CMAP Code Camp Fall 2011

Pete Brown is a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft, leading the Developer Community team, as well as a former Microsoft Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker, and RIA Architect. Pete's focus at Microsoft is the community around client application development (Windows 8 XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Surface, Windows Forms, C++, Native Windows API, .NET Micro Framework, Robotics, and more), with a particular focus on XAML and gadgets.

Pete is the author of the best-selling Silverlight 4 in Action, currently published by Manning Publications, and of Silverlight 5 in Action and Windows 8 XAML in Action, both currently in development with Manning and slated for a 2012 release.

David Hoerster, a C# MVP, is a recovering corporate financial analyst and has been working with the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early 1.0 betas. He is the co-founder of BrainCredits (www.braincredits.com), a recent start-up that is hoping to change the way people learn on the web. David is the co-chair of the Pittsburgh .NET User's Group (PGHDOTNET), organizer of several recent Pittsburgh Code Camps and is also an occasional speaker at Pittsburgh and regional user group and code camp events. David can be found rarely blogging at http://geekswithblogs.net/DavidHoerster and also is an occasional Tweeter (@DavidHoerster).

Buchanan (Buck) Dunn is a Senior C# Web Developer with Invision located in Herdon,VA. Previously he has worked for Deltek, Corporate Executive Board and DubMeNow. He has spoken at Code Camps and User Groups in the DC area.

Dean Fiala is a Senior Software Therapist at Fortigent, LLC. He teaches various C# courses at Montgomery College, and has been writing software for far too long. The second Wednesday night of every month you can find him at RockNUG, where he serves as the group's figurehead and tweet master.

Van, a Senior Web Developer for Innervisions Software, Inc. since 1996, started programming Mainframes using COBOL, JCL for a fortune 100 company. Van has been a line of business application developer for over 30 years. In 2003 Van started developing application professionally with .Net specializing ASP.Net.

Van is currently the leader of the Cap Area .Net Silverlight Special Interest Group. He spends his spare time creating Lightswitch applications for Prince William Special Olympics. He has recently deploy a Lightswitch to manage their volunteers.

Van has a BA in Mathematics from Lehman College in New York City and a MS in Computer Science from George Washington University. Van holds MCP certifications in Visual Basic, Access, ASP.Net and SQL Server.

Dani Diaz (@DaniDiaz), is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist where he helps developers understand Microsoft's product offerings and strategy. His main focus area is Windows Phone development. Prior to Microsoft, he lead a team of mobile developers for a large consulting company in Philadelphia. He is active in the Philly geek scene and plays around with many different technologies in his spare time.

Joel Cochran is an Expression Blend MVP, an INETA Community Champion, and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Windows Forms and WPF. He is the founder of BlendSIG, a virtual Special Interest Group focused on Expression Blend and author of "Expression Blend in Action" by Manning Publications. He is also the author of "The Practical MVVM Manifesto" (http://practicalmvvm.com). He has been developing for Windows since 2003 and is a self-proclaimed "Blend Evangelist".

A frequent speaker at User Groups and Code Camps, he enjoys teaching and writing about .NET and other topics. You can find him online at http://www.developingfor.net or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joelcochran. Joel has served as the Director of Operations for Stonewall Technologies, Inc., an ISV, in Staunton, VA, since 2000.

A Microsoft Developer Consultant in Microsoft's Public Sector Federal Services business. I've been at Microsoft for 4 years, working as a PFE (Premier Field Engineer) for a couple years, then moving over to MCS to focus more on .Net development. I've covered a broad range of technologies during this time, covering the breadth of .Net, from ASP.Net to Silverlight & SharePoint/FAST 2010, to WPF, TPL, and on....

I've recently began to focus more on the Security Development Lifecycle and better development practices in general. I've been working with customers to adopt the SDL more broadly in their software development projects, regardless of the language/technologies used.

Kendall Miller is one of the founding partners of Gibraltar Software, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) that develops and markets commercial applications for .NET developers, including: Gibraltar – an application logging and monitoring platform; and VistaDB – a small-footprint, SQL Server-compatible embedded database engine. Both products are used by customers around the world ranging from individual consultants through Fortune 100 companies and governments.

Before starting Gibraltar Software, Kendall worked for multiple startups leading their technology development from concept through profitability. In each case, he's focused on translating enterprise-level performance and capabilities down to smaller companies. Using multiple generations of Microsoft technologies over the past 15 years, Kendall is experienced with the details of modern .NET development as well as the challenges that have stayed the same for generations. You can follow his blog at rocksolid.gibraltarsoftware.com or on Twitter (@KendallMiller).

John Baird is the founder of Xamlware, Inc., a professional consulting firm specializing in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development. John has 30 years of experience designing, coding, and implementing software solutions.

John co-founded the Northern Delaware .Net Users group, is heavily involved in the local .Net communities, and travels extensively presenting to user groups, code camps and special interest groups. John has also published a number of articles for CoDe magazine.

John is also a 4 time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP award and is one of the first MVP’s for Windows Phone 7.

