David Makogon

David Makogon has been doing the programmer thing since the mid-80's, when Turbo Pascal was almost as cool as the mullet. He's now a Senior Consultant with RDA, where he's Technical Lead for the Architecture Guidance Evangelist team. David speaks at several events, including past Code Camps, local user groups, and Microsoft events.

If he's not coding, he's probably shooting at people (with a camera).

Emad Ibrahim

Emad Ibrahim, MCSD, has been a professional developer for 10 years now and has worked with .net since the first beta. He has held titles ranging from architect to senior developer to consultant. He is also an active blogger and mostly blogs about software development and technology related stuff. He also has a startup at yonkly.com. His blog is at www.emadibrahim.com

Frank LaVigne

Frank La Vigne has been hooked on software development since he was 12 when he finally got his own C-64. Since then, he's worked on Wall Street, in Germany, and up and down the East Coast on projects ranging from a Tablet PC based Electionic Medical Records system to a CSI-style UI for a forensics application in WPF.

These days, he lives in semi-rural Maryland with his wife, four dogs, a cat, and a baby on the way. Somehow he finds time to blog, write a Silverlight book and even work.

Habeeb Rushdan

Habeeb Rushdan is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Trainer with over 10 years of professional software development experience. He holds a B.S in C.S from the University of Maryland and is certified as a: Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD, MCPD, MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Apps, Certified Flash MX Developer, Adobe Certified Expert - Flash CS3, and an Adobe Certified Instructor. Habeeb has worked for several software product and technology consulting firms, and he now offers his expert software development and coaching talents to various organizations across the US through LowerHead Consulting, LLC, where he is a Managing Partner and co-founder. Teaching and leading software engineering teams are passions of Habeeb. From small startups with less than 10 employees, to multi-national organizations with over 10,000 employees, Habeeb and his clients, and peers find joy in his work. Over the last several years, Habeeb earned the privilege to offer technical instruction on several classes for prestigious organizations like the Computer Career Institute at Johns Hopkins University, SetFocus, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Jeff Schoolcraft

Jeff Schoolcraft is the founder of The Queue Incorporated, a software consultancy focused on web application development using ASP.NET and Ruby on Rails. He's an active part of the local software development community, has run a few usergroups for a few years, organized over half a dozen code camps and speaks regularly. Away from the keyboard Jeff enjoys spending time with the women in his life; his wife and two daughters.

John Blumenauer

John Blumenauer is Director of Software Engineering for Metrico Wireless, Inc. in Frederick, MD. Before working in the wireless industry, John designed and developed applications of all sizes in a variety of areas including aerospace/defense, point of sale, engineering and financial. During John’s 13-year career in software development, he has worked with a variety of languages and has contributed to projects of all sizes, including large scale enterprise applications. He enjoys sharing his knowledge and valuable experience with the development community by speaking at code camps and user groups throughout the region. John is the President and co-founder of the Frederick (MD) .NET User Group (www.frednug.org. His blog can be found at http://geekswithblogs.net/jblumenauer.

John Miller

John Miller is a technology consultant with experience in website design, custom development, security consulting, infrastructure optimization, and project management. These experiences have helped shape my view of an elegant solution; whether ingenious code, industry best practices, or process improvement. John has spent a lot of time working in diverse industries including manufacturing, healthcare, public policy and insurance. In addition to speaking at user groups and code camps, John maintains a blog at www.mobiusdevelopment.com and ongoing conversations on twitter (@jwmiller5).

John Baird

John Baird began his computer programming career while in the US Navy. In 1982, he helped form and direct the first PC-based computer processing department for training and manpower in the Department of Defense. After leaving the military in 1988, John began a varied career as a consultant developing business applications ranging from computer-based training to vertical market software for resellers.

Today, John is working for the industry leader in financial software for fund administration. John was recently awarded MVP status for device application development.

Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones is a Senior .NET Consultant and Team Lead at Thycotic Software. He has been an ASP.NET MVP for 3 years.

