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Scott Ambler, IBM Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational and he works with IBM customers around the world to improve their software processes. He is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. Scott is the (co-)author of 19 books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal. His personal home page is www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html and his Agile at Scale blog is www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler.
Dan Appleman, Desaware, Inc. Daniel Appleman is the president of Desaware Inc., a developer of add-on products and components for Microsoft Visual Studio, and is a cofounder of Apress publishing. He is the author of numerous books including, Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts and Code, Always Use Protection: A Teens Guide to Safe Computing and Dan Appleman’s Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to the Win32 API. He is also the author of a series of e-books on .NET-related topics including Regular Expressions with .NET, Visual Basic .NET or C#: Which to Choose, Tracing and Logging with .NET and more.
David Chappell, Chappell & Associates David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps IT professionals around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about enterprise software.
David has been the keynote speaker for dozens of conferences and events in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America. His popular seminars have been attended by tens of thousands of developers, architects, and decision makers in forty countries. He has also spoken at many universities, including the National University of Singapore, Moscow State University, and Sweden’s Uppsala University.
David’s books have been published in ten languages and used regularly in courses at MIT, ETH Zurich, and other educational institutions. He is Series Editor for Addison-Wesley’s award-winning Independent Technology Guides, and he’s been a columnist for several publications. In his consulting practice, David has helped clients such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Stanford University, and Target Corporation adopt new technologies, market new products, train their sales staffs, and create business plans.
David’s comments have appeared in The New York Times, CNN.com, and many other publications. Earlier in his career, he wrote software for supercomputers, chaired a U.S. national standardization working group, and played keyboards with the Peabody-award-winning Children’s Radio Theater. David holds a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wayne Citrin, JNBridge Wayne Citrin is the Chief Technology Officer at NBridge, the Java/.NET interoperability company. He is the architect of JNBridgePro, and has been engrossed in Java and .NET interop issues since .NET’s beta days, over six years ago. Previously, Wayne was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM’s research lab in Zürich, Switzerland, and has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences, in addition to several MSDN Webcasts.
Frank Cohen, Push To Test Frank Cohen is the leading authority for testing and optimizing software developed with Web, SOA, AJAX, and REST designs and implementations. Frank Cohen is CEO and Founder of PushToTest and inventor of TestMaker, the open-source test automation tool. He is author of several books on optimizing information systems, and is an experienced instructor in areas relating to testing Web applications, SOA, REST, and AJAX. Frank was also a featured speaker at JavaOne, SOA World 2007, STARWest, PSQT, and has been a guest of SYS-CON.TV.
Rob Daigneau, SynXis Rob Daigneau has over eighteen years experience designing and implementing enterprise-class applications for a broad array of industries from manufacturing, to financial services, to retail and hospitality. Rob is currently the Chief Architect for SynXis, the leader in distribution and messaging software technologies for the hospitality industry. He also has served as the Director of Application Architecture for Monster.com, one of the most visited web sites in the world. Rob is currently working on a book of Service Design Patterns for Addison Wesley.
Kathleen Dollard, AppVenture Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. Kathleen is also a long time Microsoft MVP, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.
Dino Esposito, IDesign, Inc. An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine and regularly contributes to the MSDN ASP.NET DevCenter and a variety of developer magazines. Dino is also the author of Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 (Microsoft Press, 2008) and Introducing ASP.NET AJAX (Microsoft Press, 2007). Get in touch at http://weblogs.asp.net/despos.
Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 5 books spanning a variety of technologies. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Check out his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.
Russ Gibfried, SAIC Russ Gibfried has almost 20 years of industry experience working on various enterprise-wide IT initiatives for clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Turner Broadcasting, Disney and various financial institutions. Mr. Gibfried’s skills expand into many areas including Internet / Extranet Architecture and Development, Secure Content Distribution, Enterprise Integration and Business Workflow. As a Solutions Architect in SAIC’s Corporate IT department, Russ is responsible for evaluating and implementing technologies that define SAIC’s enterprise modernization activities.
