South Florida Code Camp 2013

Speakers
    
Alex Funkhouser
SherlockTech Staffing
http://www.SherlockTech.com 		Alex Funkhouser was CEO of his first company at the age of five, when he sold his father's organically grown vegetables door to door. In 1980, he wrote his first lines of code on a TRS-80. At 15, he bought a 1966 Ford Mustang GT with the funds from his second company, a lawn-care business. In 2005, Funkhouser opened his fifth business, Sherlock Technology Staffing & Recruiting, opening up international recruitment call centers across the world to help companies around the globe. Funkhouser is a headlining speaker throughout South Florida and has moderated international forums such as the Staffing Industry Executive Forum. His companies have consulted with many top international companies, including local heavy weights Carnival Corp., Office Depot and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. From college to present, Funkhouser has consistently won awards for his entrepreneurial leanings, including "Entrepreneur of the Year, State of Missouri". He was awarded the “Beauty and the Beast award by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for contributions to the community and the foundation. He serves as Chairman of Business Advisory Board of the Academy of Information Technology in Miami-Dade County school system, part of the National Academy Foundation www.naf.org. Mr. Funkhouser earned an International MBA from Nyenrode University, The Netherlands School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science from Washington University. Mr. Funkhouser is fluent in Spanish, and speaks some Dutch. Mr. Funkhouser's current goal is to build this fifth company to become a highly attractive candidate for corporate acquisition. Regarding Mr. Funkhouser's business philosophy, he believes in: “Knowing who is best at what, and knowing who needs the best!”
Andrej Kostresevic
New Frontier Nomads
http://newfrontiernomads.com 		Andrej has over a decade of development experience, and has developed apps that have over 10M downloads. He organizes the Miami Lean Startup Circle and the South Florida Android Developers. He is currently busy running the New Frontier Nomads, a mobile development company focused on helping startups design, develop and validate innovative mobile products.
Barkha Herman
MyGuides LLC
http://www.my-guides.com/ 		Barkha has more than 20 years of industry experience and a history of driving new ideas and technology in organizations she has worked at. Before starting MyGuides Barkha worked for companies such as IBM, Motorola, AutoNation and JM Family enterprises.
Barry Stahl
CopperByte, Inc.
http://www.cognitiveinheritance.com 		Barry is a .NET Software Engineer, Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and is a nearly 30 year Phoenix resident. Barry spends his days building integrated systems for Crew Operations at US Airways and his nights thinking about the next AZGiveCamp. You can follow Barry on Twitter @bsstahl or read his blog at http://www.cognitiveinheritance.com.
Brent Schooley
Infragistics
http://www.codesnack.com 		Brent is a software developer who has been working with Microsoft technologies since 2004. His interests include client and mobile application development and user experience design with a recent emphasis on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Other platforms he has worked with include WPF, Silverlight, Windows Forms, and iOS. He is an Evangelist working for Infragistics with a focus on mobile platforms. He is the author of "Designing for Windows 8".
Bryan Soltis
Bit-Wizards
http://www.bitwizards.com 		Bryan Soltis is the Directory of Technology & Research for Bit-Wizards Custom Solutions, Inc. in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Bit-Wizards is an innovative custom software engineering and consulting firm specializing in commercial application and professional services. Bryan has over 14 years of experience designing and implementing solutions using Microsoft technologies. Bryan is a MCDP for .NET 4.0/3.5, a Microsoft VTSP for Windows Azure, and has over 2 years of experience working with Microsoft’s Cloud platform.
Cecil Phillip
Nova Southeastern University
https://twitter.com/cecilphillip 		Cecil Phillip is a Programmer Analyst III at Nova Southeastern University. For over 5 years, his primary focus has been developing web based solutions for both internal and also external clients using the .NET Framework. His current tool-set of choice comprises of C#, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Entity Framework and SQL Server.
Chad England
Neogenomics
http://www.researchaholic.com 		A Software Developer at Neogenomics, 2012 Ineta Champion, and a PostSharp MVP. Married for 12 years, 3 kids, and a full time student. When there is spare time I write articles and tutorials at researchaholic.com.
Chris Eargle
Telerik
http://www.kodefuguru.com 		Christopher Brian Eargle is a Telerik Technical Evangelist with over a decade of experience designing and developing enterprise 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. Chris is a native Carolinian; his family settled the Dutch Form region of South Carolina in 1752. He currently resides in Columbia with his wife, Binyue, his dog, Laika, and his three cats: Meeko, Tigger, and Sookie. Amazingly, they all get along... except for Meeko, who is by no means meek. Chris is a Microsoft C# MVP currently serves on the INETA Board of Directors. He is in charge of the Community Speakers Program, having come from the program himself before he began working at Telerik. If you are passionate about software development, you are encouraged to join INETA to be connected to hundreds of groups. It is free to join, and INETA helps cover your travel expenses for speaking. Chris' blog, kodefuguru.com, features content to guide you in becoming a .NET Ninja!
