Steve Michelotti, MSCD, MCPD, MCT is the Principal Developer / Microsoft Technologies Evangelist at e.magination in Baltimore. He is currently consulting at Advertising.com/AOL as the Tech Lead for one of the highest volume .NET applications in the world. His published articles include Visual Studio Magazine and on his blog.

Dan Clark is a senior IT consultant specializing in .NET and SQL Server technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and Microsoft Certified Database Administrator. For the past decade, he has been developing applications and training others how to develop applications using Microsoft technologies. Dan is a regular speaker at various developer conferences and user group meetings. He regularly publishes articles dealing with .NET and SQL Server development. Dan’s most recent book “Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with VB 2005” is available from Apress publishers.

Jay Flowers is the creator of the CI Factory open source project. He contributed the CI Factory section to the book Windows Developer Power Tools. Jay has also been involved in the MbUnit project and other smaller open source projects. His enthusiasm for software development is evident in the articles and blog posts on jayflowers.com. He is currently working at Stelligent.

Gary has been in the IT industry for over 24 years, working with a variety of platforms and technologies. For the last 12 years he has focused exclusively on the Microsoft suite of tools, executing both small and large scale projects equally. As a senior resource, he has taken mentoring past the normal level to full blown training for over 8 years. His hands on, real world approach to knowledge transfer has been used to great effectiveness in many organizations across the country. His extensive experience with SharePoint includes architecting, developing and implementing deployments for up to 60,000 users worldwide in one client scenario. Part of that experience is also in providing the proper level of training to end-users, administrators, content managers, developers and C-level executives. He is so focused on the SharePoint product, his VA license plate reads SHRPNT.

Kevin Jones is an Microsoft ASP.NET and works for Thycotic Software, Ltd in Washington DC.

Osama A. Morad has over 20 years of computer and programming experience. He programmed extensively in C, UNIX, and Java and has been teaching and developed applications in .NET and C# since 2001. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from George Mason University and a Master of Art Degree in Instructional Development Systems from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Osama is the President & CEO of Morad Learning, Inc.

Edwin Ames has been developing software for 10+ years. He has written solutions for many industries including Corporate Relocation and Insurance, and is an occasional speaker at DotNet events. He is currently a Senior Developer with GCom2 Solutions where he uses C# along with a healthy helping of NUnit to solve business problems. His technical interests include design patterns and development methodologies. Contact at ameseddev@comcast.net

Professionally Jim Tomney is a senior Systems Engineer at SOURCECORP (www.srcp.com), a leading provider of business process outsourcing solutions headquartered in Dallas. His focus is providing customized imaging and workflow applications in .Net for the mid-Atlantic region with special expertise in healthcare given his prior career as a dentist. When not behind the keyboard Jim enjoys spending time with his family in Towson and exploring the night sky through one of his telescopes.

Greg Galipeau is a Senior Consultant at RDA Corporation in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Greg Galipeau is also the Collaboration Evangelist Team Leader as well as a member of the Architectural Evangelist team at RDA. He have been coding in .net since it came out and is Microsoft Certified – MCAD, MCSD, MCPD, MTS(SQL Server 2005), MTS(SharePoint).

Matthew Podwysocki is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services based in Washington DC. Matthew started his love of computers and languages the day he got his first Commodore 64 and taught himself Basic and Assembly Language in 1984 when he was 7 years old. From that point on, and the past 10 years professionally, Matthew has been a self described language geek and working with .NET languages since the early Betas in 2001. Languages that currently interest him include Ruby, Scala and F#. Since 2005, he took the plunge into Agile and said goodbye to waterfall. He founded the DC ALT.NET User Group which takes many ideas of the ALT.NET movement to the local level in the Washington DC area with monthly meetings. Matthew is actively involved with ALT.NET and is helping plan the ALT.NET Seattle conference and future conferences. He is an active member of the Washington DC area developer community and participates and speaks at user groups. Since joining Microsoft, he has been focused on Public Sector projects in the Capital area.

Scott Allen is a Microsoft MVP with 13 years of experience in development and software architecture. Scott is a founder of the .NET oriented site OdeToCode.com and regularly presents at national conferences, code camps, and user groups.

Mark Lindell is the Lead Software Architect for Phillips/VISICU. Mark has been passionate about software development for over 30 years with experience in CAD/CAM, CBT, and medical information technologies. Recently Mark has been using WPF to develop a R&D prototype for visualizing a high number of critically ill patients in remote monitored ICU facilities.

Pete Brown is Architect, Project Manager and Client Platforms Evangelist for Applied Information Sciences. Since his first sprite graphics and custom character sets on the Commodore 64, Pete has always had a deep interest in UI design and animation, human factors, and user experience. In July 2007, Pete was responsible for the first Silverlight managed code (1.1 alpha at the time) application to go into production: the Conservation International Carbon Calculator. Since then, he has spoken at numerous events and groups, on client technologies topics including WPF, and Expression. Pete's personal site and blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com and he is active in the Silverlight.net community as Psychlist1972. In January 2008, Pete was named MVP "Visual Developer - Client Application Development" for his work in Silverlight and WPF.

He brings over 9 years of development experience specializing in JavaScript, ASP.NET, C# and Perl. As an advocate of Open Source, he has experience, including some contributions, with a variety of major open source projects in .Net. A 'keyboard fanatic', in his latest attempt to remove mouse clicks from his development environment, he has created a 'VIM style' emulation plug-in for Visual Studio.NET. His motto is "Work smarter, not harder."

Tom Snider is a software engineer with Applied Information Service in Reston, VA. He has 10 years of industry experience, including application design and development, data warehousing, business intelligence and business consulting.

Scott Zimmerman is a consultant with Microsoft and has 20 years of software development experience. He's been published in MSDN Magazine and has won .NET SOA competitons. He is an MCSD and MCTS in BizTalk Server 2006. In a previous life, he won the world overall Frisbee championships several times.

Ed Mullin is a Senior Project Manager and Business Intelligence expert with AIS based in Reston Virginia. He has over 20 years of professional experience in Information Technology. Currently he manages the design/development of custom business solutions for companies like Becton Dickinson, Under Armour, Geico and Streuver Brothers, Eccles and Rouse utilizing Microsoft Technologies such as SharePoint, ASP.Net, PerformancePoint, Analysis Services and ProClarity. Ed is active in the local .Net development community and serves as President of BaltoMSDN and Vice President of CMAP. Ed lives on a farm in Northern Baltimore County with his wife and 5 kids (and numerous robots).

Emad Ibrahim, MCSD, has been a professional developer for 9 years now and has worked with .net since the first beta. He has held titles ranging from architect to senior developer to consultant. He just quit his job with Avanade to start playing around with new stuff and catch up with technology. He is also an active blogger and mostly blogs about software development and technology related stuff. His blog is at www.emadibrahim.com

Josh Patterson is a Chief Architect at Peart-Hannon Group, based in Glen Burnie, Maryland. He has been developing software professionally for over 5 years in both the native Windows and NET arenas. Currently he is focused on designing and developing medium-to-large n-tier applications in .NET.

Michael C. Neel is a Digital Media Developer with Jewelry Television, independent consultant with ViNull Software and Vice President of the East Tennessee .Net Users Group (ETNUG). He has been published in asp.netPro magazine and is a regular speaker at .Net conferences and user groups. You can contact Michael though his blog at ViNull.Com