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Aaron Skonnard
Aaron Skonnard is a Consultant, Instructor, and Author specializing
in Windows technologies and Web applications. Aaron teaches
courses for DevelopMentor, is a columnist for Microsoft Internet
Developer, the author of Essential WinInet, and co-author
of Essential XML: Beyond MarkUp (Addison Wesley Longman).
Contact him at staff.develop.com/aarons.
Alan W. Brown
Alan W. Brown, Ph.D. is Director of the Rational Development Accelerator Initiative at Rational Software. In this capacity he defines strategy and manages release of products aimed at improving software development efficiency through reuse. He has published over 40 papers, edited three books and is the author of four books, including Object-Oriented Databases: Applications in Software Engineering and Database Support for Software Engineering. His latest book, Large-scale Component-Based Development was published by Prentice-Hall in May 2000.
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper's passion for humanizing technology and his experience
as an inventor and software programmer provide the vision
and focus for Cooper's wide range of GOAL-DIRECTED® services.
Known among the digerati as a leading authority on customer
experience, the "father" of Visual Basic, and a
longtime champion of the interaction design discipline, Alan
is the author of two best-selling books: About Face: The
Essentials of User Interface Design, and The Inmates
Are Running the Asylum, and is in demand as a speaker
on customer-centered issues worldwide.
Alex Keh
Alex Keh is a Windows data access senior product manager at Oracle. He focuses
on all aspects of .NET development with the Oracle database, including the
Oracle Data Provider for .NET and Visual Studio integration. In the past,
Alex has presented on Oracle's integration with .NET at Windows Server
DevCon and Oracle Open World. He has worked previously at both Microsoft
and IBM on Windows database tools development.
Andrew Brust
Andrew Brust is the President of Progressive Systems Consulting,
New York. Progressive specializes in developing and training
developers for client/server and other custom database applications.
Andrew's industry experience includes banking, government
agencies, small business, and non-profit organizations.
Andrew Troelsen
Andrew Troelsen is the #1 Selling C# .NET Author on Amazon.com.
Andrew is the VP of Instruction at Intertech an enterprise
developer training firm. Andrew's titles in the Apress Intertech
Instructor Series include the best selling C# and the
.NET Platform, Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform:
An Advanced Guide, and COM and .NET Interoperability.
He is also best selling author of Developer's Workshop to
COM and ATL 3.0, WordWare. With Intertech, he teaches America's
leading organizations including NASA, the Mayo Clinic, and
Microsoft.
Andy Wigley
Andy Wigley is a Principal Technologist at U.K. technical
authoring company Content Master, focusing on mobile technologies.
He is an expert in the use of the Microsoft .NET Framework
in mobile solutions. He is the co-author of Building .NET
Applications for Mobile Devices (Microsoft Press - published
February 2002), and is lead author of the .NET Compact
Framework Developer’s Reference (Microsoft Press
- published November 2002).
Billy Hollis
Billy Hollis is an Author and Software Developer from Nashville,
Tennessee. Billy is Co-Author of the first book ever published
on Visual Basic.NET, VB .NET Programming on the Public
Beta. He has written many articles, and is a frequent
speaker at conferences, including Comdex and VSLive! He is
the Regional Director of Developer Relations in Nashville
for Microsoft, and runs a consulting company focusing on Microsoft
.NET.
Brent Rector
Brent Rector is the author of numerous Windows programming
books, including ATL Internals and Win32 Programming.
Besides providing consulting and instruction for the premier
.NET developer training organization, Wintellect
, 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.
Brian Randell
Brian A. Randell 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 brianr@develop.com
or brianr@mcwtech.com.
Chris Kinsman
Chris Kinsman teaches courses on ASP.NET in both VB.NET and
C#. In a previous life, Chris was the CTO for a large scale
Web site. Chris is a contributing editor for Visual Studio
Magazine and is currently working on an ASP.NET book for SAMS.
Chris is not a full time speaker and most of his time is spent
doing consulting with Vergent Software. He can be reached
at: ckinsman@vergentsoftware.com.
