Amir Rajan is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti and is a DEVOTED student of software development.  He is a passionate individual who has expertise in distributed application design.  He codes pretty much day and night, but still manages to find time to play any RTS he can get his hands on.

Bob Byron works for NeXplore Corporation, a corporation dedicated to radically improve the online experience. He has been using AJAX technology in development of NeXplore's innovative social search engine. A veteran of client and server side development, Bob has an extensive background in the various techniques involved in bringing an application through the entire life cycle to get it to market. Bob is a current contributer to the Dojo Toolkit. He has been coding in Java since soon after its release in the mid 1990's. In 2006, Bob was the President of the Java Metroplex Users Group in Dallas, preceding that by two years as Vice President. He ran the Java Developer's Group for 5 years bringing the latest techniques and expertise to attendees.

Mike Wilcox is an employee of one of the top AJAX companies in the United States, SitePen Inc., which is an active contributor to the Open Web and the Dojo Toolkit. As one of their more versatile software engineers, Mike not only codes for their biggest clients, but designs user interfaces. As a Dojo committer, he is a key developer for the new Deft project that implements Flash components and most of the new multi-media features in DojoX as he continually works to bridge the gap between JavaScript and the Flash environment. Previously, at Nexplore Corporation as Project Director for their search engine, Mike wrote two patents, and implemented Dojo for their base code. Mike graduated college from the Art Institute of Dallas where he studied 3D Animation and Game Programming. Mike shows a special interest in debugging, and has maintained the Dojo variation of Firebug Lite, introducing many new features, bringing it close to the functionality of Firebug. Mike currently belongs to the Firebug Working Group, along with well known members of the JavaScript community, like Douglas Crockford and John Resig.

Brian Polster leads the Java Solutions Practice for Credera, a Dallas based Management and Technology Consulting company. Brian has spent the majority of his 17 year career developing and architecting solutions with the Java framework. He has worked with E-Commerce frameworks since 1998 including Broadvision and ATG. In addition, Brian has led the development of several custom E-Commerce solutions.

Recently, Brian assisted with the formulation Broadleaf Commerce, LLC which is a company charged with creating and maintaining an enterprise open source commerce platform.

Prior to working with Credera and Broadleaf Commerce, Brian held the position of lead application architect for American Airlines website (AA.com).

Follow Brian on twitter at twitter.com/polster.

Caleb Jenkins is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises, National Speaker for INETA, Microsoft MVP, featured presenter for xTrain.com and Adobe.TV, technical editor for Wrox Publishing and certified Scrum Master. Improving Enterprises, Inc specializes in delivering enterprise solutions, agile methodologies and mentoring on the Microsoft and Java platforms.

Host, cameraman and editor for http://CommunityCast.tv; as a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .NET architect, Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise .NET Solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; American Airlines, Countrywide Mortgage, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few.

Caleb lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busies himself playing Candy Land and Xbox 360 with their four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speaks at conferences, and writes code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually he'll post some of the gazillion interviews that he's recorded on CommunityCast or blog athttp://developingUX.com

Casey Watson is a Senior Consultant with Improving Enterprises, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, avid blogger (http://www.caseywatson.com) and proud father.  For the last five years, Casey has been focused on helping customers realize business value through the development of quality software products, primarily on the Microsoft .NET platform.  As a Certified Scrum Master, Casey is a firm proponent of agile practices and deeply believes in the value of product over process.  While at Improving (http://www.improvingenterprises.com), his focus has been on 3.5 technologies such as WCF and WPF, building rich Windows-based applications for several major financial and retail firms.  While not blogging, coding, or updating his Twitter status, Casey enjoys spending time with his family and never turns down an ice cold bottle of Blue Moon.

Wil Bloodworth is a Senior Consultant with Improving Enterprises, CertifiedScrum Master, professional photographer (http://www.WilBloodworth.com) and aloving husband and dad as well. Wil has been writing software since the mid80's and has been working on the .NET platform since its inception. Wil'slast year at Improving has been incredible and has allowed him to provide alot of business value using IoC, mocking, WCF, WPF, SSRS, and some cool newthreading opportunities. While not writing, speaking, or learning aboutsoftware, will enjoys playing chess, poker, volleyball, watching a good FCDallas soccer game, or just soaking up some sun with the family by the pool.

Chris B. Behrens is a co-author of the book Programming Web Components, as well as numerous articles in technical journals such as Sql Server Magazine and Java Developer's Journal. He has spoken at technical conferences all over the world, and has been architecting and developing software for fifteen years. He resides in Kennedale, TX with his wife and four children.

