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Bayer White
Bayer White is a Practice Lead, for Application Development, at Idea Integration. He is responsible for architecture, development and implementation for solutions based on Microsoft Technologies. Bayer also participates in Microsoft’s Software Design Reviews (SDR) for future versions of .Net. He has had the opportunity to speak at Florida Code Camps, DevConnections, and for the past three years at PASS. Bayer is the co-founder of msbicentral.com, and is a co-author for an expert level, SSIS book. Bayer blogs at whiteknighttechnology.com, and he is also recognized as a contributor, by Microsoft’s Connected Framework Team for Windows Workflow Foundation.
Blog: http://whiteknighttechnology.com/
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Marshall Harrison
Marshall is a software developer for Gold Systems where he specializes in designing and implementing speech based solutions involving the latest in speech technology. He is one of the two founders of GotSpeech.Net and the administrator for the community where he serves as an unofficial evangelist for Microsoft Speech Server and seeks every opportunity to promote the technology. He has been developing applications with MSS for over three years becoming involved as an Early Adopter of MSS while it was still in beta and have participated in the TAP programs for each new version of Speech Server as well as Office Communications Server 2007. He was was first awarded Microsoft MVP in 2006 and the only person to achieve that award for Microsoft Speech Server. He was re-awarded in 2007 as Microsoft Office Communication Server MVP.
Blog: http://gotspeech.net/blogs/marshallharrison/default.aspx
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Vinay Ahuja
Vinay Ahuja has more than 8 years of experience in designing, developing, and architecting enterprise scale applications using Microsoft Technologies. He is a passionate software engineer who loves to venture into cutting edge technologies. He is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer in .NET. Vinay is a strong proponent of knowledge sharing and community development. He has spoken extensively in Code Camps in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Currently, he serves as Secretary and Special Interest Group (SIG) Coordinator for Jacksonville Developers User Group (http://www.jaxdug.com). He has been recently awarded Microsoft MVP in Visual Developer – Visual C# category. He graduated with M.S. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Blog: http://www.vinayahuja.com
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Andrew Connell
Andrew Connell is an independent consultant, instructor, and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server with a focus on Web Content Management. He has authored and co-authored numerous books on the subjects of Microsoft Content Management Server and SharePoint, including the first published books on the latest release Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Andrew has spoken on the subject of Office SharePoint Server 2007 development and Web Content Management at various community events in the southeast United States, as well as national conferences such as TechEd, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Syndey, Australia. You can reach Andrew at me@andrewconnell.com or subscribe to his popular SharePoint and Web Content Management focused blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog.
Blog: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog
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John Holliday
John Holliday is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP for Office SharePoint Server and has over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John developed a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. His expertise includes all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special emphasis on document automation, collaboration and enterprise content management. In addition to his professional career, John is actively engaged in humanitarian activities through Works of Wonder International, a non-profit he co-founded with his wife Alice, and the Art of Living Foundation, an international service organization devoted to uplifting human values throughout the world.
Blog: http://www.johnholliday.net/
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Jim Wooley
Jim has been working with .Net since the initial PDC bits in 2000, releasing his first application 1 week before the .Net 1.0 go-live. 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 leading the Atlanta VB Study Group and serving as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region. He is currently co-authoring the book, “LINQ in Action” which is scheduled to be released in 2007.
Blog: http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/default.aspx
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Brian Knight
Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP, MCSE, MCDBA, is the co-founder of SQLServerCentral.com and JumpstartTV.com. He runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville (JSSUG) and was recently on the Board of Directors of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). Brian is a contributing columnist for SQL Server Standard and also maintains a regular column for the database website SQLServerCentral.com and does regular webcasts at Jumpstart TV. He is the author of Admin911: SQL Server (Osborne/McGraw-Hill Publishing) and co-author Professional SQL Server DTS, Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration and Professional SQL Server 2005 SSIS (Wrox Press). Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS, SQL Connections and TechEd and many Code Camps. His blog can be found at http://www.whiteknighttechnology.com. Brian is an independent consultant at White Knight Technology.
