rest/speakers/Travis-Smith Travis Smith Travis works in the health care field building highly scalable systems. Travis' primary work is with .NET right but has bad experience working with a number of different platforms and languages. /rest/sessions/Painless-Windows-Service-Hosting-and-Management- legomasternet http://legomaster.net rest/speakers/Jared-Faris-Nathan-Frank Jared Faris, Nathan Frank Jared Faris has been been a developer for over a decade and has had the fortune or misfortune to work with a huge number of technologies. He currently works in the medical space building software for healthcare providers. In his free time he's been exploring the world of mobile software development. Nathan Frank has been a software developer for 15 years, working in a variety of project management environments. He currently works on an iterative development team and has been instrumental in the introduction of UI testing to the group. /rest/sessions/Why-UI-Testing-Will-Benefit-Your-Dev-Process-No-Really rest/speakers/Jay-Harris Jay Harris Jay Harris is a .NET developer in Southeast Michigan and an independent software consultant at Arana Software (http://www.aranasoft.com). He has been developing on the web for 15 years, since he abandoned VB3 for JavaScript because he didn't have to wait for a compile. With a career focus on end-user experience, he is a strong advocate of practices and processes that improve quality through code, ranging from automated testing, continuous integration, and performance analysis, to designing applications from the perspective of the user instead of the database. Jay is also active in the developer community beyond speaking, including serving as President of Ann Arbor .Net Developers (http://www.aadnd.org) and as an organizer for Lansing Give Camp. When not coding, he is usually blogging to http://www.cptloadtest.com or playing games on his Xbox 360. /rest/sessions/Going-for-Speed-Testing-for-Performance /rest/sessions/The-Geeks-Guide-to-SEO jayharris http://www.cptloadtest.com rest/speakers/Brian-Sullivan Brian Sullivan Brian Sullivan is a developer for Falcon Application, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He has been working as a professional programmer for about 5 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR. /rest/sessions/Introduction-to-Distributed-Version-Control-with-Mercurial bmsullivan http://www.sullivansoftdev.com/blog rest/speakers/Dru-Sellers Dru Sellers Dru Sellers is currently the Solutions Architect the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka. For the past eight years, Dru has been building enterprise applications using the Microsoft .Net platform in various industries. Dru is currently focused on architecting enterprise integration platforms using messaging and metadata driven solutions. /rest/sessions/Mixing-and-Matching-Platforms-in-a-CommandQuery-Architecture-CQRS-- @drusellers http://codebetter.com/blogs/dru.sellers rest/speakers/Alex-Papadimoulis Alex Papadimoulis My standard Bio is: “Alex Papadimoulis is the founder and editor of The Daily WTF, a leading how-not to guide for developing software. Residing in Berea, Ohio, he is a managing partner at Inedo and uses his 10+ years of IT experience to help software development organizations utilize best practices in their products.” /rest/sessions/Infinitely-Extensible http://thedailywtf.com/ rest/speakers/Jeff-Morgan Jeff Morgan Jeff Morgan has been an evangelist for the Agile Software Development movement since early 2002 and is a frequent speaker at conferences and technical events. He has been an agile coach since 2004 and has taught numerous courses on Test-Driven Development and Acceptance Test-Driven Development. In 2005 he founded the company that is now called LeanDog with a mission to help development teams transition to Agile and Lean methods through on-site coaching and training. He is passionate about the Cleveland IT community and his company currently sponsors numerous technology group meetings each month in downtown Cleveland. His company also sponsors GiveCamps and Ignite events. /rest/sessions/Wasteful-Agile /rest/sessions/Acceptance-Test-Driven-Development--for-Testers chzy rest/speakers/Stephen-Mouring Stephen Mouring I am a computational problem solver and software cultivator living in Virginia. Professionally, I love to