Chris Sells
Chris Sells in an independent Consultant, specializing in
distributed applications in .NET and COM, as well as an Instructor
for DevelopMentor. He's written several books, including ATL
Internals, which is in the process of being updated for
ATL7 as you read this. He's also working on Essential
Windows Forms for Addison-Wesley and Mastering Visual
Studio .NET for O'Reilly. In his free time, Chris directs
the Genghis source-available project. More information about
Chris, and his various projects, is available at http://www.sellsbrothers.com.
Christopher Duncan
Christopher Duncan, veteran programmer, corporate troublemaker
and author of The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics
for an Imperfect World (Apress), is President of Show
Programming of Atlanta, Inc. Irreverent, passionate, unconventional
and sometimes controversial, his focus has always been less
on the academic and more on simply delivering the goods, breaking
any rules that happen to be inconvenient at the moment. He
can be reached at www.ShowProgramming.com.
Daniel Appleman
Daniel Appleman is President of Desaware, a leading vendor
of component software. He is also the author of three best-selling
books on Visual Basic: Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's
Guide to the Win32 API and Developing COM/ActiveX
Components with Visual Basic 6, both from SAMS, and Dan
Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic
Programmers, from Apress.
Dan Fergus
Dan Fergus is a software architect at Forest Software Group providing custom software and WebServices. He is a well-known lecturer who travels the world speaking at developer conferences and writes for Visual Studio Magazine. Dan also works as a consultant and instructor for Wintellect teaching Windows CE, .NET Compact Framework and ASP.NET courses. Contact Dan
at danf@forestsoftwaregroup.com.
David Campbell
David Campbell is the Product Unit Manager for US-SQL Server Engine. He is a software architect responsible for the SQL Server Storage Engine. He has been with Microsoft working on SQL Server since SQL 6.0. David is currently working on Microsoft's unified data strategy and SQL Server's strategic evolution.
Deborah Kurata
Deborah Kurata is a Consultant and Cofounder of InStep Technologies,
a consulting group that designs and develops object-oriented
and component-based Windows applications. Deborah is the author
of Doing Objects in Visual Basic 6 for SAMS, which
focuses on a pragmatic approach to object-oriented design
and development of VB applications. You can reach Deborah
at deborahk@insteptech.com.
Don Kiely
Don Kiely is Senior Information Architect for Third Sector
Technologies in Fairbanks, Alaska, which develops desktop
and Web applications integrating databases, XML, and related
technologies. Don has authored and co-authored several programming
books, has written articles for Visual Studio MagazIne,
XML & Web Services Magazine, and others. Don
is a VB, XML, and SQL Server instructor for AppDev, and speaks
regularly at industry conferences.
Dominic Selly
Dominic Selly is a Senior Software Engineer at Capella University,
an online college, where he uses ASP.NET and the .NET Framework
to automate Capella's administrative operations. Dominic created
and teaches the ASP.NET Bootcamp ASPDOTNetBootCamp.com,
George Washington University's Web Application Development
Certificate program, is co-author of Visual Basic.Net
At Work from Wiley, and has been teaching developers
across the country for many years.
Eric Rudder
Eric Rudder currently serves as senior vice president of Developer and Platform Evangelism. He is responsible for leading the company's outreach to the developer community. Through his leadership of this division, Rudder and his team focus on coordinating the overall programming model for the client and server, creating the best tools for the .NET platform and fostering synergies between Windows and the .NET Enterprise Server offerings. In addition, the division will be chartered with evangelizing the extended Microsoft platform through a variety of content offerings including providing effective web-based training for developers and IT managers.
Fernando G. Guerrero
Fernando is a Principal Technologist at QA in the UK www.qa.com.
He speaks at various industry conferences and events worldwide.
He is a Civil and Hydrologic Engineer, MCDBA, MCSE+I, MCSD,
MCT and SQL Server MVP. He is an active member of PASS (Professional
Association for SQL Server).