Blog: http://www.whiteknighttechnology.com/
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Jose Fuentes
An MVP in Client Application Development (yes it’s new, first year). I had previously held the MVP in VB.NET title. I currently employed by Idea Integration. Idea Integration, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida and with locations across the U.S. I often speak at most regional code camps though GA, FL and AL, as well as a dedicated leader in the local area’s .NET UG (www.tlhdotnet.net).
Blog: http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jfuentes
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Jose Luis Manners [MVP]
Jose started his career back in 1987 developing applications with dBASE III Plus and Clipper. He currently works as an independent .NET consultant in Tampa, Florida. A very active participant in the Florida and Latin American developer communities, Jose is one of the hosts of the MSDN Radio Show (Microsoft Latam). Holds the MCP, MCAD.NET, and MCT certifications and is also a Microsoft MVP C#.
Web Site: http://www.josemanners.com/
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Trey Johnson
Trey is the Chief Architect for Cizer Software. Trey’s experience with technology is only slightly longer than his experience consuming beer. Trey is a long-standing board member of the Professional Association for SQL Server (www.sqlpass.org) where he’s in his final (and 6th) term as Executive Vice President. He’s been a hand selected member of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Partner Advisory Council for years and is not ashamed to wear a t-shirt that reads “Annual BI Power Hour”. Trey has spoken at more than 20 conferences around the world including: PASS, TechEd, eDevCon, DevConnections, VSLive!, SQLLive! and supports code camps (with a corporate check book) throughout the South East.
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Tom Fuller
Tom Fuller is a Senior SOA Consultant at Blue Arch Solutions, Inc. (www.BlueArchSolutions.com), an architectural consulting, training, and solution provider based out of Tampa, Florida. Tom was recently given the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the Visual Developer – Solution Architect discipline. He is also the current president of the Tampa Bay chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA), holds a MCSD.NET certification, and manages a community site dedicated to SOA, Web services, and Windows Communication Foundation (formerly “Indigo”). He has a series of articles recently published on the Microsoft Architecture Journal, Active Software Professional Alliance, and SQL Server Standard magazine. Tom can also be seen speaking at many of the user groups in the southeastern U.S. Visit www.SOApitstop.com for more information, and contact Tom at tom.fuller@bluearchsolutions.com.
Blog: http://www.soapitstop.com/myblog.aspx
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Joe Healy
Joe Healy (www.devfish.net) is the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Gulf States Accounts, based out of Tampa Florida. Joe’s geographical responsibility is to provide ‘developer care’ for the Gulf States District for the East Region Developer team. As such, he has responsibilities to bring .NET development to the masses in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. Joe serves a multitude of clients, from corporate accounts to broad reach events and User Groups. He lectures on various development and architectural topics focused around the .Net Frameworks, Visual Studio.NET, and associated servers. Joe worked previously for Microsoft Consulting Services in the custom Application Development arena, focusing on Internet, Web Services, Rich Client, B2B, and browser delivered systems for Microsoft Consulting Services. Joe has also served time with eAngler.com, Cap Gemini, EDS, and IBM in various capacities. On a personal level Joe enjoys spending time trying to coax Redfish, Snook, and Trout from various nooks and crannies in Tampa Bay. He is married to wife Anne, with two little girls, Ryan and Morgan, who will also grow up to be great "fisher-ladies" one day.
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Stan Schultes
Stan Schultes is a Sarasota, FL – based developer/architect, author, and a regular speaker at regional developer events. He’s a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic and a former Contributing Editor and author to Visual Studio Magazine. Stan has presented over a dozen MSDN webcasts, and showed the Team System demos at the Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event in Orlando. He’s currently developing a suite of web services and design tools in an engineering-driven custom product design environment. Visit http://www.vbnetexpert.com for presentation slide decks, webcast and technical links, Stan’s article archive and other developer information.