Chris Woodruff
Telerik, Inc.
http://chriswoodruff.com 		Chris Woodruff (or Woody as he is commonly known as) has a degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University’s College of Engineering. Woody has been developing and architecting software solutions for almost 15 years and has worked in many different platforms and tools. He is a community leader, helping such events as Day of .NET Ann Arbor, West Michigan Day of .NET and CodeMash. He was also instrumental in bringing the popular Give Camp event to Western Michigan where technology professionals lend their time and development expertise to assist local non-profits. As a speaker and podcaster, Woody has spoken and discussed a variety of topics, including database design and open source. He is a Microsoft MVP in Data Platform Development and was recently recognized as one of the top 20 MVPs world-wide. Woody works at Telerik, Inc. Woody is the co-host of the popular podcast “Deep Fried Bytes” and blogs at www.chriswoodruff.com.
Colin Blakey
Vertex Inc
http://www.colinblakey.com 		20+ years as a full time application developer, part time DBA. Started out developing financial applications in COBOL on IBM mainframes and have evolved through various companies that provide financial type applications. With a stopoff at a small web marketing firm. Now working on an n-tier corporate tax application and it’s supporting web applications, electronic filing, returns processing, etc. Always interested in leveraging new technologies to enhance applications functionality and value to the end user.
Cory House

 
Darius Liktorius
ADP
http:// 		Darius Liktorius is Lead Technologist with ADP Dealer Services where he specializes in identifying and quickly resolving performance and security-related obstacles on web and mobile platforms, aids in the due dilligence process of mergers and product acquisitions and helps to set technological direction. Darius has been developing software and working with databases for twenty years and is proficient in .NET Framework related technologies and Microsoft SQL Server databases. He holds MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE, MCT and CCNA certifications.
Dave Noderer
Computer Ways, Inc.
http://www.computerways.com 		Software developer and MVP in South Florida
Dean Richards
Confio Software
http://www.confio.com 		Dean Richards is a Senior Engineer for Confio Software and has helped hundreds of companies solve database performance issues. Dean has over 20 years of experience in both development and database administration and has focused his entire career on performance tuning of Oracle and SQL Server environments. Most recently Dean has focused on the trend to virtualize databases while still achieving high performance.
Devin Rader
Twilio
http://www.twilio.com 		Devin Rader spends his day’s extoling the virtues of Twilio (www.twilio.com), the amazingly simple cloud telephony platform. Before that he worked at Infragistics where he focused on delivering great user experiences to developers using their controls. He's done work on all of the .NET platforms, but most recently has been focused on ASP.NET and Silverlight. As a co-founder of the St. Louis .NET User Group, a current board member of the Central New Jersey .NET User Group and a former INETA board member, he's an active supporter of the .NET developer community. He's also the co-author or technical editor of numerous books on .NET including Wrox's Professional Silverlight 4 and Wrox's Professional ASP.NET 4. Follow Devin on Twitter @devinrader
Eric Berkowitz
Consultant
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericberkowitzprofile 		Eric is an architect, public speaker on SharePoint, SQL Server and SSRS, and a Subject Matter Expert to other consultants. He's dedicated his career to Microsoft SQL Server-based systems since working at Sybase back when the company gave birth to SQL Server, in roles including developer, architect, manager, mentor, VP and consultant. Eric has specialized in Sharepoint since 2007 and is current with the on-premise and cloud versions of SharePoint 2013.
Esteban Garcia
AgileThought
http://www.almguide.com/ 		Esteban Garcia is a Solutions Architect and ALM Consultant at AgileThought, Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, ALM Ranger, Telerik Insider, and president of the Orlando .NET User Group (ONETUG). He has over 13 years of professional experience in software development, working in all phases of distributed object oriented enterprise application development and design using Microsoft technologies. Esteban excels in architecture and best practices and is passionate about Scrum and SDLC improvements using Visual Studio and TFS. Esteban also has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering with an emphasis in software design from the University of Central Florida.
Frank Quintana
TUA
http://www.tuauniversity.org 		I hold a PhD in Engineering and have more than 15 years of experience in the IT Industry. I have been working in North America as a business\system analyst and software architect for several years. I worked in Canada in the Memorial University of Newfoundland as a research engineer and later as a software Architect for EDS. I have worked for a number of companies in the USA as CITRIX, AUTONATION and ANC among others. I have been working for big and small companies, as an employee, or a contractor in teams and alone. Since 2004, I started my consulting practice in Florida doing a variety of tasks from database modeling and business intelligence to UML, business-system analysis and QA. Besides my consulting practice, I am a professor at the Technological University of America in Florida where I teach BA and IT disciplines, such as Databases, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Global IT and Social Media among others at the Master and Bachelor Degree levels.
Fritz Francis
PC Professor
http://www.meetup.com/pcprofessor 		Fritz Francis graduated from MIT in 1994 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Shortly afterward, he co-founded a company that sought to build a VRML enabled browser. He started using Microsoft technologies in 1995 with Microsoft Access and VBA and progressed to Visual Basic 4, SQL Server 6.5, and ASP. Fritz has been programming in .NET since its emergence in 2002. Fritz's particular interests are in C#, ASP .NET MVC, and Entity Framework and has been teaching those technologies at PC Professor.
Gary Blatt
SharePoint Resources
http://htttp://sharepointresources.net 		Gary Blatt has been in the IT industry for over 29 years, working with a variety of platforms and technologies. For the last 15 years he has focused exclusively on the Microsoft suite of tools, executing both small and large scale projects equally. His extensive experience with SharePoint includes architecting, developing and implementing deployments for up to 60,000 users worldwide in one client scenario. He is Microsoft Certified in SharePoint and Office as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He was recently selected as a Microsoft Certified Trainer-Regional Lead. He is so focused on the SharePoint product, his FL license plate reads SHRPNT.
