Speakers
These are currently registered speakers for the 2009 Jacksonville Code Camp, this list is constantly being updated.
Call for speakers has now ended. We still encourage anyone to submit your sessions in case we decide to add more tracks to our agenda, substitute drop outs, and you will have first call to all of our future events.
Thank you to all the speakers that made this event so successful!
Andrew Connell Website • Blog
Author, Instructor & Co-founder @ Critical Path Training
Andrew Connell is a author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a five-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and Web Content Management (WCM) at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog.
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Andy Warren • Blog
Andy Warren is the President of both End to End Training and JumpstartTV.com, both based in Orlando. He is also the current President of the Orlando SQL Server Users Group and serves on the Board of Directors of the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS).
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Brian Knight Website • Blog
President @ Pragmatic Works
Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA, is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works. He is also the co-founder of SQLServerCentral.com and JumpstartTV.com. He runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville (JSSUG). Brian is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines and does regular webcasts at Jumpstart TV. He is the author of 10 SQL Server books. Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS, SQL Connections and TechEd and many Code Camps. His blog can be found at http://www.pragmaticworks.com.
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Chris Eargle Website • Blog
Senior Developer / Architect @ SC Farm Bureau Insurance
Chris Eargle is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - Visual C# (C# MVP) and INETA Community Champion from Columbia, SC. Besides designing and developing software at South Carolina Farm Bureau, he runs the local .NET User Group: the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild. In his spare time he travels to conferences and user groups to promote best practices and new technologies in the development community.
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Christopher Bennage Website • Blog
Architect @ Blue Spire Consulting
Christopher Bennage is cofounder of Blue Spire Consulting, Inc., a Florida based software consulting firm specializing in .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design.
He is a coauthor of Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours with Rob Eisenberg.
Christopher is interested in most thing on the bleeding edge, particularly those that intersect with .NET and UX.
In his free time, Christopher is usually very distracted by a dozen different, competing creative ideas. His interests include liberal education, science, truth, beauty, video game development and a number of deceased British authors. He lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife, Sandra, and their three children.
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Dave Herren Website • Blog
Dave Herren is a passonate programmer who believes that there is more to great software than just the code. He started programming as a kid (Atari Basic) and has been exceited about software developement and code ever since. He has been programming professionally for 7 years, creating Win-forms and Asp.net applications in C#. His thoughts and experiences with software development can be found at CodeRenaissance.com.
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David Fekke Website • Blog
Developer @ LPS
David Fekke is a Software Engineer with architecting, designing and documenting object-oriented applications with the following technologies; ColdFusion 8, .NET 3.5 framework, Java, C#, VB.NET,Transact SQL, DTS packages, SQL Server 2008 Integration Services, SOAP basedweb services, Office SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath, JavaScript, Flex 3.0 and Flash with ActionScript 3.0, and XML.
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Devin Knight Website • Blog
BI Consultant @ Pragmatic Works
Devin is a BI consultant at Pragmatic Works Consulting. Previously, he has tech edited the book Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services and was an author in the book Knight's 24-Hour Trainer: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. Devin has spoken at past conferences like PASS and at several SQL Saturday events. He is a contributing member to the Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) for PASS as a leader in the SSIS Focus Group. Making his home in Jacksonville, FL, Devin is a participating member of the local users’ group (JSSUG).
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Don Scott Website
Principal Architect @ Cognizant
The session will give a brief overview of Business Process Modeling and the most current standards and framework options for BPM implementations. A new architectural concept called 'Testable Architecture' will be discussed briefly. Testable Architecture and BPM techniques are highly complimentary to each other in today's IT development environments. Following the 20-25 minute powerpoint presentation, a 20-25 minute presentation of a practical solution will be demonstrated.
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Henry Lee Website • Blog
New Age Solution
Henry Lee, co-founder and president of New Age Solution, used his 14 years experience to create a fresh approach to web development. Drawing on his expertise as a Software Architect, specializing in Microsoft technologies, Henry developed multiple innovative tools for business clients.
Since founding New Age Solution, Henry has been a community leader by speaking at Orlando Code Camp 2009, Tampa .Net Group, IEEE, based in Jacksonville and DotNetNuke community. Henry’s fresh approach to the development includes his “We Care” campaign. This program donates IT consulting, web sites and web applications to Jacksonville’s non-profit agencies.
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Jared Nielsen Website • Blog
Producer @ NielsenData, Inc.