Web Site: http://www.vbnetexpert.com/
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Jeff Barnes
Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District where he engages with the local Architect community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 8 years and has spent over 7 years of those years as an architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked for several large insurance, manufacturing, and retail companies in South Florida. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of really hard problems.
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Dennis Bottjer
Dennis Bottjer is a senior developer on the Credit Systems Technology team with Bank of America. He has 9 years of development experience especially developing and managing Web Applications. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional. Dennis has a BA in MIS from the University of Oklahoma. He is the Co-Founder of the www.JaxDug.com ASP.NET SIG. Dennis is the current president of the Jacksonville Developers User Group (http://www.jaxdug.com). He is very involved in the Florida Development Community and has presented at most of the Florida Code Camps. Dennis lives in Jacksonville, FL with his wife and three cats.
Blog: http://www.dennisbottjer.com/
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David McNamee
David is an Office System Specialist with Microsoft. He brings his experience as an enterprise developer, architect, and trainer to helping customers unlock their business information by using the Office System as a rich developer platform. There is nothing that cannot be solved with the creative application of the .NET Framework, Office System, and Windows Mobile!
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Jaremie Woodruff
As an Unofficial Agile Evangelist Jaremie has been using his Certified Scrum Master status to improve projects just by being in the room. He is also trying to connect the Technology people in Jacksonville by getting involved with JAXDUG, JCCI, and Jacksonville IT Council |
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David Strommer
David works for Bank of America as a Technical Architect. He co-founded Jacksonville Developers User Group in 2002 and served as the President until October 2005. |
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Jim Zimmerman
Jim Zimmerman is currently a Visual Developer – ASP/ASP.NET MVP. He speaks on various .NET related topics including Ajax and Code Generation at Code Camps and .NET user groups in Florida. Jim is a member of the Ajax Control Toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit) and has just co-authored Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX released July 2007 by wrox press.
Blog: http://www.jimzimmerman.com/blog
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Colin Borrowman
Colin Borrowman is a Senior Architect / Lead Developer for docStar, a division of Astria Solutions Group. With docStar since 1996, Colin directed a team of developers to build one of the leading document imaging and document management platforms on the market today. Colin created the patent pending “AuthentiDate Image Marking Mechanism” providing document content authenticity. This lead to the creation of a new company partnered with the United States Postal Service, to provide services to medical and healthcare companies. Although the corporate office exists in upstate New York, Colin now calls sunny Tampa home and is currently leading a small team to develop hosted document management solutions using SharePoint, .NET and C#.
Blog: http://www.colinborrowman.com/
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Chris Chandler
Chris learned to program at the age of 7, and has been heads down coding since. He started using .Net in 2001, but starting using OO concepts and principles earlier. Chris has been the architect of many solutions and systems over his career. He has been a big fan of generative programming for a long time
Blog: http://codecamp07.jaxdug.com/Speakers/tabid/78/www.developingchris.com
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Brendon Schwartz
Brendon Schwartz actively participates in the Atlanta area user groups and is known as one of the Atlanta .NET Regular Guys (www.devcow.com), of which he is also one of the founders. Recently Brendon co-authored a Wrox development book on SharePoint 2007 titled “Professional SharePoint 2007 Development”. Brendon currently works for Slalom Consulting (www.slalom.com), solving real-world business problems through the use of Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint, .NET, Office, and VSTS. In addition to presenting at local user groups, he created the Free Training 1,2,3! series to help developers learn Microsoft technologies. As a .NET community leader in Atlanta, Brendon authored and presented training material for SharePoint 1,2,3! (www.sharepoint123.com), as well as assembled the material for .NET U – SharePoint (www.dotnet-u.com). He also writes technical articles for Microsoft, as well as other magazine publications on the topics of SharePoint and Business Intelligence. Brendon has worked on the leadership teams of five different user groups, and has been interviewed for his community efforts on podcasts - including the ASP.NET Podcast, .NET Rocks!, and The SharePoint Show podcast. Brendon serves as the Co-Chairman of the Atlanta Code Camps (www.atlantacodecamp.com), at which he also regularly presents. He was the INETA Board of Directors as the Vice President of Technology working to solve the technology problems of a large nonprofit organization using SharePoint and ASP.NET.
