Speakers
Cat Schwamm is a Business Analyst and Product Owner for a lean software team focusing primarily on healthcare and biotechnology. Her experiences in helping to drive software process improvement on a multi-specialty team have given her an obsession with agile, lean, and organizational and process improvement.
Chris Eargle is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Visual C# (C# MVP) and INETA Community Champion from Columbia, SC. Besides designing and developing software at South Carolina Farm Bureau, he runs the local .NET User Group: the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild. In his spare time he travels to conferences and user groups to promote best practices and new technologies in the development community.
Christopher Bennage is cofounder of Blue Spire Consulting, Inc., a Florida based software consulting firm specializing in .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design.
He is a coauthor of Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours with Rob Eisenberg.
Christopher is interested in most thing on the bleeding edge, particularly those that intersect with .NET and UX.
In his free time, Christopher is usually very distracted by a dozen different, competing creative ideas. His interests include liberal education, science, truth, beauty, video game development and a number of deceased British authors. He lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife, Sandra, and their three children.
Daniel Rowe is a video game programmer that specializes in 3D computer graphics and animation. He develops interactive virtual training for military software and equipment at Northrop Grumman. Previously, he worked on an unannounced RPG at Big Huge Games alongside part of the team that designed the Elder Scrolls games Morrowind and Oblivion.
David Laribee coaches the product development team at VersionOne. He has over a dozen years experience designing and developing enterprise applications and coaching Lean/Agile teams, working with internal IT, product development, consulting, and rapid prototyping teams across a wide variety of industries. David is a frequent speaker at local and national developer events, co-founder of the ALT.NET movement and early innovator in the Lean/Kanban community. He was awarded a Microsoft Architecture MVP for 2007 and 2008 and writes about Agile and Lean methods, coaching, and design on the CodeBetter blog network (http://thebeelog.com).
Ed is a .NET Developer for the Florida Department of Transportation. The team with which he works focuses primarily on SharePoint and web application development using a test-driven design approach with various principles of agile development. He is a member of the Architecture, SharePoint and dotNET user groups in Tallahassee. Ed also enjoys travelling to code camps in other Florida cities, especially the annual Orlando .NET code camp.
Gene Kochanowsky works for his one-man consulting company, Solution Sciences, Inc.
He has been a technologist in Tallahassee for over thirty years and has been solely or jointly involved in three startups in Tallahassee ranging from electronics design and manufacturing to software development and consulting. When Mr. Kochanowsky is not involved in a software project he can be found looking through a telescope at the cosmos.
Jacob J. Sanford is a Senior Consultant with Resolute Solutions and is the author of three books: Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design (September 2007), Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Design (September 2008), and Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (September 2009).
He is the founder of the Tallahassee SharePoint Experts Exchange for Developers (SPEED) group and is an all around awesome guy. You’ll see.
James Baxter works for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission as a Computer Programs Analyst II where he specializes in Sharepoint development. He has worked for the past 6 ½ years with the state of Florida as both a web and desktop application developer. He has also recently started teaching Sharepoint related classes at Tallahassee Community College.
Jason Famularo is Principal Consultant at Sogeti USA and has over 8 years of Microsoft related
development experience in the Tallahassee area. He has an unhealthy passion for JavaScript.
Founder of Linxter and the architect of the Linxter technology, Jason has worked in system architecture and management positions in both the private and public sectors.
As a technical consultant, prior to founding Linxter, his clients included IBM, the U.S. Department of Justice, Florida Power and Light, Chase Manhattan Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kodak and Iris Associates (creator of Lotus Notes). He was also a sergeant in the US Army Reserves which he served in from 1990 to 1998. Jason was educated at the University of Cincinnati (BA Political Science, 1993) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Sloan School of Management (Executive Certificate, Management and Leadership, 2008).
Jason’s first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000 which he bought in 6th grade for $99 and learned BASIC programming on.
Jim Wooley is a frequent speaker, member of the INETA Speaker Bureau, MVP, and author of “LINQ in Action”. He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it’s announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including 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. In addition to speaking at numerous user groups and code camps in 7 states, Jim has presented at product launch events, MSDN conferences, and TechEd.
Joe Healy is the Developer Evangelist for Florida. Joe’s geographical responsibility is to provide ‘developer care’ for the Gulf States District for the East Region Developer team. As such, he has responsibilities to bring .NET development to the masses in his area. Joe serves a multitude of clients, from corporate accounts to broad reach events and User Groups. He lectures on various development and architectural topics focused around the .Net Frameworks, Visual Studio.NET, and associated servers Joe worked previously for Microsoft Consulting Services in the custom Application Development arena, focusing on Internet, Web Services, Rich Client, B2B, and browser delivered systems for Microsoft Consulting Services.Joe has also served time with eAngler.com, Cap Gemini, EDS, and IBM in various capacities…On a personal level, Joe resides in Tampa Bay, Florida, and enjoys spending time trying to coax Redfish, Snook, and Trout from various nooks and crannies in Tampa Bay. He is married to wife Anne, with two little girls, Ryan and Morgan, who will also grow up to be great “fisher-ladies” one day.
