Allen Hurst is a Principal Consultant and the Assistant Director of Rural Sourcing at Improving Enterprises. As a committed Agilist and Certified ScrumMaster, Allen has spent his career learning, working, leading, and mentoring in a variety of environments, striving to recreate the positive experiences and learn from the negative ones. Along the way, Allen has found a fondness for continuous improvement, Agile values and practices, rapid delivery of quality working software, and well-designed object-oriented systems. Allen is a Computer Science graduate from Texas A&M, the leader of the Aggieland .NET User's Group, an avid practitioner of GTD, and a producer of Improving Podcasts. You can learn a little more about Allen at http://ahurst.com<http://ahurst.com/&gt;;.

Amber Shah is a programmer who founded Code Anthem, a way for programmers to prove their coding skills and take control of their careers.

Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a six-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2005-2010) for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft SharePoint Server. He has authored and contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years including his book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at conferences such as TechEd, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, SharePoint Best Practice Conference, SharePoint Evolutions Conference, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in the United States, Australia, England and Spain. Andrew blogs at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog and on Twitter @andrewconnell.

Andrew Lavinsky is a Managing Consultant with Catapult Systems’ Houston office, where he focuses on implementing Microsoft technologies to enable organizational performance improvement.  As a professional trainer and consultant, Andrew has a diverse background providing services in such industries as oil and gas, health care, finance and IT.  Andrew has lectured extensively on project and IT operations management topics within the US and abroad.

Ben Scheirman is an agile web developer from Houston, TX.  He is  a Certified ScrumMaster, ASP Insider, and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.  You can read about these topics on his blog, online at http://www.flux88.com.  Check out his upcoming book, ASP.NET MVC in Action by Manning Press at http://manning.com/palermo. 

15+ years in the industry - currently with Microsoft, based in Redmond and has recently spoken at events such TechEd and MVP Summit.  Has published multiple articles and teaches system level development at venues such asbellvuecollege.com and boeing.com

Brandon Satrom is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, based in Austin, TX. He has eleven years of industry experience, splitting his time evenly between consulting/service organizations and internal IT shops before joining Microsoft in June of 2010. A Software and Enterprise Architect, Brandon has worked on projects of all shapes for companies large and small, most recently using technologies such as WCF, WF and ASP.NET MVC with a healthy dose of OSS. Brandon is active in the Austin technology community, both as a participant and supporter of local user groups and as President of the IASA Austin chapter. He lives in Austin with his wife and son and blogs about software architecture and development at http://www.userinexperience.com.

Bret Goldsmith has over 10 years of experience in the software development industry, cutting his teeth on such languages as Delphi and Lisp, eventually garnering expertise in the Java field. He is currently a Banking Build Manager in the JPMorganChase Investment Technology Group. He is a root-cause specialist, emphasizing capacity, scalability, memory, concurrency, and resiliency issues.

Brian Bedard is a consultant with Sogeti who specializes in developing SharePoint solutions. Brian has worked in the IT industry for 11 years while focusing on SharePoint for the last 4 years. Brian is passionate about creating quality SharePoint components that leverage best practices and lessons learned while working on several SharePoint implementations. He is also evaluating SharePoint 2010 features and how the development story will change after release.

Brian Oxley is a senior developer at the JPMorgan North America Technology Center, focusing on low-latency algorithmic trading systems. Prior to JPMorgan, Brian has worked at MathWorks, ThoughtWorks, VirtuDyne and Enron. He lives in Houston and you can contact him at binkley@alumni.rice.edu and read his blog at http://binkley.blogspot.com.

Even though his educational background is in music and music media, Brian is a thirteen year veteran of Software Development and it is both his profession and his hobby.  He is currently a senior developer with Antares Technology Solutions.

 Brian Sullivan is a developer analyst for Praeses, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 5 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR.

Chander Dhall is an independent consultant and an INETA speaker. He has a Masters Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns. He likes taking up code challenges and is keen on building high performing modular software. He leads the UTDallas .NET user group and is very excited about bringing up the best academic talent into Microsoft technologies. He has an unbeaten record in yoga and likes rock climbing, jet skiing and other adventure sports in his free time.

Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC Brazil and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups across North America and Brazil. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP Award since 2001 (for Visual FoxPro in 2001-2002, and for C# every since), an INETA speaker, and also holds the MCSD for .NET certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor. More detailed information regarding his presentations and articles can be found in his MVP Profile at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile=ec6b1e0b-8efc-4530-97b0-55bd924e26d0. Claudio's blog is at http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com, and he's also on http://twitter.com/ClaudioLassala

Claudio Lassala-George Mauer  joint presentation. See separate bios.

