The Premiere Technical Conference in Dallas
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Amir is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises. He is an active member of the .Net Community and has done many presentations on WCF, ASP.NET MVC, HTML5 and Silverlight. Amir has an unwavering passion for software and is always striving to better the industry through community involvement, mentoring, and blogging. His blog is at http://www.amirrajan.net. |
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Andrew Rubalcaba is a Sr.Lead Developer for Parago. He currently works in the Rebate Processing Industry. As a consultant he has mainly worked with clients around the DFW metroplex to develop Spring backends that are hooked up to Flex Frontends. He has over 8 years of experience developing with Java technologies, including EJBs, Struts, JMS, Spring MVC, Hibernate, and MyBatis. He holds a degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry. When Andrew is not programming he enjoys traveling and spending time with his 2 nieces in South Texas. |
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Arun Gupta is a Java evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in the Java(TM) platform and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works to create and foster the community around Java EE and GlassFish. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all releases. Arun has extensive world wide speaking experience on myriad of topics and loves to engage with the community, customers, partners, and Java User Groups everywhere to spread the goodness of Java. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta with over 1200 blog entries and frequent visitors from all around the world with a cumulative page visits > 1.2 million. He is a passionate runner and always up for running in any part of the world. You can catch him at @arungupta. |
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Ben Floyd has been doing development professionally for 10 years and practicing and teaching secure coding practices for a bit longer than that. He started out in C and assembly and has moved his way through C++, PHP, Java, and a few others. Before becoming a programmer, Ben worked as a network administrator and security analyst. Ben is a Senior Consultant with Improving Enterprises, Inc. More information can be found at http://www.improvingenterprises.com/about/team/consultants/ben-floyd/bio/ |
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Billy has been developing ColdFusion applications since version 4.0, for companies big and small, and today is a full-time consultant. He is a former DFWCFUG board member and current Houston CFUG manager. Before "framework" was a buzzword, Billy was using Fusebox, and uses all of MVC frameworks today. He has served as a technical reviewer on a number of titles by Wrox Publishing, including their only ColdFusion title. ColdFusion is his first love, but as a consultant, he also crafts solutions in PHP and C#. |
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Career IT professional with over 18 years of experience building world class software solutions. Brian leads the Java practice at Credera and was a founding member of the Broadleaf Commerce team. |
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Brian Sullivan is a community organizer, speaker, and usability engineer from Dallas, Texas. He offers usability and design advice to help product teams improve the customer experience and usability of their designs. Brian spends an inordinate amount of time organizing events, including monthly DFW-UPA meetings, quarterly workshops, and the annual Big Design Conference. He has worked with AT&T, Burger King, American Airlines, SkyChefs, United Airlines, and Carter Blood Center. At home, Brian takes orders from his wife (Susan), their son (Sean), and the cat that owns them all (Junior). |
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Bryan Smith is a Database Technology Specialist with Microsoft in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bryan served as a Senior Manager at Hitachi Consulting where he focused on the design and implementation of database solutions using Microsoft technologies. |
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Bryon has been helping companies achieve their technology objectives for over 10 years. He currently is the President & Principal Consultant at Project Consults, Inc. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified SCRUM Master (CSM), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), ITIL Certified, Six Sigma Green Belt, member of PMI, and member of various local user group organizations. Bryon specializes in helping companies improve their software development processes. As a leading expert in software development and project management methodologies, Bryon successfully leads small and large projects using both traditional waterfall and CMMI approaches, as well as agile approaches such as SCRUM. Project Consults, Inc. helps companies improve their software development processes. |
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I have been programming for 8 years, only about 2 of those professionally. Among the technologies I have used are ASP.NET MVC, Ruby (Rails and Sinatra among others), and plenty of Wordpress development. The web is a passion for me along with helping make people better developers. |
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Caleb Jenkins is a Principal Agile Coach with Sarbe Airline Solutions and the founder and Principal Mentor at Proaction Mentors. As an agile coach he works with developer teams around the globe to help them be more awesome. As a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .Net Architect Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; Six Flags, Countrywide Mortgage, American Airlines, Sabre/Travelocity, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few. Before starting Proaction Mentors, Caleb worked as the Senior Architect for Six Flags Corporation, and helped build the Microsoft practice at Improving Enterprises. He is an active national speaker for the International .NET Association (INETA), has received the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET for the last four consecutive years. Caleb is a Certified Scrum Master and certified Professional Scrum Master, has worked as a technical editor and author for Wrox Press, and was a featured presenter on Adobe.TV. He lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busy himself playing Candy Land, Xbox 360 with his four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speak at conferences, and write code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually he’ll post some of the gazillion interviews that he’s recorded on CommunityCast TV or blog more at http://developingUX.com |