G. Andrew Duthie
G. Andrew Duthie is the Founder and Principal of Graymad Enterprises,
Inc., providing consulting and training in Web and eCommerce
development. In addition to his work as a Consultant and Architect,
Andrew has spoken at numerous industry conferences since 1998.
He is the author of ASP.NET Step By Step, (Microsoft
Press), and ASP.NET in a Nutshell (O'Reilly and Associates).
Andrew has also written articles for magazines. You can reach
Andrew by email at andrew@graymad.com.
Gert E. R. Drapers
Gert Drapers is the former Product Unit Manager of the SQL
Server Management Tools team and Group Manager/Architect of
the SQL Server DTS (Data Transformation Services) development
team. Gert started working on SQL Server in 1988 while working
for Ashton-Tate after which he joined Microsoft in 1991 where
he held various development positions within the Developer
Relation Group and Microsoft Consulting Services before joining
the SQL Server development team in 1996. Currently, Gert is
an Architect in the XML Enterprise Services team inside the
.NET Developer division, responsible for Transaction Services
and Management Infrastructure. Gert is also one of the co-founders
of http://SQLDev.Net.
Girish Chander
Girish Chander is currently the Program Manager for Security
for the SQL Server product team in Microsoft. Prior to this,
Girish also worked on the Exchange server product team, as
the security program manager. He has given multiple talks
on SQL security in industry events.
Jackie Goldstein
Jackie Goldstein is an independent consultant specializing in consulting,
training, and development with Microsoft tools and technologies. He has
almost 20 years experience developing and managing software applications in
the U.S. and Israel, and is experienced at helping companies evaluate and integrate
new technologies. Jackie is the MSDN Regional Director for Israel, the founder of the
Israel VB User Group, and is a featured speaker at international developer events. He has
recently completed co-authoring a book on database programming with .NET ("Database Access
with Visual Basic.NET", Addison-Wesley , ISBN 0-67232-3435).
Jimmy Nilsson
Jimmy Nilsson is the owner of the Swedish consulting company
JNSK AB. He has been working with system development for more
than thirteen years. He has written numerous technical articles
and is the author of .NET Enterprise Design with Visual
Basic .NET and SQL Server 2000.
John Robbins
John Robbins is a co-founder of Wintellect, a software
consulting, education, and development firm that specializes
in Windows and COM programming. John is also the author of
Debugging Applications (Microsoft Press, 2000). Prior
to founding Wintellect, he was an engineer, architect, and
product manager for NuMega Technologies. Contact him at www.wintellect.com.
Jon Rauschenberger
Jon Rauschenberger is a Partner and the Director of Technology
at Clarity, a Chicago-based information technology consulting
firm and Microsoft Solution Provider Partner. Jon is a frequent
speaker at conferences and an author for journals. In addition,
as a member of Microsoft's Strategic Design Review committee,
Jon helps the Microsoft Visual Studio and platform groups
formulate their products' future.
Jonathan Goodyear
Jonathan Goodyear, MCSD is the Founder and Editor of angryCoder.com,
the first eZine in the world built with ASP.NET. He is the
author of Debugging ASP.NET (New Riders Publishing),
and is a contributing editor for Visual Studio Magazine.
By day, Jonathan runs an Internet consulting firm, ASPSoft,
based in Orlando, FL. Reach him by e-mail at jon@aspsoft.com.
Josef Finsel
Josef Finsel is a software consultant speicalizing in .NET
and SQL Server. He has published a number of VB, .NET and
SQL Server-related articles and is the Q&A columnist for
asp.netNOW, the e-newsletter for asp.netPRO magazine. When
not working for clients he is working out the syntax for FizzBin.NET,
a programming language that works the way programmers have
always suspected a programming language should. He's also
author of "The Handbook for Reluctant DBAs" (ISBN
1-893115-90-9).
Juval Lowy
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, a consulting and training company focused on .NET design and .NET migration. Juval is a regular columnist and contributor to Visual Studio Magazine. His latest book is Programming .NET components (by O'Reilly). Juval is Microsoft's Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, helping the industry adopt .NET. Contact him at
www.idesign.net.