Claudio Lassa-Jonathan Birkholz . Joint presentation . See separate bios

Corey Roth is a consultant at Stonebridge specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, LINQ, and SilverLight. For his contributions to Visual Studio 200, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Dan Sline has over 16 years in the software industry working with various financial, health care, utilities, energy, and education systems. He currently is a Manager with JPMorganChase in their Investment Bank Technology Group. He has a B.S. in Business Management with Minors in Math and Computing from Ithaca College and a M.S. in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. He is also a Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform (SCJD).

Darren Stokes is the founder of Concurrent Access Software, a software product and services company focused on the delivery of applications that include mobile platform components. Darren has provided independent consultant services to both small and large companies across the US for over 15 years and is the author of HealthSpender for the iPhone.

For nearly thirteen years David has been delivering technical solutions that make sense. He runs a small consulting business helping companies leverage and support SharePoint technologies. When he is not working, he spends time with his beautiful wife and three adorable children. David may be reached at @davidfrette on Twitter.

Senior Developer in Risk Technology. Currently pursuing Masters in Software Engineering at UT (which, not coincidentally, includes a course on data mining).

David Walker is an Senior Application Development Manager with Microsoft. He has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant. He has been an MCP since 2003, MCAD and MCSD since 2005, and was a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET from July 2007 – July 2009.

Microsoft MVP Geoff Hiten is a Principal SQL Server consultant for Intellinet.  Geoff began working with SQL Server in 1992 with version 4.2 and has used every version since.  He specializes in high-availability and high-performance SQL systems.  Recent projects include: system upgrades, SQL Server platform migrations, performance tuning, custom reporting solutions, virtualization, and database strategy implementations.   Geoff is currently on the leadership team of the Atlanta area Microsoft Database Forum Users group (AtlantaMDF) and can be found lurking in the halls at PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Community Summit events.  In addition, Geoff has been a Subject Matter Expert for Microsoft Training Curriculum materials and has authored articles, white papers and podcasts on SQL Server.

Gregg Sporar has been a software developer for over twenty years,
working on projects ranging from control software for a burglar alarm to
3D graphical user interfaces. His interests include development tools
and processes, user interfaces, and performance profiling. Gregg has
worked on teams that range from mostly Agile to hideously rigid and is
currently Senior Product Manager at Smart Bear Software. He has
published several articles, contributed to a couple of books, and has
spoken at software developer conferences around the world, including
Agile Development Practices, SD West, OSCON, FISL, JavaOne, Jazoon, and
TheServerSide Symposium.

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Jason Awbrey been developing software professionally for over 12 years in Dallas, Washington DC and Houston.  He is a board member of North Houston DNUG.  He lives in Spring with his wife and three kids.

Jason is CEO and lead architect of Ingen Systems. He has more than 10 years experience in the development and implementation of web strategies and architecture in varied industries, including financial services, public utilities, energy, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and high-tech. His extensive background incorporates leading companies in data management, portals and content management in Microsoft technologies. He is a 2009 recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award.

Prior to founding Ingen Systems, he held positions with White Rock Networks, Covenant Church-Carrollton, TXU Energy, Compucom, Deloitte, Trammell Crow and Tactica Technology Group.  He leads the Dallas DotNetNuke Users Group and is a key speaker at many Microsoft and other technical conferences across the country.

John Ebeling is a long time member of HDNUG. He has served on the board as Secretary and has been our Webmaster for several years. He is an independent Software Developer and has been developing software for more than 15 years. John has been a speaker at the HDNUG group several times as well as at last year's Houston TechFest. John has also been a speaker for the North Houston .NET User Group.

 John Teague has been developing .Net applications since version 1.0. While most of his work has been developing web applications, he tries not focus his attention on specific frameworks or applications stacks. Instead, he focuses on building applications using solid object oriented design principles and patterns with a behavior driven approach.

John is the owner and principle consultant of Avenida Software, a software development, Agile coaching and training firm. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies and small 3 person startups, in a variety of industries including e-commerce/retail, medical and financial. He has worked on building scalable high performance e-commerce websites and international B2B web applications.

