Windows Azure Boot Camp

Michael Collier

Michael Collier is a Windows Azure MVP and serves as a National Architect for Neudesic, a Microsoft SI partner that specializes in Windows Azure. He has nearly 11 years of experience building Microsoft-based applications for a wide range of clients. Michael spends his days serving as a developer or architect – helping clients succeed with the Microsoft development platform. He gets very “geeked up” about any new technology, tool, or technique that makes his development life easier. He is also an avid golfer and attempts to be good at shooters on the Xbox 360. Michael also speaks nationally on Windows Azure - previous speaking engagements include multiple regional user groups, CodeMash 2011, Cloud Connections, and multiple Windows Azure Boot Camp events. You can follow Michael on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MichaelCollier and on his blog at www.MichaelSCollier.com.

Michael Wood

Michael Wood is a Solution Architect for Cumulux, Inc. He describes himself as a problem solving, outdoorsy, user group leading, dog-loving, blog writing, solution creating, event planning, married, technology speaking, father of one kind of guy. When he's not living up to that title he's an avid reader, (horrible) violinist and gamer. Michael is a Founding Director of the Cincinnati .NET User Group as well as the founder of the Cincinnati Software Architecture Special Interest Group. He is also a founding member of the software architecture web resource nPlus1 (http://nplus1.org) and the instigator of the informal code pairing Bitslinger events. Michael was awarded a Microsoft MVP award in 2009. You can follow Michael on Twitter under @mikewo as well as visit his blog at http://mvwood.com.

Marc Johnson

Marc is a Senior Architect with Centric Consulting in their Cincinnati, OH office. Marc is also the CTO and Co-Founder of todayforward.com, a self guided personal finance resource. Marc has twelve years of experience in custom software development with mainly Microsoft and Java technologies, across many different industries. Marc is a self described "entrepenuer junky", constantly looking for ways to leverage technology to take an idea and turn it into a business.

Jason Follas

Jason Follas is a Technical Architect for Perficient, serving clients primarily located in the greater Detroit region (including Toledo, where he lives and serves as the President of the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group). Since 1994, he has developed many interesting solutions on the Microsoft platform, including an Aircraft Weight and Balance system used by an air freight company, several e-Commerce websites, Risk Management systems, and blend optimization software. In 2007 and 2008, Microsoft recognized Jason as a Microsoft MVP (SQL Server). Jason is involved in organizing a number of local conferences including CodeMash and Ann Arbor Day of .NET. You can find his blog at http://jasonfollas.com.

Ryan Duclos

Ryan Duclos is a Senior Technical Consultant for Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), where he is passionate about Microsoft development utilizing the .Net Framework and SQL Server technologies. He lives and works in LA (Lower Alabama!) and loves spending time with his family, as well as being a Community Influencer for Microsoft. Ryan can often be found at regional events as both a speaker and an attendee. He has been working with Microsoft Technologies since 2000, and is well known in the Microsoft community as a skilled presenter, as well as being highly involved in building technical communities around Microsoft Technologies. Ryan is the President of the Lower Alabama .NET User Group and is also involved with the Pensacola SQL Server User Group. In addition Ryan is a frequesnt speaker at numerous Code Camps, SQL Saturday & User Group events.

Dennis Burton

Dennis Burton is a web developer with SRT Solutions whose diverse portfolio includes online learning management systems, precision measurement using high speed data acquisition applications, as well as automotive diagnostic software. Since the beginning of his career, Dennis has been working with systems that require processing large amounts of data quickly. Consistently working with high volume systems has led Dennis to see a need for cloud computing. He is currently working on a cloud based application for diabetes management based on his experience in running the numbers for his oldest son with Type 1 diabetes. Dennis has been around long enough to be old to some and young to others, but firmly believes that what you do with your time is more important than how long you have been spending it. As an active member of the development community, Dennis serves on the board of the Lansing .NET User Group, the Ann Arbor .NET User Group and as an organizer for the 2009 Lansing Day of .NET.