Blog: http://www.devcow.com/
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John Ross
John is a consultant from Orlando who’s been working with SharePoint 2007 for more than a year. His focus has been on the Web Content Management (WCM) functionality in MOSS. He has worked with a number of large companies throughout Central Florida.
Blog: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/rossonmoss
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Jonathan Carter
I’ve been developing software for over 7 years and have been zealously involved in .NET since its beta days. I’m heavily involved in the community and work closely with Microsoft’s TAP program to continue to ensure my knowledge of new and upcoming technologies. I’m primarily an ASP.NET developer and have worked on all types of enterprise projects including: content management systems, e-commerce applications, and government budgeting/accounting software. I just recently spoke at a code camp for the first time in Tampa and am looking to stay active in the Florida circuit moving forward.
Blog: http://www.lostintangent.com/
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Wes Dumey
Seasoned developer working on enterprise data warehouse projects. Wes is interested in efficient design and development, data quality, and increasing software efficiency.
Blog: http://codecamp07.jaxdug.com/Speakers/tabid/78/www.durableimpact.com
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Bob Calco
Bob Calco is a Domain Architect at Publix Information Systems in Lakeland, FL. He has worked in R&D as well as IT over the last 7 years across a wide spectrum of technologies and architectures.
Blog: bob-the-architect.blogspot.com
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William Rawls
William has been writing code for 20 years and counts himself a hard core coder and philosopher of code.
Blog: http://willrawls.blogspot.com/
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Shawn Weisfeld
Shawn is a Sr. Developer at an Orlando FL based fortune 100 company. There specializes in intranet & smart client development for business applications. Besides his day job Shawn also is an Adjunct Professor at The Florida Institute of Technology and does software development work for local small businesses. In his free time he volunteers as the President of the Orlando .NET users group and at other local charities. Shawn started his career at his family business in Port St. Lucie FL while working on his undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of Central Florida and after a year off Shawn moved back to Orlando to pursue a Masters degree in Management Information Systems at The University of Central Florida. Currently Shawn is working on a second Masters degree in Computer Science at FIT. Shawn is also the INETA NorAm Membership Manager in Florida and a Microsoft C# MVP.
Blog: http://codecamp07.jaxdug.com/Speakers/tabid/78/www.shawnweisfeld.com
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Michael Knopf
I have been working in Microsoft web technologies since 2000, earning a degree from the University of Florida in Computer Science, and specializing in C# application programming using Visual Studio, SQL Server, and Team Foundation Server
Blog: http://codecamp07.jaxdug.com/Speakers/tabid/78/www.newedgeinteractive.com
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Mikhail Dikov
Mikhail Dikov is a senior developer at Global 360, Inc. with background in CMS and BPM software. Mikhail brings over 6 years experience in Microsoft technologies such as .NET, ASP.NET and over 10 years of IT experience. Current interests include .Net and WSS 3.
Blog: http://www.mikhaildikov.com/
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Kathy Malone
ManGuard Systems, Inc. has been a vertical market, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) solutions (software) company for 26 years. We have developed applications that have been acknowledged as “best practice” in the EH&S. Kathy started the business originally as a consulting business, recognized the need for software to perform those functions, and it became a case of “the tail wagging the dog”. Kathy started in a mile-square automotive plant (cast engines at one end, drive cars off the line at the other) performing on paper the functions that became the software. She is obsessive about combining accuracy (can you say EPA and OSHA) and workflow efficiency. She has participated in consulting projects addressing enterprise design and workflow as well as overseeing design, build, and implementation of specific functional modules for the ManGuard software down to the single user level. In the business since dual floppy disk PC’s started to replace mainframe timeshare applications, their code has been rebuilt 7 times so far to reflect changing technology, with another rebuild in progress.
