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Joseph Ackerman is a Senior Consultant with Allin Corp., Microsoft's Northwest Region Partner of the Year for 2008. Joseph has been developing software for more than 20 years at many companies and institutions including Wells Fargo, Hewlett-Packard, Visa, Aetna and Stanford University.
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Andres is a Sun Certified Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer with more than 8 years of experience in software design and development, currently working for Oracle as a Principal Software Engineer. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include software architecture, developer testing, Groovy, Spring and swing hacks. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib and EZMorph among others). Andres maintains a blog at http://jroller.com/aalmiray
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Nikolaus Baer is a research engineer at Zeidman Consulting. He has developed software for marine research, optical testing equipment, military terrain databases, mobile applications, and medical devices. He has written about software trade secret theft and is certified in the use of CodeSuite®. He holds a bachelors degree in computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara, where he attended on a Regents Scholarship. He placed first in the Start Cup 2004 business plan competition. Nik is currently the assistant secretary of the Northern California Scholarship Foundation's Alumni Association, and is working his way through the Kenpo Karate and Arnis martial arts.
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Have worked since 1995 creating Web-based interfaces.
Created frameworks for front-end deployment at the Federal Reserve Bank, Apple, and Microsoft.
Presently working at Vertigo (www.vertigo.com).
I create semantic markup, object oriented JavaScript and cross-browser CSS for an optimal user experience.
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Perry has been a trainer, presenter and code slinger for a number of years now and enjoys sharing his take on technology with others and socializing with other "techies".
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Software developer with experience in Ruby, Python, Java, Linux, networking, and user interfaces; and in many industries including videoconferencing, remote device control, finance, education, publishing, mechanical engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, defense, and telecommunications.
Programming teacher with experience teaching from third grade to adult professional.
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Dave is a Development Manager / Senior Engineer at Vertigo Software. When he was just 12 years old he got access to a Commodore PET and has been hooked on computers and programming ever since. Dave Graduated from the Leeds Metropolitan University(England) with a B.A. in Computer Studies w/Software Engineering in 1991 and has been doing consulting, almost exclusively using Microsoft technologies, ever since.
A very experienced Microsoft .Net developer, loves to stay ahead of the curve learning the newest technologies as soon as they are out of the gate. He has already implemented and deployed several production sites using Silverlight 1.0 and is currently working on a substantial enterprise system using Silverlight 2.0. WCF and Workflow Foundation technologies
A considerable amount of his career has been spent working with Document Management and Enterprise Workflow systems and he is passionate about solving not only technical problems, but business problems.
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Jeff Brown is a Lead Software Engineer at Ingenio, where he is currently focused on software testing, development tooling and infrastructure. He is also the lead of MbUnit and the creator of Gallio, an open, extensible and neutral test automation platform for .Net.
Jeff is passionate about software development. His secret mission is to engage the creativity and talent of everyone he encounters to make a smarter, more beautiful world.
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Mats Bryntse is a Software Engineer at Avensia AB where he specializes in web applications. He just moved to San Francisco from his home country Sweden. He holds a masters degree in Electric Engineering at the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. About a year ago Mats discovered the ExtJS javascript framework and he's been amazed by it ever since. Recently his work has been focused around building a RIA website combining ExtJS and .NET
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Symon Chang, CISSP, is developing Web Services solutions for WebLogic Server at Oracle. He is a voting member OASIS WS-SX TC, contributing to WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation and WS-Trust specifications. He was working on Web Services Security solution for WebLogic Server at BEA. Prior to BEA, he was Sr. Security Architect implemented WS security solutions at BlueTitan, TIBCO and CommerceOne. He holds 4 pending patents on WS security policy area and MS and MBA degrees from San Jose State and Golden Gate University.
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Dr. Doris Chen, a staff engineer and Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems with over 10 years industry experience, her expertise includes Web 2.0/Ajax, JavaServer Faces, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technologies, web services/SOA, Java ME platform wireless programming, Java technology performance tuning, grid computing, and web-based distributed computing. She speaks at major industry international conferences: JavaOne, Sun Network Conference, SD West Software Development, etc.
Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics. Before coming to Sun, Doris developed medical image compression applications and web-based network management products.