Giles Marino
Core Technology Group
http://www.coretg.com 		Please email me for a copy of my presentation on Enterprise Architecture Design - gilesmarino@hotmail.com - Giles Marino is Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Certified Professional and an IFC Certified IT Architect with 20 years experience developing enterprise and commercial business applications. He earned his computer science degree abroad and completed his professional internship in 1992 at Control Data Systems, a worldwide leader in manufacturing scientific computer systems. Currently Giles works in a consultant role as Solutions Architect for Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI), a global IT services firm based out of Allentown PA. Giles is Secretary on the Board of Directors for the South Florida Chapter of IASA and also owns and operates his own consulting services company, Core Technology Group (www.coretg.com) which is primarily focused on Microsoft development platforms and technologies.
Henry Lee
new age solution
http://www.newagesolution.net 		Henry Lee is founder of NewAgeSolution.Net and is passionate about the technology. He is also the author of the book Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development 3nd edition from Apress (http://bit.ly/wp_apress_3rd). He works with various Fortune 500 companies delivering mobile applications and rich internet applications. He recently formed start-up company called ToeTapz.com focusing his energy on delivering mobile applications to the consumers. In his spare time, he dedicates his effort to help his .NET community by delivering sessions at the technology events. He enjoys talking with other technologist about current trends in the technology and sharing business insights with fellow colleagues. Often you will find Henry at local cigar bar enjoying a cigar and a drink trying to come up with next big mobile application.
Herve Roggero
Blue Syntax Consulting
http://www.bluesyntax.net 		Herve Roggero, Windows Azure MVP, is founder of Blue Syntax Consulting, a company specialized in cloud computing products and services. Herve's experience includes software development, architecture, database administration, and senior management with both global corporations and startup companies. Herve holds multiple certifications, including an MCDBA, MCSE, and MCSD. He also holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Indiana University. Herve is co-author of the Apress books PRO SQL Server 2012 Practices and Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure. For more information, visit www.bluesyntax.net.
Jason Milgram
Linxter, Inc.
http://allaware.com 		Jason, a social entrepreneur and creator of allAware, the free instant group app for nonprofit organizations, has been working with computers ever since he bought his first, a Timex/Sinclair 1000 in 6th grade and taught himself BASIC programming. Since then, Jason has worked in IT for clients such as 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 Reserve, serving 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). As a public speaker, Jason has presented on topics including cloud computing, Windows Azure, social entrepreneurship, and launching a tech start-up. He is a Microsoft Windows Azure MVP, one of seventeen in the United States, and a registered INETA Regional Speaker.
Jeff Barnes
Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes 		Mr. Barnes is an Architect in the Developer & Platform Evangelism division within Microsoft Corporation, where he engages with customer and partner architects to present Microsoft’s architectural vision and demonstrate how Microsoft technologies can be applied at the enterprise level to meet the current and evolving needs of the organization. Jeff has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry as a developer, analyst and architect. Jeff joined Microsoft Consulting Services in 1998 and over 7 years consulting on application server and developer technologies. He has deep experience in the retail, manufacturing, and financial industries. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of really tough technical challenges.
Jeff Blake
Skynet Software
http://skynetsoftware.net 		Jeff is a .NET Software Engineer, Technical Evangelist, and overall geek, with over 15 years experience in software development. Aside from Microsoft Technologies, he is also interested in Machine Vision, Machine Intelligence, Graph Theory, and hacking JavaScipt to do things most people would think are improbable.
Jeffrey J. Hardy
Perigon Networks
http://www.powerdnn.com 		Jeff Hardy has been working in and around the technology industry all his life. He has been published and presented internationally on cloud computing, economics, customer service, and communications. Jeff is the Director of Communications for Perigon Networks, a global multi-brand technology hosting company with datacenters in the US, UK and Australia. Brands include PowerDNN, ServerSilo, AppZone and more.
Jesse Liberty
Telerik
http://jesseliberty.com 		Jesse Liberty is a Technical Evangelist for Telerik. Liberty hosts the popular Yet Another Podcast and his blog is required reading. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including two forthcoming books on Windows 8. He was a Senior Evangelist for Microsoft, Microsoft MVP, Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS and Vice President of Information Technology at Citibank. Jesse can be followed on twitter at @JesseLiberty
Jesus Rodriquez
Tellago
http://jrodthoughts.com/ 		Jesus is the Chief Architect of Tellago and Tellago Studios. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft's Product Teams including Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Identity Framework, StreamInsight, AppFabric, .NET Software Design, Windows Workflow Foundation, SharePoint, and BizTalk Server. Jesus derived his extensive experience with business process integration and messaging through numerous implementations of disparate systems founded on the principles of SOA and BPM. Jesus is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities and an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include several articles for various publications including MSDN Magazine, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld and Web Services Journal as well as speaking engagements at top industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft DevDays, Microsoft SOA and the Microsoft MVP Summit. Additionally, Jesus has conducted a number of Web Casts on varying SOA technologies. Jesus is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration and has a true passion for technology. You can gain valuable insight on leading edge technologies through his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx.
