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Steve Andrews
Twitter: steveandrews | WebsiteSteve Andrews is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM. He has been working in technology for over ten years focusing on custom application development and Application Lifecycle Management. Steve is also Microsoft and IBM certified and a community fanatic having led sessions at over 115 community events across North America. When he's not developing software solutions or engaging with the community about software technology, Steve is a closet singer and songwriter and plays the guitar and keys. Occasionally, Steve even gets to sleep. Occasionally.
Paul Batum
Twitter: paulbatum | BlogPaul Batum is a Program Manager on the WCF team at Microsoft. He is passionate about open source and his languages of choice are C# and JavaScript.
Craig Berntson
Twitter: craigber | Blog | WebsiteCraig Berntson is the Chief Software Gardener at Mojo Software Worx in Salt Lake City. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 1996 and has spoken at developer events across the US and in Canada, Germany, and the Czech Republic. He has written for various magazines and is co-author of “Continuous Integration in .NET”, available from Manning. You can contact him at craig@craigberntson.com, through his blog at www.craigberntson.com/blog, or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/craigber
Glenn Block
Twitter: gblock | Blog | WebsiteGlenn is a PM on the WCF team working on Microsoft’s future HTTP and REST stack. Prior to WCF he was a PM on the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. He has experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. He has also been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so.
Stuart Celarier
Twitter: vstuart | BlogStuart Celarier is a principal consultant with Neudesic, Microsoft Regional Director for Portland, Oregon, and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Connected Systems. Stuart is passionate about new and emerging technologies that transform software systems and how we create them. His career spans more than two decades of development, architecture, writing, and training. Stuart is a director of Portland Code Camp and frequently speaks at .NET user groups, conferences, and community events. He is a member of the Software Association of Oregon’s Development Forum committee. Stuart is a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau and has volunteered with INETA since 2003, including co-chairing the Birds-of-a-Feather track at eight major Microsoft conferences. Outside of work, Stuart grows rhododendrons, plays mandocello in the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra, and teaches juggling.
Richard Cirerol
Twitter: richardcirerol | Blog | WebsiteOver the years, I have had the opportunity to live and work in other northwest destinations, such as Portland, Seattle and Denver. But, like a bad penny, I always seem to return to Boise. I blog sporadically at ElegantCode.com on various software development topics, including continuous integration, build scripts, and testing. I have spoken at Boise and Portland code camps, as well at my local user group.
Rod Claar
Twitter: agile_coach | Blog | WebsiteRod is an internationally recognized leader in the area of software development. His special focus is on large teams and projects to increase the velocity of software development through coaching, training, and consulting. He has spent considerable time in the classroom training on Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Scrum, and Agile Methodologies. Not only does Rod speak to all levels of an organization effectively, he also spans many technologies in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space to take advantage of software tools to increase visibility and productivity of teams. By combining methodologies and tools along with world-class training, Rod is a powerhouse of experience and wisdom. His witty sense of humor and gaming theory is also a pleasure to work with. Rod is leading the Agile Practice Team in North America for RippleRock and is a member of the Global Leadership Team.
Rich Dudley
Twitter: rj_dudley | Blog | WebsiteFor an entire decade, Rich inhabited cubicles at several companies in the same office park, eventually leading a team of developers building data warehouses, web-based BI applications and integrating mission critical systems. Today, as a Technical Evangelist for ComponentOne, Rich travels the country sharing new technologies with an eye toward the usefulness of these technologies to the poor souls still in their cubicles. Rich has been working with Azure since the early beta days, with Windows Phone 7 since before you could leave one in a bar, and is co-author of "Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development" from Packt Publishing (http://bit.ly/msazurebook). Follow Rich's blog at http://c1.ms/c1_richd, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/rj_dudley.
Yavor Georgiev
Twitter: digthepony | BlogYavor is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on web services and clients.
