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Damon Payne is a life-long geek, Microsoft MVP, father, husband, audio/video nut, atheist, philosopher, wine drinker, and short order cook who lives in the unexplored swamps near Milwaukee. Damon works mostly in the areas of Smart Client software (including Silverlight, mobile devices, and WPF), visual tools, and Solution Architecture; he also does web programming and has professional interests in parallel programming, agile processes and requirements gathering.

Garrick Van Buren is a web application strategy consultant and Ruby
developer. He has assisted companies like Sun Microsystems, Target,
Orbitz.com, and countless start-ups in building and maintaining their
customer-centric web presence.

His lastest project - Kernest.com is the first web font licensing and
delivery service - began as a Sinatra-based web application and grew into a
Rails-based web application.

Garrick's other recent projects include; NoMoreServers.com, RealTimeAds.com,
Culld.us.
 

George Andrews is lead consultant for Capable Media, an Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization company based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His experience includes working with AJAX, JavaScript, and PHP in the LAMP environment, and he also works as a Java Programmer for Great Lakes Higher Education.

When he's not working at his day job or on an SEO project, George enjoys spending time socializing with friends on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and World of Warcraft.
 

Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://www.magenic.com), a Microsoft MVP (C#), and an INETA (http://www.ineta.org) speaker. He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes", "CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", ".NET Security", and "Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. He also run the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com) and the Twin Cities Languages User Group (http://www.twincitieslanguagesusergroup.com). Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.

Jill Tiefel is owner/principal of Innovative Writing and Design, LLC (www.innovativewritinganddesign.com). She has over 15 years of experience in technical communication, interaction design and usability testing. Jill holds a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from UW-Eau Claire. She is pursuing a graduate certificate in user experience from Bentley University in Waltham, Mass. She coaches grade school volleyball in her free time and her not-so-hidden talent is the ability to recite dialogue from the original Star Wars trilogy.

Jordan Terrell is a Consultant at Digineer, with over a decade of experience in the software development industry. He has been learning and applying Domain Driven Design techniques on .NET development projects since 2005. He is an avid proponent of teaching and applying current best-practices and patterns. Jordan is also interested in embedded microcontroller development and is the author of a DHCP stack for the Arduino platform.

Kevin Gisi is a Ruby developer finishing up his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. He works for the Learning & Technology Services department as a Ruby on Rails developer, is one of the founding members of the Eau Claire Ruby user group, has recently been added to the Rails Rumble organizer team, and is writing Firefox Extensions: Tools for Productivity for the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Luke Kannel has 15 years of computer experience, spending the past decade in enterprise architecture, deployment, and maintenance. He recently joined Convergent Solutions as a Senior Systems Engineer, deploying Unified Communications solutions based on the Microsoft platform and blogging about it at Tin Cups and Strings. His development experience includes system automation based on PowerShell and the .Net Framework, and he has designed solutions that have supported 20,000+ users. As an instructor at Globe University he taught CompTIA courses and enjoyed the satisfaction of conveying technical knowledge to large audiences. In his spare time Luke enjoys music (especially singing) and the vibrant nightlife of Minneapolis.

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 14 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, anASP.NET MVP, an author, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, DevLink, DevTeach, Tulsa Tech Fest, DevWeek, TechEd, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international VSLive! events.