solve problems, find bugs, refactor nasty code, and subvert beaurocracy. Personally I love to listen to film scores, write my view of the definitive Zorro novel, collect archaic weaponry and spend time with my lovely wife. I mostly write code in Java and Groovy, but have dabbled with Ruby and C# and aspire to learn Python one day. Lately I have been writing absurd amounts of Selenium tests and have been enjoying pushing the limits of browser testing. /rest/sessions/Data-Mining-101 rest/speakers/Thorsten-Rinne Thorsten Rinne Thorsten Rinne, graduated in Computer Science and a certified scrum master, is working as senior developer / team lead for Mayflower GmbH in Munich, Germany. His main focuses are business critical applications based on PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL in agile environments. He is the founder and maintainer of the open source FAQ management software phpMyFAQ. He also has spoken at various conferences around the world and he frequently writes articles for the German PHP Magazine. /rest/sessions/HTML5-for-PHP-Developers /rest/sessions/iPhone-Apps-with-HTML5 http://twitter.com/ThorstenRinne http://devblog.phpmyfaq.de rest/speakers/Philip-Japikse Philip Japikse Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, and developing software for over 20 years. Phil is a Microsoft MVP and also holds MCSD, MCDBA, CSM, and CSP certifications. Phil’s experience includes Smart Client/WPF, ASP.NET/MVC, and eCommerce as well as mentoring teams in .Net, SQL Server, and Agile. Phil is a contributing author to www.nPlus1.org, founder and president of Agile Conferences, Inc, teaches custom classes, speaks at national and regional events, and is a passionate member of the developer community (serving as Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group). Phil works as a Principal Consultant with Pinnacle Solutions Group, Inc. (www.pinnsg.com), is a Firefighter/Paramedic, and a volunteer for the Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog. /rest/sessions/SOLID-Development-Patterns-for-Mere-Mortals /rest/sessions/Implementing-MVVM-ModelViewView-Model-for-WPF /rest/sessions/Windows-Presentation-Foundation-for-Developers /rest/sessions/Enterprise-Agility /rest/sessions/Introduction-to-Context-Specification--Behavior-Driven-Development- /rest/sessions/Mocks-Stubs-and-Dependency-Injection-Oh-My /rest/sessions/Advanced-NHibernate-Tips-and-Tricks /rest/sessions/Test-Driven-Development-for-TSQL /rest/sessions/Why-You-Should-Love-LINQ-to-Objects /rest/sessions/Multithreading-in-NET skimedic www.skimedic.com/blog rest/speakers/Doug-Davies Doug Davies I have over 25 years of professional experience in the software industry. I've worked at WordPerfect, AOL/Compuserve, and currently OCLC. I've worked on various platforms including NeXT back in the early 90s. I am also the founder of Funky Visions, a company dedicated to writing fun applications for the iPhone. /rest/sessions/OpenGL-and-Box2D-Bouncing-Balls-Are-Fun @funkyvisions www.funkyvisions.com/blog rest/speakers/Chris-Canal Chris Canal Chris has worked at a Web Developer for over 8 years. Starting with procedural languages like ASP and PHP, he quickly moved onto the .NET Platform when first released. A great believer is continual–improvement, Chris is constantly looking for new technologies, tools and methodologies that will help in creating robust and maintainable software applications. Having felt the pain of using Microsoft "Demoware", Chris has become an active member of the Scottish ALT.NET Community to share his findings and ideas with like-minded developers, and has presented an a number of UK and international conferences like the Developer Developer Developer Day events in the UK/Ireland, and NHDay in Italy. He current works as a Senior Developer for Edinburgh based Storm Id, the creators of Twibbon and Colaab. /rest/sessions/Real-World-Application-Development-with-NHibernate-FluentNHibernate-and-Castle-Windsor chriscanal http://scotalt.net rest/speakers/Kevin-Hazzard Kevin Hazzard Kevin is a consultant, entrepreneur and Microsoft MVP who enjoys speaking at user groups, Code Camps and conferences all over the US. He leads the Code Camp in Richmond, Virginia. Kevin has served multiple terms on Virginia's Joint Commission on Technology and Science as an advisor to governors and legislatures. He