Chris Haddad, Burton Group Chris Haddad is Vice President and Service Director of Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies Service. He leads research teams that focus on infrastructure technologies used to design, develop, and deploy applications and services. His coverage areas include service oriented architecture, model driven development, business process management, open source, and technology adoption strategies. Chris has established software development processes, product direction, and integration strategy of several successful software companies. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002, and served as an advisor on conference editorial boards and chair of special interest groups. Chris is an author, editor, and contributor on numerous articles, technical publications, presentations, and podcasts. He is a frequent speaker at internal corporate events and industry conferences including Enterprise Architecture Summit, Networld+Interop, SOAWorld, JBossWorld, IASA ITARC, and SDWest.
Allen Holub, Holub Associates Allen Holub has worked in the computer industry since 1979 on everything from operating systems, to compilers, to web applications. He is a consultant, providing mentoring and training in OO-Design and Java development, technical due diligence, design reviews, and even writes programs on occasion. Allen was an early adopter of Java, programming in it since its release in 1995. He worked in C++ for eight years before that, and has also worked in C, Perl, Pascal, PL/M, FORTRAN, SQL, and various assembly languages. He learned design the hard way, by beating his head against programs that he’d rather not admit that he’d written, and is now a recognized expert in OO-Design, UML, and process. He served as a Chief Technology Officer at NetReliance, Inc.---an internet-security-infrastructure company---and sits on the boards of advisors for Ascenium Corp. and Ontometrics. He is also the Security-Track chair for the Software Development conference. Allen has authored nine books (including Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code, Taming Java Threads, and Compiler Design in C) and 100+ magazine articles (for SD Times, JavaWorld, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Programmers Journal, Byte, MSJ, and others). Allen has been a Contributing Editor for JavaWorld since 1998, and for SD Times since 2004. He wrote the popular "OO-Design Process" column for the IBM developerWorks Component Zone, and was the technical editor of CMP Media’s Java Solutions. Allen has taught regularly for the University of California (Berkeley) Extension since 1983. Contact Allen at http://www.holub.com/allen.html
Anant Kadiyala, BEA/Oracle Anant Kadiyala is a SOA Solutions Architect at BEA Systems, where he advices BEA’s key customers to define and implement their SOA Strategy. Anant is a frequent speaker at various forums and has published several articles in various leading journals. Prior to BEA, Anant was an independent consultant helping companies implement SOA. He can be reached at anant.kadiyala@bea.com
Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign, Inc. Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: http://thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies Rockford Lhotka is the author of several books, including Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects by Apress, and is a columnist for MSDN Online and a contributing author for VSM. He speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Reach Rocky at rocky@lhotka.net.
Juval Lowy, IDesign, Inc. Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), specializing in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.5. His latest book is Programming WCF Services 2nd Edition (O’Reilly 2008). Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top .NET experts and industry leaders.
Adnan Masood, Green Dot Corporation Adnan Masood works as a Sr. Software Engineer / Tech. Lead in a Monrovia-based financial institution where he builds SOA-based enterprise applications using Microsoft .NET Framework. He is a regular speaker to technical conferences and code camps, is attributed and published in print media and on the web, and holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Adnan is actively pursuing his doctoral degree in Machine Learning and is highly involved in the .NET community as co-founder of the San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers group. He holds various technical certifications including MCPD.NET, MCSD.NET, and SCJP-II and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer. His blog can be found at www.AdnanMasood.com and he can be reached via email at adnanmasood at gmail.com.
James McCaffrey, Volt Information Sciences, Inc. Dr. James McCaffrey works for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., where he manages technical training for software engineers working at Microsoft’s Redmond, WA campus. He has worked on several Microsoft products including Internet Explorer and MSN Search. James is the author of .NET Test Automation Recipes (Apress, 2006) and is a contributing editor for Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine. McCaffrey holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California, and degrees from the University of California, Irvine, and California State University, Fullerton.
Ted Neward, Neward and Associates Ted Neward is an independent software development architect and mentor in the Seattle, Washington area. He is the author of a number of books, including Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley), Server-Based Java Programming (Manning), and co-authored Shared Source CLI Essentials (O’Reilly) and C# In a Nutshell (O’Reilly) with Peter Drayton and Ben Albahari. He teaches and authors both Java and .NET, speaks frequently for technology user groups and writes technical papers available at www.tedneward.com.
