Jason Beres
Infragistics
Prior to joining Infragistics, Inc., Jason Beres served as a .NET Architect and .NET Evangelist for Computer Ways, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and co-founded the Florida.NET Users Group. As Infragistics' Director of Product Management, Jason spearheads the Product Management program by promoting customer-driven, innovative features and functionality throughout all of Infragistics' products. Jason is a Microsoft .NET MVP, a leading member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and is the chairman of the INETA Academic Committee. He writes a monthly column for Visual Studio Magazine and is the author of numerous works including Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days (Sams, 2003), and the coauthor of the Visual Basic .NET Bible (Wiley, 2001), the C# Bible (Wiley, 2002) and Silverlight 1.0 (Wrox, 2007).
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Jeff Brand
Microsoft
Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 12 years, starting with the company soon after the release of Windows 95. While at Microsoft, he has been a consultant, an ecommerce specialist, and an enterprise technology advisor. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff was in the Air Force stationed at Offutt AFB in Omaha, NE where he was Chief Network Engineer (his pre-developer days) for the USSTRATCOM LAN. Today, Jeff is a .NET Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's North Central District. He lives in Minneapolis and often travel to the surrounding states of Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas. In his current role, he is responsible for working with developers and customers that are evaluating or using .NET and assisting in them in understanding and using Microsoft's developer platform
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Doug Olson
Microsoft
Douglas K. Olson is the Product Unit General Manager of the Expression Suite of products at Microsoft. With over 16 years of leadership experience at Adobe and Macromedia, he brings to Microsoft an extensive background in inspiring and driving the development of foundational products in the Creative Professional market. These products include Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady and Macromedia Authorware and Sitespring. Doug holds a BS degree in Business Management from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota
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Robert Boedigheimer
Schwans
Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and runs Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 12 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and recently implemented a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Twin Cities Code Camp, Tulsa Tech Fest, Microsoft's Visual DevCon, and numerous national and international VSLive! events.
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Mike Benkovich
Microsoft
Energy, laughter and a contagious passion for coding - Mike brings it all to the podium. Mike has worked in a variety of roles including architect, project manager, developer and technical writer. The coolest part of his job? Running into people who are still using (and liking) his software applications. Mike is a published author with WROX Press and APress Books, writing primarily about getting the most from your SQL Server database. Since appearing in Microsoft's DevCast in 1994, Mike has presented technical information at seminars, conferences and corporate boardrooms across America.
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Matt Milner
PluralSight
Matt is an independent software consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies including .NET, BizTalk Server, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. In addition to spending countless hours digging into these technologies for his customers, Matt has tried to share this knowledge with others by contributing articles to MSDN Magazine, .Net Developers Journal, and C# Today. He has also co-authored several books on .NET technologies. As an instructor for Pluralsight, Matt authored the BizTalk Server and Windows Workflow Foundation courses and regularly teaches these and other technologies to developers around the world. When he isn’t writing code, Matt can be found teaching others about it at regional and national conferences.
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Eric Bowen
ILM
Eric Bowen is a former Microsoft Architect Evangelist and currently a Principal Consultant at ILM specializing in enterprise architecture and technical project leadership of complex projects using Microsoft technologies. Eric has been programming for 28 years since he taught himself Z80 assembly language on his families TRS-80 Model I Level II. And he has still never worn the t-shirt that Bill Gates signed when he won the programming contest at the Microsoft PDC in 2001.
In his spare time Eric works as a photojournalist providing independent coverage of the Minnesota National Guard and the war in Iraq. Eric has made multiple trips to Iraq, and his work has appeared locally on Channel 5 Eyewitness News and MinnPost.Com, as well as nationally on the CBS Evening News and in Parade Magazine. Eric is a former US Army Paratrooper, and former member of the US National Biathlon Team.
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Rob Juncker
GearWorks
Robert Juncker is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gearworks, Inc., a leading provider of mobile workforce management solutions. Juncker drives the “Innovation Engine,” at Gearworks, constantly pushing for new and better mobile solutions. Working with numerous mobile equipment and technology providers, he has put together the preeminent line of software offerings in the industry, recognized by the frequent awards the company receives.
