 6 (SAMS), which focuses on a pragmatic approach to object-oriented design and development of VB applications. She also writes the "Programming with Class" column in VBPJ. Contact Deborah at .
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Ronald Laeremans
Ronald Laeremans is a Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual C++ team responsible for the C++ front-end and bringing C++ to .Net. Before joining Microsoft 2.5 years ago he worked as an architect on NT Server scalability, security and reliability in the mobile telecommunication industry in Europe.
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Rick Leinecker
Rick Leinecker has held a number of positions including Director of Programming and online services at COMPUTE Publications; Senior Programmer and later Director of Technology at IntraCorp, Inc.; Software Engineer at MCI's Digital Imaging Division; Software Engineer at Landmark Communications; Software Engineer at Oneplace, LLC; and professor of Computer Science at Rockingham Community College. He has written many books and articles including The Visual C++ 6.0 Bible, COM+ Unleashed, and The Windows 98 Programming Bible. His software includes a number of Web sites, some games such as The Perfect Checkmate, and some vertical pharmaceutical applications.
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Terry Leeper
Terry Leeper is a Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual C++ team dealing mainly with the compiler optimizer (both 32 and 64 bit), baseline tools, and libraries. He has been Director of Engineering and Senior Compiler Developer at previous companies.
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Rockford Lhotka
Rockford Lhotka is the author of Visual Basic 6 Distributed Objects and Visual Basic 6 Business Objects (Wrox Press) and is a contributing author for Visual Basic Programmer's Journal and DevX. He has presented at numerous conferences, including Microsoft Tech Ed and VBITS. He has over 13 years' experience in software development and has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, design and development, network administration and project management. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Certified Solution Providers, dedicated to solving the most challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft tools and technology.
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Avonelle Lovhaug
Since 1996, Avonelle Lovhaug (MCSD) has been a software consultant for Shared Resource Management, Inc. in St. Paul, Minnesota. In her role as Senior Technologist, she employs Microsoft technologies to build applications that solve the business problems of her clients. In addition to providing technical leadership to Internet and client/server projects, Avonelle writes and speaks regularly on software development and project management issues. Reach her at .
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Juval Lowy
Juval Lowy is Founder of IDesign, a consulting firm focused on COM design, in which he has more than six years' experience. Juval was formerly a corporate software architect at KLA-Tencor, a Fortune 500 company, where he designed and developed frameworks and components used across the corporation. He's a contributing editor for the Visual C++ Developers Journal, has published articles in C++ Users Journal, and conducts training classes and conference talks on component-oriented design, COM/COM+, and .NET. He authored a book about COM+ and .NET component services, due soon from O'Reilly. Reach him at .
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Donald MacCormick
Based in London, Donald MacCormick is Crystal Decisions' director of worldwide product communications, as well as product director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). MacCormick joined Holistic Systems in 1992, which was acquired by Crystal Decisions in 1996. After running the European consulting group for four years MacCormick moved into product management, and took the helm of product communications worldwide.
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Brian Matsik
Brian Matsik has worked with both Wrox Press and New Riders Press on a total of five books with three more in development. He has author credit on: Professional Access 2000 Development, Professional ADO 2.5 Programming, Professional Visual Interdev 6 Development, and The VBScript Programmer's Reference. He has written MCSD Fast Track: Solutions Architectures for New Riders Press. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and his current areas of specialty are ADO, ASP, COM+, and SQL.
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Robert Patton
Robert A. Patton (MCDBA, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCP+I) is the Director of Software Development for PurchasingFirst, specializing in Microsoft Windows DNA and .NET development. He has authored several books for Syngress Publishing, including SQL Server 2000.Net. His first project out of school was to make a wireless client server application perform better, and he has never lost that obsession. You may reach Robert at .
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Keith Pleas
Keith Pleas is a VBPJ Contributing Editor and frequent contributor on advanced operating system topics to other industry publications such as PC Magazine. He was responsible for organizing and presenting the Microsoft-sponsored Windows 2000 Pre-Season and Implementation Mini-Camps. He has also contributed to several Microsoft Professional Certification exams.
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Jan Popkin
Jan is a software engineer with extensive experience developing large, complex systems. He is founder and CEO of Popkin Software & Systems. The company produces enterprise-modeling tools, including System Architect V8. Before establishing Popkin Software & Systems in 1986, Jan was a software engineer for Logica, a large computer consulting firm based in the United Kingdom. He worked in the same capacity for TRW and Bradford National Corp. Jan was also one of the principal software architects for the American Express Image Processing System, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Control System, and the Bank of America Image Teller System.
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Jeff Prosise
Jeff Prosise makes his living programming Windows and teaching others how to do the same. His most recent book is Programming Windows with MFC, Second Edition (Microsoft Press, 1999). He writes regularly for programming journals. Jeff is also the cofounder of Wintellect, a software education and consulting firm based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Brian Randell
Brian Randell is an instructor at DevelopMentor. He teaches its Visual Basic-based COM curriculum. When not teaching VB and COM, Brian works as a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Solution Provider specializing in custom application development with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products. Contact him at or
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Jon Rauschenberger
Jon Rauschenberger is a partner and the Director of Technology at Clarity, a Chicago-based information technology consulting firm and Microsoft Solution Provider Partner. Jon is a frequent speaker at conferences and an author for journals such as Microsoft TechED, VBITS, COMDEX, and DevDays. In addition, as a member of Microsoft's Strategic Design Review committee, Jon helps the Microsoft Visual Studio and platform groups formulate their products' future.
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Brent Rector
Brent Rector is president and founder of Wise Owl Consulting with over two decades experience in software development. Brent has designed and implementing operating systems as well as new computer programming languages and their compilers. He is the author and co-author of numerous Windows programming books, including ATL Internals and Win32 Programming. Brent is also the author of Demeanor for .NET - the premier code obfuscator for .NET applications.
