Allen Hurst is a Senior Consultant with Improving Enterprises. He is the leader of the Aggieland .NET Users Group, a certified ScrumMaster, an avid practitioner of GTD, a producer of Improving Podcasts!, and has been practicing agile development since 2004.

Enterprise Account Executive, Southwest

With over 10 years experience in the technology sector, Arnoldo has extensive knowledge of Business Service Management strategies, data protection technologies, and forensic & e-discovery applications.  Arnoldo works directly with Fortune 500 and other enterprise customers to develop and implement cost-effective SharePoint management, protection, and optimization strategies. His contributions to the SharePoint community have garnered him speaking opportunities at technology conferences, seminars, and user groups throughout North and Latin America.

Bryan Campbell (www.bryancampbell.com) is an IT Leader with 20 years of IT experience and more than a decade in software development.  As the Senior Program Manager at BMC Software Inc., Bryan is actively engaged in applying, mentoring and teaching Agile and Lean techniques on large scale projects.  Previously, as the Vice-President of Delivery Services for Valtech Technologies Inc., an Agile and Lean Transformation consulting company, he was responsible for directing more than 150 consultants applying agile and lean software development techniques. Bryan has extensive experience managing software development projects using Scrum, XP, agile and iterative development techniques in a variety of industries.  He is based in Houston, Texas and is the author of several articles on software.

Coming

Cheryl D Wise is a Director of WiserWays LLC. She created her first web site
in 1993 and has been moving forward with the web ever since. A proponent of
web standards and cross browser websites her only certification is from the
World Organization of Webmasters, a vendor and multiple technology
organization as Certified Professional Web Developer. She is the author of
"Foundation of Microsoft Expression Web", Apress. She is one of the very few
to be avoided both Microsoft MVP [Expression Web] and Adobe Community Expert
[Dreamweaver] for her community involvement.

Chris Kaveney has over 15 years aligning technology with business needs and IT experience. At CorasWorks, he advises SharePoint customers how to best architect and build business applications using the CorasWorks Modular Application Development System for SharePoint.

Damon Armstrong is a code poet. Although the phrase may elicit thoughts of elitist snobbery and unnecessary complexities, you can rest assured that his code is more like a dirty limerick: short, simple, and straight to the point.  Mr. Armstrong is the Senior Architect at Cogent Company, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in web application development with SharePoint and ASP.NET.  He is the author of ASP.NET Website Programming from APress, writes for Devx.com and Simple-Talk.com, and a Microsoft Tech Ed speaker.  In his spare time he works with Carrollton Young Life and likes to play disc golf.

Daniel Brookshier is one of the first users of MagicDraw UML (user #14) and has joined No Magic as its Chief Architect. Daniel has taught multiple MagicDraw training courses worldwide and sets the direction for the tool's development. Daniel is also a writer with dozens of articles and blogs on technology and has written several books including JXTA: Java P2P Programming. As an Architect, Daniel is currently working with UML, SysML, UPDM, and DoDAF all of which he teaches and mentors his customers.

Daniel Hunter is a CRM Technology Specialist with Microsoft Corporation.  Daniel joined Microsoft in the Fall of 1999 as a CRM Solution Architect for Microsoft's Enterprise Consulting Division.  For 5 years, Daniel helped some of Microsoft's larger customers, such as H&R Block, Best Buy, and Dallas Cowboys, design and deploy large-scale CRM and xRM solutions using Microsoft technologies.  Today, Daniel works primarily with Microsoft business partners and customers as a trusted advisor for the Dynamics CRM/xRM platform and surrounding technologies.  His experience includes database application development as well as business solutions architecture, design, development, and deployment.

For over twelve years, David has been delivering technical solutions that make sense. He runs a small consulting business helping companies leverage and support Office SharePoint Server 2007, and he is currently working on a portal at a renewable energy company in downtown Houston. When he is not working, he spends time with his beautiful wife and two adorable children. David may be reached at david.frette@gmail.com and http://www.facebook.com/dave.frette.

Errin O’Connor is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer for EPC Group. Errin focuses his efforts on implementing Microsoft Technologies in organizations throughout the country. Errin manages EPC Group’s corporate strategy as well as architects the proven methodologies around collaboration, enterprise content management, and custom application development that have set EPC Group apart from its competitors.  Errin is the author of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out by Microsoft Press and has completed more than 125 successful individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with some of the largest organizations in the United States.  Errin is also the founder of WebPartGallery.com an online solutions provider of SharePoint web parts and custom solutions and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft SharePoint events throughout the United States and Canada. Under Errin’s leadership, EPC Group has been named as one of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Houston in 2009.