Joe Homnick
Homnick Systems
http://homnick.com 		Joe Homnick is a Microsoft Regional Director since the start of the program almost 20 years ago and is a principal owner of Homnick Systems (HSI), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner located in Boca Raton, Florida. HSI is one of the most established Microsoft Certified Partners in the world, dating back to the beginning of the program in 1993. HSI delivers Microsoft services in the areas of system development and implementation through the practices of software consulting, development, training and mentoring. They hold Competencies in Business Intelligence, Software Development, Application Lifecycle Management and Portals and Collaboration.
John Dunagan
SW Florida .Net Developers Group
http://www.swfldev.net 		John Dunagan works by day as a software developer from his home in Naples for a DC-based educational company. In his spare time, John runs the SW Florida .Net Devs and stages SW Florida Code Camp in Naples each fall. John enjoys travel and is an avid golfer, sometimes lending his development expertise to local golf events and tournaments.
John Papa
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http://www.johnpapa.net 		John Papa is a well-known Silverlight expert and is a former Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft on the Silverlight and Windows 8 client teams. John is a Microsoft Regional Director and author of 100+ articles and 10 books, specializes in professional application development with technologies including Windows, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server. He can often be found speaking around the world at keynotes and sessions for conferences such as Build, MIX, PDC, TechEd, VSLive and DevConnections. John was the host of the popular show Silverlight TV on Channel 9 and hosted many events including the MIXer and Open Source Fest at major conferences. He currently enjoys authoring courses for Pluralsight. You can always find John at johnpapa.net or on twitter at @john_papa.
Jonas Stawski
DIS
http://www.jstawski.com 		I am a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) with many years of experience building and architecting .NET applications and even more years of professional experience using Microsoft development technologies such as ASP, Visual Basic, and SQL Server. I have worked in several markets such as Insurance, Real Estate, Leasing, Medical, among many others. I am very passionate about software development and love to write articles and speak about it at technical conferences. During my free time I like to enjoy time with my family, play sports (specifically the real football), play games, and code.
Joseph Kunk
Dart Container Corp
http://jbknet.blogspot.com 		Joe Kunk is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic, co-author of the On VB column for Visual Studio Magazine, three-time president of the Greater Lansing User Group for .NET, and Senior .NET Developer for Dart Container Corporation of Mason, Michigan. He's been developing software for 30 years and has worked in the education, government, financial and manufacturing industries. Joe co-authored "Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls" (Wrox Programmer to Programmer, 2009). He can be reached via email at joekunk@ajboggs.com.
Kathy Young
Incepture
http://www.incepture.com 		Serving as Incepture’s Staffing Operations Director, Kathy provides leadership for recruiting, major account management, partner program management and consultant relations. She has accountability for developing and executing staffing strategies to improve market share and reach revenue growth goals. Kathy is a seasoned staffing industry professional with a proven track record and over 15 years of experience. Prior to joining Incepture, she held various management positions with Idea Information Security, Technology Service Partners, The King Companies and Qualitech Systems. Kathy received a Bachelor of Arts in communication studies from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Keith Kabza
Microsoft
http:// 		Currently I am a Sr.Program Manager for the Lync and Exchange Masters program at Microsoft. I have a background in software development with Unified Communications and Telephony.
Kendal Van Dyke
UpSearch
http://www.kendalvandyke.com/ 		Kendal Van Dyke is a practiced IT professional with over a decade of experience in SQL Server development and administration. Kendal is currently a Principal Consultant with UpSearch, where he helps companies keep their SQL Servers running in high gear. Kendal is also a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server and President of the PASS chapter MagicPASS in Orlando.
Kevin D. Wolf
Software Logistics, LLC
http://www.TheWolfBytes.com 		Husband, proud papa of 3 crazy terriers. Windows Phone Development MVP President - Software Logistics, LLC Runner, beer drinker, cigar smoker, boater. Engineer for NiVek GO! QC3 (Quad Copter)
Louis Apicella
NeoGenomics Laboratories
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/louis-apicella/8/51/ba6/ 		Louis Apicella is currently the Director of Application Development at NeoGenomics Laboratories and has over 17 years experience in IT. Lou has been at NeoGenomics for over 6 years and started the IT department as well as transformed the IT group into a large scale, enterprise wide, full sevice IT organization. His professional passion is providing solutions for NeoGenomics clients & staff that make a positive impact to the company's bottom line.
Luis Figueroa
TekPartners
http://msbisf.sqlpass.org 		Luis Figueroa is a Solutions Architect for TekPartners Business Intelligence Solutions. He is a data professional specialized on Data Integration, Master Data Management, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence with over 10 years of experience in IT who has delivered several data solutions for many companies in South Florida. He is also the president of the Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group of South Florida (MSBISF) and Director at large of the South Florida SQL Server User Group (SFSSUG). Luis enjoys speaking at SQL Saturday and other community events every time he has a chance and he is very passionate about the SQL Server data platform.
Mark J Radacz
Fortegra Financial
http://geekswithblogs.net/mrad 		Mark was born and raised in Poland, lived in Germany and Canada before settling in Jacksonville. Works as a developer at Fortegra Financial, 20 years hands-on experience in object oriented software analysis, design, development and web development in MS Windows, UNIX and iOS. MCTS in Business Intelligence Solutions.