In 2007 alone, Juncker navigated the Gearworks team to the “Frost and Sullivan Award for Best Practices in Field Service,” the “Minnesota Tekne Award for Most Innovative Technology Company,” the “Andrew Seybold award for Best Wireless Application in Business,” and the “Wireless Innovators Consortium’s (WIC) Best Product Award.” Moving into 2008, Juncker’s tireless drive for improvement and excellence led to Gearworks’ inclusion on the “IDC’s Top 10 to Watch” list
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Todd Bleeker
Mindsharp
Todd has architected many solutions for small and large corporations. For instance, in 2003 Todd architected the software that Air Canada uses to track its roughly $30 million of annual in-flight cash sales. Todd helped the State of Minnesota webify and manage over 40,000 pages of systems documentation using SharePoint Team Services. Todd implemented, on behalf of Microsoft Consulting Services, an MCMS POC for the Bank of Montreal. Todd also presented on Web Services and MCMS at TechEd.
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Scott Colestock
Trace Ventures
Scott Colestock is a Principal Consultant for Trace Ventures, LLC, based in the Twin Cities. He has delivered solutions in the SOA/BPM space for multiple clients in the area, as well as significant work in the Windows Mobile arena. Scott is recognized also for his work with Team Foundation Server, helping several clients successfully deploy and adopt. Scott is a BizTalk Server MVP, a certified ScrumMaster, and speaks frequently at user groups and industry conferences.
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Bill Maurer
Microsoft
Bill Maurer is a Developer Technology Specialist with Microsoft Corporation responsible for assisting customers in understanding Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System ALM toolset. His 25+ years in the software industry include 22 years as a developer and 4 years as a .NET Developer Evangelist. When not working with developer tools, Bill enjoys computer gaming and getting out on the lake with his family.
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Craig Knighton
GearWorks
Craig currently works as the V.P. of Engineering at Gearworks building the next generation platform for development of mobile applications known as appmosphereTM. Prior to this, he was a Lab Manager at the 3M SEMS corporate lab and the V.P. Product Development for HighJump Software, a 3M Company where he focused on leading the development of platform technologies used across their product line. He also spent 3 years in Microsoft Consulting Services and 12 years with CyberOptics Corporation.
Throughout his career, Craig’s main passion has been shipping software products and he has been in just about every role related to the development of commercial software. He is an advocate of agile development processes and has employed them to manage software development around the world. If he’s not busy building software, then you’ll find him hard at work finishing his cabin.
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Doug Nelson
ILM
Doug is a Practice Partner with ILM. He provides expert application development services for a growing number of clients with a primary focus on solving complex business problems. He has been doing web development since 1996, transitioning from CGI applications to classic ASP, to ASP.Net, and mostly recently to SilverLight and WPF. In addition to the web development, these applications also support WinForms and Pocket PCs. He has extensive experience implementing truly distributed applications involving windows services, message queueing and web services.
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Sally Stewart
ILM
Sally Stewart has been with ILM since 2004 serving in the capacity of Human Capital Management and Talent Acquisition. Her responsibilities include discovering and attracting new talent in a recruiting capacity to providing ILM employees with support in benefits and career/ performance development. For the past 4 years, recruiting in this niche industry has been Sally's primary role at ILM. It has given her the opportunity to learn through experience which consultant skills are valued by clients and understand which goals and career directions are available to technical professionals. This combined with her prior work experiences in HR and Management and previous undergraduate and graduate education from UW-Madison, UW-Oshkosh, and the Carlson School of Management apply daily. Her areas of HR expertise include employee career development plans and management, benefits management and administration, interviewing skills and soft skills presentation and talent retention. Sally is lucky enough to say that she enjoys coming to work every day. It is always exciting and refreshing to network with and talk to individuals who are passionate about their work and love what they do.
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Dan Grigsby
Dan Grigsby has launched and sold two Internet startups, held a leadership position at Microsoft, and helped turn around one of the nation's biggest security-software companies. Since returning to the Minnesota from Silicon Valley five years ago, his focus in the local tech scene has been advising startups, organizing grassroots developer community events, authoring an economic development plan around building "developer outpost offices" for major software companies in Minneapolis/St. Paul and serving as a mercenary interim-CxO.
