Alberto Antenangeli has been involved with software development for over 20
years, and Object Oriented languages for 15 years. During his career he
developed all kinds of systems, from embedded/real time process control, to
his currently position overseeing the development of multiple large scale
applications in the Credit Risk area of JPMorgan Chase.

Alvaro Fernandez holds a BS ('92), MS ('95) and Ph.D. ('01) in Mechanical Engineering, all from Rice University. His Master's thesis explored differential equations and a class of neural networks now more commonly known as Basis Function Neural Networks. His dissertation explored a meshless solution method for differential equations based on certain neural network training algorithms. In 2004 he joined CSC, Inc. and benchmarked High Performance Computers as a subcontractor for the DoD at the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. Dr. Fernandez joined Visual Numerics, Inc. in February of 2007 as a pre-sales Technical Support Engineer and was one of the developers tasked with parallelizing the IMSL C Numerical Library. He lives in Friendswood, TX with his wife and son.

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.  Ben is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti.

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 Portals and Banking Architect in the JPMorganChase Investment Technology Group. He is a root-cause specialist, emphasizing capacity, scalability, memory, concurrency, and resiliency issues.

Chad Myers is currently the Director of Development at Dovetail Software in Austin, TX.  He has over 8 years of software development experience creating elegant, functional, and durable web-based enterprise software systems in Java and .NET/C#.  Chad spends most of his professional time practicing Agile development techniques as well as object-oriented principles. He tries to spread as much knowledge has he has received by giving user-group talks, writing articles, and maintaining an active ‘Blog at http://chadmyers.lostechies.com.

Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked as a Senior Architect on the Architecture Strategy Team for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect, Developer and Development Team Lead for the global solution provider Avanade. As a 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, Louisiana and Arkansas. Chris is a devoted husband and father of four awesome children who keep him very busy.  In his spare time, Chris serves as Scoutmaster for his oldest son's Troop, and Committee Chair for his youngest sons' Pack.  Chris also enjoys traveling, cooking, camping and playing guitar.  You can contact Chris through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig, via email at chris.koenig@microsoft.com, or via Windows Live Messenger at chris@koenigweb.com.

Christian Thilmany is an Architect with Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) team with more than 19 years of experience in architecture, development, and consulting for a variety of Fortune 500 companies.
At Microsoft, he currently specializes in quality development, application lifecycle management, rich internet applications, integration, portal, and smart client patterns and technologies.

Claudio is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC 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 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. Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/claudiolassala/

Curtis Schlak, the current VP of Engineering at DataCert, Inc., started his career in software development on a cold winter's night in Bosnia. Since then, he has worked producing and directing software-based enterprise solutions in the collaboration, risk management, and Sarbanes-Oxley arenas. Prior to joining DataCert, he founded and ran Gray Iris Software, a company specializing in providing Sarbanes-Oxley solutions.

Dan Cornell has over ten years of experience architecting and developing web-based software systems. He leads Denim Group's security research team in investigating the application of secure coding and development techniques to improve web-based software development methodologies.
Dan was the founding coordinator and chairman for the Java Users Group of San Antonio (JUGSA) and is currently the San Antonio chapter leader of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). He is a recognized expert in the area of web application security for SearchSoftwareQuality.com and the primary author of Sprajax, OWASP's open source tool for assessing the security of AJAX-enabled web applications.

Dan Sline has over 14 years in the software industry working with various financial, health care, utilities, energy, and education systems. He currently is a Technical Lead 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).

Darin Marple is an Architect with JP Morgan Chase.  He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.  Currently, He works in the Approvals and Limits Monitoring Program in Global Credit Risk Management for the Investment Bank.  While at JP Morgan, Darin has designed and led the build teams to build a number of core components of the Credit Risk Infrastructure which is a large-scale component architecture.  His specialty is engineering and implementing resilient and scalable multi-component systems.

David Neal is a Global Operate Manager for JPMorgan's Risk Management line of business.  He has
twenty-five years experience in software design, development and support. He has written software
ranging from banking, human resources, accounting and trading systems to a distributed stress analysis
system for NASA's Space Shuttle.

David has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, WinnerComm and IBM Global Services. In March 2007, he returned to WinnerComm as Manager of Technical Architecture and was promoted to Manager of Software Development and Technical Architecture in June 2007.

He is the President of his own growing consulting business Professional Business Technologies, Inc. He is the current President of the Tulsa Developers NET user group, founder and President of the Tulsa SQL Server Group and Tulsa Java Developers Group and the Vice-President of the Tulsa
SharePoint Interest Group.

He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He became a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET in July 2007.

Dustin is a software engineer in the investment banking business at JP Morgan.  Currently, he is part of the Options Trading Platform (MaMa).  Previous to JP Morgan, he was located in Miami with a Real Estate do-it-yourself software company called HomeKeys.com.  His experience with Eclipse RCP started at JP Morgan in 2007 during the new construction efforts of a new  JP Morgan sales Trading application.  Efforts beyond this have involved a stock market messaging simulator client.

