Fred Barwell is an MCSD and a graduate from the
University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics, Honors
Computer Science and Information Systems degree. He has been
developing software professionally for over 10 years, primarily
with Visual Basic and SQL Server.
Richard Blair is Web Application Architect
specializing in Microsoft Web Technologies, He focuses on emerging
technology and its impact on business and development. Key areas
that he has helped clients evaluate include: streamlining the
electronic business process, expanding access to vital information,
and creating usable systems. He now works as a Senior Consultant
for SEI-Information Technology.
Richard Case is a Financial Analyst Programmer
with Financial Objects PLC based in Covent Garden, London, England,
where he works on the company's advanced banking software. Richard
is also a Microsoft Certified Developer. He has been using Visual
Basic since version 3 and is looking forward to using it for many
years to come.
Jonathan Crossland is co-author of
Professional Windows DNA, Professional VB.NET, and
Beginning VB.NET. He is currently working at Yokogawa
Electric Corporation in the UK, where he is happily involved with
the creation of software technologies for eight years and now
spends most of his time in C# and ASP.NET.
Bill Forgey is Technical Lead in his current
position, introducing project methodology, new technologies,
standards, and training to development teams. He spend some time
consulting and have exposed to technologies such as ASP, Delphi,
Pascal, COM, C/C++, SQL, Java, ADO, Visual Basic, and now .NET. He
is also co-author to Beginning Visual Basic .NET
Databases.
Whitney Hankison is a Financial Systems Analyst
with the County of Santa Barbara in California. She specializes in
VB programming and System Architecture/Network Configuration. She
has been working in the computer field since 1984 and holds MCP
certifications in NT Server and Workstation.
Billy S. Hollis first learned BASIC over 25
years ago, and is co-author of the first book ever published on
Visual Basic .NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta,
as well as several other .NET books. He is a frequent speaker at
conferences, including Comdex and the Visual Basic Insiders
Technical Summit (VBITS), often on the topics of software design
and specification, object-based development in Visual Basic, and
Microsoft.NET. He was chosen by Microsoft to train 200 instructors
for their 2001 .NET Developer Tour.
Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology
Evangelist for Magnetic Technologies, one of the Nation's premiere
Microsoft Gold Certified Partners dedicated to solving today's most
challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft tools and
technology. He has over 14 years experience in software development
and has worked on many projects in various roles, including
software architecture, design and development, network
administration, and project management.
Tim McCarthy is a Principal Engineer at
InterKnowlogy, where he architects and builds highly scalable
n-tier web applications utilizing the latest Microsoft
technologies. He has been an author and technical reviewer for
several books.
Jan D. Narkiewicz is Chief Technical Officer at
Software Pronto, Inc. In his spare time he is Academia Coordination
for the Windows curriculum at U.C. Berkeley Extension, he teaches
at U.C. Santa Cruz Extension, writes for ASPT today and
occasionally plays some football.
Jonathan Pinnock started programming in Pal III
assembler on his school's PDP 8/e, with a massive 4K of memory. He
spends most of his time developing and extending the increasingly
successful PlatformOne product set that his company, JPA, markets
to the financial services community.
Rama Ramachandran is Vice President, Technology
with Imperium, a Microsoft Certified Partner for E-Commerce, Rama
is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and Site-Builder and
has excelled in designing and developing medium to large scale web
applications using .NET, ASP/+, COM, Visual Basic, SQL Server, and
Windows 2000.
Mathew Reynolds is an in-house author for Wrox
Press writing about and working with visually all aspects of
Microsoft .NET. He is also a regular contributor to Wrox's
ASPToday, C#Today and Web Services Architect.
John Roth began his career like so many in the
industry as that guy who knows the computer stuff, the one who
could whip up a macro as fast as Julia Childs could tuck into a
Souffle. Realizing he could make a living having fun, he started
his own company.
Bill Sempf is an experienced internet
strategist with a ten-year track record of using technology to help
organizations accomplish specific business objectives. He is a
Microsoft Certified Professional, Certified Internet Business
Strategist, and member of the International Webmaster's
Association.
Bill Sheldon is a software architect and
engineer originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently living with
his wife in Southern California. Holding a degree in Computer
Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), he has
been professionally employed since resigning his commission with
the US Navy following the Gulf War.