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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. 

He has spoken at multiple events including user group participations and multiple Code Camps in the south eastern region.

He has experience in building modular WPF and Silverlight smart-clients utilizing the MVVM design pattern, demo code for speaking events utilizing Prism and Silverlight.
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Blog: http://www.attachedwpf.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AttachedWPF
MVP: Yes

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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Company: Wintellect
Website: http://www.wintellect.com
Blog: http://www.mindfusioncorp.com/weblog/
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MVP: Yes

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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Website: http://www.thinqlinq.com/About.aspx
Blog: http://www.thinqlinq.com/Default.aspx
Twitter: http://twitter.com/linqkinq
MVP: Yes

Alan Stevens


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Check out his about page here http://netcave.org/AboutAlan.aspx
 
Alan Stevens is a father, geek, vegan and software artisan living in Knoxville, TN. Alan regularly speaks at industry conferences and user groups.  Alan is an Open Space Technology facilitator. Alan is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in C#. Alan is a member of ASP Insiders. When Alan is not playing with his kids, enjoying a fine cigar, singing or playing his acoustic guitar, he occasionally updates his blog at http://netcave.org.
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Blog: http://netcave.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/alanstevens
MVP: Yes

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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Company: Ockham Research, LLC
Website: http://www.ockhamresearch.com
Blog: http://blog.levo.us
Twitter: http://@levous
MVP: No

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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Company: Turner Broadcasting
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Blog: http://architect-center.com/blogs/donbrowning/default.aspx
Twitter: http://donwb
MVP: Yes

Glen Gordon


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Glen Gordon is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft.

He brings free Microsoft events, resources and information to developers in the Southeast.
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Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/
Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/glengordon
MVP: No

Hal Rottenberg


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Hal Rottenberg is a Microsoft PowerShell MVP and VMware vExpert living in Woodstock, Georgia. He is well-known  in sysadmin circles for co-hosting the PowerScripting Podcast and heading up the PowerShellCommunity organization. He is also the author of a book titled "Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM " published by SAPIEN Press in 2009.
 

Previous to his career as a PowerShell guru, Hal was heavily involved in the Jabber / XMPP instant messaging protocol movement as a member of the Jabber Software Foundation (now called the XMPP Standards Foundation). He remains involved in that space, to a lesser extent in his long-running capacity as webmaster for the Psi project, which is an extremely popular (average of 1,500 downloads a day) instant messaging client which works on the XMPP network.

 

When not being a major geek, Hal likes to coach his boys in soccer, and spend time with his lovely wife of over twelve years.

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Website: TechProsaic (powershell & other stuff)
Blog: TechProsaic (powershell & other stuff)
Twitter: Follow Hal's updates on Twitter
MVP: Yes

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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Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.peterprovost.org/
Blog: http://www.peterprovost.org/blog/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/pprovost
MVP: No