Bill Wagner

With more than 20 years experience, Bill Wagner, SRT Solutions co-founder, is a recognized expert in software design and engineering, specializing in C#, .NET and the Azure platform. He serves as Michigan’s Regional Director for Microsoft and is a multi-year winner of Microsoft’s MVP award. An internationally recognized author, Bill has published three books on C# and currently writes a column on the Microsoft C# Developer Center. Bill was awarded the Emerging Technology Leader Award by Automation Alley, Michigan’s largest technology consortium. Bill earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tracy Bazzell

Tracy Bazzell is a Sr. Technical Architect for Perficient in their Dallas, TX office. Tracy has over 14 years experience delivering technology solutions across various industries including Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Distribution, Semiconductor, and Hosting/Cloud Enablement. Tracy has focused on Microsoft technologies throughout his career and has been working with .Net since 2001. Tracy holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in Information Management. Tracy lives in Plano, TX with Michelle, his high school sweetheart and wife. They spend time chasing around their 4 year old son and 5 month old daughter.

Ken Sipe

Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc. (PRFT) where he leads multiple teams in the development of solutions in the SOA, Web 2.0 and portal domains, on both the Java and .Net platforms. Ken was the founder of CodeMentor, where he was the Chief Architect and Mentor, leading clients in the execution of RUP and Agile methodologies in the delivery of software solutions. Ken has a deep need to be highly diversified. Ken often works with IT executives on high-level strategic roadmaps, currently geared around service oriented architectures (SOA). Ken also likes to keep his hands "dirty" in the code, which has him on a regular basis, pairing or otherwise producing code. Ken is regularly requested by clients that know him to "rescue" projects, either through the streamlining of processes or the rapid production of code. Ken is a frequent speaker at events nationwide including CodeMash, No Fluff Just Stuff & Heartland Developer Conference to name a few. His Blog can be found at http://kensipe.blogspot.com/.

Chris McPherson

Chris McPherson is a native of Middle Tennessee and has been writing software professionally for over 15 years. Chris has been building solutions with Microsoft's .NET technologies since it's release in 2002. Chris is one of the founding partners of Firefly Logic and the organizer of the Geek Social, a Nashville technology networking event.

Jim White

Jim White, a software engineer with 20+ years of experience in the software development industry. I am also an instructor of software development technologies. In addition to my training duties, I am the Director of Training at Intertech, Inc. – a software developer training and consulting firm located in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Prior to my joining Intertech, I served as a senior technical architect at Target Corporation. Prior to that I consulted for 8 years working on all types and size of projects. I started my career in software as an officer in the United States Army. I have authored a book as well as dozens of articles on various software development technologies.

Tim Star

Tim has over a decade of experience developing enterprise critical applications with Microsoft products to deliver sophisticated, high-quality, technology solutions. Tim has significant development team management experience and a proven track record of delivering well managed enterprise-grade applications. Prior to joining Intertech, Tim worked at Intercim, a global leader in Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) for the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Pharmaceutical and Semiconductor Industries. At Intercim Tim’s technical skills, leadership, and diplomacy has allowed him to advance from a position of Software Engineer through the development management ranks and finally to the position of Application Architect.

Avichal Jain

Avichal is a Senior Architect with Perficient, serving the Saint Louis Metro area. Avichal has more than twelve years of experience in architecting Microsoft based applications for large-scale enterprise solutions (Multi-million dollars). Avichal has successfully managed numerous concurrent full software development life cycle projects for large and mid-sized companies across a wide range of industries including financial services , higher education, healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing etc. Avichal also mentors diverse groups of professionals forming highly motivated and unified teams that are focused on providing on-time and on-budget delivery.

Ryan CrawCour

Ryan CrawCour is a passionate, experienced, professional who has worked in the IT industry for over 14 years. With over eight years of experience architecting and designing integrated solutions on the Microsoft platform, he has achieved solid track record in custom enterprise application and integration solutions.
A large focus for Ryan has been on delivering SOA and ESB solutions on the Microsoft technology stack using products like Microsoft BizTalk Server, WCF and WF. As a past member of the Microsoft BizTalk Virtual Technical Specialist team he has worked closely with Microsoft and their partners around he world to architect and deliver solutions within the integration space.
Recently Ryan has been concentrating on the recent release of Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Strategy and is excited about embracing Windows Azure can help businesses change the way they think of computing today!

