VSLive! Speakers
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Keith Pleas, VSLive! 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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Scott Allen, Scott Allen is a software architect based in Baltimore, MD, and has more than 13 years of experience in delivering commercial products across a wide range of technologies — from 8-bit embedded devices to highly scalable Web applications. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and founder of OdeToCode.com. |
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Bill Baldasti, MVP, Solutions Architect Bill Baldasti is Practice Manager at Infusion Development and co-founder of its Toronto office. An experience speaker, developer and architect, Bill has helped development teams across North America, Europe and Japan design and develop mission-critical enterprise applications. Involved with the .NET Framework since its early Betas, Bill is well-versed in n-Tier and Service Oriented Architectures and best practices, ASP.NET application optimization, Smart Client technology and Enterprise Application Integration. Bill was intimately involved with the design and development of one of the first Wall Street trading systems built using the .NET Framework. In addition to architecture and development, Bill has been a member of Microsoft’s .NET Trainer tour across the USA, was ranked the #1 trainer on Microsoft’s Windows 2003 training tour in July 2003, and speaks at various conferences. |
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Paul Ballard,
Rochester Consulting Partnership, Inc. Paul Ballard is a Microsoft MVP and a MCSD, MCAD, and MCSE certified consultant and the President of The Rochester Consulting Partnership, Inc. He has more than 15 years of experience designing and building client/server and web based distributed applications and is currently specializing in Microsoft's .NET technologies as a consultant, speaker, and trainer. Paul is also formerly the Editor for TheServerSide.NET. |
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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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Jim Bowyer, Jim Bowyer is a Technology Specialist with skills in both leading and contributing to the design, development and testing of distributed applications based on the Microsoft .NET platform and associated technologies. His specialty is in Business Process Integration technologies with a focus on BizTalk Server with which he has worked closely since its inception. He has considerable experience in the design and delivery and support of a variety of Information Systems and associated applications using predominately Microsoft platforms. |
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Jerome Carron, Jerome Carron is a Senior Developer Specialist at Microsoft Canada with over 13 years of enterprise application development, implementation and integration experience with enterprise customers. Jerome joined Microsoft from Oracle Consulting Services 9 years ago as a Systems Engineer focused on Windows DNA. Jerome recently joined the Developer & Platform Evangelism team from Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). Jerome's ecommerce projects during his 6 year tenure with MCS included Grocerygateway.com, HBC.COM, and Future Shop. Recent projects included the Web Cast for the SARS Rolling Stones concert, as well as a number of Windows Media implementations and SharePoint projects for enterprise customers. In his spare time, he can be found riding his motorcycle, and exploring his passion for digital media. |
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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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Rick Davis, Rick Davis is a Principal with Pariveda Solutions’ Dallas office (Go Stars!). He specializes in solving business problems using Microsoft technologies with a focus on highly-available and highly-scalable solutions. He has delivered solutions for his clients across multiple IT disciplines such as: software development, infrastructure implementation, database administration and performance tuning and business intelligence.. |
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Adam Gallant, Adam Gallant is a Technology Solution Specialist who focuses on reaching out to the developer community through his work with a diverse range of audiences including enterprise, small and medium business, user groups, game developers and hobbyists. Adam has been dedicated to the technical and practical implementation of Microsoft .NET technology throughout his 13 years at Microsoft. Adam is an experienced speaker and frequently presents Microsoft Developer Network(MSDN) events across Canada. In addition to his extensive hands-on experience, Adam has acquired several Microsoft certifications including MCSE, MCDBA and MCSD. |
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Barry Gervin, Barry Gervin is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting. Barry, a technical leader with over 15 years experience, has helped many development teams architect and build large-scale mission critical applications. Barry is skilled in the Architecture and Development of Distributed Applications and Databases. Some of his notable recent work is aimed at establishing best practices for .NET development. He has been deeply involved with Microsoft's .NET platform and is a convert from the PowerBuilder development community. In addition to consulting, Barry has been a Software Development Instructor for over 10 years and currently holds a MS Certified Trainer designation in addition to .NET MS Certified Solution Developer and MS Solution Framework Practitioner designations. |
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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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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, Josh Holmes, a SRT Solutions principal and a Microsoft MVP, has worked with a diverse client set, ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller-sized companies. Specializing in mobility solutions based on .NET technology, Josh has developed server, web, desktop, handheld and Pocket PC applications. Josh is an accomplished trainer with a deep and varied knowledge base. He has developed the content and acted as the lead instructor for an array of software technology courses in the areas of .NET, ASP.NET, XML SPY, XML, VB.NET, C#, VSTO and the Compact Framework. Josh is a frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences focusing on emerging technologies, software design and development. He serves as an officer for several non-profit technology organizations including Volunteer IT, Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group and the Ann Arbor Computing Society and is a speaker on the INETA Speaker Bureau serving .NET user groups internationally. |
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Chris Kinsman, 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 courses on ASP.NET in both VB .NET and C# and has extensive experience with ASP, Web Forms, 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 conferences 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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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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Talhah Mir, Talhah Mir is a Security Technologist at Microsoft who has been involved in various areas of information security including security assessment work and development of security courses. In his current role, Talhah is leading the effort in trying to bring threat modeling to the application development space through focused and optimized methodologies and tools that will help non-security subject-matter experts gain maximum benefits of threat modeling through minimum investment. Talhah has also been involved in conducting various information security related workshops and talks geared towards academic faculty as well as Fortune 100 companies. Talhah holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in Canada. |
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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 column in and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive. |
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Brian A. 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 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 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 () 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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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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Bill Wolff, Agility Systems Bill Wolff is an independent consultant, trainer, and architect specializing in Microsoft development technologies. His company, Agility Systems, is based in the Philadelphia area. He ran the consulting firm Wolff Data Systems for 15 years and directed armies of consultants in the dot com world. Bill is founder and President of the philly.net user group, board member for INETA (Vice President, Speaker Bureau), and he is active in several other user communities. Bill was a contributing author to several books and articles. His certifications include trainer, systems engineer, developer, and Microsoft MVP for VB.NET. |
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Jeff Zado, Jeff Zado is the Senior Product Manager for Developer Tools at Microsoft Canada. Jeff is a veteran speaker who has spent more than a decade working with large and small development organizations around the world. His experience gives him a keen understanding of the development challenges organizations face, and how to help them improve their processes by leveraging advancements in development tools and infrastructure. |
