Adam Grocholski is a Technical Evangelist at RBA Consulting where he spends time focusing on the Windows Azure Platform. He also has a penchant for hanging around some of the darker corners of the .NET Framework (i.e. T4 and MEF). In 2010 he 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 the local .NET and Silverlight user groups along with code camps and local, regional, and national conferences, he is committed to building a great community of well-educated Microsoft developers.

Avonelle Lovhaug escaped the corporate grind in 2003. Since then she's been running Code Poetry Software, a company that specializes in custom programming solutions for Minnesota-based tech savvy small businesses. Avonelle lives just outside St. Paul with her husband, and firmly believes that naps and brownies are essential to the programming process.

Brad Candell is an Application and Web Developer at IDEXX Computer Systems in Eau Claire. He has been developing software and web applications within the Microsoft Ecosystem over the past 15 years, now focusing primarily in C#, ASP.NET MVC and MEF.  Brad spends his free time with his wife and kids, or in his woodworking shop making sawdust.

Brent Edwards is a Senior Consultant for Magenic <http://magenic.com> , a Microsoft Gold Partner consulting company. Brent has been knocking around the .NET world for over seven years, working on projects ranging from ASP.NET MVC with C# and jQuery to WPF with VB.NET. He is also the author of MVVM Fabric (http://mvvmfabric.com/), a free MVVM framework for WPF. In his spare time, Brent develops applications for the Android platform. His apps have over one million downloads and he was selected by Google as a Top Android Developer for their Device Seeding Program. When not cranking out code, you can find him hanging out with his wife and four kids or riding his wakeboard, snowboard or mountain bike. Check out his blog at http://brentedwards.net.

Brian P. Hogan is an author, editor, trainer, and web developer who's been building web sites professionally since 1995 as a freelancer and consultant. He enjoys teaching and writing about technology, particularly web design, accessibility, and development. When not hacking on Ruby or JavaScript code, he's writing songs, watching "The Simpsons," or spending quality time with his wife and daughters.

A Chicago native who can’t spell, Clark as a kid actually made his money building cars, getting grease under his nails. That art of building would later lead him to software development where he drinks the Web Development Kool-Aid. Writing code is what keeps Clark awake at night, while continually working on his craft and rapping with others over a few cold CORS. You can hear Clark muse about software on his podcast Developer Smackdown <http://developersmackdown.com/> , or find his family cruising around in a 1968 Camaro SS.

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.

Donaby Henton has been a local programmer in the Chippewa Valley for 18 years, beginning with humble origins in FoxPro and progressing through internet programming in ASP, Perl and Java. Currently he is employed with Mason Companies as a java programmer whose responsibilities include Web Services and Integration programming.

J Wynia is an independent software consultant, writer and geek with 10+ years in the IT and software development game. Like you, he's been using relational databases for pretty much all of that time, but is finding some of the NoSQL options pretty compelling lately.

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 is a leader of the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com) and runs 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.

Jeff Brand got his start as a super double secret agent with the CIA before leaving to make a fortune in cold fusion research. Later, he finished his doctorate thesis on the use of vegetable oil and saran wrap in the fashion industry.  Today, Jeff is “living the dream” as a .NET Developer as part of Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Jeff assists customers in evaluating, developing and deploying applications built on the .NET Framework and the Microsoft platform. He has been with Microsoft for fourteen years and has served in variety of roles including infrastructure consultant, e-commerce technology specialist, and enterprise technology advisor.

John McCaffrey has been doing web development for over 13yrs, but the real fun started when he got his first taste of Rails! John has presented at WindyCityRails, covering ‘Javascript Testing, and advanced Firebug’ in 2008, and “PDF Generation” in 2009. Always presenting timely information to the audience, and receiving high rankings and positive feedback.
 Since then, John has become obsessed with improving the performance of Web applications, researching and applying all the tools and techniques to figure out how to make an app scream. You can follow the latest updates on http://railsperformance.blogspot.com

Keith Burnell is a Senior Consultant with Skyline Technologies and Vice President of the Fox Valley .Net User's Group. Keith has been a consultant in Northeast WI for 6 years specializing in large scale ASP .NET web site development and architecture usingTest Driven Development. When not coding, Keith enjoys golfing, woodworking, and spending time with his family. Keith can be found on his blog (http://www.dotnetdevdude.com) and on Twitter (@keburnell)

Energy, laughter and a contagious passion for coding - Mike brings it all with him. In a career that has taken him from minion to business owner, from DBA to Developer, and Author to Evangelist, Mike has seen it all.

Rick Weyenberg, from the Twin Cities and currently working with 3M.
·        13 years of experience (7 as consultant, 6 as corporate FTE)
·        MSCD on VB track
·        Moved to C#
·        Author ‘Professional Visual Basic 6 -  A Programmer’s Reference’ in 2003
·        Spoke at Tech Ed 2010 in New Orleans and other groups
·        Graduate from UWEC

Scott has been developing software with Microsoft tools and technologies since the late 1980s, and has designed, developed and deployed solutions for clients across the globe. Scott was the architect and primary developer of the first MOSS 2007 deployment to go into production worldwide while engaged at Halliburton Energy Services, and has since developed solutions for organizations large and small, including Microsoft as part of its Partners in Learning initiative. Scott is a profoundly happily married father of 10 and lives in Richmond, Texas

Travis is a senior .NET consultant working in the Midwest for over ten years. He lives with his wife and four kids in Lake Mills, WI. He is known online as: http://therobotgeek.net. When he's not spending time with his family, he enjoys writing code, tech articles, tweeting, robotics and multi-touch projects.

Varon has a background in OO development on the .NET platform where he will happily code all day in either VB or C#.  He also has 14 years experience working with Microsoft SQL Server, which he calls “Microsoft’s single best product.”  Varon is employed as a Senior Systems Developer at Jack Link’s Beef Jerky in Minong, Wisconsin where he is currently focusing on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (DW/BI) using tools from both Microsoft and SAP Business Objects.