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Chris Kinsman,
VSLive! Las Vegas 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 has taught courses on ASP.NET in both VB.NET and C# and has extensive experience with ASP, Web Forms, Clustering, Data Access, and Scalability. Chris has spoken at a variety of conferences including VSLive! and Microsoft TechEd on topics including ASP.NET Security, ASP.NET State Management, Web Service Security, ASP to ASP.NET Migration, and Building Server Controls. Contact him at . |
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Robert Boedigheimer, Schwan Food Company
Robert Boedigheimer works for The Schwan Food Company providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 10 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and is currently implementing a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at several industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Microsoft's Visual DevCon 2005, and several VSLive! events. |
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Keith Brown,
Keith Brown is a co-founder of Pluralsight, a premier .NET developer training company, where he focuses on security for developers. Besides writing the Security Briefs column for MSDN Magazine, he authored The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security (Addison Wesley, 2004), Programming Windows Security (Addison Wesley, 2000), and coauthored Effective COM (Addison Wesley, 1999). Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent close to a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. He speaks at many conferences, including PDC and TechEd. Read Keith’s latest book and blog online at . |
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Scott Cate,
Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc., a technology company
specializing in commercial ASP.NET applications. Scott's product line
includes myKB.com (Knowledge Base Software), kbAlertz.com (Microsoft
Knowledge Base Notifications), and EasySearchASP.net (a Pluggable Search
Engine for ASP.NET sites). Scott also runs AZGroups.com (Arizona .NET User
Groups), one of the largest and most active user group communities in the
country, and is a member of ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early
feedback to the Microsoft ASP.NET Team. Scott has also been awarded the
ASP.NET MVP for three years in a row, from 2004-2006. He has co-authored an
AJAX book titled "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" to be released in the summer
of 2006 and the non-fiction novel "Surveillance" and can be found at . |
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Miguel Castro, Infotek Consulting Group, Inc.
Miguel Castro is a .NET consultant, author, speaker, and trainer with over 20 years of IT experience with a background in full automation solutions encompassing all aspects of a project’s life cycle, including data gathering, architecture, design, development, documentation, and training. He is a Microsoft MVP in the area of Visual Developer C#, recently awarded for 2005, and president of InfoTek Consulting Group, Inc., a provider of .NET consulting services to clients in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Area.. |
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Daniel Cazzulino,
Daniel Cazzulino (XML MVP) is founder of Clarius Consulting, providing training, consulting and development in Microsoft .NET technologies. He has written several books and articles for Wrox Press, Apress, ASPToday, MSDN Online, TechTarget and others. He's also a recognized speaker who presents regularly in conferences in Argentina and worldwide, such as TechEd, XML DevCon, .NET ONE, etc. His company works closely with Microsoft Corp in key projects from the patterns & practices group, and he was a main developer on projects like the Guidance Automation Toolkit and the Composite UI Application Block, contributed to Enterprise Library v2.0, the Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit and others. He also works with other groups inside Microsoft Corp such as the Architecture Strategy group, to define solutions related to software architecture, domain specific languages and factories. |
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Mark D'Urso,
Mark D’Urso 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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Pablo Fernicola,
Pablo Fernicola is a Group Manager in the Windows Presentation Foundation team, responsible for the integration of graphics, media, text and printing as part of the new Windows client platform introduced in Longhorn. Previously, Pablo played key roles in the release of several versions of Internet Explorer, and has several years of industry experience in 3D graphics and multimedia at Microsoft Corporation, Apple Computer, and Intergraph Corporation. Pablo received a Master’s degree from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University, both in Electrical Engineering. |
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Ken Getz,
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 Handbook and VBA Developer's Handbook. He co-wrote and recorded for video training several courses for Application Developer's Training Company (AppDev), including VB 2005, C# 2005, ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET, VB6, and Access 2000 seminars. |
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Richard Hale Shaw,
Richard Hale Shaw 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 the 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 Managed C++. Richard is a member of the INETA (http://www.ineta.org/) speakers bureau, and for his work supporting C#/.NET software developers, he's been recognized by Microsoft as a C# MVP since 2004. You can reach him at . |
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Billy Hollis,
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,
For over ten years, Josh Holmes, a SRT Solutions’ principal, has worked with a diverse client set, from Fortune 500 firms to smaller-sized companies. He ensures that mission critical data is in the hands of those who need it, when they need it. Specializing in mobility solutions based on .NET technology, Josh develops server, web, desktop, handheld and Pocket PC applications. Recognized industry-wide, Josh is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and, in 2005, was appointed to the International .NET Association (INETA) Speaker’s Bureau. An accomplished trainer, Josh has developed content and acted as lead instructor for courses in .NET, ASP.NET, XML SPY, XML, VB.NET, C#, Compact and Advanced Compact Framework. A frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences, Josh is also a founding member and officer of the Ann Arbor .NET Developer’s Group and the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group. |
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Steve Lasker,
Steve Lasker 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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Vishwas Lele, Applied Information Sciences
Vishwas Lele is a Principal Architect at Applied Information Sciences where he has been involved in the development of .NET based applications for a number of clients. He regularly conducts .NET classes including security seminars for developers. Vishwas has been a speaker at a number of developer events and has also authored many magazine articles and white papers on the .NET technology. Vishwas serves as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Washington DC area. |
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Rockford Lhotka,
Rockford Lhotka is the author of the Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and Expert C# 2005 Business Objects books 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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Fritz Onion,
Fritz Onion is a co-founder of Pluralsight, a premier Microsoft .NET training provider. Fritz is the author of Pluralsight's ASP.NET curriculum, with courses delivered around the world. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book Essential ASP.NET (Addison Wesley), and is currently working on a second edition that will cover ASP.NET 2.0. He is a columnist for MSDN Magazine and is also a regular speaker at industry conferences. You can read Fritz's blog at . |
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John Papa, John (C# MVP and MCAD.NET) has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for over 10 years. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies including ASP.NET as well as WebForms using both C# and VB.NET. 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 the Data Points column in MSDN Magazine and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive. |
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Keith Pleas, 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. 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 Randell,
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,
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 'early adopter' .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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Paul Sheriff,
Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc., a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with Developer Days and several of their large events each year. Paul has authored five books on .NET and two on SharePoint in the form of eBooks that can be purchased at the PDSA web site at . Paul can be reached via email at . |
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Cameron Skinner,
Cameron Skinner joined Microsoft in 2005 and is currently a product unit manager on the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) team. He is responsible for overseeing new technology initiatives in the VSTS product line. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Skinner was the CTO and chief architect of application development tools for Embarcadero Technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as CTO for Advanced Software Technologies. In his limited spare time, Mr. Skinner enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and playing his acoustic bass. |
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Aaron Skonnard,
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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Bill Vaughn, .
William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty-four years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, architect, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He’s written seven editions of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server” (the 7th edition is in edit) and three editions of “ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers”. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed “Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services”. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, Visual Studio/SQL Connections, DevTeach and VBug. He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine and many others as well as a bi-weekly editorial on developer issues for Processor magazine. Bill spends considerable time answering questions on the data-centric public newsgroups and speaking at INETA user group meetings all over the world. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See or . |
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David Yack, Colorado Technology Consultants
David Yack is the president of Colorado Technology Consultants, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Colorado. David is a Microsoft Regional Director and is also a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. David has over 18 years of industry experience and embraced .NET during the final beta days of version 1.0. David is a frequent speaker at user group and industry events and is on the author team of two .NET 2.0 related books. You can always track David down via his blog at http://blog.davidyack.com where he writes about his .NET adventures.
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