Jeffrey Palermo is the CTO of Headspring Systems. Jeffrey specializes in Agile management coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. He is instrumental in the Austin software community as a member of AgileAustin and a director of the Austin .Net User Group. Jeffrey has been recognized by Microsoft as a “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) for technical and community leadership. He is also certified as a MCSD.Net and ScrumMaster. Jeffrey has spoken and facilitated at industry conferences such as VSLive, DevTeach, and Microsoft Tech Ed. He also speaks to user groups around the country as part of the INETA Speakers’ Bureau. His web sites are headspringsystems.com and jeffreypalermo.com. He is a graduate from Texas A&M University, an Eagle Scout, and an Iraq war veteran.  Jeffrey is the founder of the CodeCampServer open-source project and a co-founder of the MvcContrib project.

Jeffrey Palermo is responsible for the popular "Party with Palermo" events that often precede major Microsoft-focused conferences.  Started in June of 2005, Party with Palermo has grown in popularity and size.  Typical events host 400 people for free drinks, fingerfood and door prizes.  It is the perfect way to hook up with friends and colleagues before the conference week begins.  You can see past and up-coming parties at http://partywithpalermo.com

Subscribe to Jeffrey's blog feed here: http://feeds.jeffreypalermo.com/jeffreypalermo

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Katie Walthall Mehnert, PMP with Shell Oil was recently appointed Downstream Road Safety (HSSE) Programme Manager. She is responsible for driving Shell's road safety initiative globally with a focus in high risk countries in Africa, The Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Katie has 12 years of supply chain business and IT experience including working with Entergy, Duke Energy, Enron and Waste Management. Katie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from Louisiana State University and enjoys marathon running, cycling, reading, writing and travel.

Michael Foertsch is the lead architect and software developer for the SharePoint product group at Idera.  He and his team has designed and developed Idera SharePoint Backup and the Idera SharePoint Admin Toolset.  Previously with Idera, he was the lead developer of Idera SQLsafe, a very popular high-performance backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server.

Mike is a "Technical Director" for Improving Enterprises (http://improvingenterprises.com), a top-notch, Dallas-based, software consulting firm. A long-time Java developer, he has played many roles in software development including technical support, development, web designer, analyst, and project manager. With Jill Nicola and Mark Mayfield, he coauthored Streamlined Object Modeling (http://www.amazon.com/Streamlined-Object-Modeling-Patterns-Implementation/dp/0130668397), which attempts to pare down object analysis and design into easily-followed sets of patterns and rules. He is also one of the founders and leaders of several software development groups in the Bryan/College Station area including AgileBCS (http://agilebcs.org).

Mike Frizzell is a consultant with Cogent Company. Although relatively new to the Microsoft world, he brings 5 years of experience in modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A) and geographic information systems. With this strong analysis background, he has his sights set on simplifying Location Intelligence to useful and regular part of business. When not fighting against SharePoint, Virtual Earth, and SilverLight, you'll find him renovating the house, building furniture, or kicking a soccer ball on Sunday afternoon. Did he mention he's a proud Aggie? Cause he will.

Prabhat Jha works as a principal software engineer at JBoss, by Red Hat. For past three years he has been working on JBoss Portal, primarily making it enterprise ready and compatible with Richfaces and Seam.  He holds a masters degree in Mathematics from UT-Austin. On his spare time, he works with different organizations working towards improvement of literacy in Nepal, his mother land.

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Ryan Andrus is a consultant with 10 years experience working with Microsoft technologies, the last 7 years working with .Net technologies. He is an MCP certified ASP.Net developer with several projects under his belt, has implemented several Dot Net Nuke based solution, has worked on boxed software in the security market and for the last 2 years has specialized in workflow technologies. His first workflow project was to build a shooting system for a Input\Output geophysical, followed by a paperless HR system for Entrance Software and now is working for C\S solutions where he is building a Windows Workflow Foundation based solution for Money Management International. He is also an active member of the Windows Workflow Foundation forum and has frequently been the top answerer on the WF forum since the beginning of 2009. He can be contacted at randrus@comcast.net.

Sam Gazitt is a Product Manager in the Developer Tools Group (DEVDIV) at Microsoft.  Sam has spoken at numerous conferences including TechEd, VSLive, and DevConnections  since the 2005 release of Visual Studio.  His mission is to provide developers with the information they need to build solutions on the latest Microsoft technologies in a fun and informative way.

Stephen Nimmo is a Technical Manager with SunGard Consulting Services.
He is an implementation specialist, focusing on overall architecture
design and enterprise data integration.

Walker Hale obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics and Math Science
from Rice University. He then migrated into programming, especially for
support of biology labs. He currently works with the Human Genome Sequencing
Center at Baylor College of Medicine. His current favorite languages are
Groovy, Python, and Java.