 Chris Bennett
Chris is a Solutions Architect and Project Manager at Crowe Horwath. He has a passion for technology and has more than 10+ years of experience developing commercial applications using various technologies and is currently focusing on Web-base solutions. In prior work, Chris spent a signification amount of time creating embedded solutions including microprocessor software and electrical circuit design. Chris also enjoys spending time teaching at IUPUI as a part-time Associate Professor. You can follow Chris at his new blog http://www.chrislbennett.com. |
 Robert Bogue
Robert Bogue is an MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, and CDIA+ specialist. He has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. He was recently honored to become a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Commerce Server and before that Microsoft Windows Servers-Networking. Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog. |
 Dave Bost
Dave Bost is a Developer Evangelist for the Midwest district. He works with developers across Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin to help drive excitement around the Microsoft platform. Dave also works to build strong relationships across the Microsoft and non-Microsoft developer communities. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dave was a technology consultant for over 12 years, working with his customers to help them realize their technology potential. Dave enjoys discovering new music with his Zune Pass, defending the universe against 13-year olds on Xbox Live, and playing golf (whenever his wife lets him). |
 Steve Brunner
Steve Brunner has been involved in IT infrastructure design and support for over 12 years. As a Business Technical Consultant at EMC Corporation, Steve specialties in Backup/Recovery, Disaster Recovery/Failover & Failback, Replication Technologies and VMware. Steve is a Founding member of Indiana Virtualization and Technology Society (IVATS). Visit his blog at http://storageblog.typepad.com/ |
 Chad Campbell
Chad Campbell is a Microsoft MVP. Chad has been developing enterprise level web applications with a wide variety of technologies since 1999. Following the initial releases, Chad hit the ground running with Silverlight and has not looked back. He is currently nearing the completion of his book "Silverlight 2 in Action." In addition to being MCSD and MCTS certified, Chad holds a BS degree from Purdue University where he focused his studies on computer science. |
 Larry Clarkin
Larry Clarkin is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism group, covering the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. He joined Microsoft in early 2007, bringing with him 15+ years of experience in both application development and architecture. He has worked in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, insurance, and financial services. Larry has a passion for technology and how it can be applied to solve business and social issues. Larry is very community-focused and is a frequent participant and presenter at Microsoft and non-Microsoft user groups. Larry is also a co-host of the technology podcast The Thirsty Developer. You can read his blog at http://eraserandcrowbar.com. |
 Tolga Ercan
Tolga is currently an architect with Centric Consulting. He has been designing and developing a wide range of applications for medium to large companies since 2000. He holds an MS in mechanical engineering and an MBA. He enjoys business problem solving by applying the correct and sensible amount of technical solution. His technical skills range from VB6 to ColFusion, Java, and .NET. |
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 Brian Gorbett
Brian Gorbett is a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) Division, responsible for engaging communities around developer tools and platform technologies. An active Web developer and technologist, Gorbett has contributed to national publications on Microsoft technologies and still codes on a daily basis. Before joining Microsoft, Gorbett managed a team of developers and designers responsible for delivering next generation rich Internet applications. He is a Certified ScrumMaster and regularly speaks on agile development and foundation principles in development. |
 Arie Jones
Arie "AJ" Jones is a Senior SQL Server DBA and analyst for Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI) in Indianapolis, Indiana. PTI provides mission-critical database and information systems support for SQL Server and Oracle environments nationwide. Arie leads PTI’s team of experts in planning, design, development, deployment, and management of database environments and applications to achieve the best combination of tools and services for each client. He has authored several books on SQL Server and related topics, the most recent is SQL Functions Programmer's Reference from Wrox Publishing. You can visit his blog at http://www.programmersedge.com/ |
 Brad Jones
Bradley L. Jones is an international bestselling author of over a dozen books ranging from C, C#, C++ to Windows Vista to his most recently released book, Web 2.0 Heroes. Bradley oversees several key technical Web sites including DevX, Developer.com, Codeguru, 4GuysFromRolla, and many more. This includes doing a weekly newsletter for Codeguru that reaches over 25,000 as well as having an overall influence on sites reaching over 8 million unique developers in any given month. Brad’s connections with the developer community as a whole have helped to get a number of recognitions including the Microsoft MVP award for the last four years. Bradley is also a founder of the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association, which he helped grow from aero to over 2300 members. |
 Steve Jones
Steve Jones has been working with SQL Server since 1992 in a variety of sizes and types of companies. He co-founded SQLServerCentral.com in 2001 and manages the site full time. In addition to working with databases, Steve is interested in improving our energy efficiency and production and publishes an Energy Update every other month with news from around the world about energy issues. |
 Paul Hacker
Paul is a Principle Consultant at Lacerta Solutions, LLC in Indianapolis, with a passion for Team System. He has been working with the product since mid-2005. Paul has implemented Team System/TFS in numerous organizations. When not spending time with his family, you can find him presiding over the Indianapolis TFS SIG, Podcasting on Radio TFS,publishing the TFS Times monthly newsletter focused on Team System, or writing tools to enhance Team System. Paul can be reached at phacker@lacertasolutions.com. |
 Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline is the Technical Strategy Manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software, a leading provider of award winning tools for database management and application monitoring on the SQL Server platform. Kevin is a founding board member of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS - www.sqlpass.org) and served as president from 2002-2006. He has been a Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2004. Kevin's is the lead author of "SQL in a Nutshell" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlnut2/) and a co-author of "Professional SQL Server 2005 Database Design & Optimization” (http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10005) and “Database Benchmarking” (http://www.rampant-books.com/book_2007_1_database_benchmarking.htm). Kevin writes monthly columns for Database Trends & Applications and SQL Server Magazine and keeps blogs at SQLBlog.com and SQLMag.com. Kevin is a top rated speaker, appearing at international conferences like Microsoft TechEd, the PASS Community Summit, Microsoft IT Forum, DevTeach,and SQL Connections. |
