Speakers at DevWeek 2010
DevWeek 2010 and SQL Server DevCon 2010 feature a number of the world’s best-known experts on software development, who between them have written dozens of books and hundreds of magazine articles.
They include:
Jeffrey Richter Jeffrey is a co-founder of Wintellect – a training, debugging, and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies build better software, faster. Over the years, Jeff has consulted for many companies including Intel, DreamWorks and Microsoft. For Microsoft, he has contributed both design and code to the following products: Windows (all 32-bit and 64-bit versions), Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Office, TerraServer, the .NET Framework, “Longhorn” and “Indigo”. Even today, Jeff is still consulting with Microsoft’s .NET Framework team (since October 1999) and XML Web Services and Messaging Team (“Indigo”) (since January 2003). He is the author of several bestselling .NET and Win32 programming books, including The Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in C# Collection and Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows, and he has also contributed to many other books. Jeffrey is also a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine, where he authors the .NET column and has written many feature articles. |
Fritz Onion Fritz is a founding partner of Pluralsight, a Microsoft .NET training provider. He is the author of Pluralsight’s ASP.NET curriculum, and he teaches courses around the world. He is the author of Essential ASP.NET and Essential ASP.NET 2.0, a columnist for MSDN Magazine, and a regular speaker at conferences including the PDC, TechEd, and VSLive. Prior to .NET, Fritz’s work focused on Windows development with C++ and COM, and he has written several courses and many articles on C++, MFC, COM, and ATL. Microsoft recognizes Fritz as an MVP for his contributions to the ASP.NET community. |
Dave Wheeler Dave is an independent software consultant specialising in Microsoft .NET technologies. He’s particularly fond of WPF and Silverlight, but to remain grounded in reality he also works extensively with ASP.NET and is a moderator on Microsoft’s ASP.NET forums. When not writing software, Dave writes and teaches various .NET courses for DevelopMentor, writes articles and speaks at various conferences. |
Aaron Skonnard Aaron is a co-founder of Pluralsight, a Microsoft .NET training provider. He is the author of Pluralsight’s Applied Web Services, Applied BizTalk Server 2006, and Applied WCF courses. Aaron speaks regularly at various conferences around the world, including Microsoft’s PDC and TechEd events. He has written a number of books including the Essential XML Quick Reference and Essential XML, and he has a regular column in MSDN Magazine – The XML Files. He currently writes MSDN’s Service Station column in conjunction with his blog, and he is recognised by Microsoft as an MVP. |
Andy Clymer Andy is a freelance IT consultant specialising in .NET-based technology. His last ‘real’ job was at Cisco Systems, where he was a lead architect for Cisco’s identity solutions. Prior to Cisco he worked in various small start-ups. He teaches various .NET courses for DevelopMentor, including Guerrilla .NET and Essential .NET. |
Itzik Ben-Gan Itzik is a mentor and co-founder of Solid Quality Mentors. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of several books, among them Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Fundamentals, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming, and others. He has written many articles for SQL Server Magazine as well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN. |
Jeff Prosise Jeff makes his living programming Microsoft .NET and teaching others how to do the same. His latest book, Programming Microsoft .NET, was published by Microsoft Press in May 2002. His previous book, Programming Windows with MFC, won awards for its readability and was seen as the definitive work on MFC programming. A former engineer who discovered after college that programming is immeasurably more fun than designing lifting fixtures and computing loads on mounting brackets, today Jeff travels the world teaching .NET programming. He works closely with Microsoft developers in Redmond, WA, to track the development of the .NET Framework. He is a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine, where he writes feature articles about Microsoft .NET and authors the Wicked Code column, and to asp.netPRO magazine, where he writes the monthly Ask the PRO column. In 2000, Jeff co-founded Wintellect to provide .NET consulting and education services to developers everywhere. |
Brian A. Randell Brian is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies. With over 20 years experience of building software, he spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio Team System code name “Rosario”, and consulting worldwide for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, state and local governments, and small businesses. Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software, and does this through training for Pluralsight, and speaking at events such as VSLive!, TechEd, and the PDC. Brian currently writes the Team System column for MSDN Magazine. He is the author and lead instructor of Pluralsight’s Applied Team System and Applied Windows SharePoint Services courses. |
Christian Weyer Christian is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions. He has modelled and implemented distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies over the years, and recently he has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects, primarily using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). |
Neal Ford Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also a designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author of various books including The Art of Java Web Development and the 2006 No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology. His primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is a regular speaker at various conferences worldwide. |