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Calvin Carter, 40, is the founder of Bottle Rocket Apps (http://bottlerocketapps.com), a Dallas-based app development firm dedicated to creating mission-critical, premium brand experiences for the Apple iPhone and iPad and Android devices. Carter has built Bottle Rocket on the belief that exceptionally innovative technology not only enhances the way we do things - it redefines the way we live our lives. To him, the iPhone is more than a sophisticated phone; it's a game-changing platform uniting information, instant access and unlimited range to create entertainment and enterprise solutions. Bottle Rocket has completed more than 55 iPhone, iPad and Android apps for leading brands such as NPR, PBS, Disney, ESPN, A&E Television Networks, Discovery Channel, BET, SPIN Magazine, American Express and AARP. The company’s apps have won numerous industry accolades for innovative and user-centered design, and frequently appear at the top of their categories on the iTunes App Store. For a video of Calvin produced by Apple: http://bottlerocketapps.com/blog/bottle-rocket-in-apples-the-story-behind-the-apps |
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Casey Watson is a Partner at Konverge Labs (http://konvergelabs.com/), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, hopeless mobile development geek and proud father. For the last seven years, Casey has been focused on helping customers realize business value through the development of quality software products, primarily on the Microsoft .NET platform. As a Certified Scrum Master, Casey is a firm proponent of agile practices and deeply believes in the value of product over process. Recently his focus has been on helping companies build solid mobile presences through the use of cross-platform development tools like Konnector. While not blogging, coding, or updating his Twitter status (@_caseywatson), Casey enjoys spending time with his family and never turns down an ice cold bottle of Blue Moon. |
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Chander Dhall is a professional software architect/lead developer, trainer, INETA speaker, open source contributor, community leader and organizer with more than seven years of experience in enterprise Software Development. He works in a goal oriented, technologically driven, fast paced AGILE (SCRUM) environment. He is the founder of Dallas day of dot net. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns and is focused on building high performing modular software. Chander leads the UT Dallas .NET user group and co-leads the Dallas dot net user group. Chander recently got recognized as "One of the top organizers by Eventbrite. Chander has been a featured speaker in numerous conferences and code camps all over US. He shall be presenting in UK and India this year. He has been instrumental in mentoring and training several UTD students over the period of last 2 years. |
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Mr. Griswold is a Manager with Credera, a full-service business and technology consulting firm serving clients across a broad range of industries and technologies. He has over 13 years of experience in custom software architecture design and development working with both Java and Microsoft technologies. Since joining Credera, Chris has worked on a diverse collection of client engagements primarily focused on interpreting complex business requirements into powerful technology solutions. These projects have included architecting and building custom .NET web applications as well as implementing and customizing Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Chris has a B.A. degree in Computer Science from Baylor University as well as a M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University. Chris is a certified Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Technical Specialist, a Microsoft certified Business Management Solutions Specialist, and holds several other technical Microsoft certifications. |
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Chris Koenig is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft in March of 2007, Chris worked as a Senior Architect for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect for the global solution provider Avanade. As an Architect and consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana while specializing in Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight development. |
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Chris Weldon is a Consultant for Improving Enterprises based out of the rural sourcing office in College Station, TX. A Fightin' Texas Aggie, Chris has 10 years of software development experience with expertise in PHP and .Net. As an avid agile enthusiast, Chris has lead teams of software developers using variants of Scrum and XP, encouraging the practice of unit testing with automation and continuous integration through tools such as (N)Ant and MSBuild on a variety of different build systems including Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Atlassian Bamboo, and countless others. He’s also played the roles of ScrumMaster, configuration manager, analyst, and product owner. Most recently, Chris has become an avid SharePoint technology enthusiast, developing unit tested SharePoint solutions for customers that leverage many parts of the .Net stack, especially WCF and WIF. |
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Cory Smith maintains a .NET related blog at AddressOf.com and is very active in the .NET community. His community involvement includes: President of the Dallas/Fort Worth DNUX group, Vice President of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, Microsoft VBInsider member, Microsoft MVP, member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council and a previously a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. A veteran developer (professionally writing software for almost 20 years) working on projects ranging anywhere from major e-commerce sites such as RadioShack.com and InterstateBatteries.com to applications that are at the heart and soul of over 4600 radio stations around the world. His work history includes working for Tandy/RadioShack, Rare Medium, Inc., Electric Works Corp., Scott Studios Corp. and Shiny Stone Digital.