Matt Mikulicz
Kaplan University
http:// 		Matt is currently a member of Kaplan University's Innovations & Labs Team where he is the Product Owner & Tech Lead for the Social Portal. With over 12 years of development & leadership experience, Matt has consulted with various companies such as BMW Financial Services, MySpace, NetJets, and The Florida Dept. of Education. After speaking at a number of code camps, user groups, and ACM meetings between 2004-2007, he's back and now focusing on Cloud applications, systems integration, and delivering systems in shorter time-frames and for less cost.
Matt Trask
www.MattTrask.Com
http://www.matttrask.com 		Matt built his first personal computer with a soldering iron in 1978. Since that time he enjoyed an interesting career in software development and system programming. His favorite projects occurred between 1986 and 1989 when he wrote the first Virtual Machine systems on the 80386 processor. As CEO of Communica, Inc. he led a team of system engineers solving difficult problems for global technology companies. Matt is currently working as an independent consultant focused on embedded software development and Microsoft .NET Micro Framework.
Maximo Trinidad

 
Michael Stark
StarkNetwork
http://www.starknetwork.com 		Michael Stark has been writing software on a wide variety of platforms. He enjoys evolving as the industry evolves. These days he is writing windows phone and windows store apps.
Mir Majeed
AAJ Technologies Inc
http://www.aajtech.com 		Senior Practice Lead at AAJ Technology, managing CRM and Mobility divisions. In this role, Mir is responsible for guiding both an on-shore and offshore teams on every CRM & Mobility related project, developing extensive business plans, high-level consultation with clients, and coordinating project teams. Mir has extensive technical experience in Windows Phone 8, iOS, Android, Dynamics CRM 2011 and Cross platform development using IBM Worklight.
Morgan Baker
NCCI
http:// 		Morgan Baker is a Systems Consultant for the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc (NCCI) which has been operating since 1922 providing a variety of data products to over 900 insurance companies and 40 state governments. She has over 15 years of experience in web application development. Morgan is also involved in setting standards, approving enterprise components and documenting processes for the organization. When .NET was introduced, Morgan developed and taught the first C# courses at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL as an adjunct professor. During this time Morgan became active in the user group community helping organize and run the South Florida Code Camps, hosting Florida .NET User Group meetings, and volunteering for INETA. With a passion for the developer community, she spent over 4 years as an INETA board member in the roles of VP of Community Activities, Treasurer and Vice President.
Nathan Totten
Microsoft
http://ntotten.com 		Nathan Totten is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft specializing in Windows Azure, web development, and Node.js. He is also the creator and lead developer of the Facebook C# SDK. Before Microsoft, Nathan was a Senior Software Engineer at a startup where he worked on social media applications and analytics tools. He has experience building Windows Azure applications that handle large traffic spikes and maintain high availability and performance. He is also actively involved in open source development and the developer community. You will regularly find him answering questions on Stackoverflow.com and participating in open source forums.
Nik Molnar
Red Gate
http://www,nikcodes.com 		Nik Molnar is a New Yorker, ASP Insider and co-founder of Glimpse, an open source ASP.NET diagnostics and debugging tool. Originally from Florida, Nik specializes in web development, building scalable, client-centric solutions. In his spare time, Nik can be found cooking up a storm in the kitchen, hanging with his wife, speaking at conferences, and working on other open source projects.
Nina Grantcharova
LL Global, Inc.
http:// 		Nina Grantcharova is Software Architect at LLGloba Inc., a company that serves over 850 financial services companies in more than 70 countries around the world. Nina provides strategic technology oversight and direction to the Assessment business line and helps IT management and the business line leadership to plan long-term course. She is responsible for the design of the application landscape that helps the business line to realize its opportunities. Nina is a member of IASA Southeast Chapter Board and holds IFC, TOGAF9, ITIL, COBIT, MCPD, MCAD, MCSD, and MCDBA certifications.
Page Horton
Diamond Media Inc
http://www.pagehorton.com 		 
Patrick Delancy
Digital Evolution Group
http://www.patrickdelancy.com/ 		Patrick Delancy has been a passionate software developer for nearly 10 years. He has worked on a wide range of products, from multi-tier mobile enterprise application platforms to small platform applications and websites and everything in-between. As a family man and a professional developer, he loves to solve difficult problems, and considers himself to be a life-long learner. He only wishes that there were more hours in a day! Patrick is a full-time employee at Digital Evolution Group in Overland Park, KS. He can be found on most social networks (Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn) and he blogs regularly at http://www.patrickdelancy.com/
Paul Beaton
Sogeti
http://thebeatonpath.tumblr.com 		Paul is a 12 year veteran in the software industry. He is currently a consultant the Florida Mobility Lead for Sogeti, USA. His entire professional career has been on the Microsoft development stack. These days, he spends his days doing web development and his nights doing Windows Store application development. Paul's Windows Phone game, Zombie Apocalypse has surpassed the 90,000 download mark. Read more about Paul on his blog at thebeatonpath.tumblr.com and follow him on twitter @pauljbeaton.
Philip Japikse
Telerik
http://www.skimedic.com 		An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as a Developer Evangelist for Telerik's RadControls for Windows 8 as well as the Just family of products (JustCode, JustMock, JustTrace, and JustDecompile), serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, and is the host of the Zero To Agile podcast (www.telerik.com/zerotoagile). Phil also founded Agile Conferences, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to advancing agile in all aspects of software development. Phil also serves as Cub Scout Committee Chair for his sons’ Cub Scout Pack, volunteers for the National Ski Patrol, and is a recently retired Firefighter/Paramedic. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog.
