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Adam Keys
| Adam is a connoisseur of code, dachshunds and existentialist jokes |
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Ben Rady
| Ben Rady is an experienced and highly motivated software developer who has been delivering working software for more than a decade. He is a contributor to many open source projects, a frequent speaker at software development conferences and user groups, and an active participant in the software development community. While currently focused on Agile methodology, Ben is looking beyond Agile to the next generation of software development techniques. |
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Carl Franklin
| Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary's VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut. |
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Clint Tredway, Independent Consultant
| Clint Tredway is 33, married for 10yrs, with 2 wonderful kids, and has been been developing for 9yrs . He's used Flex since 1.0 Used Flash since Flash MX Used ColdFusion since 3.11 |
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Craig Walls
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 13 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is the author of Spring in Action (now in its second edition) and XDoclet in Action, both published by Manning.
When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 6 birds, 3 dogs, and an ever-fluctuating number of tropical fish. |
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Derek Lane, Semantra
Derek is the Founder of both the Oklahoma City Java User Group (OKCJUG) and the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas MicroJava User Group; and has been active as a member, presenter, and mentor for over a decade at various technology user groups across the Midwest and Southern US.
Derek can on occasion be found utilizing his background in engineering, Virtual Reality and 3D graphics to think in four or more dimensions - some of which have yet to be independently verified. When not exploring the mind numbing edge of technology, he can be found listening to Bluegrass music and watching old Kung Fu movies - a dangerous combination from any point of view. |
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Don Demsak
| Don Demsak is a New Jersey based independent consultant and software developer for over 15 years. He specializes in mentoring development teams on building enterprise ready .Net solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies, including LINQ, Sharepoint, WCF, ASP.Net, and Biztalk. For his activities in the .NET and XML communities, Microsoft has awarded Don the designation of Most Valuable Professional since 2004. He maintains a blog at www.donxml.com. |
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Glenn Vanderburg, Relevance
| Glenn Vanderburg is Chief Scientist at Relevance . Relevance provides consulting, training, and development services for Ruby, Rails, and Ajax, among other things. Glenn has over 20 years of experience as a professional programmer, and is still finding new ways to build compelling, high-quality systems that make customers happy. He writes Ruby most of the week, but recently he's been spending Fridays learning Objective C and writing software for his iPhone. |
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Jason Hudgins, Droidworks
| Jason Hudgins has been a software developer for over 10 years and has experience on a wide variety of platforms. His droidworks startup is an early adopter of Google's new Android Platform for mobile devices. Jason is a competitor in Phase 1 of the Android Developer Challenge. |
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Jason Kergosien, Ingen Systems
| Jason is the founder and president of Ingen Systems, a provider of web-based business services and solutions. He has more than 10 years experience in the development and implementation of web strategies and architecture in a variety of industries, including financial services, public utilities, energy, retail, hospitality, manufacturing and high-tech. His extensive background includes leading companies in data management, portals and content management in Microsoft technologies. Before founding Ingen Systems, Jason held positions with White Rock Networks; Covenant Church, a 9,000+ membership organization; TXU Energy; Compucom; Deloitte & Touche; Trammell Crow and Tactica Technology Group, a management and technology consulting company, named one of America’s entrepreneurial growth leaders in the Inc. 500 by Inc magazine. Jason holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. He is founder and president of the Dallas DotNetNuke Users Group, a member of the Professional Referral Group and serves on the board of the IT Roundtable, a non-profit organization of ministry IT professionals. |
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Jim Hughes, Thomson Reuters
| Jim is a Software Architect at Thomson Reuters, a fair-to-middlin' Rock-and-Roll drummer, and an excellent driver. |
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John Heintz
| John D. Heintz is a Principal Consultant with New Aspects of Software where he is responsible for finding clean solutions to complex business and technology problems.