30 years experience in software development.
Development ,training and architecture for: C#,LINQ,
Silverlight,ASP.NET MVC,AZURE
Keith has been developing database-driven solutions since 1979. He owns and manages Cornerstone Software Services in Tallahassee, a small consulting and software development firm that focuses on staff augmentation for the State of Florida and developing line of business applications with predominantly Microsoft technologies.
Keith served as the founding president of the Capital City .NET Users Group and supports the .NET and SQL Server community in the region along with his key employees.
Kelvin McDaniel is Chief Applications Architect at Cornerstone Software Services.
Based in Tallahassee, Kelvin comes from a diverse set of industries and careers.
When asked what made him interested in programming he answered, “It was the one hobby that floated my boat AND people were willing to pay for ‘way back when’.
After a while I got fairly good at it and stuck with it.
Well, that and my Dad’s old Tandy Radio Shack Trash 80 that I wasn’t allowed to touch.”
Nikita has been passionate about Microsoft platform, especially Web and Mobile. Conversations on Web, UX, Windows Mobile Dev MVP, MS Student Partner, Speaker, Employed Consultant.
Rob Eisenberg is a .NET architect and developer working out of Tallahassee, FL. He is a partner with Christopher Bennage at Blue Spire Consulting, a software development firm specializing in .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design. Rob got his start with computer programming at the age of nine, when he thoroughly fell in love with his family’s new Comodore 64. His fascination with programming started with the Comodore Basic language, then moved to Q and QuickBasic and quickly continued on to C, C++ and presently C# and the .NET Framework. Rob publishes technical articles regularly at devlicio.us and has spoken at regional events and to companies concerning .NET technologies and Agile software practices. He is coauthor of Sam’s Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours and is the architect and lead developer of the Caliburn Application Framework for WPF and Silverlight. Rob is happily married to Anna Eisenberg and in his spare time enjoys swing dancing, making artisan cheese and playing/teaching drum set.
Ryan Duclos is a Technical Consultant for Perficient, Inc. (PRFT) on Microsoft Technologies. He lives in LA (Lower Alabama)! He loves spending time with his family, as well as being a Community Influencer. Ryan can be found at regional events as a Speaker/Attendee. Ryan has been working with Microsoft Technologies since 2000. Ryan organizes and attends area User Groups events on a regular basis, and speaks primarily on SQL topics.
Community Positions:
• LANUG (Lower AL .Net User Group) Program Director
• PSSUG (Pensacola SQL Server User Group) Event Coordinator
• Perficient, Inc. Southeastern Custom Application Development Practice Lead
Saqib Rokadia is an alumni from Florida State University that has been developing software in Tallahassee for the past three years. He is a consultant for Sogeti USA, and has focused most of his efforts towards working with Microsoft Technologies.
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi has a computer engineering degree from the University of Florida.
He is a Microsoft Visual C# MVP.
He is the author of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine : Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Microsoft Press 01/09), co-author of Deploying .NET Application: Learning MSBuild and Click Once (Apress 05/2006), and has written several publications for magazines such as the MSDN Magazine. He is a developer and independent consultant in Jacksonville, Florida. He is an expert in the financial, education, and collection industries.
You can reach Sayed at his blog sedodream.com.
Software developer and agile practitioner who’s favorite activity is deleting code. My wife Lisa and my 2 beautiful daughters, Anna Grace and Mary Elizabeth keep me honest and busy. I have a fond fascination with Apple and their OS, yet my day job is working in the Windows OS. I am also an avid World of Warcraft geek thanks to a few friends. If they stop playing… I guess I will too.
I guess you can say I am social, sad and demented, but social.
Scott C. Reynolds is a developer with over a decade of experience creating enterprise solutions and managing software teams, primarily in healthcare and biotechnology. His current primary areas of interest are mixed-platform enterprise development and software process management. He is passionate about the art and craft of applying software solutions to business problems. He is a frequent speaker and participant of community events nationwide.
Sean Chambers is a Senior Software Developer for Telligent Systems Inc. He has expertise in open source projects ranging from NHibernate, The Castle Project, Cruise Control, TeamCity and many other open source tools and frameworks. He has been practicing TDD/Agile methodologies since 2004 and is always reviewing new techniques and tools that aid in the agile development process. Blog: http://schambers.lostechies.com
Senior Solution Architect with I.S. Consulting (http://www.goisc.com/).
President Tallahassee .NET User Group (www.tlhdotnet.net).
Founder Tallahassee Architectural SIG (http://tallyarch.com).
Continuous and progressive experience as a Development Team Leader, Object Oriented Software Architect, Business System and Data Analyst, Principal Consultant, Technical Instructor, Lead Programmer, and Environmental Quality Control Specialist. Multi-disciplined and cross-industry versatility, a balanced understanding of general systems analysis and design. An active leader in the local area’s .NET UG (www.tlhdotnet.net).