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Technical Chairs
 Bob Beauchemin
Bob is an instructor, course author, and database curriculum course liaison for DevelopMentor. He has over 25 years experience as an architect, programmer, and administrator for data centric distributed systems. He has written articles on ADO.NET, OLE DB, and SQL Server for Microsoft Systems Journal and SQL Server Magazine and others, and is the author of the books A First Look at SQL Server 2005 and Essential ADO.NET.
 Keith Brown
Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight, where he focuses on application security. He is also a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, authoring the Security Briefs column. He authored the book Programming Windows Security (Addison Wesley, 2000), co-authored Effective COM (Addison Wesley, 1999), and recently finished a new book entitled The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security, which you can read online at www.pluralsight.com/books.
Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent close to a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. He regularly speaks at many conferences, including TechEd and WinDev.
 Ian Griffiths
Ian is a freelance software developer and consultant. He specializes in digital imaging applications, mainly broadcast video and medical imaging systems. When not developing software, Ian works as an instructor and course author for DevelopMentor. Ian is also the co-author of two books: .NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell and Mastering Visual Studio .NET, both by O'Reilly.
 Fritz Onion
Fritz is a co-founder of Pluralsight, where he focuses on web development with ASP.NET. He is the author of the book Essential ASP.NET published by Addison Wesley, and he is currently working on a second edition that will cover ASP.NET 2.0. He frequently publishes articles on .NET in journals such as MSDN Magazine, DOTNETPRO, MSDN Online, and InformIT. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences and is the track chair for ASP.NET at Win-Dev in Boston.
 Aaron Skonnard
Aaron is a recognized authority on .NET, XML, and Web services technologies. Aaron is a founding partner of Pluralsight, a think-tank organization delivering in-depth technical content and training. Aaron has written numerous books and articles including the Essential XML Quick Reference (Addison Wesley, 2001), Essential XML (Addison Wesley, 2000), and his monthly column "The XML Files" in MSDN Magazine. Aaron frequently speaks at developer conferences throughout the world and is recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for his contributions to the XML Web Services community. Get in touch with Aaron at http://skonnard.com.
 Mike Woodring
Mike is an independent software consultant who writes and delivers courses on Windows, COM, and .NET technologies. He is particularly interested in runtime internals and multithreaded programming. When Mike is not teaching, you can always find him poking around under the hood somewhere with his favorite debuggers and disassemblers. Mike is co-author of Win32 Multithreaded Programming and Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers. Prior to pursuing research, writing, and teaching opportunities, Mike was a senior software systems engineer at Intel, where he worked on numerous telephony and video conferencing projects. He can be reached through his Web site at http://www.bearcanyon.com.
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Speakers
Matthew Adams
Matthew is the director of development at Digital Healthcare Ltd. The last three years have kept him fully occupied in the development of a C#/.NET-based distributed imaging platform for healthcare applications. Before that, he studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, worked on banking and imaging applications in North America, became a fully-paid-up C++ junkie, and was the lead architect on software solutions for drug-discovery for a large U.S. corporation. He thinks that .NET is a major philosophical stride forward for the computer industry, so much so that he was willing to forgive the belated arrival of generics in C#. He has written articles and given papers on the subject to both technical and non-technical audiences, and looks forward to the day when he no longer has to answer the question "So, what is .NET?"
 Chris Anderson
At Microsoft, Chris is responsible for the design, the developer experience, and the architecture of the presentation components in Microsoft Windows.
As an architect on the Windows Client team, Chris Anderson's primary focus is on the design and architecture of the technologies used to implement the next generation presentation platform in Windows, code named "Avalon". Chris initially started at Microsoft in 1995 working in the information systems group as a tester on Microsoft internal software. After a brief leave from Microsoft to work on other interests, Chris returned to Microsoft in 1997 as a developer working on user interface controls in Visual Basic, transferring to work on Visual J++ and the Windows Foundation classes in 1998. After shipping Visual J++, he moved on to working on the .NET Framework, dealing with Windows Forms, ASP.NET, and the base class libraries. Chris is basically a slacker who failed to get a college degree, however he has lately been working on perfecting his rollerblading and Halo skills. Chris' wife puts up with his addictions, including digital photography, blogging, video games, and home theaters.