Pierre Donyegro
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfedev/ 		Pierre Donyegro joined Microsoft in 2007 supporting .NET Technologies, Debugging, TFS, WCF, IIS and application Compatibility. He is now specialized in TFS, helping to address customer issues onsite and providing workshop in the area of the Developer Tools and techniques, Visual Studio Testing Tools and TFS administration. Early on he joined the Rangers Team, contributing to the first Branching Guidance published on Codeplex and the Build Customization Guidance and Process Template Customization. The largest audience of one Pierre’s deliveries was in Bucharest, Romania with more than 200 people. The highlight of the delivery was that one of the attendees came from the back of the room and kissed the screen during the presentation and in his own words told the audience “I Love Windows 7”. Pierre has a passion for TFS and he has experienced many different implementations on customer’s sites. Pierre is exited to share some of his practical knowledge to a wider audience at Code Camp.
Qasim Mehmood
AAJ Technology
http://www.aajtech.com 		16 Years of experience and 25+ enterprise level Projects. Worked in Microsoft for 4 years as a Technical SharePoint Program Manager on the following Products: MSN Live @ edu, MSDN, Zune, XBOX, Microsoft Care, TechNet Newsletter...etc Experience Includes, • Enterprise Project Reporting for T-Mobile (High Tech) • Case management System for Washington Supreme Courts (US-Gov.) • SharePoint SAP integration Strategy for MERCK pharmaceuticals (Pharmaceuticals, Health Care) • License Keys Management System for Microsoft Inc. (High Tech) • ITA Central for Washington Commerce Department (US-Gov.) Extensive work experience in larger user base environments from 1 Million to 5 Million. Extensive Strategy and Roadmap designing experience for Larger, Web, SharePoint, Disaster Response Systems which includes, Mobile, IPad.
Rainer Habermann
Global Response
http://geekswithblogs.net/Rainer/Default.aspx 		Rainer Habermann is Chief Information Officer and IFC certified IT Architect at Global Response. He started as a Software Developer and worked international as IT Manager for almost 2 decades, successful completing projects for fortune 500 companies. His focus is on IT Architecture, IT Strategies, Business Management, and Software Development. He enjoys working in the user group community as speaker coordinator for South Florida Code Camp, and as President for the IASA South East Florida Chapter.
Ralph Williams
arrow consulting & design
http://arrowdesigns.com/ 		Ralph Williams, an Experience Designer and Web Developer, has been working with DotNetNuke for 6 years with a primary focus on Design and Skinning. He specializes in skinning user friendly tableless designs using CSS best practices and clean, light-weight code, enhanced with jQuery. Ralph has spoken at DotNetNuke World, multiple Day of DotNetNukes, Code Camps and User Groups. With his experience in DotNetNuke and SharePoint, he has overcome many of the inherent obstacles that web developers face on a daily basis and enjoys sharing his expertise with others.
Randy Patterson
Catapult Systems
http://www.randypatterson.com 		Randy Patterson is a Senior Lead Consultant for Catapult Systems. He has been working as a Software Engineer since 1990, developing .NET Desktop and ASP.NET Enterprise Applications since 2002. Randy help start the Tampa .NET User Group and continues to be active in the local community speaking at various User Group meetings and Code Camps. In his spare time he enjoys reading Science Fiction and Fantasy and can be found lurking in his corner of the Internet at http://www.randypatterson.com
Ray Almonte
Sunny Ray Solutions
http://appdevpm.blogspot.com/ 		Although I've traveled extensively, I am a long time Miami resident. Graduated from the University of Miami in 1971 with a degree in Mathematics, & spent some time with the US Army in the Corps Of Engineers. I've been in Software Applications Development, both as a developer & as a Project Manager for more years than I care to count.
Richie Rump
Jorriss LLC
http://jorriss.net 		Richie Rump is a software developer, data architect and project manager. He currently helps companies solve their data challenges using SQL Server and .Net. He holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certifications as well as certifications in various Microsoft development technologies. Richie is also the founder of the dotNet Miami, a community focused on enterprise development with .NET and SQL Server. His previous experience includes working with Burger King, Florida Power and Light, Ryder and Walt Disney World. Richie is a graduate of the University of Miami where he received a Business degree in Computer Information Systems.
Rick Rainey
Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rickrain/ 		Rick Rainey is a Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE) in the Services and Support Division at Microsoft. He works closely with developers of Microsoft’s Enterprise and ISV customers to help them build applications to meet their business needs. Rick joined Microsoft in 2002 as an Escalation Engineer in the Developer & Tools Support Team, supporting the .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET. In 2006, he moved to the Premier Services – ISV Practice as a Developer Consultant working closely with Microsoft partners and ISV’s. In 2009 he joined PFE, extending his developer support and consulting activities to helping customers leverage cloud technologies. His passion is helping customers realize their potential using Microsoft’s tools and technologies. His primary areas of focus are in technologies such as Windows Azure (public, private, hybrid), Web Services (WCF/SOAP, REST), Web Applications (ASP.NET MVC), and Identity (claims-based security).
Ronald Butler
Ethamatics
http://ethamatics.com 		Develops Rich Internet Applications using our custom client side JavaScript/jQuery API and SharePoint's Web Services. Our API makes developing SharePoint Apps a breeze and brings the fun of creating interactive web applications into SharePoint.