In his spare time, Cory is also owns and operates a combative martial arts academy, coaches a MMA fight team, is an avid motorcycle enthusiast and attempts to watch every action movie ever released. |
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Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 17 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is a senior engineer with SpringSource and is the author of Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf) and Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 5 birds and 3 dogs. |
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D. Omar Villarreal works as a Director of Governance at Epsilon Data Management, LLC. helping development teams improve their processes and procedures |
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In this presentation we talk about Central Management Server and how it can help you manage a disperse environment. We will also cover what Policy Based Management is and how you can leverage its power to better manage your environment. With PBM we'll see what it can and cannot do to help you enforce standards in your enterprise. We will cover and demonstrate PBM for the beginner from creating and evaluating policies to receiving alerts on policy violations. |
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With 10+ years of experience as a programmer is Manager Consultant with the Enterprise Microsoft Solutions of Sogeti, Inc. Specializing in C#, .NET 4 and other Microsoft Technologies. I enjoy the challenge of finding solutions to difficult technical / design problems, often finding myself evangelizing Agile methodologies and XP practices. In addition to my work with Sogeti, I can also be found as an active member of the .NET community as a speaker, founding member of the North Texas Silverlight Group, and attendee of other User Groups in the DFW Metroplex. Outside of work and the community I enjoy spending my time with my family, including traveling, helping my wife Robin as she completes her degree in Speech & Language Pathology, and spending time my 2 kids. |
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Dennis cut his coding teeth by teaching himself BASIC on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer in the early 80's. His earliest memory of debugging a program was when he found that his mother had typed the letter O instead of the digit 0 in a hexadecimal string that defined the graphics of a program she copied from the listing in a magazine. After discovering Delphi 1.0 during college, he went to work on a fax broadcast system and other telephony projects. In the late 90's he worked with a few record labels to put software on their music CD's. This included Windows screen savers of album art work and a music player that scrolled the lyrics of each song across the screen -- all written in Delphi. After that, he spent about 5 years doing web development in PHP (even working with a PHP MVC Framework) before discovering ASP.NET and C#. He remained somewhat proud of the fact that he had never worked with Visual Basic until starting his current job where it is the company's language of choice for developing Microsoft Office customizations for the legal industry. Even though he still gets lost when looking at VB6 code, with the advent of LINQ to XML and XML Literals in VB9, he is happy to be a VB.NET developer. In his spare time, he is doing Windows Phone 7 and iPhone development and working on a few ASP.NET MVC projects. Dennis was recognized as the 2nd runner up for the Inland Empire .NET User Group (http://iedotnetug.org) Most Valuable Member award for 2008-2009. He moved to Texas with his wife and young daughter in August 2009. |
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Denny Cherry has over a decade of experience managing SQL Server, including some of the largest deployments in the world. Denny’s areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, replication and troubleshooting. Denny currently holds several of the Microsoft Certifications related to SQL Server for versions 2000 through 2008 including the Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008 as well as being a Microsoft SQL Server MVP for several years. Denny is a longtime member of PASS and Quest Software’s Association of SQL Server Experts and has written numerous technical articles on SQL Server management and how SQL Server integrates with various other technologies. |
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Derek Lane is an Enterprise Architect at Thomson Reuters. He has worn various hats in his career including mentor, coach, architect, manager, developer, trainer, methodologist and all around cool guy. Derek is a contributor to various projects as author, presenter, committer, and technical reviewer. 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 two decades 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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Devlin Liles is a Senior Consultant at Improving Enterprises and a Data Platform Development MVP. Since 2007 he has been presenting on software development practices and tools to audiences around the Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. He is a regular regional presenter at user groups and events. He founded an internal Corporate Software Craftsmanship conference in Northwest Arkansas as well as led the Tyson User group for a year and a half. He is an avid soccer player and hobbyist gamer. |