Dominick Baier
Dominick Baier works as a .NET and security consultant for the German-based company ERNW GmbH. He focuses on application security, web services, and penetration testing. After working with Windows DNA for many years he now concentrates solely on the .NET Framework and Windows 2003 Application Servers. He is a certified ISO17799 Lead Auditor, holds a degree in Information Technology, works as a consultant and trainer, and teaches the Essential .NET Security class for DevelopMentor. You can find a selection of .NET/security related tools and topics at www.leastprivilege.com.
Niels Berglund
Niels is a member of DevelopMentor's technical research, curriculum development, and teaching staff. He specializes in the .NET system software and database areas. Niels speaks regularly at various industry conferences and is co-authoring a book about the new version of Microsoft SQL Server. He has also worked as a consultant, specializing in design and development of distributed applications primarily to the financial industry.
Jason Carlson
Jason is the Product Unit Manager for SQL Server Reporting
Services. He joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Program Manger for Visual
Source Safe and Repository. In 1997 the Repository team joined SQL
Server and Jason became the development manager for Meta Data Services.
In 2001 he built a team and started work on V1 of Reporting Services.
Before joining Microsoft Jason owned and operated an independent
software development company. Jason enjoys recreational sports and is
the captain of a football team in the Microsoft flag football league.
Joe Celko
Joe was a member of the ANSI X3H2 Database Standards Committee from 1987 to 1997 and helped write the ANSI/ISO SQL-89 and SQL-92 standards. He has written over 750 columns in the computer trade and academic press, mostly dealing with data and databases. His current magazine column is "Celko" in Intelligent Enterprise Magazine (CMP). He is the author of five books: SQL for Smarties (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1995, second edition 1999), SQL Puzzles and Answers (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997), Data & Databases (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1999) and Trees & Hierarchies in SQL (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2004).
Joe’s past columns include "SQL Explorer" in DBMS (Miller-Freeman); "Celko on SQL" in Database Programming & Design (Miller-Freeman); "Watcom SQL Corner" in PowerBuilder Developer’s Journal (SysCon); "SQL Puzzle" in Boxes & Arrows (Frank Sweet Publishing); "DBMS/Report" in Systems Integration (Cahner-Ziff); "Data Desk" in Tech Specialist (R&D); "Data Points" in PC Techniques (Coriolis Group); "Celko on Software" in Computing (VNC Publications, UK), "SELECT * from Austin" (Array Publications, The Netherlands), and he was editor for the "Puzzles & Problems" section of Abacus (Springer-Verlag) and he ran the Caseforum section 18, "Celko on SQL", on CompuServe.
Girish Chander
Girish Chander is the program manager for security in the SQL server team. He has been with the SQL server team for over four years and has been focusing on enhancing the security story of SQL server. During this time, Girish has presented at numerous conferences such as TechEd, PDC, PASS, SQL Live, and many more. Prior to joining the SQL server team, Girish was a program manager for the Exchange team focusing on security. He has a masters degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Chris Dix
Chris is the founder of Thoughtpost, a consulting and training company in Charlotte, NC, where he focuses on .NET and Web Services. Chris is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and he is the co-author of several books, including Professional XML Web Services. You can contact Chris at chris@thoughtpost.com.
Dino Esposito
Dino Esposito is a trainer and consultant based in Rome, Italy. A member of the Wintellect team, Dino specializes in ASP.NET and ADO.NET and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Europe and the United States. In particular, Dino manages the ADO.NET courseware for Wintellect. A prolific author, Dino writes the "Cutting Edge" column for MSDN Magazine and contributes to the Microsoft's ASP.NET and Longhorn DevCenters, plus several other magazines. Every month asp.netPRO Magazine and CoDe Magazine publish Dino 's articles covering topics ranging from Web development to data access and from XML to Web services programming, all rigorously done using the .NET Framework. Dino has written numerous books including "Programming Microsoft ASP.NET" (Microsoft Press, 2003), an annotated programmer's reference for ASP.NET development; and "Applied XML Programming with the .NET Framework", from Microsoft Press (2002). The most recent book is "Introducing ASP.NET 2.0", Microsoft Press 2004.
Tim Ewald
Tim Ewald is a Program Manager for MSDN, where he works on the next-generation online publishing infrastructure, as well as other projects. Tim also writes and speaks about XML and Web services.
Jon Flanders
Although Jon spent the first few years of his professional life as an attorney, he quickly found chasing bits more interesting than chasing ambulances. After working with ASP and COM, he made the move to .NET. Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out exactly how .NET (specifically ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET) work. Deducing the details and disseminating that information to other developers is his passion.