Gabriela Chiribau is a software architect and engineer with more then 16 years of experience in building applications in several languages on multiple platforms. She worked with standardization bodies such as OMG, JCP and TMF and she holds a Master Java Developer certification from brainbench.com. Gabriela has a Master of Science degree from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. She works as an independent consultant through her company Halcyon Consulting LLC.

Developer Evangelist of Microsoft

Jared Bienz is an ISV Architect Advisor with Microsoft, which means he helps companies who write software understand and leverage Microsoft technologies. Jared has been a professional in the software industry since 1995. He’s worked on a wide range of technologies including IP Telephony, Mobile, Web, Composite and Rich Clients. He’s particularly interested in client and UX technologies like WCF, XNA, WPF and Silverlight.

Jason is the founder and president of Ingen Systems, a provider of web-based business services and solutions. He has more than 10 years experience in the development and implementation of web strategies and architecture in a variety of industries, including financial services, public utilities, energy, retail, hospitality, manufacturing and high-tech. His extensive background includes leading companies in data management, portals and content management in Microsoft technologies. Before founding Ingen Systems, Jason held positions with White Rock Networks; Covenant Church, a 9,000+ membership organization; TXU Energy; Compucom; Deloitte & Touche; Trammell Crow and Tactica Technology Group, a management and technology consulting company, named one of America’s entrepreneurial growth leaders in the Inc. 500 by Inc magazine. Jason holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. He is founder and president of the Dallas DotNetNuke Users Group, a member of the Professional Referral Group and serves on the board of the IT Roundtable, a non-profit organization of ministry IT professionals.

Jeff is a Manager with Pariveda Solutions, Inc., in Dallas, TX.  He has more than five years of technology consulting experience in a variety of industries; his emphasis is on the delivery of applications using the Microsoft .NET platform.  His areas of expertise include designing, developing and maintaining web-based applications, reporting systems, and custom integration software.  Jeff has led large-scale development efforts for industries including investments, insurance, financial exchanges, software / high-tech, healthcare, and manufacturing.  He has also served as a course instructor for introductory development courses on .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 technologies.  His leadership experience includes managing teams to deliver:  content-managed web portals for an international investment firm, a national manufacturing company, a healthcare insurance intermediary, and a precious metals financial exchange; inventory-, sales- and customer-management system for a rare coin direct sales organization; and a wellness management tool for a national disease-management and wellness provider.  He is currently leading a team to deliver a large, distributed point-of-sale application for a national flight services company using .NET 3.0 technologies including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Jeffrey Palermo is a software management consultant and the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. Jeffrey specializes in Agile coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. Jeffrey is an MCSD.Net , Microsoft MVP, Certified Scrummaster, Austin .Net User Group leader, AgileAustin board member, INETA speaker, INETA Membership Mentor, Christian, husband, father, motorcyclist, Eagle Scout, U.S. Army Veteran, and Texas A&M University graduate.

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

Jeremy Gaige is a Systems Engineer with Idera and has over 10 years experience in enterprise management frameworks, specialized monitoring tools, and systems administration including SQL Server. Jeremy has a wide variety of experiences including consulting, training, presales, and worldwide implementations of framework tools like NetIQ AppManager, Microsoft Operations Manager, and Tivoli. More recently with Idera, Jeremy has been working with SQL Server implementations worldwide in SQL performance monitoring and administration.

Jim is the president of the Houston Java Users Group and has 5 years of experience as a software developer.  He currently works in the financial/energy credit risk sector. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. He currently works for Triple Point Technology as a Technical Architect, and is SCEA 5 and SCJP 5 certified.

I'm a senior consultant with Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. My focus is using .NET technologies together with Agile methodologies. I started using .NET back in 2002 when classic ASP was still in style.  Back in 2005, I drank the Agile punch and haven't looked at a waterfall the same since.

John is a full-time database and architecture consultant based in Houston, Texas. In his spare time, he writes for SQL Server Magazine, Windows IT Pro, DevX, DBAzine.com, and Oracle.com. His areas of interest are Visual Studio Team System, SQL Server, .NET development and virtualization.

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 is the Co-Founder and Principal Consultant at Next Level Technology, a software development,  Agile coaching and training firm.  Next Level Technology uses an iterative approach to delivering working software quickly and aligned with business priorities.

John has been developing software for over 7 years.  While he was worked with .Net and ASP.Net since version 1.0, he focuses on designing Object Oriented systems regardless of technology or frameworks involved. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small 3 person startups in a variety of industries including e-commerce/retail, medical and financial.  He has delivered high performance ecommerce websites and global B2B applications.