He is very active in the .Net and Agile community in Austin, TX. He has organized the Austin Code Camp Conference for the past 3 years and presented several sessions as well. John has also presented private and public training courses on Ajax, Object Oriented Design Principles, and Test Driven Development

I also blog with the Los Techies crew, http://johnteague.lostechies.com

Joy has been harnessing technology to improve business practices and revamp legacy systems for 10 years. She is a SharePoint Administrator working in state government.

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While working on a Ph.D. in Economics at Rice University, Les Pinter teamed up with Mike Griffin and Bill Radding to market the Magic Wand, the fourth word processor ever developed for microcomputers. In September of 1980, Les sold the source code to a 23-year-old Bill Gates, who used it as the basis for Microsoft Word.

Today Les is President of Pinter Consulting, with teams of .NET developers in several countries in Latin America, specializing in rewriting legacy applications in new technologies. He has written seven books, including "Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic.NET" (Sams, 2006), as well as over 300 articles about software development. Les is an INETA speaker, and has given talks on .NET at universities and at technical conferences all over the world in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian. He is also a private pilot.

Lynn Evans first encountered database applications using something called DBMaster on the Apple II Plus in the early 80's. Subsequently he developed  applications in areas such as telecommunications billing, CRM, manufacturing, and medical billing. Along the way he was granted three software patents and was even a CIO for several years.   Currently he is on the faculty at DeVry University where he teaches courses in computer science, business, and statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. 

Markus is the CEO of 2 Software companies {runtime.de and pulsd.de} in Germany.  At the age of 19 he started “runtime”  and is now tremendously invested in the cloud + mobile space "pulsd" and has another incubation project "idogene.com" in the works.   Last year alone he has spoken at over 15 events at venues such as http://www.dotnetpro-powerday.de/ and http://www.databasepro-powerdays.de/

Marcus Erickson is the Director of Engineering at Idera. He has researched, architected and written several of Idera's top selling products and is currently focusing his efforts on Idera's SharePoint product line.  Marcus has 20+ years of experience in delivering succesful software products in areas such as SQL Server, Windows administration, security, network administration and programming tools.

Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect ofEPS Software Corp. (and it's various properties, such as CODE Consulting, CODE Training, andVFPConversion). He is also the Publisher ofCODE Magazine and the co-host ofCodeCast. He is a Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and one of the longest-serving MVPs (1996-present). Markus is the founder of other business ventures, such asTower48 (digital software escrow), Xiine (digital reading), JockTock (sports social network), and more.

Markus has worked on a large number of software projects for some of the world's largest companies (including a number of Fortune 500 companies). Markus has worked as a contractor to the Microsoft Visual Studio team, and has worked closely with various product groups at Microsoft. Besides his activities around CODE Magazine, Markus has been published extensively in practically all large industry publications (mainly in English, but on occasion in German as well). He has received various and numerous awards and recognitions, many related to his active involvement in the community and his regular appearances at events of all sizes. Markus has also been involved in the creation and continued support of various user groups, such as D2SIG (WPF and Silverlight) and HDNUG (.NET).

In his spare time, Markus is an enthusiastic Ice Hockey player (and supporter) as well as an avid windsurfer, traveler, and general enthusiast of sports such as scuba diving or mountain biking. On rainy days Markus either reads, enjoys a computer game, or researches new technologies.

Currently Michael is working as the SharePoint Architect for Waggener Edstrom. Michael has been working almost exclusively with SharePoint for the last seven years. He has been in the software arena professionally for the last 20 years and has worked for companies such as A-dec, Fedex, Intel, NETWARCOM, Deloitte and Touche, HCA, and Vanderbilt. He got his B.E. and M.S. from Vanderbilt University. In his spare time, he likes to kayak and travel. He currently lives in Santa Cruz, CA

Michael Foertsch is the lead architect and software developer for the SharePoint product group at Idera.  Currently, he is working on the Idera SharePoint backup product.  Previously with Idera, he was the lead developer of Idera SQLsafe, a very popular high-performance backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server.  Michael is a popular speaker with many SharePoint user groups and conferences.

Executive Director of Houston Techfest

Mike Huguet is a Solutions Architect for Sparkhound.  Mike is an active member of the community acting as leader of the Baton Rouge .NET User Group and committee member for the BR SQL Saturday event.  He is also a member of the Microsoft SharePoint Patterns and Practices Advisory team for the upcoming release for SharePoint 2010. Mike has a software development background and has been working with .NET since Beta 1 of the 1.0 framework.