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Dustin is a Sr. Consultant at Unify Square. His primary areas of expertise with Microsoft products include Office Communications Server 2007/2007 R2, Lync Server 2010, SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, and Exchange Server. Dustin has been a Microsoft MVP since 2007 in various categories including SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server, and most recently Lync Server. Dustin is a member of the DFW Microsoft UC User Group board and a regular speaker. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Tennessee Technological University. Dustin, a Tennessee native, currently resides in Dallas, TX. Dustin’s publishing credits Include: · The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-646 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions, Syngress Publishing · Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator’s Reference: The Administrator’s Essential Reference, Syngress Publishing · How to Cheat at Administering Office Communications Server 2007, Syngress Publishing · SharePoint Protection: From High Availability to Disaster Recovery · Provide SharePoint Single-Sign-On with Active Directory Federation Services · New Features in Lync Server 2010 · Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (SharePoint Integration) |
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Dustin Talk is a Senior Consultant with Credera. He has a B.S. and graduate degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Dustin has several years experience in custom web application development with a focus on security, emerging technologies, and the Spring stack. During his time with Credera, he has led and worked on many teams building various applications in Java from supply chain optimization to eCommerce implementations utilizing Broadleaf Commerce. Vikalp Jain |
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Eric D. Boyd is a Director for Centare Group, Ltd. and is responsible for their Chicago business and Cloud Computing Practice. Eric began his technology career by starting a web development firm in the 90’s and has served in multiple roles since including developer, consultant, business owner and technology executive. Today, he primarily helps Fortune 500 companies with software development practices and cloud computing in the Chicago-Milwaukee area. |
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Eric Humphrey is a Database Developer at GameStop in the Dallas area. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Louisiana State University – Shreveport in 2004. He has been working in the tech industry since 2003 with both small companies and the largest. His focus is on database development with SQL Server. Eric has a passion for improving his craft and contributing to the SQL / development communities. |
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Eric Shupps Sharepoint |
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Eric Sowell is an avid developer who gets into as many technologies as he can. He is development lead at Match.com on the international platform and enjoys writing code which serves up Html millions of times on a daily basis. Eric is the father of three children and the husband of one wife. He also has fish. When not being a geek or hanging with the family, he enjoys reading, writing and doing research primarily in the realms of ancient Greek, biblical studies and early Christianity. |
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I am a Sr Architect at Credera. I am very active in the DFW technology user group scene. I help lead JavaMUG a DFW Java focused user group. I help lead the DFW2GUG, a Groovy and Grails focused user group in Dallas. I also was the founder of the Spring Dallas UG. A group focused on promoting and educating Dallas Java developers on the Spring Framework. I'm also proud to call myself a Fightin' Texas Aggie. Whoop! Feel free to follow me on Twitter - @erikweibust (http://twitter.com/erikweibust) |
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Girish Gangadharan is about to be a dad and is super excited about it. He is also excited about writing awesome code (read: code built on S.O.L.I.D principles), to solve business problems. He has 7 years of experience building software for clients ranging all the way from small mom & pop shops to multi billion dollar corporations. And for people that believe in certifications, well, he's got a bunch of those too (Transcript ID: 802296 Access code: 15963282). He's the author of Sass For Visual Studio, Select Search and the man behind the huge UX initiative at his company (ux.absg.com). He's done several presentations in the past, the most recent one was on jQuery at CTXDNUG. Follow him on Twitter - @appoosa and subscribe to his blog - giri.sh |
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Jacob Orshalick is an independent software consultant, open source enthusiast, agile practitioner, author, and the co-founder of solutionsfit, an independent software consulting firm. He aids clients in developing cutting edge software solutions to meet business needs and actively contributes to open-source projects. Jacob has developed software in a variety of domains including: telecommunications, media, retail, financial, real estate, technology, and health care. |