holds patents for peer-to-peer networking technology and served as one of Intel Corporation's representatives to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) when he worked in the Intel Architecture Labs. Nowadays, Kevin loves writing and speaking about our industry and getting to know as many friends throughout the developer community as he can. For his day job, Kevin is a consultant with CapTech Ventures, a management consulting and software development firm of over 250 professionals based in Richmond, and runs The Developer Journey Co., a company dedicated to advancing the craft of software development through mentoring and peer training. Kevin also serves as the president of the advisory board for the IT program at the college where he's been an instructor for the past eleven years. /rest/sessions/Better-Contracts-Better-Code /rest/sessions/What-the-Math-Geeks-Dont-Want-You-to-Know-about-F /rest/sessions/Embedding-IronPython-as-a-Scripting-Engine KevinHazzard http://devjourney.com rest/speakers/Andres-Almiray Andres Almiray Andres is a Java/Groovy developer with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy, Scala and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around. /rest/sessions/Getting-Groovy-on-the-Web-and-Desktop- /rest/sessions/Lizzard-Brain-Testing /rest/sessions/Flying-with-Griffon aalmiray http://jroller.com/aalmiray rest/speakers/Seth-Juarez Seth Juarez I received my Bachelors Degree in Computer Science at UNLV with a Minor in Mathematics. I recently completed my Masters Degree at the University of Utah and am continuing on to a PhD in the field of Computer Science. I currently am interested in Artificial Intelligence specifically in the realm of Machine Learning. I currently am working on a .NET library meant to simplify the usage of the common machine learning algorithms. I've been married now for 8 years to a fabulously beautiful girl and have two wonderful daughters and a son on the way! /rest/sessions/Machine-Learning-for-NET sethjuarez http://www.sethjuarez.com rest/speakers/Brian-T-Jackett Brian T. Jackett Brian Jackett is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti USA specializing in Microsoft Collaboration and BI technologies, primarily SharePoint development and administration for over 3 years. Brian is a steering committee member of the Central Ohio SharePoint User Group and enjoys giving back to the community through giving presentations, planning and volunteering at conferences, maintaining a Microsoft centric blog, and contributing to the SharePoint Twitterverse. He also holds several Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) certifications for SharePoint technologies. /rest/sessions/Managing-SharePoint-2010-Farms-with-PowerShell /rest/sessions/The-Power-of-Powershell--SharePoint-2007 /rest/sessions/Real-World-Deployment-of-SharePoint-2007-Solutions /rest/sessions/The-Expanding-Developer-Toolbox-for-SharePoint-2010 /rest/sessions/Getting-Up-To-Speed-With-Windows-PowerShell BrianTJackett www.briantjackett.com rest/speakers/Carlos-Devoto Carlos Devoto Carlos is a senior software architect with over 20 years of experience in the field. He is currently working for Compuware's Technology Division where he focuses on research in the area of application performance management. /rest/sessions/NextPrevious-Best-Practices-for-Managing-Paginated-Queries-in-Web-Applications rest/speakers/Timothy-Fisher Timothy Fisher Tim has over 19 years of experience in the software development field. He has served in roles ranging from lead developer to chief architect for a variety of large and small companies. He is also the author of the Java Phrasebook and the Ruby on Rails Bible. Currently, Tim works as a technical architect for Compuware in Detroit, Michigan. Outside of his day job, Tim is very active in the local development community having organized multiple user groups and is lead developer on multiple open source projects. /rest/sessions/Analyzing-Baseball-Performance-with-Open-Data-and-Open-Source @tfisher http://www.timothyfisher.com rest/speakers/Jesse-Liberty Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty is a Senior Community Program Manager for Microsoft, focused on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Jesse is the author of a couple dozen programming books, most notably on C#, as