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Bobbi Perreault
ILM
Bobbi Perreault is a senior technologist with over 14 years of programming experience with over 7 years in MS technologies. Not only does she have over 7 years of Internet Ecommerce Systems experience, but she has significant server infrastructure and security re-design experience as well. Bobbi is a SilverLight and RIA enthusiast and spends all her waking hours learning and experimenting with these technologies. She's also a regular blogger on the topic of Silverlight for Ecommerce applications - read up at http://www.faxt.com/blog.
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Denny Boynton
Microsoft
Denny Boynton is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft. He has 11+ years of experience working in many different aspects of the technology world having been a DBA, Network Administrator, Developer and Architect. He now brings his passion to Microsoft where he takes every opportunity to meet with fellow technologists and help them build better software. When not travelling and evangelizing, Denny enjoys spending time at home in St. Louis with his wife and three lovely daughters. He also enjoys reading, writing, biking, camping and, well, playing on his computer.
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John Lomnicki
Board of Pensions
John Lomnicki Jr. is the Enterprise Architect for the ELCA Board of Pensions and has been consulting / developing software with .NET since Beta 2. He has been engaged at the enterprise level for the last three years. In addition to system architecture he also works in organizational change management, project management, product development and development methodologies. When he has some spare time, you might find him working on some WPF data visualization tools for fun.
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Steve Baker
Steve Baker is an MCSD.NET certified advisory consultant and partner at Paradigm Solutions Inc. Steve specializes in introducing and building agile development environments. In addition to implementing environments, Steve has spent considerable time training teams in development "best practices" and software configuration management patterns. Paradigm Solutions specializes in business and Information Technology (IT) resources for both large and small business.
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Clint Edmonson
Microsoft
Clint Edmonson is an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft’s North Central District, working with aspiring and seasoned architects to understand Microsoft’s latest developer and platform offerings and develop strategic roadmaps for their adoption.
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Reid Gorder
ILM
Reid Gorder is the Team System Practice Lead with ILM. He started his career during early 90's and has served large number of clients by building numerous solutions based on the Microsoft platforms. In recent years he has been lured by the riddle of software development methodologies. He now focuses his attention on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and using Team System to help improve client’s development techniques.
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Brian Hackerson
3M
Brian Hackerson was appointed as a Technical Manager with the Software, Electronic and Mechanical Systems (SEMS) lab, where he manages software projects, tools and process. Prior to joining 3M, Brian has had a variety of technical leadership roles, as a corporate leader in large corporations and professional consultant for the past twenty years.
More recently, Brian has been focused on driving global collaboration technologies at 3M to meet the demands of his global software engineering projects
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Raymond Mitchell
Inetium
Raymond Mitchell is an Information Worker Consultant at Inetium and a frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group. He also blogs under the alias IWKID on Information Worker technologies including SharePoint and Office development.
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Jeff Diercks
ILM
Jeff Diercks is a consultant for ILM Professional Services. He is a coding architect and MCSD who has been designing and developing business systems over 10 years. Jeff has fully embraced his nerdiness, and likes to spend his spare time keeping up to date with the latest machinations emanating from the alt.net community and battling monsters with his druidic night elf in World of Warcraft
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Tom Fischer
Magenic
Tom Fischer is a consultant at Magenic, a nationally renowned Microsoft Gold Partner. His ASP.NET development portfolio includes several well known, high-capacity applications. Tom’s presentations and writings cover a board range of .NET development topics.
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Shannon Braun
Shannon Braun is an independent consultant and founder of Sysknowlogy, which provides consulting and development services using Microsoft technologies. Shannon focuses on assisting corporations adopt Microsoft technologies and has helped companies solve business problems with Microsoft .NET, BizTalk, Commerce Server, SharePoint, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Web Services.
Shannon has served as a member of the .NET Partner Advisory Committee, Microsoft Architecture Partner Board, Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board and is currently a member of the Visual Studio Partner Advisory Board. Shannon was awarded a Microsoft Solution Architect MVP for 2006 and 2007 and a Microsoft Client Application Development MVP for 2008
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Dean Gulstad
Polymer Studios
Dean Gulstad is CEO of Polymer Studios, Inc., an interactive strategy and design firm with locations in the Twin Cities and Portland, Oregon. With 15 years of overall experience in traditional and interactive communications, Dean has been a usability practitioner for the past nine years.
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