Mark Fussell
Mark is a Lead Program Manager on XML technologies at Microsoft, defining the future direction of XML and data access in the .NET
Framework and within SQL Server. He talks regularly at conferences, has
recently written a book on the XML programming APIs in .NET, and has a
blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell.
 Kit George
Kit has been with Microsoft since 2000, and has been a part of the BCL team for the entire time. Kit is originally from New Zealand, and completed an Honors degree in Psychology, before joining EDS (New Zealand). Kit transferred to Australia where he was located for four years working for EDS, on various projects such as a health grouping system and a vehicle management system. Kit had the opportunity to train in Visual Basic for two years, which included traveling to various locations in the United States and Australia, before joining Microsoft.
 Cathi Gero
Cathi Gero, C.P.A., is founder and development director of Prenia Corporation, providing custom software applications, training, and architectural designing to businesses and developers. Cathi is a Microsoft C# MVP and is an active member of the .NET community. She has extensive experience developing applications using the .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Crystal Reports as well as other technologies. She is an international speaker at conferences and user groups, author of numerous articles for Microsoft, and technical editor for several .NET books. Her monthly column, “Cathi Gero’s .NET Tips” appears in Universal Thread Magazine. Most of the year Cathi travels to various companies providing onsite training, mentoring, and development experience.
Richard Grimes
Richard writes and gives talks on .NET with an emphasis on the fundamentals of the framework. He has written best-selling books for Addison Wesley and Microsoft Press on the .NET framework and Managed C++. He speaks regularly at .NET conferences in the U.S. and Europe including VSLive, DevConnections, Win-Dev, WinSummit, BASTA, and DevWeek. Richard writes for a variety of magazines including MSDN Magazine, VCDJ, Windows Developer Magazine, and Developer Network Journal. Currently, he is a contributing editor for Dr Dobb’s Journal, writing a monthly column on .NET. Richard has been awarded Microsoft MVP status since 1999 for contributions to the .NET community. He is currently writing a comprehensive reference on WinFX, the framework behind Longhorn.
Simon Horrell
Simon is an instructor at DevelopMentor, where he develops and delivers various .NET and Java courses. He spends much of his time researching and thinking about the challenge of building scalable and interoperable XML-based Web Services. He speaks regularly at various developer conferences around the world, and is a contributor to JavaPro Magazine.
Rob Howard
Rob is the founder of >telligentsystems, a solutions company specializing in Microsoft enterprise technologies. Prior to founding >telligentsystems, Rob worked for Microsoft, helping to create the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. He specifically contributed to ASP.NET, helping to design many of the core features, including the new provider design pattern. He has presented at nearly every software developer conference from Microsoft PDC, to Borland DevCon, to VSLive! He is consistently rated as a top presenter. Rob is also the author of several books, most recently A Preview of ASP.NET 2.0 (Addison-Wesley) and ASP.NET Coding Strategies with the ASP.NET Team (Microsoft Press). He is currently working on his eighth book. To learn more about >telligentsystems or to chat with Rob, please e-mail him at rhoward@telligentsystems.com.
 Robert Hurlbut
Robert is an independent software developer and consultant. He specializes in application security, distributed architectures, and database architecture and development. When not developing software, Robert speaks on security and developer best-practices to clients and user groups across the New England area. Get in touch with Robert at http://www.hurlbut-consulting.com.
Steve Johnson
Steve is a senior developer for 3t Systems, Inc. in Denver, CO, where he spends his days doing architecture, training, and "in-the-trenches" development. Steve began programming Windows on version 3.1 in 1995 using only C, the SDK, and Petzold's classic "Programming Windows 3.1". He was a hobbyist programmer until February 1999, when he turned professional. Steve particularly enjoys learning internals and behind-the-scenes details and developing low-level infrastructure code. Steve currently resides in Highlands Ranch, CO with his wife Kathleen and two cats.
John Lam
John has educated the Microsoft software development community for over nine years through an eclectic combination of writing, speaking, and mentoring. He has recently started a consulting practice that focuses on helping companies improve their software development processes through automation and code generation. He maintains a popular blog at http://www.iunknown.com, and can be reached at jlam@iunknown.com.
 Juval Lowy
Juval is a software architect and the principal of IDesign. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft to help the industry adopt .NET. His latest book is “Programming .NET Components” by O'Reilly. The book is dedicated to component-oriented programming and design, as well as the related system issues. Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft has recognized Juval as a Software Legend and one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders. Contact him at www.idesign.net.