well as the creator of hundreds of videos and tutorials on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. He has two decades of professional programming experience, including stints as Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T and VP Information Technology at Citibank. /rest/sessions/Mobile-Phones-Are-Not-Small-Computers-Damnit /rest/sessions/An-iPhone-Developers-Crash-Course-in-Windows-Phone-7-Programming /rest/sessions/Windows-Phone-7-Development-For-Silverlight-Developers /rest/sessions/Coding-Without-Comments @JesseLiberty http://JesseLiberty.com rest/speakers/DeVaris-Brown DeVaris Brown DeVaris Brown is the Academic Relations Manager for the Heartland Region of Microsoft Corporation. DeVaris has been with Microsoft since August of 2006 first serving as a Systems Engineer within the Windows Live Operations group. In this role, he was responsible for creating automation for the largest installation of Windows/SQL Server for the Hotmail division of Windows Live. In his current role, DeVaris travels throughout the Heartland Region, (MI, OH, KY, TN), building relationships with students and faculty to increase awareness about Microsoft products and get people excited about using technology in all aspects of life. DeVaris Brown graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a Bachelor of Science Degree double majoring in Math and Computer Science with a minor in Management Information Systems in May 2006. He’s published papers on the topics of intrusion detection, distributed system, ubiquitous networks, virtualization, high performance computing, and wireless networks. Prior to joining Microsoft he was employed by Intel, IBM, and Cisco. Currently he is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the National Society of Black Engineers. /rest/sessions/3-Screens-1-Cloud-Creating-Optimal-Connected-Experiences devarispbrown devarispbrown.com rest/speakers/Joel-Helbling Joel Helbling Rubyist, Agile software coach and somebody's dad. /rest/sessions/Yellow-And-Dangerous-Vague-Testing joelhelbling http://www.joelhelbling.com rest/speakers/Jeff-Norris Jeff Norris Jeff Norris is a lead consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is passionate about technology and helping people develop software better. He is currently the tech lead on ThoughtWorks’ longest running project and technical assistant to the CTO. He provides leverage for the CTO and the ThoughtWorks Technical Advisory Board (TAB), a group of senior technologists around the world. Their work is regularly published in the Technology Radar at http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar He has worked at companies ranging in size from startup to Fortune 500 and projects ranging from internal applications, to cloud computing, to mobile applications, to commercial software. Jeff has seen how the right technology and the right people can make all the difference. /rest/sessions/What-is-on-the-technology-radar /rest/sessions/Ten-tips-every-agile-team-should-know-about-Performance-testing norrissoftware http://blog.norrissoftware.com/ rest/speakers/Randy-Eppinger Randy Eppinger I am a journeyman pursuing software craftsmanship. I practice and encourage Agile values and development practices. I have been a developer for 16 years using mostly Microsoft technologies. I am learning Ruby/Rails. I currently love working for LeanDog in Cleveland, OH. /rest/sessions/Change-peoplenot-processes @RandyEppinger RandyEppinger.blogspot.com rest/speakers/Stephan-Hochdörfer Stephan Hochdörfer Stephan Hochdörfer is co-founder and department manager of Research Labs at bitExpert AG. Besides being the project lead for the bitExpert PHP application framework he is responsible for managing the generative programming approach used by bitExpert to create and maintain multi-tenant web applications. He has been actively involved in developing web applications with PHP for the past 10 years. /rest/sessions/Testing-untestable-code /rest/sessions/Real-World-Dependency-Injection /rest/sessions/Manage-your-external-dependencies /rest/sessions/How-to-build-customizable-multitenant-web-applications shochdoerfer rest/speakers/Ryan-Cromwell Ryan Cromwell Ryan Cromwell is Senior Consultant and Microsoft Team Foundation Server Technical Specialist and Agile Coach with Strategic Data Systems. Ryan is committed