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Jeffrey Richter
Jeffrey Richter (www.JeffreyRichter.com) is the author of Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Press, 1999), and is a co-founder of Wintellect, a software education and consulting firm. He specializes in programming/design for .NET and Win32. Jeff is currently authoring the book Programming .NET Framework Applications and offers .NET technology seminars.
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John Robbins
John Robbins is a co-founder of Wintellect, a software consulting, education, and development firm that specializes in Windows and COM programming. John is also the author of Debugging Applications, (Microsoft Press, 2000) and is a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine where he writes the "Bugslayer" column. Prior to founding Wintellect, he was an engineer, architect, and product manager for NuMega Technologies. Contact him at www.wintellect.com.
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Jay Schmelzer
Jay Schmelzer is a partner with Clarity Consulting, Inc., an e-business and technology consulting firm based in Chicago. He actively oversees multiple project teams working on the design, development and implementation of large-scale systems. In addition, Jay frequently writes articles for technical journals and speaks at IT conferences.
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Paul Sheriff
Paul D. Sheriff is the Owner of PDSA, Inc., a custom software development and consulting company in Southern California. Paul is the MSDN Regional Director for Southern California, has an upcoming book on ASP.NET with SAMS publishing co-written with Ken Getz, and has produced over 72 videos on VB, SQL Server, .NET and Web Development for Keystone Learning Systems. Visit the PDSA, Inc. Web site for more information or contact Paul directly at .
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Yasser Shohoud
Yasser Shohoud is Co-Founder of DevXpert (www.devxpert.com), a software development and training firm based in northern Virginia. Yasser architects Web-based systems for clients, and develops and delivers DevXpert's training courses. Prior to DevXpert, Yasser was Chief Architect at Best Software (now Sage Software) where he led the architecture and design of their next generation Web-based accounting software. Yasser is a contributing editor and columnist for VBPJ. He is also a contributing editor for XML Magazine and frequent speaker at VBITS and SD. Reach Yasser at .
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Aaron Skonnard
Aaron Skonnard is a consultant, instructor, and author specializing in Windows technologies and Web applications. Aaron teaches courses for DevelopMentor, is a columnist for Microsoft Internet Developer, the author of Essential WinInet, and co-author of Essential XML: Beyond MarkUp ( Addison Wesley Longman). Contact him at staff.develop.com/aarons.
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Scott Stanfield
Scott Stanfield is the Founder and CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc., a Bay Area consulting and development company. Scott is the Microsoft Regional Director, a member of the .NET Partner Advisory Council, and a frequent speaker at industry conferences including VBITS, PDC and TechEd.
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William A. Swope
William A. Swope is Vice President and Co-General Manager of Intel's, Software and Solutions Group (SSG). Swope joined Intel in 1979 and has held a number of positions including marketing, strategic planning and general management. He was promoted to Vice President in 1996. Swope received his bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from Tufts College. He earned his master's degree in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Ron Talmage
Ron Talmage is the owner of Prospice, LLC, a database consulting firm based in Seattle. Ron is the author of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Administrator's Guide (Prima Publishing). He is a SQL Server MVP, and writes articles for SQL Server Professional, SQL Server Magazine, and ITWorld.com. He is also the PASS newsletter editor, and current president of the Pacific Northwest SQL Server Users Group. Contact him at .
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Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson, Technical Alliance Manager for Mercury Interactive, has 10 years' experience in software testing and information systems quality assurance. Mark's experience in testing life-critical systems thrust him into the forefront of software quality assurance, and naturally, test automation. Throughout his career, Mark played a critical role in engaging test automation companies to produce more flexible, yet credible solutions for requirements-based software testing.
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Kimberly L. Tripp-Simonnet
Kimberly Tripp-Simonnet has worked in the database field since 1989 beginning with FoxBase and then moving to SQL Server in 1991. For the past six years, Kimberly has worked as a Training and Consulting Specialist for her own company SYSolutions, Inc. Prior to that Kimberly held positions at Microsoft including Subject Matter Expert/Trainer for Microsoft University and Technical Writer for the SQL Server Development Team.
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Doug Turnure
Doug Turnure is a Visual Basic .NET and VB-COM instructor at DevelopMentor. He has been working with VB in various capacities since 1994, and has been doing training since 1997. Doug also does consulting through Aggelos Incorporated. He has recently fielded solutions in the finance and pharmaceutical industries, and has also worked extensively in time/attendance and the telecommunications industry. Doug Co-Authored the book Effective Visual Basic (Addison-Wesley) and is currently writing a book on Visual Basic .NET internals. He can be reached at .
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Michel Ulens
Michel Ulens has spent the past two years working as an independent consultant on various projects using MS SQL 7 and Oracle 7.x on a daily basis. Before that, Michel worked for five years for a European food manufacturer, and was responsible for the development of planning software.
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William Vaughn
William Vaughn is President of BetaV Corporation and a 30-year veteran of the computer industry. Bill has worked in the industry for over 30 years and spent 14 years at Microsoft, where he developed and taught Microsoft University courses on SQL Server, Visual Basic and Windows and wrote Visual Basic data access documentation for versions 2 through 5. He has written several books and articles on Visual Basic, data access technology and SQL Server. His most recent book is ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic Programmers Second Edition (Apress).
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Peter Vogel
Peter Vogel (MBA, MCSD) is a principal in PH&V Information Services whose clients include Volvo, Christie Digital, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. He edits the Smart Access and XML Developer newsletters, and wrote the highly-regarded Visual Basic Object and Component Handbook (Prentice-Hall). Peter also teaches for Learning Tree International and wrote their ASP.NET and Technical Writing courses.
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