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Jay Smith is a Lead Programmer Analyst with Tyson Foods, Inc, based in Fayetteville, AR. Prior to joining Tyson Foods in April 2, 2001, Jay worked as a Windows Server Engineer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in Bentonville, AR. Jay as worked on a variety of web based applications for internal use, as well as, worked with internal teams to improve team efficiency and developer practice adoption. Jay focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer community in the Northwest Arkansas area while specializing in Software Architecture, Agile Practices(Scurm and Extreme Programming), and ASPNET MVC. |
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Jeff Hewitt is an architect with Credera. He has more than 8 years of experience in technology consulting with an emphasis in Microsoft technologies. He spends much of his time working with SharePoint and is passionate about custom development. Jeff lives with his wife and five children in Richardson Texas. |
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Jen McCown is a SQL Server developer and DBA, currently serving as the lead DBA at a state trade association in Texas. She is Senior Editor at MidnightDBA.com, where she creates training videos, the DBAs at Midnight webshow, blogs, reviews, and podcasts. She also writes for Petri IT Knowledgebase and is a forum moderator. Jen is a member, volunteer, and speaker in NTSSUG, PASS, and the PASS Women in Technology virtual chapter. She has presented at multiple SQL Saturday and 24 Hours of PASS events, PASS Summit 2010, and PASS SQLRally 2011. |
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Some may call John a geek. He prefers the term “technologist.” Truth is, John began working with computers before PCs even hit the scene – and he’s probably got a dusty prototype stashed somewhere to prove it. He’s a fourth generation educator who loves to help people learn new technologies and relishes that magic moment when the light comes on in their eyes. Before joining Microsoft full time, he spent six years as an MCT, training people at a local college and getting new Microsoft hires up to speed. John holds more certifications than he can remember, but the list definitely includes MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, and CCNA. His favorite technology is Unified Communications, LYNC and he gets a special thrill from solving customers’ problems. For John, there’s nothing like coaxing people from panic to joy when a server goes down and he can help get the business back up on line. When he’s not working, John can usually be found sailing around Texas with his kids. |
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Justin Weinberg is a manager consultant with the Microsoft Enterprise practice at Sogeti and a cofounder of the North Texas Silverlight User Group. Justin brings nearly 10 years of development experience with a focus on .NET, C#,and XAML. He is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). Justin obtained Bachelor degrees in Information Decision Systems and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University where the school colors are indeed plaid. When not working or engaging with other user groups in the community such as the XAML and ASP.NET user groups, Justin spends time with his wonderful wife and three rambunctious boys. You can read his blog at codeconfessions.com |
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Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems. Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker |
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Kevin Afghani, founder of Afghani Law firm, has extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and around the world. Prior to forming Afghani Law Firm, Kevin was a patent attorney at the Dallas office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, a leading global law firm based in Chicago. Kevin founded Afghani Law Firm to deliver the same impeccable-quality patent services found at the world’s leading law firms, but with an increased emphasis on human contact, responsiveness, and adaptability to the needs of each client. His carefully-crafted legal arguments and candid approach with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has earned Kevin a high success rate in obtaining allowed patent applications. Among the many distinguished clients represented by Kevin are The University of Texas at Dallas, De La Rue North America, and G7 Solutions. In addition, Kevin has developed or expanded the patent portfolios for numerous distinguished companies, including International Business Machines Corp (IBM), Kinetic Concepts, Inc., Embarq Holdings (now CenturyLink), Micro-Poise Measurement Systems, Halliburton, Independent Natural Resources, Inc., Brooks Instrument, Uniden, JMK, Schlumberger, and various start-up businesses. He has prepared and prosecuted mechanical, electrical, computer, telecom, and business method patent applications in a wide range of technological fields, including medical devices, oil & gas, financial services, agricultural machinery, textile machinery, consumer devices, measurement/calibration systems, network architecture, “green” technology, printers, and synthetic chemical compounds. Kevin has managed the international patent portfolios for global corporations, and provided legal and strategic advice regarding their patent portfolios to ensure the broadest possible protection for their intellectual property assets. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Kevin researched and helped develop micro-fabrication techniques for constructing electron-emitters at the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences in Richardson, Texas. Kevin also assisted in developing techniques for applying zeolite matrices to the tips of optical fibers. While obtaining his physics degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, Kevin was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to construct an antenna for an ionosonde system at the Wallops Island, Virginia NASA facility. He was also a technical writer for several years at Window on WallStreet, Inc. (now TradeStation Technologies, Inc.), which is one of the leading investment software and technology companies. Kevin obtained his law degree from Tulane University, where he was the managing editor of the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in physics, magna cum laude, from the University of Texas at Dallas. After completing his law degree, Kevin earned his LLM in International and European Law from the University of Amsterdam, giving him unique insight on the treaties that govern international patent prosecution. Kevin has authored numerous publications and presentations during his career, and enjoys staying on the cutting edge of the rapidly changing field of patent law. Presentations • "Utilizing Intellectual Property to Protect Your Technological Innovations," Alcatel-Lucent/AT&T University Entrepreneurial Workshop, May 2011 • "Recent Developments: In re Bilski," Texas-certified CLE, November 2008 • "The Effect of Prosecution History on Related Applications," Texas-certified CLE, September 2008 • “Software-Related Inventions Under the European Patent Convention and In the United States”, Continuing Legal Education lecture presented to Boeing, 2007 Publications • “Keeping it Physical: Convergence on a Physicality Requirement for Patentability of Software-Related Inventions Under the European Patent Convention and United States law,” University of Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Spring 2008 (Lead co-author) • “Harrods Limited v. Sixty Internet Domain Names: A Non-Expansive Expansion of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act?,” Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Spring 2003 |
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Been in computer industry for the last 20 years working from Mainframe to PC. Worked on various languages like, COBOL, C++, Java and lately C#. Current development mainly focuses on Silverlight for enterprise development. My spare time, I write code in F#,Ruby and play MMOs. |
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Latish is a .NET consultant with Improving Enterprises and very passionate about software development and solving customer problems. He also leads the Dallas C# SIG. He can be reached via his blog at http://www.dotnetsurfers.com/ or twitter (http://twitter.com/latish). |
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Matt Hinze is a programmer and software designer from Austin, TX. He has successfully delivered technical courses to software developers since 2005. Meanwhile he is a full time developer and architect working in the trenches on major software projects. Passionate about software and programming, Matt is active in the developer community and presents technical talks to community groups and at conferences. Matt is an ASPInsider and Microsoft MVP for C# and an author of ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action and the upcoming ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action. Matt works at Sogeti on a large e-commerce implementation in Round Rock, and lives in the North Austin suburbs with his wife and son. |
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Throughout his career, Michael has applied mathematical concepts to the construction of software. As a Solutions Architect at AmerisourceBergen, he applies the concepts of eventual consistency, event sourcing, and CQRS to building scalable and robust enterprise systems. He has written about the mathematical underpinnings of various algorithms in C/C++ Users Journal, Delphi Informant, and Code Magazine. Craig Shoemaker interviewed him on the Polymorphic Podcast about Update Controls, an open source project based on the mathematical concept of dependency. You can find out more at qedcode.com. |
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Director of IT at Meeting Professionals International. Formerly QA Manager, Ritual Entertainment; Software Test Lead, Microsoft Game Studios; Developer, Layton City (Utah). |
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Miguel Castro is an architect with IDesign with over 22 years of experience in the software industry. He’s a Microsoft MVP, member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and ASP Insider. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact), Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups, code camps, and conferences throughout the US and overseas. He has also been featured on the technology talk shows, .NET Rocks, .NET Rocks-TV, Microsoft’s ARCast (Architecture Podcast), and The Polymorphic Podcast on numerous occasions. He specializes in architecture and development consulting and training using Microsoft technologies. Miguel is also a regular author with CoDe Magazine. |