Dominick Baier Dominick leads the security curriculum at DevelopMentor. This includes teaching and authoring courses about .NET, ASP.NET, WinFX, and ‘Vista’ security. He holds a degree in Computer Science, is a certified BS7799/ISO17799 Lead Auditor, and speaks at various conferences around the world about application security. When not teaching he spends his time researching security, doing audits and penetration tests, and helping other developers worldwide to build more secure applications. Currently he is writing a book about ASP.NET security for MS Press. Dominick is a Microsoft MVP in the “Visual Developer – Security” category. |
Oliver Sturm Oliver is an experienced software architect, developer, trainer and author, with a strong background in various different fields, including system and framework architecture and design, process modeling and user interface design. He is a C# MVP and he works for Developer Express as a Technical Evangelist and Lead Program Manager for the Frameworks Division. |
Keith Brown Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on application security. A contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, he authors the Security Briefs column. He authored the books Programming Windows and The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security, and co-authored Effective COM. Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent close to a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. He speaks at many conferences, including Microsoft’s TechEd and PDC events in the USA. |
Greg Low Greg is an internationally recognised consultant, developer and trainer. He has been working in development since 1978, holds a PhD in Computer Science and a host of Microsoft certifications. Greg is the country lead for Solid Quality, a SQL Server MVP and one of only three Microsoft Regional Directors for Australia. Greg also hosts the popular SQL Down Under podcast (www.sqldownunder.com), organises the SQL Down Under Code Camp and co-organises CodeCampOz. He is a board member of PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server). |
Kevlin Henney Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based on the UK. He specialises in programming languages, OO design, patterns, development process and software architecture. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites, including The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report and C/C++ Users Journal. Kevlin is co-author of two recent volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also a regular speaker at various conferences, including DevWeek. |
Giles Davies Giles works in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group in Microsoft UK as a technical specialist, covering development tools, and specializing in the full Application Lifecycle Management tooling of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio. He started his development career with Microsoft technologies in the days of client/server applications, before becoming an early adopter for Java, working with CORBA and subsequently J2EE. Having worked in the Java space for a number of organisations including Borland and IBM Rational, Giles joined Microsoft in 2008, and is enjoying working with the Microsoft tools and frameworks. He has had various roles including that of developer, technical lead, software architect, consultant and project manager, and has used a range of development processes including formal methods, Rational Unified Process and Scrum. |
Simon Sabin Simon is an independent SQL Server consultant and trainer, based in the UK. He has worked with SQL Server since 1998 and has always focused on high performance reliable systems. He has a particular expertise in the world of search, distributed architectures, business intelligence and application development. He is regularly involved in helping to make websites and applications run faster through scaleout technologies and performance tuning the database. Simon was awarded MVP status in 2006. He runs user groups in London and Cambridge, and is a regular speaker at SQL Server events as well as writing for his blog. |
Javier Loría Javier is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, based in Costa Rica. He began his professional career in 1992, as a software developer and system engineer. His career evolved rapidly to the training side, especially in the XML and OLAP world, training customers at different locations in Latin America. Javier became a SQL Server MVP in 2001, and is an MCT, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, and MCAD. He was involved in writing the official Microsoft SQL Server 2005 courseware, and he is the co-author of several books on SQL Server. |
Robert Boedigheimer Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 13 years, including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an ASP.NET MVP, 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 TechEd, AJAXWorld and VSLive. He works for Schwans Shared Services, providing business solutions with web technologies, and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. |
Richard Blewett Richard has been working in the software industry for over 20 years, starting with mainframes through the early years of client/server to today’s service-oriented world. He has spent his professional life working on large distributed systems including being the middle tier architect on the UK national police systems. He now focuses on technologies that enable developers to build large-scale systems on the Microsoft platform such as WCF, BizTalk, Workflow and Azure. He is a well-known conference speaker having spoken at TechEd, DevWeek, Software Architect and Oredev, and can often be found helping people on various newsgroups, mailing lists and web forums. Richard is also a DevelopMentor instructor, where he writes and teaches material on WCF, Workflow, BizTalk, Azure, Oslo and a whole range of other technologies. |
Simon Brown Simon is a senior consultant at C5 Alliance in Jersey. He’s a hands-on software architect with a BSc in Computer Science, and over the past 12 years he’s been involved in projects ranging from rich desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; predominantly within the finance industry. He’s also undertaken consulting and training roles with a broader focus on people, process and technology. Simon is additionally active in wider aspects of the IT industry. He founded the ‘Coding the Architecture’ web site, and he has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at a various conferences, developed a software architecture training course, and actively maintains a public blog. |