to the continual improvement of his craft through education, experimentation, and the occasional error. He can be found weekly at the Dayton Code & Coffee consuming more than his fair share of coffee, while experiencing cooperative learning of unfamiliar topics. Ryan has led presentations on various topics such as Agile, Scrum, WPF, WCF, Software Patterns, and Team Foundation Server. /rest/sessions/Black-Magic-Beyond-Object-Construction-using-Castle-Windsor-and-DynamicProxy /rest/sessions/Get-Out-of-the-Way-Effective-Team-Foundation-Server-Source-Control /rest/sessions/Team-Foundation-Server-2010-Opening-the-Robe cromwellryan http://blog.cromwellhaus.com rest/speakers/Matt-Yoho Matt Yoho Matt Yoho is a developer and agile enthusiast with a love for Ruby and the web, working for EdgeCase, LLC in Columbus, OH. He likes comic books, karaoke, OSS, and sweet potato fries. He is one fairly hep cat. /rest/sessions/Ruby-Unix-and-OSS-Philosophy /rest/sessions/A-Portrait-of-the-Artist-as-a-Young-Gem-Author /rest/sessions/Ruby-for-Static-Language-Developers /rest/sessions/Rails-3-From-A-to-Z /rest/sessions/BehaviorDriven-RESTful-HTTP-APIs-with-Ruby- mattyoho http://blog.mattyoho.com rest/speakers/Richard-Harding Richard Harding Rick Harding is a software developer for Michigan based market research company Morpace Inc. He's a co-host on an Ubuntu community podcast http://lococast.net. He's a lover of all things Web, and wishes everyone else thought tiling window managers, VIM, and ZSH were so awesome. @mitechie && http://blog.mitechie.com /rest/sessions/Celery-Harnessing-the-Messaging-Power-of-RabbitMQ @mitechie http://blog.mitechie.com rest/speakers/Bill-Sempf Bill Sempf Hi, my name is Bill Sempf, and I am a software architect. Though I used to hate the term 'architect', it is clearly the only thing out there that defines what it is that I do. My breadth of experience includes business and technical analysis, software design, development, testing, server management and maintenance and security. In my 17 years of professional experience I have participated in the creation of well over 200 applications for large and small companies, managed the software infrastructure of two Internet service providers, coded complex software happily in every environment imaginable, and made mainframes talk to cell phones. In short, I make the technology that people are using every day play nicely together. I started playing with computers in 1979 and haven't looked back since. In 1985 I was helping my father (also Bill) manage Apple IIe systems at the local library. Since then I have built applications for the likes of Lucent Technologies, Bank One, Nationwide Insurance and Sears, Roebuck and Co. I am the author of Visual Basic 2008 and 2005 for Dummies; a coauthor of Effective Visual Studio.NET, Professional ASP.NET Web Services and Professional VB.NET; a frequent contributor to MSDN, Builder.com, Hardcore Web Services, Cloud Computing Journal, Inside Web Development Journal and Intranet Journal; and have recently been an invited speaker for the ACM and IEEE, DevEssentials, the International XML Web Services Expo and the Association of Information Technology Professionals. I am a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration, Microsoft Certified Professional, Certified Internet Business Strategist and Certified Internet Webmaster. My company is Products Of Innovative New Technology (usually called POINT) and I can be reached at bill@pointweb.net. /rest/sessions/Building-powerful-applications-with-SQL-Server-Modeling-Services /rest/sessions/Write-managed-applications-for-Android-with-MonoDroid /rest/sessions/Protect-your-applications-with-Windows-Identity-Foundation sempf http://www.sempf.net rest/speakers/Chris-Eargle Chris Eargle Chris Eargle is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – C# and INETA Community Champion from Columbia, SC, USA He has designed and developed several enterprise and open source applications, and he runs the local .NET User Group: the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild. He is a frequent guest of conferences and community events promoting best practices and new technologies. /rest/sessions/Monadic-Comprehensions-and-Functional-Comprehension-with-Query-Expressions kodefuguru http://www.kodefuguru.com rest/speakers/Kealy-Opelt-and-Ted-Layher