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 David Leininger
David R. Leininger sent his first email in 1979, and has been involved with software ever since. He served as a director of international operations in the 80s for a high-end database company, then began writing code for a living in 1992. He has presented seminars on object oriented design and development in more than a dozen countries. Recent projects include large-scale portals for educational institutions, and senior developer + architect on one of the largest .NET applications in the country for a governmental body. |
 Aaron Lerch
Aaron is a Software Developer with Interactive Intelligence. Aaron has been developing client-side software for 8 years on projects ranging from Pocket PC-based defense software to business web applications to IP Telephony real-time desktop applications for contact centers and the enterprise. You can read a blog of development stuff he finds interesting at http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/ |
Eric Lofstrom
Eric is a principal consultant for Capstone Consulting Group with over 13 years of technology experience in a wide variety of roles including Data Architect, Data Warehouse Architect, ETL Developer, OLAP Developer, Solution Architect, and Director of Business Intelligence. His writings can be found both in industry publications as well as books regarding data warehousing and he has spoken at a variety ofindustry events including TDWI and BI Connections. |
 Jimmy May
Jimmy May is a SQL Server Senior Performance Consultant for Microsoft Assessment Consulting & Engineering (A.C.E.) & is assigned to Team Lee. He is the Visionary-in-Chief of SQL Server Pros & was formerly the Senior Database Architect for one of the world’s largest, SQL Server high-throughput OLTP DBs. He is a co-founder & on the executive committees of both the Indiana Windows User Group (www.iwug.net) & Indianapolis Professional Association for SQL Server (www.indypass.org). Jimmy lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with his lovely new bride, Phyllis, & Fannie May the Wonder Dog. Contact him at jimmymay@microsoft.com. Visit his SQL Server performance & personal productivity blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jimmymay. |
 Brad McGehee
Brad M. McGehee, Microsoft SQL Server MVP and the founder of SQL-Server-Performance.Com, is currently the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software. He is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, SQL Teach, SQL Connections, SQL Server user groups, and other industry seminars. He is the author or co-author of over 14 technical books. His most recent books include: How to Become an Exceptional DBA and How to Become a Profiler Master. He currently blogs at www.sqlservercentral.com. |
 Tom Pizzato
Tom Pizzato is a Data Platform Architect for Microsoft Corporation. In his 18 years at Microsoft, Tom has worked exclusively with database technologies. Tom has spent the majority of his time at Microsoft working with our Enterprise Customers. He has also spent two years working with our State & Local Government customers. Prior to joining Microsoft, Tom worked in the banking industry. |
 Dan Rigsby
Dan Rigsby is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead for Interactive Intelligence in Indianapolis. He has been with Interactive Intelligence since March of 2000. Dan has been an avid .Net user since late 2001 starting with ASP.Net, but today concentrates on sever side pumping, libraries, application architecture, and windows smart client applications. He has also been known to dabble heavily in xml, xslt, databases (his Master's focus), and other "buzzword" technologies. Dan is also an officer at IndyNDA and is always eager to help out in the community. As a certified ScrumMaster, Dan has been involved agile project management. Read more about Dan and development adventures at http://www.danrigsby.com or connect with him on Twitter or Facebook. |
 Jason Ruthkoski
Jason is a Senior Software Systems Developer and Consultant at Crowe Chizek and Company LLC. His home office is in Oak Brook, IL. Jason serves a wide variety of clients and industries, including E-Commerce, Financial Institutions, Real Estate Investment, and Manufacturing. His primary project focus over the past two years has been with MOSS 2007.He is a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist in SharePoint Server 2007. |
 William Steele
Bill is MCSD certified and has logged more than 20 years as a software developer. Previously, Bill worked for a regional consulting firm where he developed applications that managed internal business operations in areas including IT service management, transportation logistics, and financial management. Bill was responsible for building integration applications between various ISV's products and the client's IT infrastructure. He also spent more than seven years at StrideRite Corporation, where he honed his development skills in Visual Basic, C++ and a range of IT roles. Bill has been collaborating with Microsoft since 1992, and continues to prize his Visual Basic 1.0 Beta Thunder Clock. He's given over 300 presentations to date, and is currently developing software for a flight computer in NASA’s Small Aircraft Transportation System. |
 Mark Strawmyer
Mark Strawmyer, MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA is a Senior Architect of .NET applications for large and mid-size organizations. Mark is a technology leader with Crowe Chizek in Indianapolis, Indiana. He specializes in architecture, design and development of Microsoft-based solutions. Mark was honored to be named a Microsoft MVP for application development with C#. You can reach Mark at mstrawmyer@crowechizek.com. |
 Andy Warren
Andy Warren is the President of End to End Training, an Orlando based provider of SQL Server training focusing on beginning to intermediate users. Andy is also currently serving as the President of the Orlando SQL Server Users Group (oPASS). Andy was also the originator of the SQLSaturday event concept and maintains the www.sqlsaturday.com website. |
 Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Williams is a Senior SharePoint consultant with Allegient, LLC and author of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies. She is an MCTS in Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Vanessa is passionate about all things SharePoint. |
 Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson is a MCTS in Windows SharePoint Services and coordinator/frequent presenter at the Evansville SharePoint User Group. He is a senior consultant and Business Unit Director of Microsoft Applications at Keller Schroeder (www.kellerschroeder.com) – a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner serving Southwest Indiana, Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky. His 15+ years in IT include developing in PowerBuilder, Java/Struts, Access, VB.NET and SharePoint. Rob also shares his enthusiasm for Microsoft technologies with his students and peers at Vincennes University where he is adjunct faculty and serves on the Tech Advisory Board. |
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