Russell Fustino
ComponentOne
http://www.componentone.com 		Russ Fustino heads up Developer Evangelism at ComponentOne as a Senior Developer Evangelist. He is a highly experienced Windows Phone and Windows 8 software developer with a passion for conveying relevant, current, and future software development technologies and tools through live seminars, teaching, and internet video productions. Russ has a new innovative blog and interview video series with influentials, about current technology, ComponentOne products and developer community called ‘Russ Cam’! Check it out at http://gvtv.gcpowertools.com … He has enlightened, entertained and educated over 200,000 developers nationwide as a former Developer Evangelist for Microsoft.
Ryan Morgan
arrow consulting & design
http://arrowdesigns.com/ 		Ryan Morgan is a managing partner and senior architect at Arrow Consulting & Design in West Palm Beach, Florida. At Arrow, Ryan focuses on large-scale business process automation and business intelligence in the areas of finance and master data management using SharePoint and DotNetNuke with Silverlight and ASP.NET. Ryan is an active member of the .NET and SharePoint community speaking at Code Camps, SharePoint Saturdays and at DevConnections in Las Vegas. Ryan is also a published book author, having co-written Professional DotNetNuke 5 for Wrox and several articles for MSDN.
Sam Abraham
SISCO
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/wildturtle 		Sam Abraham is a Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS ASP.Net 3.5, 4.0 and Silverlight 4) and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) striving to leverage proven technology solutions to produce cost-effective, quality software that meets customer needs, timelines and budgets. He is currently a member of the Software Engineering Team at SISCO, the leader in maritime security solutions with customers including Princess, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines as well as the US Coast Guard. A strong believer in learning through sharing and the value of community fellowship, Sam has been actively involved in the local community as leader of the West Palm Beach Developers’ Group, volunteer board member at the International Association for All IT Architects South Florida Chapter (IASA), and former volunteer at the South Florida Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Sam Mesel
Microsoft
http:// 		I am a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) for SQL Server, with many years of experience developing, consulting, architecting, managing projects, and teaching SQL Server. I also have professional experience using Microsoft development technologies such as ASP, Visual Basic, Reporting Services, and Excel applications via Macros or VBA code. I have worked as independent consultant for large corporations like J&J, XEROX, Compaq Computers, Du Pont, among many others. I am fanatic about performance software development and love to write articles and speak about it at technical conferences. On my free time I enjoy my family, do some long runs to prepare for marathons, and read technical articles/books.
Sara Hand
SP Hand and Associates
http://sphandandassociates.com/ 		Sara’s background and experience across a variety of industries in the public and private sectors and dual leadership roles in many vibrant community initiatives provide Sara with a rare combination of skill sets to inspire creative solutions. Her strengths leveraging unique value propositions and her ability to create synergistic partnerships between the many incredible resources within her networking connections pool enable her to be a uniquely valuable and visionary leader to her clients. Passionate about education and economic development, whether working with a company or a community initiative, Sara focuses on identifying organizational strengths and developing internal leadership skills. She encourages others to get involved, and believes strongly that even one person can make a difference through the “Power of Permission” and brings this unique perspective to the community building activities she organizes. She's currently involved with BarCamp Sarasota, the Gulf Coast Venture Forum and angel investor networks, and other groups such as the Suncoast Technology Forum and TEDx Sarasota.
Scott Katarincic
Katarincic.com
http://www.katarincic.com
Scott Katarincic – Information Technology Solutions Engineer
Scott has over twenty five years of experience holding senior level mission critical positions such as Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Technical Account Manager and Senior Programmer and Consultant. Scott earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Data Processing from Northern Michigan University and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA).

In addition, Scott is proficient in Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning, Application Design and Programming, Web Development and Project Management.
Scott Klein
Microsoft
http://www.scottlklein.com 		Scott Klein is a Corporate Technical Evangelist for Microsoft focusing on Windows Azure SQL Database (AKA SQL Azure) and related cloud-ready data services. His entire career has been built around SQL Server, working with SQL Server since the 4.2 days. Prior to Microsoft he was a SQL Server MVP for several years, then followed that up by being one of the first 4 SQL Azure MVPs. Scott is the author of over 1/2 dozen books for both WROX and APress, including Pro SQL Azure. He can be found talking about Windows Azure SQL Database and database scalability and performance at events large and small wherever he can get people to listen, such as SQL Saturday events, local SQL Server user groups, and TechEd.
Shayne Boyer
Boyer Consulting Services, LLC
http://blog.tattoocoder.com 		Shayne Boyer has been developing Microsoft based solutions for the last 15 years. Currently working as a Solutions Architect focused on Services Oriented Architecture and in his spare time runs the Orlando Windows Phone and Windows 8 User Group. He is a passionate developer and loves to talk about his craft, teach and also learn from others. - Telerik MVP - Nokia Developer Champion - INETA Speaker
Slobodan Stipic

http://www.DevAtHeart.com 		I have been developing for Windows platform for over ten years working for startups and Fortune 500 companies. Outside of my day job I work with Windows RT and Windows Phone platforms. I am also active in the developer community. I enjoy attending and speaking at the user groups, code camps, and volunteering at GiveCamps. I have recently accepted a position of Director of Communication with Orlando .NET User Group.
