| Bob Beauchemin |
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Bob is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course
author, writer, and Director of Developer Skills for SQLskills. Over the past two
years he's been teaching his SQL Server 2005 course to 500 students worldwide through
the Ascend program. He is lead author of the books "A First Look at SQL Server 2005
For Developers" and "SQL Server 2005 Developer's Guide", author of "Essential ADO.NET"
and has written articles on SQL Server and other databases, database security, ADO.NET,
and OLE DB for MSDN, SQL Server Magazine, and others. |
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| Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft |
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Sam, author of
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team
System, has 25 years experience as architect, developer, tester, product manager, project manager and
general manager in the software industry in the US and Europe. In his current capacity as Group Product Planner for Microsoft Visual Studio
Team System, he acts as chief customer advocate, responsible for the end-to-end external design of the next releases of these products. |
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| Patrick Hynds
of Critical Sites |
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Patrick Hynds, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCSA, MCP+Site Builder, MCT, is the Microsoft
Regional Director for Boston, the CTO of CriticalSites, and has been recognized as a leader in the
technology field. An expert on Microsoft technology (with, at last count, 55 Microsoft certifications)
and experienced with other technologies as well (WebSphere, Sybase, Perl, Java, Unix, Netware, C++,
etc.), Patrick previously taught freelance software development and network architecture. Prior to
joining CriticalSites, he was a successful contractor who enjoyed mastering difficult troubleshooting
assignments. A graduate of West Point and a Gulf War veteran, Patrick brings an uncommon level of
dedication to his leadership role at CriticalSites. He has experience in addressing business
challenges with blended IT solutions involving leading-edge database, Web, and hardware systems.
In spite of the demands of his management role at CriticalSites, Patrick stays technical and in
the trenches, acting as project manager and/or developer/engineer on selected projects throughout
the year. |
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| Fritz Onion
of
PluralSight |
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Fritz is a co-founder of Pluralsight, a premier Microsoft .NET
training provider. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book Essential ASP.NET (Addison Wesley), and
the upcoming Essential ASP.NET 2.0. He is a columnist for MSDN Magazine and a regular speaker at
industry conferences including the PDC, VSLive!, and TechEd. You can read
Fritz's blog. |
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| Jeff Prosise
of
Wintellect |
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Jeff is cofounder of Wintellect, a developer consulting and
education firm that provides services to companies all over the world. His most
recent book, Programming Microsoft .NET, was published by Microsoft Press in 2002,
and his writings appear regularly in MSDN Magazine and other developer magazines.
A reformed engineer who discovered after college that there’s more to life than
computing loads on mounting brackets, Jeff is known to go out of his way to get
wet in some of the world’s best dive spots and to spend way too much time building
and flying R/C aircraft. |
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