Marc Temkin is a staff senior programmer at Northwestern University and teaches computer programming in the Interactive Arts & Media Department of Columbia College Chicago. He has presented at the previous Chicago Code Camps on Data Visualization using WPF and an Introduction to WPF.

Oleg Sych is a Senior Consultant with AgileThough. He has been working as a professional software engineer since 1993, building distributed enterprise applications since 2000 and working with .NET technologies since 2002. Oleg holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science, MCSD, MCPD, PSD, PSM and PSDT certifications. In 2009 and 2010, He received the MVP award in Visual C# category from Microsoft. Oleg's professional interests include software architecture and development process. In his spare time he writes and speaks about code generation. Check out his web site at http://www.olegsych.com for in-depth coverage of T4 and ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

Jim is a software craftsman at 8th Light, a co-organizer of the Software Craftsmanship McHenry County user group, and an avid coder.

Microsoft | Senior Developer Evangelist

Name a role in the software industry, and Clark has probably played it. He started as a Y2K tester and has since worked as a developer, lead, "build monkey," solutions architect and product manager. His professional sweet spot however, lies in designing and building software solutions that make life easier – there's no chance for boredom and constant opportunities for growth. Clark is MCSD certified and received top Microsoft honors with the Circle of Excellence Award. He's a graduate of Western Illinois University and before joining Microsoft in 2005, he served as a solutions architect at Allstate Insurance Company. As a senior developer evangelist and Visual Studio team system ranger, Clark brings a good dose of humor and a zest for life to the podium. You can hear Clark's technical musings on "The Smackdown" at DeveloperSmackdown.com and The Thirsty Developer podcast – or find him getting grease under his nails in the garage. Clark's a muscle car fanatic who's currently finishing a body-off restoration of his 1970 Chevrolet Camaro.

Nick Schweitzer is a Milwaukee Area Software Consultant with more than 12 years of experience. He's worked with for several Milwaukee area consulting companies, with clients ranging from medium size firms, to Fortune 500 companies, and is currently a Surgeon at SpiderLogic. He sometimes blogs at The Coding Monkey and is active on Twitter (@NickSchweitzer).

Bill Reiss is a Senior Developer for AgileThought and focuses on client application development. Bill is a Silverlight MVP and frequent speaker on Silverlight, XNA, and Windows Phone 7.

Chris Powers has been developing Web applications for the last six years, now specializing in Ruby and JavaScript development. Currently he is enjoying working as a software consultant with Obtiva, where he partners with clients to build and improve Web applications. Chris strongly believes in the power technology has to bring people together and enjoys developing platforms that empower the user. Living in the northern Chicago suburbs with his wife, dog and cats, Chris stays active in the Web development community both online and off. In his free time he enjoys playing the drum kit and writing music.

Windows Phone 7 Development Microsoft MVP, speaker, organizer. Nikita works for AgileThought as Senior Consultant working on custom business applications for various customers. Nikita is an avid Windows Phone expert. And enjoys Graphic Design, User Experience and Advertising/Marketing topics.

John V. Petersen has been developing software for 20 years, starting with dBase, Clipper and FoxBase + thereafter, migrating to FoxPro and Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic. Other areas of concentration include Oracle and SQL Server - versions 6 to 2008. From 1995 to 2001, John was a Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP. Today, his emphasis is on ASP.NET MVC applications. He is a current Microsoft ASP.NET MVP. In 1999, John wrote the definitive whitepaper on “ADO for VFP Developers.” In 2002, he wrote the “Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Databases” for Que Publishing. John was a co-author of “Visual FoxPro Enterprise Development” from Prima Publishing, with Rod Paddock, Ron Talmadge and Eric Ranft. He was also a co-author of “Visual Basic Web Development” from Prima Publishing, with Rod Paddock and Richard Campbell.

Michael Norton (doc) is an Agile Coach and Code Activist living in Wadsworth, OH. Michael's experience covers a wide range of development topics. Michael declares expertise in no single language or methodology and is immediately suspicious of anyone who declares such expertise.