Kevin Hazzard

Kevin Hazzard, C# MVP, is an accomplished software architect and a dynamic public speaker. Kevin has developed successful software products for Intel, Sony, HBO, Disney, The Discovery Channel and many other companies. His healthcare and telecommunications software is used by millions of people each day. Kevin has won patents for his work and has served multiple terms as an advisor to the legislatures and the Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia. While serving in the Intel Architecture Labs, Kevin represented the company before the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In his spare time, Kevin enjoys welding, motorcycling, swimming and serving as a missionary doing construction work in Central America and South America.

Kevin Griffin

Kevin Griffin is a .NET Developer for Antech Systems, located in Chesapeake, VA. He’s the leader of the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group. Often, he can be found speaking at or attending other local user group meetings or code camps. He enjoys working with new technology, and consistently works on being a better developer and building the best software he can.

Follow Kevin on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/1kevgriff

Read Kevin’s Blog: http://www.kevgriffin.com

Roberto Hernandez

Roberto Hernandez is currently a senior consultant for Excella Consulting, who has been designing and writing software using Microsoft technology for the past the 10 years. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Roberto is one of the founders of the NetaWeb community, the leading .NET developers community in the region. You can read more about Roberto at his blog at community.rhpconsulting.net.

Silvio Fiorito

Silvio's been developing software since high school where he began with CGI web applications, then moved on to Cold Fusion, Win32, Java, VB, and then finally .NET. His interest in optimizing, improving, and developing best practices for software development led him into the field of software security. His technology interests are not limited to software development however, as he's heavily involved in the car computing scene where he's constantly working on improving OS performance and reliability, developing Windows Embedded devices, and sharing tips with other enthusiasts. His experiments with hacking Windows XP to use Embedded features landed him a chapter in O'Reilly's book, Car PC Hacks.

Stephen Bodnar  

Stephen J. Bodnar is the President and Owner of Geeks and Gurus, Inc. which has been developing data-driven software applications for desktops, corporate networks and the Internet since 1999. Steve has been developing line-of-business applications for approximately 25 years and particularly enjoys learning new businesses and technologies as time goes on. Steve has been working with ASP.NET MVC since Microsoft started releasing previews and is currently working on the Alpha release of a public-facing site for the Meeting and Conference Planner industry.

Steve has spoken at user groups and conferences across the country and actively attends user groups, Code Camps and other conferences as much as possible.

Steve currently lives in Williamsburg, VA with his wife and three sons. Geeks and Gurus (www.geeksandgurus.com) has offices in Detroit, MI and Williamsburg, VA.

Steve Michelotti  

Steve Michelotti, MSCD, MCPD, MCT is a consultant for Applied Information Sciences. 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. He is a frequent presenter at developer user groups and Code Camps in the Maryland/Virginia area. He has been on Microsoft Channel9 and his published articles include Visual Studio Magazine and his blog: www.geekswithblogs.net/michelotti.

Steve Radich  

I have been involved in programming since I was 5 and web application hosting since 1995 when I wrote a web application and couldn't find a host running IIS (then beta) and SQL Server (then version 4.3). In those 14 years I have been IIS MVP, ASP MVP, and involved in hosting / performance tuning for thousands of customers, from small businesses (including those wanting the very cheapest hosting they can use) to sites with millions of visitors per day. I am very active in SQL Server, Hyper-V / Virtual Server, and ASP.Net, including performance tuning of each.

Van Van Lowe

Van, a Senior Web Developer for Innervisions Software, Inc. since 1996, started programming Mainframes using COBOL, JCL for AT&T in 1979. Van first started working with Microsoft technologies using Access 1.0 and Visual Basic 3.0. He became an Independent Consultant in 1996 and started Innervisions Software, Inc. In 2003 he wrote his first professional ASP.Net app. Since 2004 Van has been subcontracting on an IRS project using ASP.Net, VB.Net, and SQL Server.