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David Silverlight
David Silverlight is an independent software developer with deep knowledge of Silverlight, .NET and WPF. In addition to being recognized as an XML MVP, he has built a number of developer as well as community oriented sites to help bring fellow developers together. His most well known site is community-credit.com, a site which recognizes and rewards other developers who contribute to the development community and just to make the entire experience fun. Their motto is.... "We Give Stupid Prizes To Smart People". His other websites also focus on creating Developer Community Friendly environments, with a bit of a quirky, geeky side to them. Among the sites that he has created are: http://www.realtechnologyheroes.com - A parody of the famous bud light commercials with a slant toward the geek side of software development http://www.xmlpitstop.com - A site focused on highlighting resources for developers who work with XML. http://www.nonprofitways.com - A volunteer .NET development community where volunteer .NET developers can create .NET websites for NonProfit organizations. http://www.dwightBobbleheads.com - A fun site for fans of the office. Home of the Dwight Schrute Bobblehead petition.
Blog: http://www.community-credit.com/
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David Fekke
David Fekke is a consultant with Idea Integration’s Microsoft solutions practice. David has been a SQL Server database architect and web application developer for more than seven years. David has architected dozens of enterprise-scale web based applications and specializes in ETL, integrations and SOA development. David currently is a member of the Jacksonville SQL Server user group and is the manager of the JaxFusion user group.
Blog: http://www.fekke.com/blog/
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Russ Fustino
Russ Fustino is a Developer Community Champion and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer with over 25 years of software development experience. He has been with Microsoft for more than six years and is the creator of the Russ' Tool Shed developer seminar series. He has presented developer topics to over 43,000 developers. He has expertise in developing Visual Basic and Web-based solutions using Microsoft tools. Prior to joining Microsoft, Russ was a VB instructor, headed up a development department and created several client/server application and system software products. His specialties include development with VB.NET, XML Web services, ASP.NET, and debugging; he is also a Subject Matter Expert for Devdays and the VS.NET Launch events. Russ is also the founder of Take a Swing at Cancer, Inc., a non-profit organization that holds sporting event fund raisers in softball and golf to battle cancer. You have to know the code to get into the shed. KNOW THE CODE!
Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/rfustino/
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Ken Tucker
Ken is a Visual Basic Microsoft MVP who runs the VB-Tips website with Cor Lighert. You will find Ken answering questions in the Windows Forms Data Controls and Databinding forum and asp.net forums.
Blog: http://www.vb-tips.com/
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Scott Dorman
Scott has been involved with computers in one way or another for as long as he can remember, but started professionally in 1993. After spending 6 years as a systems administrator, Scott branched out and started developing eCommerce store fronts. From there, he has worked on many different projects and has spent the last 5 years working with .NET and C#. He has worked at Fortune 500 companies and privately held start-ups focused on IT consulting where he gained experience in embedded systems design and software development to systems administration and database programming, and everything in between. Although his primary focus right now is commercial software applications using Microsoft .NET technologies, he prefers building infrastructure components, reusable shared libraries and helping companies define, develop and automate process standards and guidelines. He is currently working as a senior developer and architect at a software security company on the Gulf coast of Florida.
Blog: http://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman
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Travis Webb
Travis Webb is the Division Director for the Permanent Placement division of Robert Half Technology in Jacksonville, FL. He has 4 years experience in the staffing industry, specifically related to Information Technology. He has worked with numerous companies over his career to place candidates in contract, contract-to-hire and full-time roles. He currently serves as the President-elect of the Jacksonville Information Technology Council of the The Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce.
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