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Mike Wilcox is Director of Technology for a fast growing startup in Frisco Texas, BetterVideo™ where he is in charge of front end engineering and the online video services. Mike is a regular speaker on AJAX and other web technologies, having spoken at many conferences including the 2009 Rich Web Experience, and 2009 DallasTechFest. His open source work is on display in the Dojo Toolkit, where as a committer, he's implemented many of the multimedia technologies including the Multi-File Uploader, The audio and video components, and the vector-based DojoX Drawing. Follow Mike on Twitter http://twitter.com/clubajax |
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Nirav Assar is an independent consultant and owner of solutionsfit, a consulting firm based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. He has consulted on several projects in various industries, such as financial, real estate, government, and retail. His expertise is based in several Java technologies like Grails, Groovy, Spring, and Seam. Agile philosophy is at the heart of his profession, and he enjoys sharing techniques and tools that help software people excel at their jobs. You may contact him at nirav@solutionsfit.com. View his blog at http://assarconsulting.blogspot.com/. |
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Paul has been a software developer for over 12 years and used .NET Micro on multiple projects including a high altitude balloon project that traveled over 200 miles and climbed to an altitude of more than 96,000 feet. |
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Phillip Verheyden resides in Austin, Texas and is currently a consultant at Credera. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Computer Science degree. Phillip has a wide range of expertise across multiple technologies such as web development (both LAMP and the Java stack), server administration, cluster computing, and mobile applications. |
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Rob has taught .NET web development to mainframe programmers, built a multitude of distributed systems, helped businesses to understand the implications of IT modernization, and designed frameworks that reduce the friction of everyday development. His previous speaking engagements include the Microsoft Vista Launch, Microsoft DevCare, and Tulsa TechFest. He has had articles published in MSDN Magazine and Visual Studio Magazine. He is presently a Principal Consultant at Captura ( http://capturaonline.com ) - a consulting company that delivers innovative user experiences backed by scalable technology. |
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Rob Vettor is a C# MVP, INETA Regional Speaker and senior .NET Technologist for Oz Systems. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon, American Express and Jack Henry and Associates. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons and three dogs, and is the founder of Hands-On-Coding (http://www.hands-on-coding.net/), a user group in which attendees bring their laptops and learn .NET coding by doing. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com |
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Russell Wright - Solutions Architect, Business Analyst and Instructor Russell began his career at Texas Instruments as an electronic technician and, while at TI, obtained his degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, specializing in biomedical engineering. While working in the Defense Systems and Electronics Group designing and supporting radar equipment, he morphed into the local mainframe systems expert and thus began his I/T career. During the 80’s, Russell experienced the PC revolution while assisting his customers with improving business processes using mainframe, mini and personal computers. A great deal of his time was spent specifying requirements for and supporting a large, internally developed document management system. He transitioned this knowledge in the 90’s by heading a team that built a global document management system utilizing mainframe and Microsoft technologies that is still in use today. Russell’s career moved towards remote asset tracking and transportation management prior to the sale of the Defense Systems to Raytheon. Before completion of the sale, Russell moved to a Principal Analyst position at Frito-Lay where he drove the transportation management requirements for implementation of the i2 Transportation Management System. After some time at Frito-Lay, he moved back to the Worldwide Procurement and Logistics area at TI in the Semiconductor Group where he managed a small systems group. It was during this time that he attended a Microsoft Office XP event and brought back SharePoint Team Services (1.0) to Texas Instruments, beginning the SharePoint revolution at TI. With the introduction of STS 1.0 and subsequent migrations to WSS 2.0 and MOSS 2007, Russell’s team focused on providing information workers with the assistance they needed to bring significant business value and process improvement to the procurement and logistics areas. Speaker Bio for Russell Wright Russell introduced SharePoint to Texas Instruments in 2002 while heading a systems group in the Worldwide Procurement and Logistics area. His team assisted internal users with obtaining significant business value from Windows SharePoint Services and other Microsoft technologies for several years. He continues to help people plan and architect business solutions using SharePoint. When he’s not SharePoint-ing, you can find him at the bowling alley. |