Chris Patterson is a Senior Architect at RelayHealth. For the past twenty years, Chris has been building applications using the Microsoft platform in various industries, including healthcare, airline services, and television. Chris is currently focused on designing and building enterprise integration platforms using messaging and web services. While preferring C#, Chris is also fluent in C/C++ and JavaScript and has worked with classic ASP, ASP.NET, and windows services. With over twelve years of experience in healthcare, Chris has an in-depth understanding of transactional systems, data security, and enterprise application integration.  Chris lives in Broken Arrow, OK with his wife and two daughters.

Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 15 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is the author of Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf), Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning).  When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 6 birds, and 2 dogs.

Dave Shuck is a web application developer who has been working with ColdFusion since 2000 and has served as the manager of the Dallas Ft. Worth ColdFusion user group since 2006. He is currently employed by Unitrin Specialties Inc, as a senior developer and works as a contract developer through World Wild Web Systems Inc.

John Jacobs is an Architect with Credera (www.credera.com). He has over 10 years of experience developing Java/JEE applications for companies in the financial services, telecommunications, HR and non-profit industries. John is passionate about using open source technology and techniques like test-driven development to solve business problems. His focus areas include open source Java application frameworks like the Spring Framework and JBoss Seam, Service Oriented Architecture and agile/lean methodologies. Prior to joining Credera, John was a Senior Programmer/Analyst with USAA where he worked on high-volume banking applications on usaa.com. John is an avid snow skier; he also enjoys golfing and spending time with his wife and two kids. Follow John on twitter at twitter.com/john99jacobs.

Jonathan Campos has been specifically building web applications since 2000 using a variety of tools and languages for many different clients. The technologies include: PHP, MYSQL, POSTGRES, Flash, Flex, AIR, Actionscript, Javascript, and Ruby. Jonathan is currently a Principal Architect at Miller and Associates in Dallas Texas and Co-Owner of UnitedMindset with friend Dimi Arhontidis. Jonathan leads various development teams and advises for multiple companies around the world along with being an active trainer in Flex development.

Within the community, Jonathan is the Dallas Flex User Group Manager “D-Flex” and Flex Community Enthusiast. 

Jonathan Curran is a software developer who currently works for Cisco Systems, Inc with a team whose task is to lend a helping hand to various projects. He enjoys working on just about anything to do with code ranging from C to Python, Struts to Django, and Windows to Linux. His current focus is on developing web applications with Groovy, Grails, PostgreSQL, and a plethora of mashable javascript.

Joseph Hill has been active in the Mono community since 2003, and is a contributor to several open source ASP.NET projects. Professionally, he consulted on development of .NET applications in financial services, supply chain management, and other industries. In 2008, Joseph joined Novell to serve as the Product Manager for Mono.

Ken Byrd is a .NET consultant and mentor with more than 20 years of experience designing and building client/server and web-based distributed database applications. He has worked with a variety of languages including C, C++, Delphi, C# and VB.NET and has worked extensively with Microsoft .NET since the initial Beta releases.

Ken graduated from Baylor University in 1986 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and currently works in Dallas with TekFocus, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions where he teaches advanced development classes in C#, VB, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WCF, Workflow, ADO and WPF.

Kenny Yates has been working as an Independent Lead Consultant in Adobe Flex Architecture and Development since 2004. He currently serves as VP of Development for The Truit Group.  He has been a key member of several development teams as well as a Flex Training Source, Mentor and Leader for teams of Flex Developers. Working closely with many firms over the years, Kenny has had critical contribution to a vast number of interesting and diverse projects - successfully developing concepts into well-designed products. This extensive experience and knowledge allows him to be very inventive when assisting these clients in achieving their development goals.

Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in products for RIA development, testing, integration and analytics. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past six years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash, and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.

Past presenting experience:
Adobe MAX 2007, Adobe AIR Bus Tour, WebManiacs 2007, Dallas Flex User group, Denver Flex User group, Silicon Valley, Flex User group, Seattle Flex User Group, New York Flex User Group, Dallas TechFlex 2008

Mike Kelp is a Lead Architect at EdomGroup, Inc. where he has worked on a wide range of projects from web applications to handle SuperBowl traffic, to data mining and API development in the Background Check industry. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science and a particularly enjoys the challenges of API design and comparing languages / technologies. When not in work mode he is often found trying to create intuitive dynamic design patterns, studying the pros and cons of many programming languages, or performing with local rock band Redefine.