Stan Schultes
BarCamp Sarasota
http://http;//stanschultes.net 		Stan Schultes has a passion for teaching the complexities of technology in easy to understand language. He has a broad range of software and systems architecture experience, from leading teams in the Fortune 200 to tech stewardship of a small startup. Stan enjoys applying leading-edge technology and software R&D - always pushing the limits of available technology. Besides his passion for technology, Stan is an accomplished community builder. He's founded several organizations, from Sarasota .NET Developers to BarCamp Sarasota, one of the largest and fastest growing business and technology groups in Florida. He's on the Board of Directors for the Suncoast Technology Forum, and a tech advisor for the Gulf Coast Venture Forum, an angel investor network. Stan speaks and writes extensively about technology, is a book author, and a lifelong learner. He's a recognized expert in Microsoft platform technologies, having earned the Microsoft MVP award 9 years running.
Steve Earle
E2Marketing
http://www.e2mktg.com/ 		Steve is a technologist with over 20 years experience in international markets. Steve started his IT career in 1981 writing code on a Sinclair ZX81. From there he became manager of the Micro Computer Division at ASAP where he developed business management solutions on AT&T UNIX platforms. Steve has worked in the Digital Signage industry for over 4 years where he brings his technological, design and marketing experience to the table.
Syed Ali
AAJ Technologies
http://www.aajtech.com 		Syed has over 18 years’ experience in software development and project management. Syed is a certified ScrumMaster, certified PMP and Microsoft certified trainer (MCT). As a practice lead application development at AAJ, his role is to manage and monitor onshore and offshore teams for successful implementation of the projects. Syed has managed medium to large scaled projects for various enterprises.
Thomas Robbins
Kentico CMS
http://www.kentico.com 		Thom Robbins is the Chief Evangelist for Kentico Software. He is responsible for evangelizing Kentico CMS for ASP.NET with on-line marketers, Web developers, Web designers and interactive agencies. Prior to joining Kentico, Thom joined Microsoft Corporation in 2000 and served in a number of executive positions. Most recently, he led the Developer Audience Marketing group that was responsible for increasing developer satisfaction with the Microsoft platform. Thom also led the .NET Platform Product Management group responsible for customer adoption and implementation of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio. Mr. Robbins was also a Principal Developer Evangelist working with developers across the world on implementing .NET based solutions.
Tim Corbett
A Little Bit of Code, LLC
http:// 		Tim is an experienced .NET Developer currently running his own Consulting business. He primarily does MVC Websites for customers with many deployed applications.
Tom Huynh
Dycom/CertusView Tech through Sherlock Group
http:// 		MSCS with 8 years of working in full SDLC serving clients like: Nortel Network, Hewlett Packard, United World Telecom and currently Dycom Industry (through SherLock Group). Interest in design pattern and nature of software development.
Walter V. Williams, Jr.
CHB Consulting, Inc
http://www.chb-consulting.com 		Walter Williams is a Sr. Software Engineer who has been designing, developing and testing software since 1983. He owns CHB Consulting, Inc. (www.CHB-Consulting.com) out of Rockledge, FL, which has several software products on the market. Between the work on the company software products and contracts for outside clients, he has a wide range of skills and knowledge. His primary focus is on desktop database applications using VB.NET or C#.NET and versions of SQL Server. He is in the early stages of website creation using DotNetNuke. He enjoys presenting, and helping others to learn.
Will Strohl
DotNetNuke Corporation
http://www.dotnetnuke.com 		Will Strohl is an author and technologist in the San Francisco area, specializing in DotNetNuke. Will has held positions ranging from Help Desk Technician, to being the Director of Technology over his 14 years in IT. Now, he is an Evangelist and Sales Engineering Manager for DotNetNuke® Corporation (www.dotnetnuke.com). Will was also the President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group or ODUG (orlando.dotnetnukeug.net) for 2 years, and the Vice President of the Orlando .Net User Group or ONETUG (www.onetug.org), but now is an active member of the Bay Area DNN User Group or BayDUG (www.baydug.org). Will regularly speaks at user groups, webinars, and other events about DotNetNuke® and the various ways it can be used and managed, including founding the Day of DotNetNuke®. He also won the INETA Community Champions award for 2008 Q3 and 2009 Q3. He was first published in the SDN Magazine, writing about Skin Widgets in DotNetNuke. Will publishes DotNetNuke videos, and is a freelance Technical Editor for Professional DotNetNuke 5 and DotNetNuke 5 User's Guide by Wrox, as well as Wrox Blox, including DotNetNuke and Web Standards, and Done in 60 Minutes: Building a Custom DotNetNuke Membership Provider. Most recently, Will was selected and spoke at the prestigious DNNConnections portion of the DevConnections in Las Vegas in 2010 and DotNetNuke World in 2011 & 2012.
Will Tartak
ALP1, Incorporated
http://alp1.com 		Will Tartak has been a professional software developer and consultant for almost 18 years. He is the President of Visual Data Solutions, Inc. and a Principal of ALP1, Inc., the makers of the Team Pad line of mobile sports apps. He has end to end experience in developing applications with many technologies. He designs and programs databases, middle tiers and builds applications with various front ends including Desktop, Web & Mobile. He loves discussing software architecture. In the real world he is a husband, father and grandfather. Will loves zipping around in his MINI, rock climbing and torturing himself finishing triathlons, slowly, but finishing