Speakers
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
Co-Founder, Owner, Instructor, Developer & Speaker @ Critical Path Training, LLC.
Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training, a SharePoint education focused company. He has a background in content management solutions and Web development that spans back to his time as a student at the University of Florida in the late 1990’s managing class sites. He has consistently focused on the challenges facing business today to maintain a current and dynamic online presence without having to rely constantly on Web developers or have a proficiency in Web technologies.
Andrew is a seven-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2005-2011) for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft SharePoint Server. He has authored and contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years including his book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX, Inside SharePoint 2010 by MSPress and Real World SharePoint 2010 by WROX among others and is the author of numerous articles on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) & various magazines.
Andrew has presented at numerous conferences in the United States, Europe and Australia. You can find Andrew on his blog (http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog) or follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell.
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Andy Warren Website • Blog
President @ Fourdeuce Inc
Andy Warren is a SQL Server consultant and trainer based in Orlando, focusing on administration, performance, and upgrades. Andy is also the owner of SQLShare, a free video training site for SQL Server users. He is currently serving a second term on the PASS Board of Directors, is a former President of the Orlando SQL Server Users Group (oPASS), was one of the founders of SQLServerCentral, and started the SQLSaturday event concept.
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Brian Knight Website • Blog
Owner @ 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, BIDN.com and SQLShare.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 SQLShare.com. He is the author of a dozen 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.bidn.com.
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Brian McDonald Website • Blog
Consultant @ Pragmatic Works
Brian K. McDonald, MCDBA, MCSD is a Business Intelligence consultant for Pragmatic Works. Brian has experience in Database Administration, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services and Analysis Services. He has worked as an Application Developer, Network Administrator and a Database Administrator throughout his 11 years in the IT industry. He even spent a year on a large Help Desk operation a long, long time ago. Brian takes pride in all his projects and diligently works to not only meet expectations, but greatly exceed them. Brian has written articles for industry websites and continually strives to learn more and become a better version of himself. Brian is an active member of the Jacksonville SQL Server User's Group and has presented at SQL Rally, SQL Saturday events, User group meetings and Code Camps across Florida and along the East Coast.
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Brian Ritchie Website • Blog
Chief Architect @ Payformance Corporation
Brian Ritchie has nearly 20 years of experience in Software Development and is Chief Architect at Payformance Corporation where he leads the architecture & technology direction. Payformance’s flagship product PaySpan Health is a SASS solution built on a multi-terabyte SQL Server database processing over 150 million health care claims per year. Prior to joining Payformance, Brian co-founded AMSI, a software company in the mortgage-backed securities industry. He has also developed solutions for the military, weather, and travel industries. Brian has also contributed to Mono & other open source projects.
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Chris G. Williams Website • Blog
Principal Consultant @ Magenic
Chris Williams is a Principal Consultant for Magenic and the author of Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development.
He's also a DirectX / XNA MVP, MCT, MCSD (.NET) Early Adopter, MCAD, freelance game developer, conference speaker, vintage arcade game collector, INETA Community Champion & 4 year Board of Directors member, and plays a pretty mean guitar in Rock Band.
When not doing any of the above stuff, he can often be found in a Waffle House. He likes 'em scattered, covered and chunked.
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David Fekke Website • Blog
President @ David Fekke L.L.C.
David is a software engineer living and working in the Jacksonville, Fl. David has been building enterprise web applications for over ten years. He also owns a company that markets and sells iOS software for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices.
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Esteban Garcia Website • Blog
Solutions Architect @ AgileThought
Esteban Garcia is Solutions Architect and ALM Consultant at AgileThought, Telerik Insider, and president of the Orlando .NET User Group (ONETUG). He has over 12 years of professional experience in software development, working in all phases of distributed object oriented enterprise application development and design using Microsoft technologies. Esteban excels in architecture and best practices and is passionate about Scrum and SDLC improvements using Visual Studio and TFS. Esteban also has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering with an emphasis in software design from the University of Central Florida.
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Gary Blatt
Sr. Microsoft Consultant @ CDW
Gary has been in the IT industry for over 28 years, working with a variety of platforms and technologies. For the last 14 years he has focused exclusively on the Microsoft suite of tools, executing both small and large scale projects equally. He currently is employed by CDW as a Senior Microsoft Consultant. His extensive experience with SharePoint includes architecting, developing and implementing deployments for up to 60,000 users worldwide in one client scenario. He is an MCTS in SharePoint as well as an MCT. He is so focused on the SharePoint product, his FL license plate reads SHRPNT
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Henry Lee Website • Blog
CEO @ ToeTapz
Henry Lee is founder of NewAgeSolution.Net and is passionate about the technology. He is also the author of the book Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development 2nd edition from Apress (http://bit.ly/wp7apress2nd). He works with various Fortune 500 companies delivering mobile applications and rich internet applications.
He recently formed start-up company called ToeTapz.com focusing his energy on delivering mobile applications to the consumers. In his spare time, he dedicates his effort to help his .NET community by delivering sessions at the technology events. He enjoys talking with other technologist about current trends in the technology and sharing business insights with fellow colleagues. Often you will find Henry at local cigar bar enjoying a cigar and a drink trying to come up with next big mobile application.
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Jarrod Edge Website • Blog
General Manager @ GetWebEdge, Inc.
