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.