In 12 years of professional work John has built many component and distributed systems, led agile teams, and mentored /trained on many technologies. John has deep experience with high-leverage technologies like Spring, JPA, Ruby, AOP, AJAX, REST/HTTP, and SOA systems. |
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Jonathan Campos, United Mindset
| Jonathan Campos, user group manager of D-Flex.org, is an enthusiastic Flex user that has worked with the Adobe's Flex technology for a variety of small to mid-sized companies. Having worked on an array of different Flex projects Jonathan has had to learn Flex "in the field" as he created a diverse portfolio of Flex based programs for both the web and AIR applications. Jonathan's experience lies in application planning and development, programming, and the integration of Flex with multiple different server side technologies. |
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Joseph Hill, Novell
| Joseph Hill has been an active participant in the Mono community since 2003, and has also been an active contributor to several open source ASP.NET applications. As a professional developer, he has done significant work in design and implementation of .NET applications for a number of customers including Fortune 50 companies in areas such as messaging solutions, SCM, and others. In January 2008, Joseph joined Novell to serve as the Product Manager for Mono. |
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Kelly Tisdell, Credera
| Kelly Tisdell is a Sr. Architect with Credera. He has over 10 years of experience in enterprise web application development and application integration. Kelly has spent the last eight months leading a large multi-tenant SaaS development project using Seam.
Prior to this Kelly held a senior consultative position with Blockbuster, helping to re-launch Blockbuster.com. He was also a consultant to American Airlines, helping to implement a Service Oriented Architecture for their customer-facing systems such as AA.com, airport kiosks, and the IVR system. |
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Kenny Yates
| Kenny began his programming and development career as a Lotus Notes (CLE) software engineer working with some of the top Notes Developers in the market. He moved on to begin developing Business Applications in Flash working as an analyst as well as Team Lead for numerous Flash Development Projects. His analytical skills led him to specialize in Application Analysis based upon User Requirements.
Kenny began working in Adobe Flex 1.5 as a principal consultant leading numerous high-level projects for both Fortune 500 Fortune 1000 companies, as well as several Silicon Valley start-ups. His ability to lead teams in understanding Adobe Flex technologies as well as his analytical skills allowed him to assist companies that not only were starting new Adobe Flex Application Projects but to re-architect existing Adobe Flex Applications for production level deployment. Utilizing Adobe Flex 2, as well as Adobe Flex 3 IDEs, while serving as Team Lead, Lead Architect and Lead Developer has become specialized in Data Manipulation and Custom Component development including the creation and implementation of custom Adobe Flex Frameworks.
His vast experience has given him a passion for mentoring and training Adobe Flex Developers of all skill levels. Kenny currently serves as the Lead Adobe Flex Application Architect with SungardHE in Frisco, TX as he continues to consult with several companies developing RIAs utilizing Adobe Flex.
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Mark Piller, Midnight Coders
| Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in RIA integration technologies, professional services and training. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past five years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash, Silverlight and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality. |
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Paul Holser, Semantra
| Paul Holser is an Agile Technologist at Semantra, where he and the Semantra team are building an application to allow natural language queries against structured data sources. He has sixteen years of software development experience, including consulting with companies such as ThoughtWorks, Valtech, and ObjectSpace. |
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Phillip Wheat, Microsoft
| Philip Wheat started out in development back when you learned from Compute Magazine (by typing in the code) and had to know something about soldering to expand your memory with most computers. Some of his personal projects include Embedded Systems, Knowledge Management, Augmented Reality, and Autonomous Systems. You’ll find him supporting groups of both geek social, and developer focus, and connecting with as many interesting people as he can. If you see him around, come up and introduce yourself, and let him know what you’re doing, he’s always interested in hearing what you are doing, and learning from the innovative people he knows, passionate developers, designers, and architects! If you want to keep up with where he is and what he’s doing, you can find out some of his current activities at his blog: blog.austinwheats.net. |
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Richard Campbell, Strangeloop Networks
| Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company's unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force.
In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of the ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" (www.dotnetrocks.com) podcast and the host of "RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals" (www.runasradio.com) podcast.
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Trent Nix, Notion Solutions
| Trent Nix is a Development Process Consultant with Notion Solutions in Irving, TX. His primary gig is working with software companies to improve their software using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Trent is convinced the future is made of Silverlight (and managed with Team System) and has been investigating Silverlight since it first found its way on the radar. Trent has spoken at user groups, seminars, Code Camp, and VSLive. Prior to his work at Notion, Trent developed applications in C++, wrote lots of SQL, and managed software projects and teams. |
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Vikalp Jain, Credera
| Vikalp Jain is a technology consultant with Credera, where he helps clients implement technology solutions. He has spent most of his professional career developing Java web applications. He is passionate about Apple products, usability engineering, cognitive science and marine aquariums. |
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Yehuda Katz
| Yehuda is a contributor to the Merb, jQuery, DataMapper and Rubinius projects. |
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