Michael Smith is a Senior Flex Architect who has spent 12 years enhancing user experiences for software and web-based applications through highly interactive interfaces using technologies such as Flex, Flash, HTML, AJAX, CSS, and PHP. Michael is an Adobe Certified Expert in Flex 3 and Air and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Interactive Design at The Art Institute of Dallas and The University of Texas at Dallas.

Paul Holser is a Principal Consultant at Improving Enterprises, where he and his colleagues help clients adopt agile software development methods and create indefinitely sustainable software applications. He has seventeen years of software development experience, including with thought leaders such as ThoughtWorks, ObjectSpace, and Valtech. Paul's passion for sharing what he has learned shows in his previous speaking engagements at TechFest in both Dallas and Tulsa, and via his articles and blogs. He is the author of JOpt Simple, a command-line option parsing library for Java.

Rob Vettor is a Microsoft .NET Architect/Senior Solution Developer at Jack Henry and Associates. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon and American Express. Rob, an avid Toastmaster, founded the Dallas .NET Architecture study group (www.dotnetarch.com) and is a member of the Microsoft South Region Developer Guidance Council. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs and rooms full of NET computer books. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com.

Robert Gatti is a Senior Architect at EdomGroup (http://www.edomgroup.com) and has been developing applications for 5 years. When not programming or reading about programming he can be found trying to finish a masters degree in Computer Science.

Roger Guess is the Director of IT for The Wedge Group, and is passionate about all things Silverlight. He is active speaker on topics such as Silverlight, WPF, and Azure. You can follow Roger on SilverlightAddict.com.

Shawn Weisfeld is a Staff Developer at a Fortune 20 company. There he specializes in intranet & smart client development for internal line of business applications. Besides his day job Shawn also is an Adjunct Professor at The Florida Institute of Technology. He also does freelance software development work for local small businesses and training. In his free time he volunteers with INETA NorAm (http://www.ineta.org/). Shawn started his career at his family business in Port St. Lucie FL while working on his undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of Central Florida and after a year off Shawn moved back to Orlando to pursue a Masters degree in Management Information Systems at The University of Central Florida and has since earned a second Masters degree in Computer Information Systems from Florida Institute of Technology. Shawn was awarded the Microsoft C# Most Valuable Professional award for 2007 & 2008. Shawn is an avid technology presenter and since July of 2005 Shawn has presented at over 25 user group events, and even got to speak for Microsoft at the launch of Visual Studio.

Stephen Fulcher (sf@crocodilesoftware.com) is the CEO of Crocodile Software, a provider of software and IT services. He spent five years at Microsoft in developer related roles (1997-2002) and then five additional years as a Microsoft Regional Director (2003-2007). He lives in Houston with his family.

Steve Good has been developing ColdFusion applications since about 1999. He is currently a developer for a company that provides measured call, click and chat tracking and also works on a contract basis on projects of all sizes. In late 2008 Steve picked up Flex 3 and began developing applications that use ColdFusion 8 as a backend for both browser based applications and desktop (AIR) applications. He is the owner of Slantsoft, a consulting and software company which operates in the Dallas / Fort Worth area.

Tim Sporcic is a software developer and architect in Plano, Texas. He has been working with Java since the JDK 1.1 days on everything from enterprise systems to an embedded Java operating system featured at JavaOne. Tim has been recently focused on client-tier RIA development using ExtJS and JavaScript.

Todd Anglin is an active .NET community member, President of the North Houston .NET User Group, an O’Reilly author, Microsoft MVP and Telerik's Chief Evangelist. At Telerik, Todd is responsible for building and educating Telerik's global community of developers and helping ensure Telerik's products serve the needs of .NET developers around the world. In the general .NET community, Todd is an active author and speaker, focusing primarily on ASP.NET and Silverlight. Before joining Telerik, Todd worked as a developer in a Fortune 200 financial services company supporting applications on a wide range of platforms and technologies. He also an avid entrepreneur with previous experience running a small .NET software studio. You can find him online at http://telerikwatch.com.

Thomas Woestman has been developing in Coldfusion for 12+ years and is the architect of a number of large, high-availability, mission critical websites for ESRI. He is an occasional speaker at the DFW CFUG and a strong proponent of developing web sites with ColdFusion.

Vikalp Jain is a technology consultant with Credera, where he helps clients implement technology solutions. He has spent most of his professional career developing Java web applications. Prior to joining Credera, he was with the "Interactive Business Systems" group of Johnson Controls, Inc. where he worked on the core financial applications of the company. Vikalp received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Marquette University.