Chris Auld

Chris Auld is Intergen's Director, Strategy and Innovation, responsible for Intergen's Microsoft technology leadership on the world stage.
Chris is one of only two Microsoft regional directors in New Zealand, works closely and often with Microsoft Corporate in Redmond, USA, and plays an active role around the globe on the training and speaking circuits. Known for his evangelical, arm-waving style and his enthusiasm and drive, Chris works closely with clients to help them undertake adventurous, high risk, high return projects. His vision is to revolutionise businesses through dynamism, passion and leading-edge innovation.
Chris' areas of expertise include: cloud computing, rich internet applications, and mobility.

David Pallmann

David Pallmann manages the Custom Application Development practice at Neudesic. Prior to joining Neudesic he worked at Microsoft on the WCF product team. David has written 3 technical books and is currently writing his fourth, The Azure Handbook. He lives in Southern California with his wife and children.

Mike Erickson

Mike Erickson has been professionally involved in technology for the past 21 years. He has worked on many platforms and with many programming languages. He has focused mostly on Microsoft tools and technologies for the past 14 years and holds several Microsoft certifications. He has worked as a consultant, architect and trainer for the past 10 years. He has worked in various industries and for clients throughout the United States. He has been working with Windows Azure since it was first announced and leads the Salt Lake City Azure User Group.

Jennifer Marsman

Jennifer Marsman is a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. Prior to becoming a Developer Evangelist, Jennifer was a software developer in Microsoft’s Natural Interactive Services division. In this role, she filed two patents for her work in search and data mining algorithms. Jennifer has also held positions with Ford Motor Company, National Instruments, and Soar Technology. Jennifer earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her graduate work specialized in artificial intelligence and computational theory.

Brian H. Prince

Brian H. Prince is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft. He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job is to help customers strategically leverage MS technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level. He is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various regional and national technology events including Tech·Ed. He is the co-author of "Azure in Action." Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also a zealous gamer. For example, he is a huge fan of Fallout 3.

Mike Benkovich

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer evangelist on the Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) team at Microsoft. He has worked in a variety of professional roles, including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer. Mike is also an author of two books, published by WROX Press and APress, that show developers how to get the most from their SQL databases. Since appearing in the 1994 Microsoft DevCast, Mike has presented technical information at seminars, conferences, and corporate boardrooms across America.

Adam Grocholski

Adam Grocholski is a Technical Evangelist and Partner at RBA Consulting. He can usually be found talking to anyone who will listen about Silverlight, Windows Phone, and Windows Azure. Recently, Adam was named as a Microsoft MVP for his commitment to the Microsoft development community. From founding and presenting at the Twin Cities Cloud Computing user group to speaking at local user groups and code camps and local, regional, and national conferences, Adam is committed to building a great community of well-educated Microsoft developers. When not working he enjoys spending time with his three awesome daughters and amazing wife.

Brian Blanchard

Brian is a hands-on IT leader with experience as a CIO, CTO, & Chief Architect. As a geek by nature, he is never too far from source code. Brian currently serves as the Chief Architect & Chief Innovator of HyperVize (www.hypervize.com), an innovation management, application development, and training firm that serves VCs, Startups, small to medium businesses, and government entities. In this role, he aids teams in the creation of innovative new apps & teaches developers about next generation technology, and leads a number of dynamic it teams throughout the world. Further, Brian & the HyperVize team have partnered with Microsoft to teach developers around the country about Azure via a number of Microsoft sponsored Azure Boot Camps and HyperVize’s own line of private boot camps for development teams. Brian is also the founder and chairman of MATA Tech (www.matatech.org), a non-profit which aims to encourage technical excellence & entrepreneurship in the Saint Louis area. Most notably, this organization is responsible for the STL Innovation Camp (www.stlinnovationcamp.com) which teaches entrepreneurial principles, business/consulting best practices, & provides technical consultants with a platform to meet local business owners & clients. Currently, MATA is also building its Innovator’s Cup program which leverages the vision of entrepreneurs to give developers an opportunity to gain hands on experience in valuable new technologies. This experience helps students, unemployed, and active consultants become more valuable in today’s high-demand market place. In his spare time, Brian posts comments about upcoming projects and random technical musings on his blog at devrevival.com

Scott Klein

Scott Klein, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is co-founder of Blue Syntax Consulting, a company that specializes in Azure training and consulting. Scott is also a veteran author, having written a number of books for Wrox and APress including the recently released Pro SQL Azure. He is president of the South Florida SQL Server users group, heads the South Florida SQL Saturday events, and is president of the SQL Azure PASS Virtual Chapter. He is a frequent speaker at user groups, code camps, and SQL Saturday events. He has been involved with Azure since the beginning and has been lucky enough to provide Azure training in Germany and Canada as well as many Azure Boot Camps in the US.