Chris Goldfarb
Twitter: cgoldfarbChris Goldfarb is a Senior Software Developer for the Intel Software and Solutions Group, and has been writing software for 15 years. .NET has been Chris' main focus since the pre-beta bits were released, and has both developed applications and trained others on the framework. He has been spending most of his time recently in HTML5, MVC scaffolding and jQuery. Chris has presented software engineering topics at technical conferences such as the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference, Intel Developers Group and the Portland Area .NET User Group, which he founded. Chris has participated as a board member of the Intel e-Business Group .NET Taskforce and the Technical Infrastructure committee of the International .NET Association (INETA). Chris is Microsoft Certified in .NET and was Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Visual C#. Prior to joining Intel in January 2001, he wrote applications for the United States Air Force, including the United States Strategic Command.
Marcelo Guerra
Marcelo is a Test Lead at Microsoft, currently working on the Office 365 team, he has previously worked on the Windows Phone 7 and C# teams. He also holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and is one week away from finishing his MBA.
Adron Hall
Twitter: @adronbh | Blog | WebsiteI’m a jovial, pro-test driven (sometimes test after) development software architect and coder. I generally am in the C# .NET world of ASP.NET, WF, WCF, Web Services, and the whole list of “key words”. I love what I do and commonly add a very business oriented, get the job done, agile (sometimes eXtreme), and entrepreneurial effort to my work. I also like to mentor (or teach), write (re: blog), and even work on projects in addition to work related projects.
Scott Hanselman
Twitter: shanselman | Blog | WebsiteMy name is Scott Hanselman. I work out of my home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this I was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. I was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and I'll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.
Andrew Hay
Twitter: andrewdothay | Blog | WebsiteAndrew Hay is a Software Engineer at Vertigo Software, Inc. He started out supporting HR software that was written before he was born; a time when source code check-in meant you printed your changes and filed the papers in a cabinet down the hall. Andrew is a developer, speaker, author, husband, dad and chief belly scratcher of the family dog.
William Huckabee
Twitter: Bill_HuckabeeWilliam “Bill” Huckabee has been in the computer and information technology industry for over 30 years and is currently working for US Navy as a SharePoint developer, administrator and portal master for the Navy Region Northwest’s SharePoint portal. He is a member of West Sound Technology Association (WSTA) since early 2002, and has served on its board of directors since 2006. Bill also serves on Olympic College’s Computer Information Systems (CIS) Advisory Committee for six years, the past three years as Chair. The group provides industry feedback and recommendations on courses and curriculum, and has been instrumental in revamping the certificates and degrees offered by the program. Last but certainly not least, Huckabee is a member of Toastmasters and is the Toastmasters District 32 Web Master.
Joshua Jin
Joshua Jin is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS local chapter in Portland, Oregon. He holds three MCITP credentials: Business Intelligence Developer, SQL2008 Database Developer, and SQL2008 Database Administrator. Joshua is one of contributing authors of “Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning” book by Wiley/Wrox. Currently he is the development lead of a large SQL Operational BI project to support private Cloud at Intel IT.
Michael Kennedy
Twitter: mkennedy | Blog | WebsiteAs a full-time instructor for DevelopMentor, Michael Kennedy specializes in core .NET, Agile development, and Test-Driven Development (TDD) technologies. Michael has been building commercial applications with .NET since its initial public beta in 2001. Prior to working with .NET, he spent years working with C++ on Windows and SGI platforms. He holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from San Diego State University and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Michael has a broad background in software development. He has extensive experience in Windows UI technologies (MFC, Windows Forms, WPF), web technologies (ASP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, IIS), service oriented technologies (WCF, Web Services, Workflow), data technologies (ADO.NET, LINQ), and software development process related methodologies (TDD, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration, VSTS). Additionally, he gives presentations and workshops on the relationship between Test-Driven Development and Object-Oriented Design.
Mark Knell
Twitter: markknellI'm an Agile coach and .NET gun-for-hire, currently working in NW Portland. I'm interested in expressive language in all forms, computer or human, based on a theory that communication (broadly considered) is the single most expensive and risk-laden factor in software development.
Bruce Kyle
Twitter: brucedkyleBruce is a architect evangelist for Microsoft. Bruce works with software companies in Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, and Colorado. Bruce has developed software for Rogue Wave Software, Carnegie Mellon University, John Deere, and startups. He often speaks at launch events in the Pacific Northwest about Windows Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint, and SQL Server.