Mike Oryszak is a SharePoint Server MVP and Principal Consultant with Intellinet in the Portals and Collaboration practice specializing in SharePoint Architecture and Development.  Mike is located in the Raleigh-Durham NC area and has been working with SharePoint since 2002 and developing Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft technology stack since 1996 servicing clients in many industries including Financial, Telecom, Manufacturing, and Government/Non-Profit.  Mike’s favorite SharePoint topic is social computing and how it can be used to increase team and cross-functional collaboration in the enterprise.  In addition he enjoys listening to music and reading about world history.

Mohammad Azam works as a senior consultant at Sogeti. He is the founder of the knowledge based website, HighOnCoding. The website contains over 500 articles, 100+ videos and several podcasts. Mohammad Azam also runs ScreenCastADay where he publishes technical screencasts.

Mohammad Azam is also Microsoft ASP.NET MVP.

Mohammad Azam also contribute to the AspAlliance website. The contributions are in the form of videos and articles. You can check out all the videos at www.aspalliance.com/videos.

Mohammad Azam blogs at www.azamsharp.com.

Nickolas Landry is a Practice Manager for Infusion Development in the US, a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large corporations and agencies in the North America, the UK and Dubai (www.infusion.com). Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, a member of the INETA and MSDN Canada Speakers Bureaus, and a 6-year Microsoft MVP on Device Application Development. With over 18 years of professional experience, a software architect by trade and a career almost entirely dedicated to Microsoft technologies, Nick specializes in .NET mobility, Bing Maps & Location Intelligence, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Game Development with XNA, and Smart Clients. He wrote multiple articles for CoDe Magazine, published white papers, wrote and several .NET mobility courses for Microsoft, has been a technical editor for many books, and holds several professional certifications from Microsoft and IBM. www.twitter.com/ActiveNick

Nirav Assar is an agile java consultant in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. His expertise includes helping software development teams adopt agile practices, as well as designing and implementing enterprise applications using the principles of object oriented design and clean code. Nirav has worked in a variety of industries including defense, retail, government, and real estate. Along the way, he has worked with many java technologies but his favorites include spring, seam, hibernate, cruisecontrol and ejb3.0. In his spare time, he also enjoys spending time with his family, discussing philosophy and playing soccer.

Jacob Orshalick is independent software consultant, open source enthusiast, and author. He is also owner of Solutionsfit an independent software consulting firm. Jacob aids clients in developing cutting edge software solutions to meet business needs and recently has been actively involved in the JBoss community. Jacob has over eight years 

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Patrick LeBlanc is currently a Business Intelligence Architect for Pragmatic Works. He has worked as a SQL Server DBA for the past 10 years. His experience includes working in the Educational, Advertising, Mortgage, Medical and Financial Industries. He is also the founder of TSQLScripts.com, SQLLunch.com and the President of the Baton Rouge Area SQL Server User Group. Patrick is a regular speaker at various SQL Server community events, including SQL Saturday’s, User Groups and the SQL Lunch. And a SQL Server MVP.

Peter Tran works for PROS Revenue Management as a Sr. Technical Performance Lead. Peter's expertise is server-side performance tuning and specializes in Oracle and SQL Server performance tuning. Peter works in the development group where he helps benchmark PROS's application against Oracle and SQL Server and recommends performance best practices to the development team. Peter also works closely with PROS's customers to help tune the their environment during deployment.

He currently works with the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism group as the Community Architect Evangelist for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, engaging with Architects on the needs and requirements of their role and helping developers to be more involved in the Architecture space.

Rob Vettor is a C# MVP, INETA Regional Speaker and Microsoft .NET Architect/Technical for Jack Henry and Associates, a large financial services software company. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon and American Express. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs and rooms full of NET computer books. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com, and check out Rob’s blog atwww.robvettor.com.

Robbie Mac Iver is the Owner and Principal Consultant of The Mac Iver Group, LP, providing professional services in project management, agile leadership, training and coaching.  Robbie brings business and technology teams together to create and implement innovative solutions to complex business problems. By providing practical, sensible, and effective project leadership, Robbie improves both teams and processes to achieve visible, predictable results.