General Manager @ GetWebEdge Corporate Training Center
Lead Instructor @ Spindustry Training
13 years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Jarrod has crossed the globe training and consulting on Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, as well as Microsoft SharePoint design, governance and development. Jarrod has worked with and trained many large companies on the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, WCF, SharePoint, Website Development, Database Design and more.
As the General Manager of GetWebEdge Corporate Training Center., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions located in Orange Park, FL, Jarrod oversees the development of all Software and Websites as well as the education of GWE clients.
Jarrod’s long term relationship and partnership with Spindustry Training, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Des Moines, IA has earned him a position as the Lead .NET Instructor for Spindustry Training.
Jarrod holds the following certification: MCT, MCPD, MCITP, MCSD, MCTS, MCAD, MCP, CTT, CTT+
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Jason Milgram Website • Blog
CEO @ Linxter, Inc.
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.
Blogs
http://linxter.com/blog/jason-milgram
http://distributedcomputing.us
Social Networking
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmilgram
http://www.facebook.com/jason.milgram
http://twitter.com/jmilgram
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Jay Kimble Website • Blog
Sr. Consultant/Developer @ Software Logistics
Jay Kimble is the leader of the Tampa Bay Silverlight User Group, and a local Florida speaker who has been seen in a number of user groups around the state as well as in various code camps (although this is his first trip to a Jacksonville Code Camp). In his day job he is an independent consultant who (mostly) works for Software Logistics where his mobile development skills are employed. Jay is extremely passionate about both Windows Phone, and Silverlight. He is the author of numerous Windows Phone apps in the marketplace.
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Joe Homnick Website • Blog
MCT @ HSI Knowledge
Joe Homnick is the principal owner of Homnick Systems (HSI), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Boca Raton, Florida.
HSI is one of the most established Microsoft Certified Learning and Business Partners in the world, dating back to the beginning of the program in 1993.
We pride ourselves in delivering a business oriented approach to software development, Business Intelligence implementations, SharePoint and Cloud products.
Let HSI help you move "To The Cloud!" with Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Office 365.
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john mcfetridge
Sandkey
Experience in design, architecture and training in the .NET world with years of experience using C# , ASP.NET,WCF, Linq , Design patterns, Silverlight
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Jyoti Chawla
Senior Application Developer/Architect for over 20 years
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Marshall Harrison Website • Blog
CEO @ GotSpeech Consulting
Marshall is the founder of GotSpeech.Net, serves as an unofficial evangelist for Microsoft Speech Technologies and seek every opportunity to promote the technology.
Marshall was first awarded Microsoft MVP on 07/01/06 and has have been rewarded every year since. He is the founder of GotSpeech Consulting LLC and specializes in designing and implementing Microsoft Speech Server and Lync Server 2010 solutions. In addition GSC also provides training and mentoring.
Marshall is also a Senior Developer with CallTower Inc where he is involved in extending the capabilities of Office Communications Server and Lync Server 2010.
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Mike Davis Website • Blog
Sr. BI Consultant @ Pragmatic Works
Mike Davis, MCTS, MCITP, is a Senior BI consultant at Pragmatic Works. He is an author of a few Business intelligence books. Mike is an experienced speaker and has presented at many events such as several SQL Server User Groups, Code Camps, SQL Server Launches, and SQL Saturday events. Mike is an active member at his local user group (JSSUG) in Jacksonville, FL.
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Nikita Polyakov
Microsoft MVP @ AgileThought
Windows Phone 7 Development Microsoft MVP of the Year 2011, speaker, organizer. Nikita works for AgileThought as Senior Consultant building custom software for various customers.
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Russell Fustino Website • Blog
Senior Developer Evangelist @ GrapeCity
Russ Fustino is a highly experienced software developer with a passion for conveying relevant, current, and future software development technologies and tools through live seminars, teaching, and internet video productions. He enlightened, entertained and educated 100’s of Thousands of developers nationwide as a former Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Russ now heads up Developer Evangelism at GrapeCity PowerTools Group as a Senior Developer Evangelist. Russ has a new interview video series with influentials about current technology called ‘Russ Cam’! See http://gvtv.cgpoertools.com
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Sara Hand Website • Blog
Managing Partner @ S. P. Hand and Associates
Founder of SP Hand and Associates, Sara Hand brings a unique combination of skills and experience from the public and private sectors, and across a variety of industries. Sara is president of the Sarasota Chapter of the Gulf Coast Venture Forum, co-founder of BarCamp Sarasota, on the Board of Directors for the Sun Coast Technology Forum and involved regionally in SWFL collaborative efforts for Entrepreneurial Support organizations.
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Stan Schultes Website
Architect/Developer @ VBNetExpert.com
Stan Schultes is an Architect and Software Developer at a mid-size, high tech manufacturing company, and is a current Microsoft MVP. Stan has a passion for building tech communities and teaching software skills to the developer community through writing, speaking, webcasts, and an Internet TV show. Stan is a book author, former tech magazine columnist, and his work appears in the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) resources. He is the founder of the Sarasota .NET Developers Group, a co-founder of Barcamp Sarasota, and sits on the board of the Suncoast Technology Forum.
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Travis Smith
Programmer/Analyst @ Enaptive
TBD
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