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Mithun Dhar
Twitter: @mithund | BlogAn avid reader and Starbucks junkie, you will inevitably find Mithun riding a caffeine high with a book in his hand. Before joining the MSDN Events roster, he served as a product manager with the Microsoft Speech Server team, from the product’s incubation to the final release of Microsoft Speech Server 2007. Mithun also conducted a road show evangelizing and recruiting partners and ISVs to expand the Speech Server partner ecosystem and conducted trainings across the country. He’s passionate about the unified communications sector and loves applying his technical background and business savvy to make Microsoft a top player in the field. He’s spoken at numerous conferences, including SpeechTek, Microsoft Global Briefing, ICCM, Tech Ready, TechEd, and the Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Devices Conference. Before joining Microsoft, Mithun worked at Oracle on the 9iAS product and at Aditi/Talisma Corporation on a CRM product for mid-market users. He enjoys meeting customers with different backgrounds and profiles, and helping them build products that will simplify people’s lives. In his downtime, Mithun takes road trips and goes flying – after a round of double espressos, of course.
Jason Hurdlow
Twitter: jhurdlow | BlogJust some family guy who writes code, loves playing softball, and is crazy enough to think he can actually organize a CodeCamp while training for a triathlon. He currently works at Washington State University as an ITS3. Jason leads the WSU Application Developers Group and is Chair of Coders of the Palouse. In previous lives he has done game development, 3D graphics programming, shot and edited video, mixed surround sound, and even done CGI work for a movie. He currently resides in Moscow, ID with his wife and three children.
Robert Lewis
| WebsiteProf. Lewis is a member of the School of EECS at Washington State University. He is located at the Tri-Cities campus in Richland. His interests include computer graphics, visualization, computer vision, scientific computing, and the Python language.
Mark Michaelis
Twitter: IntelliTechture | Blog | WebsiteMark Michaelis is the Chief Technical Architect at IntelliTechture, a software engineering and consulting company with high end skills in Microsoft VSTS/TFS, BizTalk, SharePoint, and best practice .NET development. Mark holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Illinois and an MS in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Starting in 1996, he has been a Microsoft MVP for C#, Visual Studio Team System, and the Windows SDK. He serves on several Microsoft software design review teams, including C#, the Connected Systems Division and VSTS/TFS. Mark speaks at developer conferences and has written numerous articles and books - Essential C# 4.0 is his most recent. When not bonding with his computer, Mark is busy with his family or training for the Ironman.
David Sargent
| BlogDavid has been employeed at Washington State University for over 11 years as an Informaiton Technology Specialist 4. He splits his time between programming in .Net / C# and Database Administration, Server Administration and Desktop Support for Human Resource Services. David has been programming using Microsoft technologies for the last 11 years starting with Classic ASP then moving to ASP.Net 2.0 with C# up through .Net 3.5. He's transitioned University systems from dBase IV for DOS to Classic ASP and then again to .Net Webforms and is now in the process of learning ASP MVC to transition systems again to that platform. David wrote and maintains a Web Content Management system used by over 50 websites at WSU as well as many other specialized systems used by Human Resource Services.
Jack Stephens
Twitter: jrcs3 | BlogJack Stephens is a C#/.NET programmer based out of Spokane. He has been working with Microsoft technologies since QuickBasic 4.5, through VisualBasic (3 to 6) and finally into C#/.NET. Jack has worked throughout the State of Washington, including a stint at Microsoft.