David Platt, Rolling Thunder Computing, Inc. David S. Platt teaches Programming .NET at Harvard University Extension School and at companies all over the world. He is the author of eleven programming books. His Introducing Microsoft .NET from Microsoft Press introduced thousands of programmers to that environment. Even today, 4 years after its most recent release, it is outselling Tom Clancy’s Every Man a Tiger on Amazon.com, which tells you what kind of geeks buy their books there. His magnum opus, Why Software Sucks (Addison-Wesley, 2006, www.whysoftwaresucks.com), points out ways in which software MUST improve if it’s to accompany humanity into the twenty-first century. He is famous for his engaging presentation style. "He’s the only guy I know that can actually make a talk on COM’s apartment threading model funny," said one student. Microsoft named him a Software Legend in 2002. Dave holds the Master of Engineering degree from Dartmouth College. He did his undergraduate work at Colgate University. When he finishes working, he spends his free time working some more. He wonders whether he should tape down two of his daughter’s fingers so she learns how to count in octal. He lives in Ipswich, MA. Nickname: "The Mad Professor" Favorite Web Site: radomargaritaville.com Comment most frequently elicited from children at adjoining breakfast restaurant tables before he’s had his morning coffee: "Mommy, what’s wrong with that man?"
Paul Preiss, IASA Paul received a bachelor’s degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin. He went on to become a project manager for Human Code. Later, Paul was the Applications Manager and Architect for Dell Pan Asia based in Kawasaki, Japan. He then became the Sr. Architect for a software consulting firm in St Paul Minnesota, where he provided architecture consulting for numerous government and private enterprise clients. Paul went on to become the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a digital asset management company. More recently Paul has spent most of his time creating and managing the International Association of Software Architects.
Dr. Neil Roodyn Dr. Neil is an independent itinerant consultant, trainer and author. He travels the world working with software companies. Dr. Neil loves Australia, where he spends the summer enjoying the Sydney lifestyle and helping software development teams get more productive. Dr. Neil spends his other summer each year flying between northern Europe and the USA working with software teams and writing about his experiences. Neil brings his business and technical skills to the companies he works with to ensure he has happy customers. His latest book eXtreme NET introduces eXtreme Programming techniques to .NET developers. Dr. Neil’s latest venture is a Web site to help developers build on Virtual Earth, you can find out more by visiting http://www.ViaVirtualEarth.com. You can find out more about the man from his Web site http://www.Roodyn.com or you can email Dr. Neil at Neil@Roodyn.com
Randy Shoup, eBay Randy Shoup is a Distinguished Architect in the eBay Marketplace Architecture group. Since 2004, he has been the primary architect for eBay’s search infrastructure. Prior to eBay, Randy was Chief Architect at Tumbleweed Communications, and has also held a variety of software development and architecture roles at Oracle and Informatica. He received a BS in Mathematical and Computational Science, and an AB in Political Science, from Stanford University.
Ken Spencer Ken is the Practice Manager, Development Platform and a mentor for Solid Quality. He has been developing and managing application development with various languages and technologies for over two decades. He has also developed tools to migrate applications to .NET such as large Access applications. Ken spends his time these days providing software design guidance, working with clients on SharePoint and .Net technologies, working as build master for large projects (with our customer build software) and teaching in various venues, and works with a great team to provide custom technology and services.
Ken has experience developing applications with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, WPF, Visual Basic, C#, and SQL Server. He specializes in enterprise collaboration and reporting solutions using SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint 2007. He was the team leader on producing the .NET Readiness training for Microsoft to roll out the .NET Framework and has been part of the team Microsoft uses to deliver training on each version of .Net. Ken also sits on the Microsoft Software Development Roundtable that focuses on the design of future versions of .NET technology. Ken is also a Microsoft Regional Director.
Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational and he works with IBM customers around the world to improve their software processes. He is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. Scott is the (co-)author of 19 books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal. His personal home page is 
Daniel Appleman is the president of Desaware Inc., a developer of add-on products and components for Microsoft Visual Studio, and is a cofounder of Apress publishing. He is the author of numerous books including, Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts and Code, Always Use Protection: A Teens Guide to Safe Computing and Dan Appleman’s Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to the Win32 API. He is also the author of a series of e-books on .NET-related topics including Regular Expressions with .NET, Visual Basic .NET or C#: Which to Choose, Tracing and Logging with .NET and more.
David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps IT professionals around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about enterprise software. 
Wayne Citrin is the Chief Technology Officer at NBridge, the Java/.NET interoperability company. He is the architect of JNBridgePro, and has been engrossed in Java and .NET interop issues since .NET’s beta days, over six years ago. Previously, Wayne was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM’s research lab in Zürich, Switzerland, and has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences, in addition to several MSDN Webcasts.