Jared Nielsen believes that a "Jack of All Trades Is Master of None... Except Himself"™. His twenty year career has spanned projects in "wires and pliers" networking, database architecting, software design, marketing strategy, sales management, training and documentation, business administration, entrepreneurial investment, public company creation, and strategic analysis and consulting. Billing himself as "an IT guy that actually speaks English", he has managed to effectively bridge the gap between IT and Sales, IT and Marketing, and IT and Executive Management in a way that multiplies revenue for each project he works on. Always willing to speak his mind and challenge the status quo, he is featured throughout the world including the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, the German Financial Times, Slash Dot, CNN (television, CNN.com and iReport.com), and thousands of blogs throughout the Internet. His work can be seen with companies such as Sumitomo Corporation holding TBC Corporation for national brands like Tire Kingdom www.TireKingdom.com, Merchants Tire www.MerchantsTire.com, National Tire and Battery www.NTB.com, and Big O Tires www.BigOTires.com as well as promotion sites like www.FriendsAndFamilyTires.com and other companies such as Interline Brands / Barnett (www.e-barnett.com - formerly BNTT:NASDAQ), Hughes Supply/ Home Depot / HD Supply (formerly HUG:NYSE), Yahoo! Sports at sports.Yahoo.com (YHOO:NASDAQ), CBS Television (CBS:NYSE), SAP Andina del Caribe (Caribbean Division), ATP and WTA Tour at www.WTATour.com (Men’s and Women’s professional tennis), and dozens of other high profile projects that have multiplied in revenue due to his influence.
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Jarrod Edge Website
General Manager @ GetWebEdge, Inc.
10 years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Jarrod has crossed the globe training and consulting on Microsoft Visual Studio 5, 6, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 as well as Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 - 2008. Jarrod has worked with and trained many large companies on the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, WCF, XML Web Services, Website Development, Database Design and more.
As the General Manager of GetWebEdge, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Parnter for Learning Solutions, Jarrod oversees the development of all Software and Websites.
Jarrod holds the following certification: MCT, MCPD, MCITP, MCSD, MCTS, MCAD, MCP, CTT, CTT+
GetWebEdge, Inc is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Custom Development Solutions, and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for SOA and Business Process, and is located in Orange Park, FL.
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Jason Milgram Website • Blog
CEO @ Linxter
As a technical consultant, prior to founding Linxter, his clients included 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 Reserves which he served in 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).
Jason's first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000 which he bought in 6th grade for $99 and learned BASIC programming on.
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Jim Wooley Website • Blog
Author @ LINQ in Action
Jim Wooley is a frequent speaker, member of the INETA Speaker Bureau, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing the Atlanta Code Camp, leading the Microsoft MS Pros and Atlanta VB Study Group and serving as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region. Jim has actively helped to guide Microsoft through Software Design Reviews with product teams and is an active Microsoft Data Programmer Insider and Visual Basic Insider. In addition to speaking at numerous user groups and code camps in 7 states, Jim has presented at product launch events, MSDN conferences, and TechEd.
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Jim Remsik Website • Blog
Senior Developer @ Hashrocket
A senior member of the Hashrocket team, “Big Tiger” is originally from Madison, Wisconsin and has years of government-sector, full life-cycle business process automation projects under his belt. He speaks regularly at tech events around the world.
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Joe Mayo Website • Blog
President @ Mayo Software
Joe Mayo is an author of muliple books, including C# 3.0 Unleashed/Sams and LINQ Programming/McGraw-Hill. He operates Mayo Software, where he writes custom software for customers using Microsoft .NET technology. Joe is also a Microsoft Visual C# MVP.
Follow Joe on Twitter: http://twitter.com/JoeMayo
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Joe Healy Website • Blog
Evangelist @ Microsoft
Joe Healy (www.devfish.net) is the Developer Evangelist for Florida. Joe’s geographical responsibility is to provide ‘developer care’ for the Gulf States District for the East Region Developer team. As such, he has responsibilities to bring .NET development to the masses in his area. Joe serves a multitude of clients, from corporate accounts to broad reach events and User Groups. He lectures on various development and architectural topics focused around the .Net Frameworks, Visual Studio.NET, and associated servers.Joe worked previously for Microsoft Consulting Services in the custom Application Development arena, focusing on Internet, Web Services, Rich Client, B2B, and browser delivered systems for Microsoft Consulting Services.Joe has also served time with eAngler.com, Cap Gemini, EDS, and IBM in various capacities…On a personal level, Joe resides in Tampa Bay, Florida, and enjoys spending time trying to coax Redfish, Snook, and Trout from various nooks and crannies in Tampa Bay. He is married to wife Anne, with two little girls, Ryan and Morgan, who will also grow up to be great "fisher-ladies" one day.