Vineet Bhatia

Vineet is a co-founder and technical architect at BrainScale India. He heads the sales for Pluralsight India as well. He has 10+ years of IT experience and in the past he had worked as an FTE for Microsoft Consulting Services. He consults on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007/ 2010, .NET 4.0, WCF, Windows Azure and Silverlight and is a frequent speaker at all Microsoft events. He has been involved in delivering a number of Windows Azure Boot Camps across various cities in India as well as involved in numerous consulting engagements for Fortune 500 customers.

Nuno Filipe Godinho

“Independent Consultant, with 10 years of Experience and main responsibility of helping customers to identify, plan, manage and develop software products and solutions. The most of these software products and solutions are mission critical and use Microsoft. NET platform from ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Forms, WCF, WF, WPF, Windows Phone and Windows Azure. Expert on Microsoft Technologies. Main services are Mentoring, Consulting and Advanced Training in Solutions Architecture (SaaS, S+S, EDA, …) and of course .NET Framework related technologies (Windows Azure, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, ASP.NET and other related technologies like WCF, WF, EF, OData and so on). MVP in ASP.NET with blogs on http://www.pontonetpt.com/blogs/nunogodinho (Portuguese and English) and http://www.msmvps.org/blogs/nunogodinho (English), as well as INETA Country Leader, and Leader for several Portuguese communities like PontoNetPT (.NET Development in Portuguese), XAMLPT (Microsoft UX Technologies in Portuguese) and Founder of AzurePT (Windows Azure in Portuguese).”

Niraj Bhatt

Niraj works as an Enterprise Architect for a Fortune 500 company and has an innate passion for building / studying software systems. He is a top rated speaker at various technical forums including Tech Ed, MCT Summit, Developer Summit, and Virtual Tech Days, among others. He enjoys working on – IT innovations that impact enterprise’s bottom line, architecture and integration of systems, performance tuning, and review of enterprise applications. He has received MVP award for ASP.NET, Connected Systems and recently Windows Azure. When he is away from his laptop, you will find him taking deep dives in automobiles, pottery, rafting, photography, cooking and financial statements though not necessarily in that order. He is also a manager/speaker at BDOTNET, India’s largest .NET user group.

Micah Swigert

Micah Swigert is a Technical Directory for Perficient. In this role he is responsible for solution architecture, delivery satisfaction, team management and sales team alignment for all Microsoft-based technology engagements in the Chicago area. Micah comes from a technical background, focused on engaging with clients in enterprise architect, Microsoft subject matter expert, application architect, and lead developer roles. Clients have typically been in the Chicago area and are typically financial services, manufacturing, professional services, and health care firms. Micah has presented at various user groups and other technical groups over the past fifteen years on a variety of Microsoft technical subjects: rich client user experience, layered .NET application architectures, service orientation and .NET capabilities, and integrating SharePoint technologies in custom application development methodologies and best practices.

Tatiana Ilchenko

Tatiana is a Head of Microsoft Solutions Department with GENERAL COMPUTERS RUS, LLC and has more than 13 years of experience in different areas of IT. Also she recognized as an Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2006 up to now. And 3 years on her career way was in working with Microsoft Russia on Partner Technology Specialist position where she helped clients and partners succeed with Microsoft technologies and products. Now she continues to do the same in a Microsoft partner company. Her team also makes great solutions on C# and one of Tatiana’s roles is an Solutions Architect. Another scope of work in Tatiana’s team – prospective projects in developing cloud solutions for partners and customers. Now she is the first Azure Boot Camp trainer in Russia.

Matias Woloski

Matias Woloski is a Software Architect at Southworks who specializes on identity and cloud computing. For the past 10 years he has been designing and developing software and helping companies to take advantage of emergent technologies. He is a co-author of the Claims Based Identity and Access Control Guide and the Windows Azure Guides from patterns & practices. You can find him at http://blogs.southworks.net/mwoloski or on Twitter @woloski.