Frank Cohen is the leading authority for testing and optimizing software developed with Web, SOA, AJAX, and REST designs and implementations. Frank Cohen is CEO and Founder of PushToTest and inventor of TestMaker, the open-source test automation tool. He is author of several books on optimizing information systems, and is an experienced instructor in areas relating to testing Web applications, SOA, REST, and AJAX. Frank was also a featured speaker at JavaOne, SOA World 2007, STARWest, PSQT, and has been a guest of SYS-CON.TV.
Rob Daigneau has over eighteen years experience designing and implementing enterprise-class applications for a broad array of industries from manufacturing, to financial services, to retail and hospitality. Rob is currently the Chief Architect for SynXis, the leader in distribution and messaging software technologies for the hospitality industry. He also has served as the Director of Application Architecture for Monster.com, one of the most visited web sites in the world. Rob is currently working on a book of Service Design Patterns for Addison Wesley.
Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. Kathleen is also a long time Microsoft MVP, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.
An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine and regularly contributes to the MSDN ASP.NET DevCenter and a variety of developer magazines. Dino is also the author of Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 (Microsoft Press, 2008) and Introducing ASP.NET AJAX (Microsoft Press, 2007). Get in touch at 
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 5 books spanning a variety of technologies. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Check out his web site at 
Russ Gibfried has almost 20 years of industry experience working on various enterprise-wide IT initiatives for clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Turner Broadcasting, Disney and various financial institutions. Mr. Gibfried’s skills expand into many areas including Internet / Extranet Architecture and Development, Secure Content Distribution, Enterprise Integration and Business Workflow. As a Solutions Architect in SAIC’s Corporate IT department, Russ is responsible for evaluating and implementing technologies that define SAIC’s enterprise modernization activities.
Chris Haddad is Vice President and Service Director of Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies Service. He leads research teams that focus on infrastructure technologies used to design, develop, and deploy applications and services. His coverage areas include service oriented architecture, model driven development, business process management, open source, and technology adoption strategies. Chris has established software development processes, product direction, and integration strategy of several successful software companies. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002, and served as an advisor on conference editorial boards and chair of special interest groups. Chris is an author, editor, and contributor on numerous articles, technical publications, presentations, and podcasts. He is a frequent speaker at internal corporate events and industry conferences including Enterprise Architecture Summit, Networld+Interop, SOAWorld, JBossWorld, IASA ITARC, and SDWest.
Allen Holub has worked in the computer industry since 1979 on everything from operating systems, to compilers, to web applications. He is a consultant, providing mentoring and training in OO-Design and Java development, technical due diligence, design reviews, and even writes programs on occasion. Allen was an early adopter of Java, programming in it since its release in 1995. He worked in C++ for eight years before that, and has also worked in C, Perl, Pascal, PL/M, FORTRAN, SQL, and various assembly languages. He learned design the hard way, by beating his head against programs that he’d rather not admit that he’d written, and is now a recognized expert in OO-Design, UML, and process. He served as a Chief Technology Officer at NetReliance, Inc.---an internet-security-infrastructure company---and sits on the boards of advisors for Ascenium Corp. and Ontometrics. He is also the Security-Track chair for the Software Development conference. Allen has authored nine books (including Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code, Taming Java Threads, and Compiler Design in C) and 100+ magazine articles (for SD Times, JavaWorld, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Programmers Journal, Byte, MSJ, and others). Allen has been a Contributing Editor for JavaWorld since 1998, and for SD Times since 2004. He wrote the popular "OO-Design Process" column for the IBM developerWorks Component Zone, and was the technical editor of CMP Media’s Java Solutions. Allen has taught regularly for the University of California (Berkeley) Extension since 1983. Contact Allen at 
Anant Kadiyala is a SOA Solutions Architect at BEA Systems, where he advices BEA’s key customers to define and implement their SOA Strategy. Anant is a frequent speaker at various forums and has published several articles in various leading journals. Prior to BEA, Anant was an independent consultant helping companies implement SOA. He can be reached at 
Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: 
Rockford Lhotka is the author of several books, including Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects by Apress, and is a columnist for MSDN Online and a contributing author for VSM. He speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Reach Rocky at rocky@lhotka.net.
