Speaker List

Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and he'll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen
Todd Anglin is Chief Evangelist for Telerik and an active author and speaker in the .NET community, focusing on web development technologies. He's a Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider, founder and President of the North Houston DNUG, and an O'Reilly author.
Currently a Senior Software Engineer for SpringSource where he is the Technical Lead and Community Evangelist for the Spring.NET Framework, Stephen brings his varied near-20-years of experience as a former practicing Architect, CAD Manager, IT Technologist, Software Engineer, CTO, and consultant to the design and delivery of Software Engineering Solutions and Frameworks for other Software Engineers. Stephen is an active contributor to several Open-Source Software projects including NHibernate, NDbUnit, and others as well having developed a number of Visual Studio productivity add-ins. Active in the local NYC software development community, Stephen speaks publicly, blogs (semi-) regularly, and is the author of several popular screencast series focused on Agile and ALT.NET concepts and technologies including the widely-praised 15-part Summer of NHibernate video series introducing viewers to the popular open-source O/RM tool and the Autumn of Agile series that takes viewers through the design, planning, and construction of an entire .NET project in an Agile context. He is also a contributor of a number of shorter screencasts available on Dimecasts.NET and elsewhere. Stephen is also a founding/organizing member of the NYC ALT.NET user group which meets monthly to discuss Agile-focused techniques and technologies in the world of Microsoft software development and beyond. He is also a Microsoft MVP award recipient in Solution Architecture, ASP.NET, and Visual C#, a member of the ASP Insiders and the Visual C# Insiders, and presently holds the office of the Vice President for INETA, North America. Prior to joining SpringSource, Stephen was a Senior Software Engineer for Skiff, LLC, a start-up focused on developing an e-Reading platform for digital content publishers which was ultimately acquired by NewsCorp. Before that, Stephen spent many years as a Senior Solutions Architect and Project Manager for the software consulting practice of Microdesk where he oversaw the development and delivery of numerous software solutions for Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Geospatial, and Real Estate firms. Before becoming completely immersed in software development, Stephen spent years as a both a practicing architect and CAD Manager for architecture and engineering companies developing custom CAD software extensions, implementing CAD Standards, and supervising network design and implementations.
"Hello, my name is Michael. I’m a programmer living in San Francisco. I blog about mostly technical stuff on friism.com and about public transparency and open data policies on the Folkets Ting blog (in Danish). You may also follow my ramblings on Twitter or FriendFeed. I’m co-founder of AppHarbor, where .NET apps grow and prosper. Projects: Folkets Ting (Danish), LinqtoCRM, TEDBot, Copenhagenlayer and Blank(Banquet)"
Jeffrey Palermo is the CIO of Headspring Systems. Jeffrey has led the growth of Headspring from a boutique development company to a multi-million dollar custom software firm. Recognizing software history, trends, fads, and the constant pendulum swing that is the technology industry, Jeffrey promotes a balanced approach that uses new lessions without discarding the advances of the past. Often ignoring industry fads, he advocates for a moderate, simple approach. Jeffrey has been recognized by Microsoft as a “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) for five years. He has spoken and facilitated at industry conferences such as VSLive, DevTeach, the Microsoft MVP Summit, variousALT.NET conferences, and Microsoft Tech Ed. He also speaks to user groups around the country as part of the INETA Speakers’ Bureau. A graduate of Texas A&M University, an Eagle Scout, and an Iraq war veteran, Jeffrey holds too many certifications to list, has published many magazine articles, and has written two books. Jeffrey Palermo was also a founding board member of Agile Austin.
Phil Haack Jimmy is a principal consultant with Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. His focus is using .NET technologies together with Agile methodologies. Back in 2005, he drank the Agile punch and haven't looked at a waterfall the same since.
Chris is an architect for RelayHealth, the connectivity business of the leading healthcare services company in the US. There he is responsible for the architecture and development of applications and services that accelerate care delivery by connecting patients, providers, pharmacies, and financial institutions. Previously, he led the development of a new media delivery platform for TV Guide, enabling the launch of a new entertainment network seen on thousands of cable television systems. As an open-source contributor, Chris is an author of MassTransit, a .NET service bus framework, and Topshelf, a Windows service framework.
Chris has nearly 20 years, yes that's right, of web development experience. He has built a wide variety of web sites and applications in those years. In the past couple of years he has begun to immerse himself in the mobile web application space. This is giving him some amazing experiences using cloud technologies, HTML5 and all the major mobile platforms. Currently he is focusing on solving the problems many enterprises are having adopting a winning mobility strategy as Tellago's Chief Mobility Officer. He has authored 2 books, working a new Mobile Web App book and is a 5 time ASP.NET MVP. Chris regularly speaks at user groups, code camps and other developer events. Chris love is Microsoft Most Valued Professional and is an ASP.NET insider. He works for Extreme Web Works and blogs at http://professionalaspnet.com/about.aspx
John Teague is a developer and entreprenuer in Austin TX. Is the the owner and Principle Consultant of Avenida Software. He works with small and medium size companies in all industries achieve the largest return on investment for custom software possible by delivering high quality software designed to change as the business changes.
