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Jason Rainwater
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Jason is a Consultant for Magenic in Atlanta. His specialties include in-depth knowledge of WPF, Silverlight and XAML.
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Brendon Schwartz
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Brendon Schwartz is a well respected software architect in Atlanta. He has helped companies such as the AJC, Manheim, AutoTrader.com, and Coca-Cola Enterprise build successful applications. Currently a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint, he has also been a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and past Vice President of Technology for INETA. Working for innovative companies, Brendon spends time on collaborative applications and social computing with Microsoft technologies. Outside of work, he has presented at conferences such as the Microsoft Office Developers Conference, as well as code camps and local user groups. Brendon also created the Free Training 1,2,3! series www.freetraining123.com to help developers learn Microsoft technologies. He presented material at the first SharePoint 1,2,3! event www.sharepoint123.com hosted by the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals. Known around town as one of the Atlanta .Net Regular Guys (www.devcow.com), Brendon is very active in the community, being on the leadership team of a number of different user groups. His efforts have been acknowledged on podcasts with interviews on shows such as the ASP.NET Podcast, the SharePoint Show Podcast, and ".NET Rocks!". Brendon is co-author of the Wrox books, "Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Implementing Applications for SharePoint to Enable Collaboration and Interaction in the Enterprise" and “Professional SharePoint 2007 Development”. He enjoys spending time with his wonderful wife Heidi and relaxing at home. |
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Keith Rome
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Keith Rome is a Project Manager and Senior Technical Consultant for Wintellect, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that focuses on high-end consulting and training in Microsoft core development technologies. He has been a developer and consultant in the Atlanta region since 1997, and has experience in a wide range of vertical industries, technologies, and platforms, but has been focused on the .NET platform since 2002. He is a C# MVP, and holds many current Microsoft certifications including MCPD-EAD, MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS-WSS, MCTS-WPF, and MCTS-TFS. He can most often be found speaking at user groups and other developer events about real-world Silverlight, WPF and .NET Internals topics. |
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Jim Wooley
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Jim Wooley is a frequent speaker, member of the INETA Speaker Bureau, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing the Atlanta Code Camp, leading the Microsoft MS Pros and Atlanta VB Study Group and serving as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region. Jim has actively helped to guide Microsoft through Software Design Reviews with product teams and is an active Microsoft Data Programmer Insider and Visual Basic Insider. In addition to speaking at numerous user groups and code camps in 7 states, Jim has presented at product launch events, MSDN conferences, and TechEd. |
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Rusty Zarse
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Rusty is a long time Microsoft Web Solutions architect specializing in consumer facing information platforms. Presently he is the VP of Technology for Ockham Research, a financial / stock news, research, ratings and information destination. He's previously lead development for PerfectWeddingGuide.com, Rentals.com and other Primedia websites. |
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Don Browning
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Don is a Director of Technology at Turner Broadcasting. A Solution Architect at heart, he has spent the last 6 years of his development career focusing on the best way to design and develop large, enterprise class systems. In addition, Don is a vocal proponent of agile methodologies, and loves to have discussions about why Gantt charts lie, and why any development process other than agile is just old thinking. Currently Don is attempting to wrap his head around Dev10, TFS10, Oslo, and Meta-programming. |
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Peter Provost
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Peter Provost is a Program Manager for Visual Studio where he focuses on code-centric modeling and product extensibility. Prior to that, Peter managed the patterns & practices development team at Microsoft where they created Guides, Software Factories and Application Blocks like Enterprise Library and the Composite User Interface Application Block. Before joining Microsoft, he was a consultant in the Rocky Mountain region focusing on Microsoft technologies and agile software development techniques. He has spoken at a number of conferences and user groups and has written articles on test-driven development, ASP.NET, Web services and other topics. |
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http://www.peterprovost.org/ |
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David Laribee
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David Laribee coaches the product development team at VersionOne. He has over a dozen years of experience designing and developing enterprise software and coaching Agile teams across a wide variety of industries. David is a frequent speaker at international events, co-organizer of the ALT.NET movement, early innovator in the Lean/Kanban community and was awarded a Microsoft Architecture MVP for 2007 and 2008. He writes about coaching teams, lightweight process and product design at http://laribee.com.
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Terry Leeper
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Terry Leeper has been with Microsoft since 1999. He currently serves as a Principal Architect for Developer Division where he is currently leading planning and investigative efforts for the next version of Visual Studio. Prior his current role, he was the Director for Developer Division China where he led global product development for the Developer Division in Shanghai. Prior to coming to Shanghai, Terry worked out of the United Kingdom as part of the EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa) division of Developer and Platform Evangelism. In EMEA, he ran a cross-continent team of technical specialists and speakers who educated audiences in areas such as software development, software architecture, IT architecture and technologies, and web hosting and development. Terry originally started Microsoft in the Developer Division where he owned key technologies such as code generation and optimization, C++ libraries, 64-bit, High Performance Computing, and Unix Migration. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Terry was Director of Engineering at an embedded developer tools company where he was responsible for multiple product lines of embedded compilers, debuggers, simulators, and Integrated Development Environments. |
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Jeremy Likness
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Jeremy Likness is a Senior Consultant for Wintellect with 15 years of experience developing enterprise applications. He has worked with software in multiple verticals ranging from insurance, health and wellness, supply chain management, and mobility. His primary focus for the past decade has been building highly scalable web-based solutions using the Microsoft technology stack. Prior to Wintellect, Jeremy was Director of Information Technology and served as development manager and architect for AirWatch, LLC, where he helped the company grow and solidify its position as one of the leading wireless technology solution providers in the United States by managing the development of their product portfolio that includes public HotSpot solutions and a management console for enterprise grade wireless networks, mobile devices, and their consumers. A fluent Spanish speaker, Jeremy served as Director of Information Technology for Hispanicare, where he architected a multi-lingual content management system for the company's Hispanic-focused online diet program. Jeremy accepted his role there after serving as Development Manager for Manhattan Associates, a software company that provides supply chain management solutions. |
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Abbey Gwayambadde
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Abbey Gwayambadde is a Senior Consultant for Veredus specializing in the Microsoft development stack with a heavy emphasis in the web/online commerce industries. He has occupied many positions as the development team lead for various companies ranging from Instawares.com, DiscountHotels.com, Kenya Airlines, and Flylansing.com accessing global GDS such as WorldSpan [Travel Port], Sabre, Expedia and Hotels.com for live flight and hotel booking information. Within these companies, he has been involved in office equipment setup, Data Center Installations and full T-Com installations at varied locations from the Biltmore Hotel office spaces in Atlanta, Concourse Queen Building in Sandy Springs to QTS Data Center in Suwannee. He is currently Consulting at Curtis1000, a Taylor Corporation company assisting in the development and integration of Oracle Enterprise UCM formerly Stellant, BizTalk 2009, and Commerce Server 2009. His love is getting various systems to talk and play nicely together. |
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Shawn Wildermuth
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Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books about .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years of software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog ( http://wildermuth.com). He is currently teaching workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain ( https://agilitrain.com). |
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