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (
Adnan Masood works as a Sr. Software Engineer / Tech. Lead in a Monrovia-based financial institution where he builds SOA-based enterprise applications using Microsoft .NET Framework. He is a regular speaker to technical conferences and code camps, is attributed and published in print media and on the web, and holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Adnan is actively pursuing his doctoral degree in Machine Learning and is highly involved in the .NET community as co-founder of the San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers group. He holds various technical certifications including MCPD.NET, MCSD.NET, and SCJP-II and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer. His blog can be found at 
Dr. James McCaffrey works for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., where he manages technical training for software engineers working at Microsoft’s Redmond, WA campus. He has worked on several Microsoft products including Internet Explorer and MSN Search. James is the author of .NET Test Automation Recipes (Apress, 2006) and is a contributing editor for Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine. McCaffrey holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California, and degrees from the University of California, Irvine, and California State University, Fullerton.
Ted Neward is an independent software development architect and mentor in the Seattle, Washington area. He is the author of a number of books, including Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley), Server-Based Java Programming (Manning), and co-authored Shared Source CLI Essentials (O’Reilly) and C# In a Nutshell (O’Reilly) with Peter Drayton and Ben Albahari. He teaches and authors both Java and .NET, speaks frequently for technology user groups and writes technical papers available at 
David S. Platt teaches Programming .NET at Harvard University Extension School and at companies all over the world. He is the author of eleven programming books. His Introducing Microsoft .NET from Microsoft Press introduced thousands of programmers to that environment. Even today, 4 years after its most recent release, it is outselling Tom Clancy’s Every Man a Tiger on Amazon.com, which tells you what kind of geeks buy their books there. His magnum opus, Why Software Sucks (Addison-Wesley, 2006, www.whysoftwaresucks.com), points out ways in which software MUST improve if it’s to accompany humanity into the twenty-first century. He is famous for his engaging presentation style. "He’s the only guy I know that can actually make a talk on COM’s apartment threading model funny," said one student. Microsoft named him a Software Legend in 2002. Dave holds the Master of Engineering degree from Dartmouth College. He did his undergraduate work at Colgate University. When he finishes working, he spends his free time working some more. He wonders whether he should tape down two of his daughter’s fingers so she learns how to count in octal. He lives in Ipswich, MA. Nickname: "The Mad Professor" Favorite Web Site: radomargaritaville.com Comment most frequently elicited from children at adjoining breakfast restaurant tables before he’s had his morning coffee: "Mommy, what’s wrong with that man?"
Paul received a bachelor’s degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin. He went on to become a project manager for Human Code. Later, Paul was the Applications Manager and Architect for Dell Pan Asia based in Kawasaki, Japan. He then became the Sr. Architect for a software consulting firm in St Paul Minnesota, where he provided architecture consulting for numerous government and private enterprise clients. Paul went on to become the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a digital asset management company. More recently Paul has spent most of his time creating and managing the International Association of Software Architects.
Dr. Neil is an independent itinerant consultant, trainer and author. He travels the world working with software companies. Dr. Neil loves Australia, where he spends the summer enjoying the Sydney lifestyle and helping software development teams get more productive. Dr. Neil spends his other summer each year flying between northern Europe and the USA working with software teams and writing about his experiences. Neil brings his business and technical skills to the companies he works with to ensure he has happy customers. His latest book eXtreme NET introduces eXtreme Programming techniques to .NET developers. Dr. Neil’s latest venture is a Web site to help developers build on Virtual Earth, you can find out more by visiting 
Randy Shoup is a Distinguished Architect in the eBay Marketplace Architecture group. Since 2004, he has been the primary architect for eBay’s search infrastructure. Prior to eBay, Randy was Chief Architect at Tumbleweed Communications, and has also held a variety of software development and architecture roles at Oracle and Informatica. He received a BS in Mathematical and Computational Science, and an AB in Political Science, from Stanford University.
Ken is the Practice Manager, Development Platform and a mentor for Solid Quality. He has been developing and managing application development with various languages and technologies for over two decades. He has also developed tools to migrate applications to .NET such as large Access applications. Ken spends his time these days providing software design guidance, working with clients on SharePoint and .Net technologies, working as build master for large projects (with our customer build software) and teaching in various venues, and works with a great team to provide custom technology and services.