I'm the Senior Windows Systems Engineer for Edgenet. I've a PowerShell enthusiast and subscribe to the belief that a sysadmin should have some programming chops in their toolkit.

Kevin McMahon is a software developer based in Chicago who spends his days writing code for a financial services company and his nights writing code for mobile devices. He blogs at http://blog.kevfoo.com and can be found on Twitter at @klmcmahon

I have been coding in .NET for 6 years and have been coding large client side applications in JavaScript for 3.

Lwin is a developer of mobile applications by night, but during the day he secures servers, enable VOIP and SIP solutions, and designs networks for small businesses. Lwin teamed up with his brother, Min, to win several hackathons. Together, they've developed multiple cross-platform mobile apps, and are soon to release a novel turn-by-turn GPS navigation system on Windows Phone 7.

Min is a skilled, cross-platform mobile developer, aggressive hackathon competitor and presenter. Enamored with the Window Phone UI, Min co-created the first Metro UI launcher for Android, featured on Engadget. When he's not coding, he's building robots. Monday through Friday, you'll find Min at a leading, privately-held payroll and HR sofware solutions company, cranking out .Net code.

Micah Martin is a Software Craftsman and President of 8th Light, Inc. He is co-author of the book "Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#" and lead developer of the open source FitNesse tool. He has 10 years of experience consulting, training, and developing software focusing on agile development practices. Since 2006, Micah has been working almost exclusively with Ruby, stressing it to the edge, developing enterprise systems.

Glenn Leifheit, CISSP, CSSLP is a Senior Security Architect at FICO. He has worked in developing, managing, architecting and securing large scale applications for over 15 years. His day is spent rolling out an Enterprise secure software development lifecycle and managing PCI requirements as well as secure software reviews. Glenn is active in the Technology community as the Co-Chair of (ISC)2 Application Security Advisory Board, President of TechMasters Twin Cities, as an active member of IASA (International Association of Software Architects) and OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) as well as a regional speaker evangelizing secure software. Glenn's blog is located at www.glennleifheit.com

Steve is a software craftsman at 8th Light.

Dave's passion in life is facilitating growth. He spends his days in Chicago growing Obtiva and his family. He founded and leads Obtiva's apprenticeship program and is currently working on expanding it to begin accepting even less competent software developers.

Matt is a .NET developer and enthusiast. He is currently doing .NET consulting in Chicago focusing on ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7.

Lee Harold is a technical architect in Chicago. He maintains the open source project IBM WebSphere MQ adapter for nServiceBus at http://code.google.com/p/nservicebuswmq.

JC is a consultant with Obtiva (http://www.obtiva.com) in Chicago and a co-founder of DevMynd Software (http://www.devmynd.com) the makers of Crew and SoupCanChat among other products. He has a long history in .NET and a more recent one with Ruby. You can find him on twitter @thegrubbsian.

David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. He is a Microsoft MVP; an INETA mentor; and the President of the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group. David has presented at many of the conferences and user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA, as well as a BS and an MBA. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com. David lives in Michigan with his two teenage sons.

A software craftsman with eight years of professional experience.

Jason Farrell worked as consultant specializing in web solutions for a number of years. Recently he has been immersing himself in mobile technology and is a vocal proponent of a variety of mobile platforms. In his free time Jason enjoys mountain hiking, cross training, video games, and movies

aron is a veteran technology consultant, writer, and Principal Point Guard with ThoughtWorks, Inc. He is the author "The Nomadic Developer", and most recent a co-author of "Professional F# 2.0". His life's work helping organizations better leverage technology, by contributing to solutions that have substantial positive economic impact for his clients.

He is an enthusiast of agile techniques for delivery of software, and has special interest in helping companies understand the corrosive effects of technical debt. He is also an "armchair economist" with lots of unfounded opinions on the topic, a deeply mediocre skier, and has an XBOX 360 GamerScore well over 12,000.