Robbie holds the PMP certification from the Project Management Institute and is certified by the ScrumAlliance as a Certified Scrum Master and a Certified Scrum Practitioner. He is well versed in the values and principles of agile practices as well as more traditional project management methods and can bring the most appropriate project leadership practices and tools to bear on the project at hand. Because of his experience in both the traditional and agile worlds, Robbie is also very effective in transitioning traditional teams and organizations to agile principles.
In addition, Robbie is an Agile Advisor with Corpus Optima where he is incorporating agile principles into the organization’s service offerings, delivery methods and internal operations to enhance Corpus Optima’s ability to help clients accelerate and sustain the advanced process and culture transformation practices of Superperformance.
Robbie is on the board of directors of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and a co-founder of the Houston APLN chapter.

Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA . Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US Coast Guard and US Navy.

Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the DevTeach 2005 conference in Montreal Canada . Rod was made an MSDN Canada speaker in 2004 and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP.

Rod is also editor in chief for Code Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development.

Rod can be contacted via his web site www.dashpoint.com or his blog http://blog.dashpoint.com

Ryan is a WinFX consultant who has 10 years Microsoft enterprise development experience and currently works on the architecture team at Charles Schwab in Austin, TX where he is also the automated testing czar. He was awarded MS MVP for 2010 in Connected Systems, is currently a technical reviewer for Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Cookbook by Packt Publishing due out in print this year and is a MSDN moderator.

Scott J. Peterson has been developing software with Microsoft tools and technologies since the late 1980s and has designed, developed and deployed solutions for clients across the globe. Scott was the architect and chief developer of some of the first MOSS 2007 deployments to go into production worldwide, and has developed solutions for organizations large and small, including Microsoft as part of their Partners in Learning initiative. Scott is a profoundly happily married father of 10 and lives in Richmond, Texas.

Shawn (http://www.shawnweisfeld.com) is a Staff Developer at a fortune 100 company. There he specializes in intranet & smart client development for internal line of business applications. Besides his day job Shawn also is an Adjunct Professor at The Florida Institute of Technology. He also does freelance software development work for local small businesses and training. In his free time he volunteers with INETA NorAm (http://www.ineta.org/) where he serves at the Director of Community Activities. Shawn started his career at his family business in Port St. Lucie FL while working on his undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of Central Florida and after a year off Shawn moved back to Orlando to pursue a Masters degree in Management Information Systems at The University of Central Florida and has since earned a second Masters degree in Computer Information Systems from Florida Institute of Technology. Shawn was awarded the Microsoft C# Most Valuable Professional award for 2007 & 2008. Shawn is an avid technology presenter and since July of 2005 Shawn has presented at many user group events, and even got to speak for Microsoft at the launch of Visual Studio 2008.

Steve Whitcomb, MS has been working in IT since the mid-90’s and has implemented and supported SharePoint since WSS 2.0 and SPS2003 for engineering, financial, manufacturing, and oil and gas industry sector companies. Steve also taught a variety of Microsoft courses for several years. He is currently a senior consultant for Microsoft Certified Partner Access Sciences Corporation, where he is busy working on many SharePoint and related technology projects.

Spearheading the HCCUG.org (Houston Cloud Computing User Group).   Evolved with IT/IS over the past 19+ years.  Recently presented at Microsoft's Launch 2010 Dallas and Houston on both the IT Pro and Dev tracks.  Presented at the h-spug.com  on SharePoint 2010 the day after its release.   Founder and Chief Architect of Hybrid Decisions Corp. 

Thomas LeBlanc (MCDBA & MCITP) is a Senior DBA at Amedisys - Baton Rouge, LA. Working in IT field for 21 years developing in COBOL\dBase\FoxPro\VFP\VB 3-6 and .NET(C#). Designing normalized database has become his passion. Full-time DBA work started about 9 years ago for while working at a Paper Mill continuing with IEM and Amedisys. Amedisys has 5 DBAs\Manager supporting VLDBs with Transactional Replication to a DW and Mirroring to a DR site. Tuning and reviewing DB design and SPs are an everyday job at Amedisys. Thomas has presented at the Baton Rouge PASS Chapter and SQLSaturday in Baton Rouge and New York. http://thesmilingdba.blogspot.com/.

A Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and author of So That's How! 2007 Microsoft Office System: Timesavers, Breakthroughs, & Everyday Genius, Tiffany has participated in three large-scale deployments of MOSS 2007 from cradle to grave and consulted more than 400 enterprises on everything from SharePoint customization to Office integration. A popular speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, don't miss this chance to hear from an expert in user acceptance and adoption.

Tim Mitchell is a Microsoft SQL Server consultant, developer, speaker, and trainer.  He has been working with SQL Server for over 7 years, working primarily in database development, business intelligence, ETL/SSIS, and reporting.  He has earned a number of industry certifications and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M at Commerce, and is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP.  Tim is a business intelligence consultant for Artis Consulting in the Dallas, Texas area.