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John McFetridge Website • Blog
Developer @ Sandkey
25 years of developing software.Founder of Simware a commincation company, one of original dev team for Coreldraw. Now independent consultant specializing in C#,WCF,Linq, OO and Silverlight. regular presenter at North Florida code camps
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John Tarbox • Blog
President @ Symdak Analytics
Experienced information technology professional for over 30 years. Having started with large IBM mainframe systems in the 1970s, I transitioned to focusing on personal computers for enterprise level applications in the late 1980s. Currently developing and implementing on the Microsoft Windows platform utilizing .NET with C# and SQL Server for complex websites.
While using cutting edge technology and tools, my primary focus is on solving business problems through rapidly capitalizing on new market opportunities. Particular emphasis is placed upon the incorporation of appropriate analytics into websites from the start to measure and insure their success.
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John Holliday Website • Blog
Owner @ John Holliday & Associates, Inc.
John Holliday is a SharePoint MVP and an independent consultant with over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John developed a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. His expertise includes all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special emphasis on document automation, collaboration and enterprise content management.
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Keith Kabza Website • Blog
CTO @ Visualov Solutions LLC
I am an MVP for Microsoft Communications Server Development.
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Kevin Wolf Website • Blog
Owner @ Software Logistics, LLC
Kevin D. Wolf is a Software Development Consultant based in Tampa, FL. Kevin has 20 years of experiencing developing software primarily using Microsoft technologies. Systems delivered include small embedded system and robotics, Windows Mobile, ASP.NET web sites utilizing advanced AJAX techniques as well as a large (> 50GB) data warehouse using OLAP and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Mark Ewer Website • Blog
Chief Architect @ Stick Figure Software
I am just now launching my own company to do freelance web site design, development, and software development. Ultimately, I intend to develop a suite of enterprise tools that I will offer for sale through the web site. In particular, I will be creating some SharePoint components and addons for other CMS systems.
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Marshall Harrison Website • Blog
Software Developer @ GotSpeach
Marshall is the President of GotSpeech Consulting LLC where he specializes in designing and implementing speech based solutions involving the latest in speech technology. He is the founder of GotSpeech.Net and GotUC.Net. He is a 4 time Microsoft MVP for Speech Server and Office Communications Server and serves as an unofficial evangelist for the technologies while seeking every opportunity to promote them. He has spoken at code camps throughout Florida and at Tech-Ed. He also offers Speech Server training and has done so for large corporations around the country as well as the Federal Government.
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Megan Hopkins Website • Blog
Senior Technical Recruiter @ KForce Professional Staffing
Megan Hopkins is a Technology Staffing Consultant and Senior Technical Recruiter with Kforce Professional Staffing specializing in the Central Florida market. Megan has been with KForce for nearly three years and is dedicated to exceptional service and embodying the Kforce focus on being the firm "most respected by those we serve."
Megan is big fan of everything Microsoft and is very involved in the local .Net User Group communities, sponsoring several groups on a permanent basis. She is passionate about her clients and candidates, loves educating the IT community on market conditions and, ultimately, helping talented people secure opportunities with great companies.
Megan is tech-centric and truly loves what she does!
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Michael Knopf Website • Blog
Programmer Analyst @ NASA
Michael has extensive expertise in ASP.NET, HTML, XML, XHML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual C#.NET, ORM, Test Driven Development (TDD), and MS SQL, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Source Control systems, with more than 6 years of programming experience. He currently works in Software Services for NASA at Kennedy Space Center.
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Michael Taylor Website
Sr Solutions Manager @ Taleo
Michael Taylor is a Certified Professional Project Manager (PMP®) and Sr. Manager at Taleo with 9 years of managerial experience in software applications design, architecture, maintenance, and has hired 64 people in the last 6 years. He has 20+ years experience with Programming in 13 languages.