Kevin Jones is a Senior Consultant and Team Lead at LogicBoost, formerly Thycotic Software, a leading software development company in the heart of Washington DC with expertise in Agile Practices. He enjoys loud music and speaking to the community on a wide range of topics including .NET, Agile, and Ruby.

Soe works on Data Collection applications with complex business logic for the American College of Cardiology, a non-profit, located in Washington DC.

He has successfully converted all of the major applications from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC framework with the help of custom T4 Code Templates by generating 80% of the code base and allowing other developers to focus on writing the Business Logic.

Dave has been developing database applications for over 20 years. An MCT since 2001, he has taught many classes from Intro to Visual Interdev (what is that?) to Advanced SharePoint Development. Dave attained MVP status in 2009-2010, but then gave it all up to be with his friends. Dave runs a user group, the Maryland and Pennsylvania Microsoft Developer's User Group (www.mapamdug.com) and does SharePoint training and development for DSA, Inc., a DoD contractor that does great work for the Army over at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Dave has bunch of certifications, including MCPD SharePoint Developer and MCP DEAD.

Chris has been writing Windows software professionally for 18 years. His hobby for game development started much earlier by moving around ASCII characters in text mode using BASICA. His day jobs have included developing kiosks for theme parks and retail stores and portfolio analytics for commericial lending. However, in his free time, you'll find Chris playing the latest games on his Xbox 360 or Windows Phone 7.

John Brown is a Software Craftsman who has been continually searching for the better approach. Having been paid to write software since he was in high-school, he has continually been improving his development skills over his career. For the last ten years, he has been working in the Microsoft .NET space leading teams of developers writing software systems for the Federal and International government agencies. He has spent significant time learning how to improve software quality, better organize teams, and streamline the Application Lifecycle Management. More recently he has joined the instructors at PluralSight providing on-site classroom and on-line video training in Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. John resides in Annapolis, MD just outside of the nation's capital. When he's not teaching or consulting you'll find him spending time with his wife and three children searching out the best places to Ski, Scuba, and Wind Surf. "Good Luck on your Journey to becoming a true Software Craftsman"

Hal Hayes is a Managing Consultant with Excella Consulting where he leads the SharePoint practice for Excella's Microsoft Center of Excellence (MSCOE). He is a frequent speaker on emerging technologies and development strategies. Hal is also active in the developer user group community, including founding and leading one of the oldest Microsoft technology groups in the Metro DC area (CAPAREA.Net). He currently runs the Northern Virginia CodeCamp (NovaCodeCamp.org) organization that provides a free single-day developer conference biannually. Hal has led both large and small team development for both Federal (US Marine Corps, US Navy, National Institute of Health, Department of State, and Department of Defense) and commercial ventures. Hal is a Naval Flight Officer and Naval Reserve Commander, Retired.

Jason Fabritz is a software developer at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab where he has worked on a variety of projects ranging from multi-user WPF Desktop applications to human workflow centric websites built using ASP.NET/MVC and SQL Server.

Jim is a Senior Developer and Technical Lead at Northrop Grumman for 18 years. He has architected and designed solutions for both Web and Windows platforms, mostly dealing with engineering applications. He has 6 kids, a wife and apparently some new Goldfish.

Jim is Hooked on CMAP he was coordinator for several CMAP certification study groups including WCF, ASP.NET and the .NET Framework.

Jim was involved in helping to plan and run the highly successful GiveCamp that CMAP just held in October of this year, where over $250,000 worth of software was written for free by local developers and then given back to over 20 local non-profit groups.

Steve Michelotti is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and an Architect/Developer for Applied Information Sciences (AIS). He has consulted at Advertising.com/AOL where he was the Tech Lead for one of the highest volume .NET applications in the world. He previously was the Chief Technologist at e.magination. Steve is a frequent presenter at developer user groups and Code Camps along the East Coast and holds the MCSD, MCPD, and MCT certifications. Steve has been on Microsoft Channel9 and his published articles include Visual Studio Magazine and his blog: www.geekswithblogs.net/michelotti.

Supriya is a Computer Engineer and she holds her Masters degree in Computer Science. She has published research papers at various IEEE conferences. Supriya is currently working as Software Engineer at Micros Systems. She has work experience using Microsoft .NET technologies as well as Java.

Shrikant is an engineer with Masters degree in Computer Science. He is currently working with a Non-Profit organization based in Washington DC. His most of the work experience is using Microsoft.NET technologies.

Claudio is a Software Architect, with a particular interest in maximizing the amount of work not done, by employing best software design practices. He has been working with the .NET Framework since version 1.0, and is currently involved in several open source Health Care IT initiatives. Technologies he works with on a daily basis include: C#, MVVM, Silverlight, WCF, Windows Identity Foundation and SOA.

Chris has nearly 20 years, yes that's right, of web development experience. He has built a wide variety of web sites and applications in those years. In the past couple of years he has begun to immerse himself in the mobile web application space. He has authored 2 printed books and is a 4 time ASP.NET MVP and speaks regularly at user groups and code camps around the country.