Kealy Opelt and Ted Layher Kealy Opelt is a Software Developer for Menlo Innovations. She has eleven years programming experience including over six years focused work with Extreme Programming(XP) team projects. Working in an XP environment has created a love and commitment to the agile team practices for Kealy. Her commitment made instruction an easy transition at Menlo Innovations teaching their philosophies and practice. Kealy has presented her experience on Agile teams for over four years at national and Mi-West conferences, including Agile 2008 and OOPSLA 2009. With her passion for XP she continues to expose others to XP and agile. Prior to working with Menlo Innovations Kealy attended Michigan Technological University, where she received her Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering while participating in team projects and tutoring. Ted Layher is currently a software developer at Menlo Innovations with six years experience in agile projects. His professional career started in the middle of the dot com bubble and has survived despite several company’s best efforts. Ted’s career began as a unix systems administrator working for a large automotive corporation and small local companies. He has enjoyed evolving into a software developer. Ted brings an interesting mix of operational, systems knowledge and Test Driven Development skills to the team. He influences the team through excellent coaching skills. Ted has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Eastern Michigan University. /rest/sessions/The-Art-of-Refactoring /rest/sessions/What-We-Learned-in-8829-Hours-of-Pair-Programming rest/speakers/Jamie-Wright Jamie Wright Jamie Wright is president of Brilliant Fantastic, a software development consulting service provider and ISV for software management applications. He has over ten years software development experience in Microsoft technologies and has developing in .NET since the first beta release. He specializes in application architecture, design patterns, object-oriented design, and business objects using the .NET framework. He loves spending time with his family, blogging at http://www.wrightin.gs/, and he is currently getting therapy for his gadget addiction. /rest/sessions/Getting-Real-with-Consulting jwright http://wrightin.gs rest/speakers/Jeremy-D-Miller Jeremy D. Miller Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.github.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net, StoryTeller (http://storyteller.github.com) for supercharged acceptance testing in .Net, and one of the principal developers behind FubuMVC (http://www.fubumvc.com). Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#. /rest/sessions/Functional-Programming-for-Everyday-Net-Development /rest/sessions/Patterns-for-Building-Internal-DSLs-in-C-30 /rest/sessions/Automated-Testing-of-Web-Applications- jeremydmiller http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller rest/speakers/ROHIT-BHARDWAJ ROHIT BHARDWAJ Rohit Bhardwaj is working at Kronos Incorporated as Principal Software Engineer. He has fifteen years of extensive experience in architecture, design and agile development. He is expert in application development in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), REST, Cloud Computing, RIA, Android, Web Services, XML, XSL, SOAP, UDDI, JSON, and SOAPUI. Rohit is Sun Certified Java developer for Java 1.5 Platform. Rohit did his Masters in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University. Rohit is a world class speaker and has given presentations on topics like SOA, REST and SPARQL for Semantic Web, Cloud computing, RIA, Agile Development, Test Driven Development, Performance monitoring and scalability. Rohit can be reached at rbhardwaj@kronos.com or twitter at rbhardwaj1 /rest/sessions/Enterprise-Security-Privacy-and-Data-compliance /rest/sessions/Google-App-Engine-to-develop-scalable-Java-applications-on-cloud /rest/sessions/Android-mobile-application-development-Cool-apps-that-surprise-and-delight-mobile-usersbuilt-by /rest/sessions/Cloud-computing-deep-dive-for-Google-App-Engine-and-Amazon-EC2 /rest/sessions/Web-Service-and-REST-Service-Testing-with-soapUI- /rest/sessions/Enterprise-testing-to-make-your-application-foolproof rbhardwaj1 http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/speaker/rohit_bhardwaj