Michael Eaton has been developing awesome solutions using Microsoft tools and technologies since 1994, but in 2001 he broke free from the confines of the cube farm to go out on his own. While he lives in the middle-of-nowhere Michigan, he serves clients throughout the mid-west. Well known for his dislike of web development and box lunches, his focus over the past few years has been on XAML-based technologies like WPF and Silverlight. He speaks at regional events and user groups, runs the Kalamazoo X Conference and helps with the Ann Arbor Give Camp. He is also a C# MVP. When not working on projects or spending time with his family, he treats his World of Warcraft addiction with ample doses of time on his XBox 360.

I have fallen in love with programming but I am very much a beginner despite having done it professionally for about four years. I realize there is much I need to learn and there are a great number of people who are out there I can learn from. I also realize that it is a long journey and the fact that I am left only with excitement about it leads me to believe that I just need to pay attention & learn from what I do every day :).

I (try to) document things that I learn as I go over at http://tundal45.github.com. I also have a tumblelog (http://tundal45.tumblr.com) where I track quotable lines from articles & blog posts that I have read

Chander Dhall is the founder of Dallas day of dot net. Chander Dhall is an Independent Consultant, an INETA speaker and Technology Advisor - Ria Consulting, LLC. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns and is focused on building high performing modular software. Chander leads the UT Dallas .NET user group and co-leads the Dallas dot net user group. Chander recently got recognized as "One of the top organizers by Eventbrite.

Keith Dahlby is a .NET developer, language geek and C# MVP from Cedar Rapids, IA. He works as the technical lead at J&P Cycles and blogs about various software development topics with Los Techies. Keith has spoken at community events around the midwest and studied Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State University. His talks have been described as "terrific!", "very interactive!", and "the best I've seen all hour!"

I have over 12 years of experience creating J2EE applications. These applications have run the gamut from secure email server using a proprietary PKI solution to dynamic customer facing web applications. I firmly believe in polyglot programming and the need to use the right tool for the right job. My professional experience includes using Java, Python, Groovy, Objective C, JavaScript, and Ruby.

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 (@DotNetDevDude)

Eric D. Boyd is a Director for Centare Group, Ltd. and is responsible for their Chicago business and Cloud Computing Practice. Eric began his technology career by starting a web development firm in the 90’s and has served in multiple roles since including developer, consultant, business owner and technology executive. Today, he primarily helps Fortune 500 companies with software development practices and cloud computing in the Chicago-Milwaukee area.

Dave Bost is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast. Dave has been a Software Developer and Solution Architect for over 15-years. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dave cut his technical teeth working with many Fortune-500 companies as a technical mentor and consultant.

Dave started his technical passion back in the days of the Commodore-64 when he wrote his first assembly-language program that produced a hot-air balloon to sail across his Commodore 1701 Video Monitor. From there, he was hooked. This led to a Computer Science degree at Northern Illinois University, where he soon started his professional career in the Unix/C world and a short time later, starting his Microsoft developer career. For the past decade, Dave has spent most of his time building web-based applications for the Microsoft platform. As a technologist, Dave doesn't spend all his time in the Microsoft world as he likes to spend his time dabbling with the latest technologies, tools and movements coming out of the software industry.

Outside of his professional life, Dave enjoys discovering new music with his Zune Pass, defending the universe against 13-year olds on Xbox Live, and playing golf (whenever his wife lets him). You can read Dave's blog at http://davebost.com/blog or listen to the Thirsty Developer Podcast at http://thirstydeveloper.com.

Scott Beardsley is a father, geek, developer, amateur photographer and mobile device enthusiast. By day Scott is a mild mannered consultant, and by night he and his partners at ZenParticles are attempting to dominate the world one smartphone at a time. Scott's specialty is designing mobile systems with highly scalable cloud based back ends. Scott started the Indianapolis Code and Coffee user group, and his most recent speaking engagement was at Cocoa Camp Atlanta.

A long time designer, design researcher, web strategist.