Martín Salías

Martín Salías (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Software Architect at Southworks, and has worked before for several companies in Latinamerica, Europe, USA and Canada. He has more than twenty five years as a developer and has used several languages and platforms. He is a member of the Agile Alliance, and vice-president of the Microsoft User Group of Argentina.

Guadalupe Casuso

Guadalupe is a Software Solutions Architect at Microsoft Argentina. Also, she active participate in “Mujeres en Tecnologia”, a community to promote the women participation in IT arena. 2 passions: Technology and Kayak! Find her on twitter @guadacasuso

Jason Milgram

Jason is the founder of Linxter, a message-oriented cloud middleware platform provider. He has been working with computers ever since he bought his first Timex/Sinclair 1000 in 6th grade and taught himself BASIC programming. Since then, Jason has worked as a technical consultant in system architecture and management positions for clients such as 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 Reserve, serving 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). As a public speaker, Jason has presented on topics including cloud computing, system architecture, and starting a software business. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and a registered INETA Regional Speaker.

Vanesa Guccione

Vanesa Guccione, (Buenos Aires, Argentina), is a Senior Developer en Lagash Systems S.A.. She has developed different solutions and she did consultancies for many companies, working on different platforms, including web development, Frameworks and also developgins architectures. Most of her work are applications built on .NET technologies (ASP.NET, WPF, WCF), based on Frameworks 2.0, 3.5 y 4.0. She is student's degree in Systems Analysis from the University of Buenos Aires.

Soledad Pano

Soledad Pano (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a software architect and consultant with 9 years of experience in the IT Industry. She has a background in Java technology, but has been working mainly with Microsoft products for the last 6 years, building business solutions with WCF, ASP.NET MVC, WinForms, CCF, Sharepoint and SQLServer technologies. She has also experience developing extensibility tools for Visual Studio, TFS and MS Office.

Jhonny Halife

Jhonny Halife is a Software Architect at Southworks and technology addicted. Always active in PDC, MIX and TechEd keynotes. In his spare time, he reads.

Matias Woloski

Matias Woloski is a Software Architect at Southworks who specializes on identity and cloud computing. For the past 10 years he has been designing and developing software and helping companies to take advantage of emergent technologies. He is a co-author of the Claims Based Identity and Access Control Guide and the Windows Azure Guides from patterns & practices. You can find him at http://blogs.southworks.net/mwoloski or on Twitter @woloski.

Martin Salias

Martín Salías (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Software Architect at Southworks, and has worked before for several companies in Latinamerica, Europe, USA and Canada. He has more than twenty five years as a developer and has used several languages and platforms. He is a member of the Agile Alliance, and vice-president of the Microsoft User Group of Argentina.

Alejandro Amrein

Alejandro Amrein, is Ph.D. math and a software engineer with 20+ years of experience in the software development industry. He is also an Microsoft Certified Trainer of software development technologies at Digicomp AG, Switzerland.

Guido Vilariño

Guido Vilariño is an UTN Information systems engineer. He works as a Developer Coordinator at the Disney Interactive Media Group, and as a Developer Lead of BOLA, the successful Social media Football game, developed on the Windows Azure platform. He is a member of the Agile Alliance as a Certified Scrum Master and makes occasional contributions to the Chair of the UTN advanced techniques of Software construction, having been part of the chairs of programming paradigms and advanced techniques of programming.

Enrique Lima

With over 20 years of experience, Enrique has accumulated experience in training, application development, database development and management, IT solutions architecture and project management – allowing him, as a speaker and presenter, to provide guidance in how to best leverage the tools clients will be using in moving forward with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies or ALM solutions. He has been involved with architecting and developing solutions that leverage the integration of SharePoint Technologies, BizTalk, Commerce Server and Content Management Server with other Microsoft and non-Microsoft solutions. Most recently he has been working on the integration of business solutions driven by SharePoint Technologies, Visual Studio, LightSwitch and Windows Azure as a Technical Lead for Consulting Services at Apparatus, an Indianapolis, IN based company.

Damon Hensley

RDA Principal Architect Damon Hensley has been a Microsoft technology specialist for 13 years. Working on project teams ranging in size from one to 40 members, Damon has experienced the ins and outs of the development cycle as well as many different processes and software methodologies. He is currently a Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist for Azure in the Mid-Atlantic.

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