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WESLEY J. CHUN, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall's bestseller, "Core Python Programming" (http://corepython.com), its video training course, "Python Fundamentals" (LiveLessons DVD), co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" (http://withdjango.com), and has also written various technical articles for Linux Journal and cNet. He is currently a senior engineer at NearbyNow (http://nearbynow.com) and also runs CyberWeb (http://cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.
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Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is developing a secure programming language. He is now an architect at Yahoo!. He is the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts.
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I am a lecturer and associate director of the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford. For the last several years I have been working with students on a free/open web-based groupware tool called Deme. I do other projects too. See my website.
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James Downey is a technical architect for Allin Consulting, a Microsoft Gold Partner. James has implemented CRM at high-tech and financial firms in Silicon Valley. Prior to joining Allin Consulting, James was a senior engineer at the global law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.
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Steve is the technical lead for the Windows Server Support Group at CSU CalPoly. His team is responsible for Active Directory, SharePoint, SQL, and File Services for 30,000+ users. Steve straddles the world of IT and Development. As the owner of Scevans Consulting Group (http://scevanscg.com) he helps a range of businesses with IT and Software Development needs.
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Marina Fisher is a Web Scale Architect at Sun, workin with startups and open source developers around building scalable architecture for the Web. She is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE and in the past worked with Sun customers on building scalable and reliable enterprise systems. Currently she focuses on technologies such as OpenSolaris, MySQL, AJAX, and PHP.
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Uday Gajendar is a UI designer based in Silicon Valley. His work has spanned enterprise software, creative tools, Web applications, and phone devices at a range of companies—Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, and Involution, a boutique design studio. Holding degrees in both interaction design (Carnegie Mellon) and industrial design (Michigan), Uday advances the field with frequent talks and papers about designing attractive, intuitive digital products. You can read his latest thoughts at www.ghostinthepixel.com.
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Kim Greenlee has extensive product development experience and has been actively involved in delivering commercial products since 1987 on both the engineering and marketing sides. During her career Kim has focused on small companies and startups pursuing leading edge solutions and she has won several corporate awards for her engineering contributions. Kim holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from St. Bonaventure University, plays and coaches women’s ice hockey, and is generally a fun person.
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Dominik Grolimund, co-founder and CEO of Wuala (www.wua.la), Swiss, is 27 years old and studied computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), with an exchange year in The Netherlands and the US, focusing on business and management. In 1998, he founded his first software company Caleido, and developed the Caleido Address-Book, a professional contact management software, of which over 35’000 licenses have been sold so far in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
In 2004, he started research and development together with Luzius Meisser on a novel, distributed online storage called Wuala at ETH Zurich. In 2007, they founded their company and in August 2008, they launched Wuala, social online storage, after ten months of testing in a successful closed alpha with thousands of users and communities, using Wuala to securely store files online, backup them, access them from anywhere, and to share files with friends, groups, and the world.
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Arun Gupta is a Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases.
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Karthik been doing Java related work for the last 8 years. He has authored a book on Apache Wicket.
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Slava Imeshev is a founder, president and CEO of Cacheonix Systems. Slava's main expertise lays in scalable distributed high-performance systems. Slava switched to developing software with Java more than 10 years ago and never looked back. You can reach Slava at simeshev@cacheonix.com
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Mr. Ivanov founded and providing technological direction and vision for GridGain open source project. Mr. Ivanov brings almost 20 years of experience in software development, a vision and pragmatic view of where development technology is going, and high quality standards in software engineering.
In 1996, Mr. Ivanov was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server side middleware development while working at T-Systems GmbH, one of the largest European System Integrator.
Nikita has held various positions architecting and leading software product development for start-up companies and working with well-established companies such as Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Mr. Ivanov is an active member of Java middleware community and is a contributor to Java specifications.
Mr. Ivanov holds a Master's degree in Electro Mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Peter Kellner, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, is founder and president of 73rd Street Associates and a seasoned software professional specializing in high quality, scalable and extensible .Net web applications. His experience includes building and leading engineering teams both on and off shore. When not working, Peter spends most his free time biking. He has ridden his bike across the globe. Most recently he and his wife, Tammy, rode across the U.S., from California to Georgia, in just 27 days.
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Paul King has broad experience in both technical and managerial roles across the telecommunications and information technology industries. He has a passion for innovation and often assists organizations in bringing new technologies or processes into their development practices. He has been contributing to open source projects for more than fifteen years, has contributed to international standards, has won prizes for his research, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. His special interest areas are Java, Java EE, lightweight frameworks such as Spring, agile development, open source testing tools, XML and Web services, and dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy.