Kamal Hathi
Kamal Hathi is a Group Manager in the SQL Server development team and manages the team responsible for delivering Data Transformation Services (DTS). He has been with the SQL Server team for over 5 years and prior to working on DTS was one of the early members of the Analysis Services team. Kamal's background includes working on on-line services (he has worked for MSN and CompuServe), IT Consulting and research on Expert Systems for manufacturing.
Ken Getz
Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and
splits his time between programming, writing, and training.
Ken has written many technical books, including ASP.NET Developer's
Jumpstart with Paul D. Sheriff, and is co-author of several
best selling books, including the Access 2002 Developer's
Handbooks and VBA Developer's Handbook. He co-wrote
and recorded for video training several courses for Application
Developer's Training Company (AppDev), including ADO.NET,
VB .NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, and VB6 seminars. You
can reach Ken at keng@mcwtech.com,
www.mcwtech.com,
or at www.developershandbook.com.
Keith Pleas
Keith is one of the founders of Guided Design and has
worked for more than two years on the team developing
the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Keith is
an internationally known writer and speaker and is the
Editorial Chair for VSLive 2003. He is also a Contributing
Editor to Visual Studio Magazine, has developed
Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith also
serves as an advisor to the INETA board and is the liaison
for the INETA Speakers Bureau.
Kimberly L. Tripp
Kimberly L. Tripp has worked in the database field since 1989
beginning with FoxBase and then moving to SQL Server in 1991.
For the past six years, Kimberly has worked as a Training
and Consulting Specialist for her own company SYSolutions,
Inc. Prior to that Kimberly held positions at Microsoft including
Subject Matter Expert/Trainer for Microsoft University and
Technical Writer for the SQL Server Development Team.
Martin Shoemaker
For 17 years, Martin Shoemaker has developed software for
color science, online shopping, material handling, and medical
imaging, providing UML design services and custom software
in the .NET environment. He has presented to the Detroit Colour
Council, the Ann Arbor Computer Society, VSLive, UML World,
and his most popular presentations, Richard Hale Shaw's UML
BootCamp.
Michael Hotek
Michael Hotek is an MCSE and MS SQL Server DBA specializing
in replication and data warehousing with MS SQL Server. Michael
is also proficient in back-end technologies such as Sybase
and NT and front end tools such as Powerbuilder and Visual
Basic. He can be found on the MSSQL list, SMS lists and Microsoft
newsgroups frequently, helping out folks with their SQL Server
questions.
Michèle Leroux-Bustamante
Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Information Officer
at ConfirmNet Corporation, a San Diego-based ASP providing
online services to the insurance industry. She has over 10
years of experience developing enterprise software on cutting
edge technology platforms. Her hands-on technical expertise
includes C++, ATL, STL, ActiveX and COM, and Internet technologies
such as XML, SOAP, and HTTP communication, in addition to
.NET development since Beta 1. Michele is also the founder,
Program Advisor, and primary course developer and instructor
for the Microsoft programming certificates at UCSD Extension,
has been published in several technical journals, and speaks
at international technology conferences. She also started
the .NET Dashboard newsletter. For more information go to
mlb@mlbtechnologies.com.
Michiel de Bruijn
Michiel is the principal of X42 Development and Consultancy,
which has offices in Rotterdam, The Netherlands as well as
in San Diego, California. He has worked with Visual Basic,
Active Server Pages, Java and related technologies since their
very first incarnations, and is a frequent contributor to
various industry magazines. Since the release of the first
preview version of Microsoft's .NET, Michiel has spent a lot
of time getting up to speed with this exciting new platform,
and is currently involved in several projects deploying robust
.NET Web services.
Mickey Williams
Mickey Williams is the Author of Microsoft Visual C# .NET,
from Microsoft Press. He is also the Founder of Codev Technologies,
a provider of tools and components for Windows developers.