Chris Koenig, Microsoft Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked as a Senior Architect on the Architecture Strategy Team for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect, Developer and Development Team Lead for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Chris is a devoted husband and father of four awesome children who keep him very busy.? In his spare time, Chris serves as Scoutmaster for his oldest son's Troop, and Committee Chair for his youngest sons' Pack.? Chris also enjoys traveling, cooking, camping and playing guitar.? You can contact Chris through his blog athttp://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig, via email atchris.koenig@microsoft.com, or via Windows Live Messenger at chris@koenigweb.com.
Derek Lane is an Enterprise Architect at Thomson Reuters. He has worn various hats in his career including mentor, coach, architect, manager, developer, trainer, methodologist, entrepreneur, and consultant, and is known as someone who challenges others to constantly improve themselves, many times through unconventional methods. Derek is a contributor to various projects as author, presenter, committer, and technical reviewer, and winner of the 2011 International Agile Games Tournament. Derek has helped found several technology based user groups including the Oklahoma City Java User Group (OKCJUG), the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas MicroJava User Group, The Next Big JDK Thing user group in Dallas, Texas, and most recently the DFW Groovy & Grails User Group; and has been active as a member, presenter, and mentor for over a decade at various technology user groups across the Midwest and Southern US. Derek can also be found plying his zany presentation skills at various conferences including the No Fluff Just Stuff Tour, the Dallas Day of Dot Net and the Dallas and Tulsa Tech Fests. Derek can on occasion be found utilizing his background in engineering, Virtual Reality and 3D graphics to think in four or more dimensions - some of which have yet to be independently verified. When not exploring the mind numbing edge of technology, he can be found listening to Bluegrass music and watching old Kung Fu movies - a dangerous combination from any point of view.
Derick Bailey is an independent contractor providing software solutions and related services to small and mid-size companies around the US. He is a software developer, architect, and technology leader with more than 14 years of professional software development experience and more than 20 years of experience writing code. Derick is a blogger with LosTechies.com and has been active in developer communities around Texas and online.
Tim G. Thomas is a Web designer for Headspring in Austin, Texas, where he applies holistic Web design principles to make business software both usable and beautiful. He speaks on various topics at technology user groups, conferences, and meet-ups, and founded and leads the Central Texas XNA User Group, which meets monthly to discuss game development for the Xbox, PC, and Windows Phone. Tim blogs about Web, game, and mobile design at http://blog.timgthomas.com and shares his thoughts via Twitter at @timgthomas.
Rob Vettor is a Microsoft Employee, INETA Regional Speaker and senior .NET Technologist. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon, American Express and Jack Henry and Associates. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs, and is the founder of “Hands-On-Coding” (http://www.hands-on-coding.net/), a user group in which attendees bring their laptops and learn .NET coding by doing. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com, and check out Rob’s blog at www.robvettor.com.
Ryan Vice is an enterprise architect with 12 years’ experience building solutions using Microsoft technologies. He’s a MSDN Moderator and 2010, 2011 Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. He is currently working for Headspring consulting in Austin, Texas on his third enterprise WPF solution and he just finished working on the www.support.dell.com ASP.Net MVC port. On his last WPF project he was an architect on the Street Smart Edge product from Charles Schwab where he collaborated with Sam Bent who is head of the WPF Data Services team at Microsoft. He’s also a coauthor of the upcoming book MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in WPF and Silverlight which is due out this fall.
Amir is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises. He is an active member of the .Net Community and has done many presentations on WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight. Amir has an unwavering passion for software and is always striving to better the industry through community involvement, mentoring, and blogging. His blog is at http://www.amirrajan.net.
Caleb Jenkins is a Principal Agile Coach with Sarbe Airline Solutions and the founder and Principal Mentor at Proaction Mentors. As an agile coach he works with developer teams around the globe to help them be more awesome. As a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .Net Architect Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; Six Flags, Countrywide Mortgage, American Airlines, Sabre/Travelocity, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few. Before starting Proaction Mentors, Caleb worked as the Senior Architect for Six Flags Corporation, and helped build the Microsoft practice at Improving Enterprises. He is an active national speaker for the International .NET Association (INETA), has received the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET for the last four consecutive years. Caleb is a Certified Scrum Master and certified Professional Scrum Master, has worked as a technical editor and author for Wrox Press, and was a featured presenter on Adobe.TV. You can follow Caleb on twitter (@calebjenkins) or on his blog http://developingUX.com
Eric Sowell is an avid .NET developer who gets into as many technologies as he can though with a focus on ASP.NET. He is a Senior Application Engineer at Match.com on the international platform and enjoys writing code which serves up Html millions of times on a daily basis. Eric is the father of three children and the husband of one wife. He also has fish. When not being a geek or hanging with the family, he enjoys reading, writing and doing research primarily in the realms of ancient Greek, biblical studies and early Christianity
Hi, my name is Wil Bloodworth and I have been blessed with the joy of writing software since 1982. I am currently slinging code for Konverge Labs in Dallas, Texas. Most of my professional career has been working with C++ and C# specifically focusing on performance, robustness, and scalability. I live in Frisco with my gorgeous wife Julie and our four beautiful children. When I am not writing software, I am an infrequent blogger, an avid student of Paleolithic Nutrition, a CrossFit'er, and enjoy pretty much anything that involves sunlight and fresh air. Great Success REQUIRES Great Effort is my favorite quite. The people who I admired or influenced me most in 2011 are Casey Watson, Travis Isaacs, and Brett Bim for being extraordinary individuals and far surpassing excellence in both action and attitude. I Am Second!