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Ron is Lead Product Technologist at Azul Systems. He co-founded the JavaPOS initiative, has taught an evening section of Object Oriented Analysis and Design at De Anza college for the last 8 years, is the somewhat sheepish holder of several software patents and has been keynote speaker at multiple partner conferences and selected industry events. His current technology focus is on SOA, virtualization, and massively scalable Java applications.
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Sriram Krishnan works on a startup team at Microsoft that deals with cloud services. When he's not writing code, tweeting or blogging, he freelances as a caped crusader who fights crime.
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Deborah Kurata is cofounder of InStep Technologies Inc., a professional consulting firm that focuses on turning your business vision into reality using Microsoft .NET technologies. She has over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing successful applications.
Deborah has authored several books, including the "Doing Objects in Visual Basic" series (Addison-Wesley), "Best Kept Secrets in .NET" (Apress) and "Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques" (Apress).
Deborah speaks at .NET user groups all over the country as a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau (http://www.ineta.org/) and at conferences, such as VSLive, DevDays, and TechEd. For her work in support of software development and software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. After a hard day of coding and taking care of her family, Deborah enjoys blowing stuff up (on the XBox of course).
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Currently a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, previously Lynn moved from a degree in linguistics to become a business executive, and then launched her own software development, training and consulting company. She’s done production work with all versions of .NET, BizTalk, K2.Net, SharePoint, SQL Server, Analysis Services, InfoPath, MOM, and Active Directory, and holds an array of certifications, including MCT, MCSD, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA and MSF.
Lynn is also the author of 'Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence' from Apress. She is currently at work writing 'Building Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008' for MSPress.
In her spare time, Lynn gives back to the community by supporting children’s education. Her current projects include work with the Mona Foundation (Redmond, Washington) and SmartCare (Lusaka, Zambia).
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Orion Letizi is a co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta. He has worked in enterprise Java for nearly ten years. Before Terracotta, he was a software architect at Walmart.com.
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Beth is an Online Content and Community Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers and driving community features onto MSDN Developer Centers. She also produces content on her blog, the VB Team blog, WindowsClient.net, and Channel 9. As a VB community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
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Jason Mauer is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft covering the Pacific Northwest. He has been with Microsoft for seven years, with a background in .NET application development, SharePoint, XML and the Web, and DirectX/XNA.
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I can present if you need me to.
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Jeff McWherter is the Director of Software Development at A.J. Boggs and Company in Okemos, MI. Jeff graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Telecommunications, and has thirteen years of professional experience in software development.
He is a founding member and current Program Director for the Greater Lansing Users for .NET (GLUG.net). He enjoys profiling code, applying design patterns, finding obscure namespaces, and long walks in the park. His lifelong interest in programming began with a Home Computing Magazine in 1983, which included an article about writing a game called Boa Alley in BASIC.
Jeff currently lives in a farming community near Lansing, MI. When he is not in front of the computer he enjoys rock and ice climbing with his smart and beautiful wife; which leads to his favorite activity of all… road trips.
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Is a senior software engineer with a decade’s experience implementing web based solutions for the enterprise. Liam mostly focuses on Microsoft based technologies but is dangerous enough to get his hands dirty in other technologies when required. Liam graduated from Kingston University in Surrey England in 1999 with an honours degree in software engineering. Since graduating Liam has tailored his trade working for several companies in the United Kingdom and then the US and is currently plying his craft for Vertigo, the Microsoft Gold Partner and web partner of the year for 2008 – Vertigo. Here Liam has worked on several high scale and highly visible web projects such as windowsmarketplace.com. Liam is an integral member of the Hard Rock memorabilia web site implemented with Silverlight 2.0 technology.
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Sam Nasr has been a software developer since 1995, focusing mostly on Microsoft technologies. Having achieved multiple certifications from Microsoft (MCAD, MCTS(MOSS), and MCT), Sam develops, teaches, and tours the country to present various topics in .Net. He is also actively involved with the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group, where he has been the group leader since 2003. When not coding, Sam can be found driving his prized Mustang GT all over Cleveland or volunteering at his local church.
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Tim is a developer lead on the Visual Studio Languages team, working specifically on the Visual Basic compiler and language team. He was part of the team that delivered LINQ in Visual Studio 2008.
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