David Lambert
Having successfully avoided promotion to middle management, David Lambert continues pursuing his passion of writing good code and architect simple solutions. He was an early adopter to .NET and is pretty smug about the correctness of pitching his sail to the technology. He has written software for a multitude of different industries, and has been involved in every phase of the SDLC from architecture, maintenance, to phase out and migration. David bought his first computer way, way... way back in 1982 shortly after high school. Initially, he justified the purchase as a way to pursue one of his other passions creative writing. It did not take him long to start writing code, and having fun. He was a hobby programmer for years before finally returning to school in 1994 to study computers and pursue a career doing something he loves. David is a redwood in the Lane county area, and has lived there since 1968. He enjoys yoga, coffee, sex, beer, chi-running, the unexplained, astronomy, astrology, theology, and simplicity, but not necessarily in that order. He is married, has two children, two grand children, and is a serious burden to society. He would very much like you to attend his presentation and share some of your stories of inspiration and folly in computer science.
Patrick Logan
Twitter: patrickdlogan | BlogProfessional software developer since early, early 1980s. Lisp, Smalltalk, C++, Java, etc. Object-oriented databases, graph databases, distributed systems, web application, semantic web.
Greg Lutz
Twitter: @componentone | Blog | WebsiteWith his broad focus in .NET development, Greg Lutz is always working in the trenches with other developers sharing the experience. Greg's background at ComponentOne includes technical support, web development, and product management. He enjoys focusing his skills in various .NET platforms including Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight. You'll find Greg working on technical Web casts and at various user group events.
Scott MacHaffie
Scott MacHaffie is a Principal Developer at Schrodinger, Inc, which develops drug development software for the pharmaceutical industry. Scott is local--he has a master's degree in computer science from PSU and a BS in CS from UW. He currently works with C++, C, Python, and OpenGL. He is the author of "Palm and Treo Hacks". In his spare time, Scott is an assistant instructor for the children's aikido program at the Oregon Ki Society.
Jeff McBride
Jeff McBride worked as a developer for Microsoft from 1986 to 1995 on Excel and other desktop applications. Founded the computer game company Mare Crisium in 1996 and produces several versions of the Stars! strategy game. Develped vertical market applications for banks, law firms, doctors offices and other clients of DaVinci Digital from 2001-2009. Jeff is currently developing web software at WebMD. He has also taught and coached middle and high school robotics students for the last 12 years.
Joe McBride
Twitter: xamlcoder | BlogHello! My name is Joe McBride and I'm an Independent Consultant working out of Salt Lake City Utah. I'm a Silverlight Insider and was the Technical Editor for Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight by Victor Gaudioso. I frequently present at community events on design patterns, upcoming technologies, and Agile methodologies. My enthusiasm for programming and software architecture was cultivated by writing scripts to automate my character in text-based MUDs that I played in high school (and secretly still engage in). I have run variations of my blog on since 2004 and can be followed on twitter as @xamlcoder.
Nathan Mellor
Twitter: nathan_mellor | Blog | WebsiteNathan Mellor is an independent Android Developer, the CEO of CritterMap Software, and the author of BackCountry Navigator, the bestselling outdoor GPS app for Android. Back when he had a day job, he worked as a software engineer for Hewlett Packard for 12 years. After a downsizing, he decided to pursue an online business as his own boss. He has now been successful at making a full time living developing Android Apps. Nathan has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young Unversity. Nathan has recently completed a Master Certificate in Internet Marketing from the University of San Francisco, including certification in Mobile Marketing and Web Analytics. He has previously spoken at PubCon 2010 on Analytics in Android Apps.
Dustin Metzgar
Twitter: @DustinMetzgar | BlogDustin is a developer on the AppFabric team at Microsoft. His focus is on WCF, WF, and AppFabric performance.
Mark Miller
Twitter: MillerMarkMark Miller is a C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great UI. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush and Refactor!, as well as the DXCore extensibility layer for Visual Studio. Mark is a member of INETA and a popular speaker at conferences around the world and has been writing software for over two decades.