Active with object-oriented development since the 1980s, he
has written many books about Windows programming tools and
frequently speaks at conferences in the United States and
Europe. An expert in Microsoft .NET development technologies,
Mickey is an instructor for .NET Experts, where he teaches
courses on the .NET Framework, XML, and SOAP. Richard GrimesRichard
is a writer and speaker about COM, ATL and .NET. He is the
.NET columnist on VCDJ and regular magazine contributor.
His book about .NET for Addison Wesley will be published in
early 2002.
Phil Weber
By day, Phil Weber is a software developer with FTPOnline, specializing in ASP.NET and VB.NET. Phil developed the site's search engine, discussion groups and content management system. In his spare time, Phil enjoys riding his road bike long distances and playing jazz bass (but not at the same time). E-mail him at pweber@fawcette.com
Richard Grimes
Richard Grimes is a consultant and author specializing in hardcore Microsoft
technologies. He is a frequent contributor to industry magazines. Richard speaks at many conferences worldwide and is a .NET MVP.
Richard Hale Shaw
Richard Hale Shaw is the Founder of the Richard Hale Shaw
Group, which has consulted and trained software developers
since 1993. He's created and chaired numerous technical conferences
and created the COM, COM+, and .NET BootCamps. An articulate
writer and speaker on topics dear to the hearts of software
developers and an outspoken critic of broken devtools, Richard
specializes in consulting and training on .NET programming
in C# and COM/+ programming in C++. You can reach Richard
at rhs@RichardHaleShawGroup.com.
Robert Patton
Robert A. Patton (MCDBA, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCP+I) is the Director
of Software Development for PurchasingFirst, specializing
in Microsoft Windows DNA and .NET development. He has authored
several books for Syngress Publishing, including SQL Server
2000.Net. His first project out of school was to make a wireless
client server application perform better, and he has never
lost that obsession. You may reach Robert at Robert.Patton@purchasingfirst.com.
Rockford Lhotka
Rockford Lhotka is the author of Visual Basic 6 Distributed
Objects and Visual Basic 6 Business Objects
(Wrox Press) and is a contributing author for Visual Studio
Magazine. He has presented at numerous conferences, including
VSLive! He has over 13 years' experience in software development
and has worked on many projects in various roles, including
software architecture, design and development, network administration
and project management. Rockford is the Principal Technology
Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere
Microsoft Certified Solution Providers, dedicated to solving
the most challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft
tools and technology.
Trey Johnson
Trey Johnson is a Principal Architect within Encore Development's
Business Intelligence practice. Additionally, Trey has held
multiple positions on the Professional Association for SQL
Server (PASS) Board of Directors. These include responsibility
for all educational programs and currently serving as their
Vice President of Marketing. Trey's Encore responsibilities
include supporting the technical delivery of complete Business
Intelligence solutions to Government, Mid-Market and Fortune
1000 organizations. Trey has been involved with Decision Support,
Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Data Mining on
Microsoft SQL Server since 1994. His industry experiences
include application of Artificial Intelligence Data Cleansing/Mining,
Relational Decision Support and Data Warehousing/OLAP/Business
Intelligence to health care, financial, retail, industrial
warehousing and law enforcement organizations.
William Vaughn
William (Bill) Vaughn is President of Beta V Corporation.
He's developed for, taught, and written about mainframe and
personal computers since '72, including 14 years at Microsoft.
He's the author of the best-selling books ADO.NET and
ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers—Second
Edition (Apress ISBN: 1-893115-68-2) and ADO.NET
Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers (Apress
ISBN: 1-590590-12-0). While at Microsoft, Bill taught and
wrote courses at Microsoft University, wrote data access documentation
for Visual Basic (versions 2-5), was the Enterprise Product
Manger for Visual Studio, and spent his last two years training
Microsoft developers.
Yasser Shohoud
Yasser Shohoud is a Trainer and Consultant specializing in
XML Web services. He is the author of Building Web Services
with VB .NET, Addison Wesley, 2002. A Microsoft Most
Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET, Yasser is an active
member of the Web services community providing hands-on training
classes and publishing the monthly .NET
Web Services newsletter (LearnXmlws.com/newsletter). Reach
Yasser at www.LearnXmlws.com.
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