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Ryan is a SQL DBA and has worked for a Fortune 100 company for 13 years. He is the sole SQL Server DBA for his organization, supporting both vendor databases and custom databases. His primary focus is database design and performance, but also works with SSRS report development, and SSIS ETL. He serves on the board of directors for the North Texas SQL Server User Group and holds the following certifications: MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA - SQL 2000 MCTS - SQL 2005 MCITP - SQL 2005. |
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Front-end architect at Credera, with an emphasis on optimizing the user experience through well-crafted client-side code. Current interests include HTML5, CSS3, mobile development, and JavaScript MVC patterns. <-- Profile picture links to presentation slides for "jQuery: It's a library, not a framework" |
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Sean McCown holds a double MCITP in SQL Server 2008 for both Administration and Development. He is also a SQL Server MVP with over 15yrs experience in databases. Sean is a Contributing Editor with InfoWorld Magazine and a frequent contributor to many community sites and forums. |
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Shawn is passionate about building awesome line of business applications and websites with .NET technologies. He is currently a Microsoft C# MVP and founder of http://UserGroup.tv. Read his full bio at http://about.me/shawnweisfeld |
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Thiago Silva is a software and business intelligence consultant, based out of Dallas Texas. He is an architect for the Microsoft practice at Credera in Dallas and has helped several clients implement SharePoint, business intelligence, and reporting solutions using .NET and SQL Server technologies. |
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Thomas Kisner is the Unified Communications Architect for BNSF Railway. The last 10 of his 15+ years of experience in Information Technology has been working on Voice over IP and Unified Communications, and Tom is passionate about its ability to vastly improve productivity and communications in all organizations. He serves on the board of the Microsoft DFW Unified Communications User Group, and holds numerous professional certifications including MCITP and MCSE. Tom is proud graduate of the University of North Texas (BBA) and Texas A&M University Commerce (MBA). |
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Todd Stone is a senior software developer at HBS Systems in Dallas, TX, where he has been building web apps for smartphones and tablets. He also works with communicating and converting data from a variety of different platforms including Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and the IBM iSeries (AS/400). He's active in the local .NET community as President of the DFW Connected Systems User Group, member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council, and as a speaker at local user groups and regional events. |
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Tom DuPont lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is the Vice President of CodeSmith Tools, LLC. But don’t let the title fool you, Tom is a total code monkey! He specializes in .NET development with C#, ASP.NET MVC, and even that crazy JavaScript stuff. Tom has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. In his spare time Tom enjoys long rides across the country on his motorcycle. |
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Tony Champion is a .NET architect with over 16 years of experience developing user experiences in a breadth of technolgoies. Currently he focuses mostly in the web space, developing applications in Silverlight, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and SharePoint. He is also working on several WP7 applications. This year Tony has been awarded a Silverlight MVP and Microsoft Community Contributor award. He has been a leading member in in the North Houston .NET Users Group since 2008. He is also a founding member of Give Camp Houston. Tony continues to grow as a speaker in the .NET community and has been delivering talks on Silverlight and WP7 to user groups and conferences for the past two years. Tony has been president and chief architect of CDS since 2003, where they have focuses on delivering custom software solutions, consulting, and training in Microsoft technologies. |
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Wil Bloodworth is an officer at Koverge Labs (http://KonvergeLabs.com). For the past decade or so, Wil has been focused on optimization, efficiency, and clean code. Wil is also a Certified Scrum Master and has been working with agile practices for the last four years. When not coding and speaking about coding, Wil is playing chess, leading photography tours across North America, and enjoying his family and friends as much as time allows. |