Bill Moore
Twitter: codenuxBill Moore has fourteen years of Software Development experience. His primary focus was doing middle tier and database work for most of the time. Silverlight and WPF ignited a burning passion for doing UI work. Over the last 1.5 years he and his wife started Coden Enterprises and Coden UX to provide leadership and technical consulting around those technologies. He has also spent a lot of time getting up to speed on the Adobe Suite they make a perfect complement to the tools provided by Microsoft. He spends a lot of time presenting and trying to get the word out about Silverlight.
David Mora
Twitter: davidqmora | Blog | WebsiteA Software Engineer at US Digital in Vancouver, WA, David has been writing software in one way or another since middle school. For the last five years he has been developing on the .NET platform with a strong emphasis on distributed systems and rich-client applications. Besides family and the odd hobby, David spends some time each week translating .Net and Silverlight related blog articles into Spanish in his aim to widen the amount of good-quality guidance available in that language.
Nicholas Muhonen
Twitter: nmuhonen | WebsiteNick Muhonen, a principal software architect and trainer at Useable Concepts Incorporated (http://www.useableconcepts.com/), spends most of his time researching, writing, coding, and helping peers understand "not-so-understandables". He has helped a wide variety of clients throughout the years, including up and coming small business entities as well as large fortune 500 organizations.
Steven Osborn
Twitter: steve918 | Blog | WebsiteSteven is an Engineer and Entrepreneur with a fascination of gadgets. Currently the CTO of Urban Airship, a company building exciting new realtime push notification services for engaging mobile end users.
Ying Peng
I've been working on C# compiler QA team over 4 years now. I've learned a great deal about C# myself during these years. I’d like to share my knowledge with fellow developers, and learn something from you as well.
Jason Prothero
Twitter: protherj | Blog | WebsiteJason is a Microsoft Certified Professional and is familiar with a wide variety of technologies and tools including .NET, SQL, PHP, ASP.NET, jQuery, and various Content Management Systems. He is a Certified Umbraco CMS Developer and has deployed several websites of all sizes using Umbraco. He is active in helping to organize Ignite Corvallis, helped found the Corvallis .NET Users Group as well as the Corvallis Social Media Brigade, and is on the SAO Corvallis Board. He blogs on the ProWorks Blog as “Jason” and can be found on Twitter.
Ezra Spier
Twitter: ahhrrr | BlogEzra is a software developer at Sustainable Harvest in Portland, Oregon.
Jack Stephens
Twitter: jrcs3 | BlogI'm a Software Engineer based in Spokane. I've been working in Microsoft technologies since the late 1980s. I've worked in GWBasic, QuickBasic, Microsoft C/C++, Macro Assembler, Visual Basic, C#, etc.; I've even played with F#. I've worked with every version of Windows since version 3.0 (except for Window ME).
Will Strye
Twitter: malignantgenius | Blog"I believe all of us are designers and architects of the user experience. Whether your domain lies in the user interface or backend services you have direct influence over how a user perceives the application.” An Architect with Slalom Consulting, Will has fourteen+ years of experience including enterprise and software architecture, team and resource management, strategic planning, and experience working with multiple development methodologies including Agile and more traditional SDLCs. He brings his experience and skills to bear on the problems that face both enterprises and development teams, building bridges between business and technical units.
Sean Sullivan
Sean Sullivan is a lead engineer at the Gilt Groupe. Prior to the Gilt Groupe, Sean worked on enterprise SAAS applications at Aravo. Sean is an Apache Software Foundation committer and has contributed to various open source projects, including the OAuth Java library.
Sopheap Suy
Twitter: SqlMomSopheap Suy is a SQL Server Developer at WebMD with 14 years in SQL Server Database technologies. She enjoys making things run better and faster. She is passionate about SQL Server technologies and always looking for ways to learn and share her knowledge. She is actively involved in local PASS chapter that cover SQL Server Development, Administration, and Data Architecture (DAMA).
Kelly White
Twitter: mckhendry | Blog | WebsiteKelly White is a Windows Phone Development MVP and is the Principal of Silvertail Software. He has over 10 years of industry experience building web applications, and has a passion for startups and ideas that can change the world. Kelly co-founded both the Portland Silverlight User Group and Portland Windows Phone User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly is a regular guest on the show "This Week in Silverlight" on the Sparkling Client podcast. Kelly presents regularly at User Groups and Code Camps throughout the Pacific Northwest on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development.