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

Jonathan works as an Architect for HealthMarkets, a family of companies providing life and health insurance to the self employed, small businesses, and individuals. His most recent experience with WS-Federation was to leveraging it to provide a federated claims-based security model for applications and services at HealthMarkets that integrated with security repositories acquired from mergers, partnerships and commercial purchases.

Joseph Hill has been an active participant in the Mono community since
2003, and has also been an active contributor to several open source
ASP.NET applications. As a professional developer, he has done
significant work in design and implementation of .NET applications for a
number of customers, including Fortune 50 companies in areas such as
messaging solutions, SCM, and others. In January 2008, Joseph joined
Novell to serve as the Product Manager for Mono.

Kurt has worked in the software industry for over 25 years in a variety of roles including developer, team leader, architect, project manager, and business leader. He has led agile projects, run a large division of a software development company, survived and thrived in several start-ups, run an acquisition, and worked with clients in a variety of industries including aerospace, finance, energy, and electronics. He was a key contributor to the early development of the Rational Unified Process as well as, more recently, IBM's Jazz project (see www.jazz.net). His experience includes significant work in Banking and Finance, relational database system design and architecting, and consulting and mentoring a wide variety of clients on software development improvement strategies and approaches.
He is the co-author, with Ian Spence (Ivar Jacobson Consulting's Chief Scientist) of two books: Use-Case Modeling (2002) and Managing Iterative Software Development Projects (2006), as well as many articles, especially in the areas of improving requirements and software development management practices. He has particular interest in assisting organizations and development teams to be more effective in their software practices while not losing sight that developing software should be a fun though highly challenging activity.

Maulik is a Senior Consultant for Oracle Corporation where he focuses on the Oracle Business Platform and the various ways technologies can be utilized to deliver a business solution. He has been involved with enterprise architecture for over 10 years and has deep experience in making disparate technologies work together.

Mike Azocar is a Microsoft Solutions Architect for Sogeti Houston.  He also has the distinction of being one of the few Microsoft Certified Professionals whose only certification is from a test that he helped to author (Exam 70-510).  Mike evangelizes Visual Studio Team System and works closely with both the Microsoft Houston office and the VSTS Product Team in Redmond.  Mike participated in a VSTS panel for .Net Rocks which aired on 6/28/2007.  Recently, Mike competed (and lost) the Speaker Idol competition and presented a Chalk Talk session on Process Templates at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando.  Mike's blog can be found at www.michaelazocar.com/blog.

Mike is a Senior Consultant for Oracle Corporation where he focuses on solution architecture using the Oracle Middleware business foundation.  For over the past 10 years he has architected, designed, and built a wide variety of multi-tier enterprise application solutions using Oracle and .Net Middleware technology - Business technology for HR, Marketing, Executives, Sales, and Accounting.   Mike has both MCSD.NET and MCDBA certifications.

Minoy has over 14 years experience in the software industry working in various platforms that include Microsoft and Java technologies. He currently works as an architect in JP Morgan's Credit Market business. His interests include understanding how people, technology and process gel together. He has a BS (Electrical Engineering) from REC-India, MS (Computer Science) from NIU and MBA from UT-Arlington.

Mohammad Azam works as a senior consultant at Sogeti. He is the founder of the knowledge based website, GridViewGuy. The website contains over 300 articles, 50+ videos and several podcasts. Few months ago Mohammad Azam also launched www.RefactorCode.com, a website to help developers refactor existing code and make it much better.

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.

Murali Padmanabhan has been working for JPMorgan for the past 5 years.  Prior to joining JPMorgan, he was consulting at other financial institutions such as Bear Sterns and CITI.  He has a total of 15 years of industry experience (including time working with J2EE technologies).  His include exploring new technologies and  how it can the new technologies can be  applied.

Oleg is an IT professional with 14+ years of experience in software engineering across multiple disciplines including software architecture and design, consulting, business analysis and application development. He currently focuses on delivering simple but powerful Spring based solutions and training to the North American market.

After starting his career in the world of COBOL & CICS, Oleg has been focusing on professional Java and Java EE development since 1999. Since 2004 he has been heavily involved in using several open source technologies and platforms with Spring Framework at the forefront, while working on a number of projects around the world and spanning industries such as Telecommunication, Banking, Law Enforcement, US DOD and others.

Oleg's current passions include Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Grid Computing, Test Driven development and Aspect Oriented Programming while his Spring passions are aligned with Spring DM, Spring Integration and Spring Web Services, a combination which he believes will evolve in simple, light weight and yet powerful SOA platform.

Paul Roest is a Java developer focusing on J2EE, with over ten years in software development experience.  Paul has been researching and developing solutions to improve how Exceptions are handling in Java.

