Speakers

Scott Cate

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:12:41 GMT

Scott Cate

Scott Cate, www.ScottCate.com

Lorin Thwaits

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:11:27 GMT

Lorin Thwaits

Stephen Swienton

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:13:24 GMT

Stephen Swienton

Stephen Swienton started developing web pages with ASP in 1996 and has since specialized in developing web sites with Microsoft Technologies, including VB/VB.NET, ASP/ASP.NET, and SQL Server. Stephen currently remains focused on developing with ASP.NET and promoting ASP.NET (and .NET) in the community. His community involvement includes: President of the Fort Worth .NET User Group, ASPInsider Board Member, Microsoft MVP, and member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council. Stephen received his bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems and Quantitative Business Analysis from Baylor University and is currently a Senior Developer with Point 2 Point ( www.p2pmro.com).

Paul Schroeder

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:12:24 GMT

Paul Schroeder

Paul is an independent contractor specializing in .NET application development. Paul has a decade of experience developing desktop and Web applications for clients like Wells Fargo, Intel, American Express and Allstate Insurance.

He is currently perfecting a customized code-generation solution that leverages CodeSmith and the CSLA framework. Samples of his work can be found at http://www.SegiSoft.com.

Steele Price

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:12:58 GMT

Steele Price

Steele Price has been professionally designing and developing databases and interfaces to them for over 20 years. He has also been professionally developing with Microsoft Visual Basic, SQL Server and Visual Studio since their inception 15 years ago. He is currently the CTO at Digistor, Inc. A leading service company developing Medical Document Imaging and Data Warehousing solutions for Hospitals nationwide as well as other vertical markets.

His real world experience will help you to understand how the landscape of database development has dramatically changed over the years and how the tools we have available today can make creating data-drive applications simpler and more productive than ever before.

Michele Bustamente

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:11:57 GMT

Michele Bustamente

Michele is a Deep Training instructor. Michele has 8 years of experience in Windows and .NET development. Her earlier specialties included GDI, multimedia, and ActiveX technologies back to OLE 1.0. In addition to teaching classes for Deep Training, Michele is an instructor at UCSD Extension, and is the Program Advisor for the VB and VC++ certificate program. In her spare time she enjoys writing and speaking about .NET, C#, ActiveX, COM, ATL and web development. Michele is also a member of the International .NET Association (INETA) Speakers Bureau (Which is how she's coming to our meeting [Thanks INETA]).

Craig Utley

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:10:34 GMT

Craig Utley

Craig Utley is the President of CIOBriefings LLC, a consulting company focused on enterprise architecture, development team building and productivity, and business intelligence. Craig has been developing with Microsoft tools since the Visual Basic 1.0 days and has worked with companies of all sizes, helping them architect, design, and implement enterprise-wide applications on Microsoft technologies. His interest in developer productivity has led him into the world of design patterns, test-driven development (TDD), and agile/extreme methodologies. He is a published author of articles, courseware, and books, including the first book on VB .NET beta 2 that Microsoft authorized for release. He has been a frequent conference speaker at such conferences as ASP.NET Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, Microsoft’s Developer Days, and more. He holds an MCSD and is a Microsoft MVP.

Kathleen Dollard

scottcate — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:11:03 GMT

Kathleen Dollard

Kathleen Dollard is a consultant, author, trainer, and speaker. She’s been a Microsoft MVP since 1998, is a member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau, wrote “Code Generation in Microsoft .NET” (Apress), and is a regular contributor to Visual Studio Magazine. She speaks at industry conferences such DevConnections, and Microsoft DevDays as well as local user groups around the US. She’s the founder and principal of GenDotNet. Her passion is helping programmers be smarter in how they develop by learning to use Visual Studio, generics, WinForms, XML related technologies, .NET languages, code generation, unit testing, and other tools to their full capacity. She’s currently most excited about showing programmers how generics can help them write better code. When not working, she enjoys woodworking, snowshoeing, and kayaking depending on the outdoor temperature.