Mark Pearce
Mark is a freelance IT consultant currently specializing in the energy industry. Having been a peripheral coding device since 1979, he has worked his way through an ever-increasing list of interesting clients including Nomura, Citigroup, Barclays Capital, Enron, and BP, all of whom have seemingly paid big bucks to ignore his opinions! In recent years Mark has concentrated his technical efforts on the .NET and SQL Server toolsets, moving away from his beloved Sybase and VB.Classic. But he hasn't emigrated completely to semi-colonistan as he is also the author of "Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging", recently published by Apress.
Matt Powell
Matt works at Microsoft as the Content Strategist for the MSDN Web Services Developer Center. In addition to writing many articles on Web services, Matt is the author of the book Running Microsoft Internet Information Server and was part of the team that created the original SOAP Toolkit from Microsoft.
Peter Provost
Peter is a managing consultant for Interlink Group, LLC and is a Microsoft MVP for C#. He has more than 15 years of experience developing computer software and leading development teams. Peter has been developing software with the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early betas. He is an active .NET community member and public speaker in the Rocky Mountain region and maintains a .NET-focused weblog at http://www.peterprovost.org/. Peter received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Colorado State University and holds both MCSD certification in both .NET and C++.
Brian Randell
Brian teaches Microsoft .NET curriculum using Visual Basic .NET and C# for DevelopMentor. When not teaching, Brian works as a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner, specializing in custom application development with Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Office family of products. Contact him at http://www.mcwtech.com.
Brent Rector
Brent is president and founder of Wise Owl Consulting with over three decades experience in software development. Brent has designed and implemented operating systems as well as new computer programming languages and their compilers. Brent started developing Windows applications using Windows 1x beta in 1985 and has been involved in Windows development ever since. He is the author of numerous Windows programming books, including Introducing Microsoft WinFX, ATL Internals and Win32 Programming. Besides providing consulting and instruction for the premier .NET developer training organization, Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), Brent's own company, Wise Owl Consulting, recently released Demeanor for .NET - the premier code obfuscator for .NET applications. For more information, go to www.wiseowl.com .
George Shepherd
George Shepherd
As a contributing editor for MSDN magazine, George regularly writes "The ASP Column". He is the author and co-author of five books from Addison-Wesley and Microsoft Press, including "MFC Internals" and "Programming Visual C++ .NET". In addition, George is a contributing architect for Syncfusion, providing Windows Forms and ASP.NET tools.
Maoni Stephens
Maoni is a developer on the CLR performance team. Before joining CLR, she spent several years in the operating system group at Microsoft. When not writing or helping developers write faster managed code, Maoni enjoys watching good anime and KungFu movies.
 Rob Steward
Rob is a senior program manager at DataDirect Technologies. His responsibilities include the Connect for ODBC, Connect for .NET, and Connect for ADO products. He has over 11 years of experience developing database access middleware, including .NET Data Providers, ODBC drivers, and OLE DB providers. Rob has presented on .NET data access at VS Live! and Microsoft PDC and has also published in DM Review. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. Contact Rob at Rob.Steward@datadirect.com.
Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan’s work in the computer industry has stretched from hardware development, such as design of audio processing systems and Digital Equipments' PDP-11 computers, to software development for manufacturing automation and image processing products driven by databases. Dan has worked with many operating systems including first versions of DOS, Windows, and NT. He has worked with SQL Server since it was first distributed by Microsoft and ran on OS2. Dan has been a speaker at .NET user groups and Win-Dev. His articles have appeared in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine. He has written courses used by DevelopMentor and also does instruction for them. His present interests include .NET, SQL Server, XML, and Web Services. Dan has his own consulting company and can be reached at dsullivan@danal.com.
Frank Swiderski
Frank is a software security engineer on the Secure Windows Initiative Attack Team. On this team, he spends much of his time helping Microsoft product teams evaluate the impact of threats to their product or component. He is co-author of a book on Threat Modeling published by MSPress. He also assists in analysis of externally reported security issues, including various forms of malware (worms, viruses, Trojans, etc.). His expertise is in security analysis, including penetration testing, code reviews, design reviews, tool development, and exploit techniques. Frank worked for Microsoft for 2 years. Prior to that, Frank worked at the security consulting firm @stake as a managing security architect responsible for technical leadership, including technical analysis of compiled applications, web sites, viruses and worms, and computer forensics. He also has previous experience in government computer security. He is the author of numerous security tools used both internally and externally.
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