As an active member of the community, Tim has spoken at venues including SQL Saturday and the PASS Business Intelligence SIG, is a board member and speaker at theNorth Texas SQL Server User Group in Dallas, and is a volunteer for PASS.  Tim is an author and forum contributor on SQLServerCentral.com and has published dozens of SQL Server training videos on SQLShare.com.

Todd Anglin is Chief Evangelist for Telerik, a provider of development tools and user interface components for .NET. Before joining Telerik, he worked for a large Fortune 200 financial services company IT shop where he learned the way of the “Enterprise” – big budgets, big projects, legacy systems, and incessant measurement. He now leverages this Enterprise experience to help Telerik make components that make the lives of all developers as easy as possible. Todd is an active author and speaker in the .NET community, focusing on web development technologies, a Microsoft MVP, founder and President of the North Houston .NET Users Group, and an O'Reilly author.

works as a technology lead for JPMorgan Chase.  He has over 13 years of service to the firm and has worked with a variety of technologies and business lines developing software for financial services.  Since 2000, he has focused mainly on J2EE, web-based applications. Recent technical interests include JavaScript, AJAX, Ext Js, and modern architectures that treat the web page as the application.  In 2009 , he was  member of the inaugural class of Rates Lead Engineers.  Todd lives in a suburb of Houston with his wife Kim and three daughters Ella, Claire, and Lucy. When not working or playing with his kids, he enjoys writing music and taking an occasional snowboarding trip.  Todd can be reached at todd.kegley@gmail.com.

Tom is a Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint. He is passionate about online collaboration technologies and loves being active in the SharePoint Community. Tom has been blogging about SharePoint for the last 3 years after certifying on the 2007 platform. Before SharePoint, Tom has spent 13 years in the internet industry developing products and web site functionality in Perl, C++, Java, VB.Net and C#. With SharePoint, Tom prefers an Out of the Box approach to deployment.

Tony Champion is the principal solution consultant for CDS, a software solution company and member of the Microsoft Silverlight Partner Program and a PivotViewer ISV.  Tony has been developing in Microsoft technologies since 1996 and has experience in web applications, desktop applications, graphics, and real-time software.  He is currently focused on providing professional solutions and training in the latest technologies, including Silverlight, WPF, SharePoint, AJAX, and WCF.

Trevor Barkhouse is an Escalation DBA for Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services.  His passions are automation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.  Trevor is very active in the community. In addition to recently finishing a term on the board of directors of the North Texas SQL Server Users Group, he has spoken at many user group meetings, four SQLSaturday events, and at the 2009 PASS Community Summit.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies. He is a frequent invited speaker at various international software conferences. He authored .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly), and co-authored the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf). His most recent book is Programming Groovy (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Wallace B. "Wally" McClure graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1991. He has done consulting and development for such organizations as The United States Department of Education, Coca-Cola, Bechtel National, Magnatron, and Lucent Technologies, among others. Wally has been working with the .NET Framework since the first public alpha in the summer of 2000. Wally McClure specializes in building applications that have large numbers of users and large amounts of data, as well as user interface specific technologies, such as AJAX and now the iPhone. He is a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, member of the national INETA Speaker’s Bureau, author of six programming books, and a partner in Scalable Development, Inc. Wally authored the first book that was published for MonoTouch development for the iPhone in November, 2009.

You can read Wally's blog at http://www.morewally.com/. Wally also co-hosts the ASP.NET Podcast. You can listen to it at http://www.aspnetpodcast.com.

William Assaf, MCITP-DD, is a team lead database developer and architect at Sparkhound, Inc. in Baton Rouge, LA. Started off as a .net developer and moved into database administration and architecture, and has been lead db designer on major application and DW projects in the private and public sectors. He blogs about SQL at sqltact.blogspot.com. He's helping organize SQL Saturday in Baton Rouge in August and is active in the Baton Rouge IT scene. 

For over 15 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies.  He's been a Consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995 and holds all major Microsoft certifications.
He is the creator of Virtual World Evangelism (VWE) which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like Facebook, Second Life, and OpenSim.  He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual worlds but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer.  Zain's efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, and many others.  He has been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, Gartner, and the Science Channel for his work with virtual world communities.  He is a frequent speaker at events in Second Life, Facebook, and other virtual worlds. And lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of this exciting new medium.