Specialties:
Technical Recruiting, Employee Management, Human Resources Management, Project Management ,Team Management, Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Management, Application Development, Cold Fusion, Dreamweaver , Java, Oracle, Perl, PL/SQL, SQL Server, Statistics and Data Analysis, and Stock Market Trading
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Mike Davis Website • Blog
Developer @ Pragmatic Works
Mike Davis, Lead Support Engineer and Trainer
Mike Davis, is a developer, consultant, trainer, and Author who is enthusiastic about developing robust application for SQL server. He has expertise in many areas of Business Intelligence including Integration Services, Reporting Services, Database Administration, and .Net Software Development. Mike has created BI and software solutions for financial institutions and pragmatic works. He has developed .Net applications for SQL add-ons as well as standalone applications. Mike also participates as a speaker at events like SQL Server 2008 launch and SQL server user group meetings.
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Nikita Polyakov Website • Blog
Consultant @ Tribridge
Nikita has been passionate about Microsoft platform, especially Web and Mobile. Conversations on Web, UX, Windows Mobile Dev MVP, MS Student Partner, Speaker, Employed Consultant.
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Pete Langlois Website
VP of Business Development @ The Solomon Page Group
Pete Langlois is the Vice President of Business Development for Solomon Page Technology Partners based in Jacksonville. He manages Florida's technology resource solutions division that specializes in delivering cost-effective solutions for corporations looking to acquire Information Technology Talent. Prior to launching Solomon Page in Florida, Pete ran one of the largest technology consulting practices in Northeast Florida for many years. Over the past 10 years, Pete has helped thousands of technology professionals plan for, and secure the next step in their professional careers. Pete graduated from Southern Illinois University and has developed Electronic Performance Support Systems and Computer Based Training for Fortune 100 companies.
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Peter Mourfield Website • Blog
Peter Mourfield has been developing software for nearly 20 years and currently works for TaxSlayer.com, an online income tax preparation web site. Peter leads the Augusta Developers Guild and is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in Web Development.
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Russell Fustino Website • Blog
Developer Evangelist @ Microsoft
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Scott Klueppel • Blog
CTO @ MDI GHS
Scott is the Chief Technology Officer at Medical Development International GHS in Ponte Vedra, FL. He has been designing and implementing .NET applications since version 1.0. He brings a comfortable mix of best practices and practicality to software ranging from one-page hobby sites to enterprise-scale business systems. Scott specializes in system integration, services, and distributed computing.
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Scott Gleason
Scott Gleason has worked in Jacksonville Flordia as a Network Admin, Programmer, and exclusively as DBA for over nine years. He is currently the Vice President of the Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group (JSSUG) and a advocate of Microsoft TSQL.
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Sean Chambers Website
Senior Software Developer @ Telligent Systems Inc.
Sean Chambers is a Senior Software Developer for Telligent Systems Inc. He has expertise in open source projects ranging from NHibernate, The Castle Project, Cruise Control, TeamCity and many other open source tools and frameworks. He has been practicing TDD/Agile methodologies since 2004 and is always reviewing new techniques and tools that aid in the agile development process. Blog: http://schambers.lostechies.com
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Steven Lane Website
Senior Consultant @ I.S. Consulting
Senior Consultant with I.S. Consulting (http://www.goisc.com/).
President Tallahassee .NET User Group (www.tlhdotnet.net).
Founder Tallahassee Architectural SIG (http://tallyarch.com).
More than 12 years continuous and progressive experience as a Development Team Leader, Object Oriented Software Architect, Business System and Data Analyst, Principal Consultant, Technical Instructor, Lead Programmer, and Environmental Quality Control Specialist. Multi-disciplined and cross-industry versatility, a balanced understanding of general systems analysis and design.
An active leader in the local area’s .NET UG (www.tlhdotnet.net).
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Will Strohl Website • Blog
Technology Director @ RezHub.com
Will Strohl is an ASP.Net architect and developer based in the Orlando Area. Having been in the web development field for over 10 years, he began professionally in 2000. Currently, Will is the Technology Director for an exciting new online travel company called RezHub.com (www.RezHub.com). He is also an active member and President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group (orlando.dotnetnukeug.net), and a member of the reformed DotNetNuke® Media Module Project Team. He regularly speaks at local events about DotNetNuke® and the various ways it can be used and managed, including organizing the Day of DotNetNuke®. He also won the INETA Community Champions award for 2008 Q3. Most recently, Will has been publishing DNN videos on JumptStartTV, and is a technical editor for Professional DotNetNuke 5 and DotNetNuke 5 User's Guide by Wrox.
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Counts
- Attendees: 662
- Sessions: 38
- Speakers: 38
- Tracks: 8