Kevin Jones Kevin has been involved in software development and design for longer than he cares to remember, originally as a mainframe programmer and more recently developing .NET and Java applications. He’s been programming Windows since Windows 1.04, and Windows 32 since the first beta release in July 1992. Kevin has been involved in training and consultancy since 1990, and helped co-found DevelopMentor UK in 1997. He was the author of DevelopMentor’s ‘Visual Studio Team System’ and ‘Code Smarter with Design Patterns in .NET’ classes, and co-author of the books Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Technology Web Tier and Team Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. |
Eric Nelson Eric joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Technical Evangelist, and has spent most of his time working with ISVs to help them architect solutions which make use of the latest Microsoft technologies – from the beta of ASP 1.0 through to ASP.NET, from MTS to WCF/WF, and from the beta of SQL Server 6.5 through to SQL Server 2008. In July 2008 he switched role from an Application Architect to a Developer Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Group, and his current interests include digging into LINQ to Entities, ADO.NET Data Services and switching from C# to Visual Basic development. |
Dino Esposito Dino is a trainer and software consultant based in Rome. A member of the IDesign team, he specializes in Microsoft .NET technologies, and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Europe and the USA. He has hands-on experience in architecting and building distributed systems for banking and insurance companies. A prolific author, Dino writes columns for various magazines, and has written a number of books on various cutting-edge topics. An ASP.NET MVP, he regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world, including TechEd, DevConnections, Software Architect and DevWeek. |
Ian Griffiths Ian is an independent consultant, developer, author and speaker, and a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on the presentation layer curriculum. He has contributed to several books, including Programming WPF, Mastering Visual Studio .NET, Programming C# 4.0 and .NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question. |
William (Bill) Vaughn For over 30 years, Bill has provided content, training and support to people who design, code, test and deploy data access applications. He is the principal of Beta V Corporation, and a Microsoft MVP who worked at Microsoft for fourteen years. He has contributed to a number of books over the years, including Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services and ADO Examples and Best Practices. Bill is a regular speaker at various conferences worldwide, and is the author of numerous articles for SQL Server Magazine, MSDN Online, and others. |
Davide Mauri Davide is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, MCP, MCAD, MCDBA, and MCT. He enjoys working with Relational Modeling and studying the theory behind it. He also brings a deep knowledge of Reporting Services, .NET and the object-oriented principles to his work, and has knowledge and experience in Notification Services. He speaks at various events on a range of topics including Database Design, SQL Server Engine and SQL Server Platform subjects. |
Ingo Rammer Ingo is a co-founder of thinktecture, a company which specializes in helping developers and architects create distributed applications which perform and scale as necessary. He is a distributed application expert (technologies around WCF, WF, ASMX, MSMQ, Remoting), with a knack for optimizing scalability and performance of medium to large applications. He is a Microsoft MVP for Solutions Architecture, and a Microsoft Regional Director for Austria. Ingo was the co-author of Advanced .NET Remoting, and has written numerous technical articles. |
Jim Wooley Jim is a regular speaker at various conferences, a member of the INETA Speaker Bureau, a Microsoft MVP, and author of LINQ in Action. He has been actively involved with LINQ since its announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing the Atlanta Code Camp, leading the Microsoft MS Pros and Atlanta VB Study Group and serving as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region. Jim has actively helped to guide Microsoft through Software Design Reviews with product teams and is an active Microsoft Data Programmer Insider and Visual Basic Insider. |
Anders Aaltonen Anders has five years experience working as a .NET developer, four of them at a top tier financial services organisation, where he has been working on high speed data processing and other projects concerned with .NET internals. He has built components used in trading systems and event-driven reporting GUIs. |
James Belsey James has been programming .NET since the pre-release versions, and has nine years experience with a top tier financial services organisation. He is involved in the design and build of data connectivity system components, including fast-moving data and external connectivity. He is a member of the C# design council. |
Jon Fancey Jon is a founder of Affinus, a UK-based consultancy focused on large-scale enterprise integration. In particular Jon is interested in BizTalk Server, Web services and associated technologies and standards. He has written for MSDN Magazine and website, and talked at various Microsoft-focused conferences including TechEd. Jon is recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for his community contributions. He is also an instructor for Pluralsight, where he heads up the SharePoint curriculum. |
Fernando Guerrero Fernando is one of the founders of Solid Quality Mentors. He has worked with SQL Server since 1993, and for more than 20 years he has been designing information systems, providing training and mentoring in many countries worldwide. Fernando is a regular speaker at numerous conferences, and he is a SQL Server MVP, MCDBA, MCSE+I, MCSD and MCT. His book Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming By Example was published by QUE in April 2001. |
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