Philip Wheat started out in development back when you learned from Compute Magazine (by typing in the code) and had to know something about soldering to expand your memory with most computers.  He currently works with the Microsoft DPE as the Community Architect Evangelist for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, engaging with Architects on the needs and requirements of their role and the encouragement of more developers to step up into the Architecture space. If you want to keep up with where he is and what he’s doing, you can find out some of his current activities at his blog (http://blog.austinwheats.net)

Sang Shin is presently working as a Java(tm) Technology Architect,
Consultant, and Evangelist in Sun Microsystems. He frequently gives
talks on various Java technologies such as Java EE (formerly J2EE), Java
SE, Java ME, and Web application frameworks and Web services and SOA
technologies to worldwide developer audience. Whenever he finds time, he
also teaches software engineering courses in Brandeis university in
Massachusetts. He currently teaches "J2EE programming (with Passion!)",
"Ajax programming (with Passion!)", "Web services and SOA programming",
and "Ruby, JRuby, and Rails Development (with Passion!)" free online
courses. These online courses can be taken through
http://www.javapassion.com.

Since first falling into geek-dom with his Commodore 64 as a boy, Scott Bateman has spent most of his life programming and working with computers. Presently the Senior Product Architect for Quorum Business Solutions in Houston, Scott is responsible for the technical health of the Upstream product suite serving Fortune 500 oil and gas companies. Scott holds a BS in Computer Science from Trinity University which has guided him through a decade of development including Windows, web, database, and handheld applications.

Scott Bellware is a software product designer, developer, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. Scott teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US and Canada. Scott is the founder of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners in Austin. He is the organizer of the ALT.NET Open Space and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin. Scott is a recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.

Started out writing bulletin board software with Turbo Pascal which became a startup software development business. Graduated from California State Bakersfield with a degree in Computer Science and Economics.  Scott has spent the past 8 years developing software in the .NET space mainly in the ASP.NET area. For the past year Scott has worked at Microsoft on the ASP.NET as a Program Manager currently working on the Dynamic Data framework.

Shawn is a Staff Developer at a fortune 20 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). 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 over 25 user group events, and even got to speak for Microsoft at the launch of Visual Studio.

Stephen Fulcher is a Principal with InformationIQ where he focuses on .NET technologies. Previously, he spent five years at Microsoft working with developer technologies. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and lives in Houston with his family.

Steven is a technical lead and Product Manager at INT where he works on several Java toolkits. These toolkits build GUI displays of complex geoscience and GIS data. Steven has previously worked on database monitoring applications and a peer-to-peer distributed toolkit (InterAgent) that for a time became Sun's JMS implementation. Steven got his degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and then from Rice University. Steven has been involved in Software development at companies who's primary product was software for his entire professional life.

Steven presented a BOF at JavaOne 2007, and presented talks at SEG in 2006 and 2007. He has also given several training classes at INT.

Suneeta is part of the team currently developing the new global equities sales trading platform for the Investment Bank at JPMorganChase.

Tim Rayburn is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti USA, and a active speaker at user groups around the South Central Region.  His focus is on the Connected Systems space with considerable experience in BizTalk and WCF.  He is the leader of the Dallas BizTalk User Group, blogger at TimRayburn.net and passionate about all types of games, from console to board games.  He lives in Arlington Texas with his wife Kate and their dog Gandalf and welcomes emails to tim@timrayburn.net .

Todd Anglin is an active .NET community member, President of the North Houston .NET User Group, and Telerik's Chief Technical Evangelist. At Telerik, Todd is responsible for building Telerik's global community of developers and helping ensure Telerik's products serve the needs of .NET developers around the world. Before joining Telerik, Todd worked as a developer in a Fortune 200 financial services company supporting applications on a wide range of platforms and technologies. He also an avid entrepreneur with previous experience running a small .NET software studio.

Tyler Chessman (tylerc@microsoft.com) is a Technology Specialist in Microsoft's South Central District where he helps customers evaluate and adopt Microsoft's Database and Business Intelligence platform. Tyler is also a frequent author for SQL Server magazine.  Prior to joining Microsoft, he spent several years as a consultant implementing financial, analytical, and sales force automation solutions.

William has over 9 years in developing software for various industries such as financial, oil and gas, and general consulting. He is currently a Senior Technical Lead for JPMorganChase in their Investment Bank Technology Group. He has a B.B.A in International Business with second major in French from Stephen F. Austin State University, and is completing a Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. He also holds several Sun Certifications including Java Programmer and Enterprise Architect.

For over 14 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies.  He's been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995 and holds all major Microsoft certifications, plus credentials from Cisco, Checkpoint and CompTIA. Zain launched his development career with Visual Basic 3.0 and honed his implementation skills with Windows NT 3.51 and OS/2.  He is the creator of Virtual World Evangelism (VWE) which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like 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, Reuters and many others.  He has also been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, and Gartner for his work with virtual world communities.  He is a frequent speaker at events in Second Life and other virtual worlds. and lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of this exciting new medium.. Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab.