Shaun Walker is founder and president of Perpetual
Motion Interactive Systems Inc., a solutions company specializing
in Microsoft enterprise technologies. Shaun has 15 years
professional experience in architecting and implementing large
scale IT solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is
responsible for the creation and management of DotNetNuke, an open
source content management system written for the Microsoft ASP.NET
platform. Based on his significant community contributions he was
recently recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
in 2004. In addition, he was recently added as a featured speaker
to the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau, which allows him to evangelize
DotNetNuke to User Groups across Canada. Shaun resides in British
Columbia, Canada with his wife and two children.
Patrick Santry, Microsoft MVP (ASP/ASP.NET)
holds MCSE, MCSA, MCP+SB, i-Net+, A+, and Certified Internet
Webmaster certifications. He has authored and co-authored several
books and magazine articles on Microsoft and Internet technologies.
Patrick is frequent presenter on web technologies, having presented
at several events including the Exchange 2000 launch, DevDays 2004
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and to area .NET SIGs on DotNetNuke
module development. In addition, Patrick owns and maintains
http://www.WWWCoder.com, a popular site for news, tutorials, and
information for the web development community. Patrick resides in
Girard, Pennsylvania, USA with his wife Karyn, and their four
children, Katie, Karleigh, P.J., and Danny.
Joe Brinkman, formerly the founder and
President of TAG Software Inc, is the Chief Technology Officer for
DataSource Inc. (http://www.datasourceinc.com), a J2EE development
company focused on simplifying and automating development of N-Tier
applications with Java. With more than 22 years of IT experience
and a Computer Science degree from the United States Naval Academy,
he brings a broad range of experience and expertise in a variety of
software and hardware architectures. Having worked with DotNetNuke
since February 2003, and a founding Core Team member, Joe currently
serves as a member of the DotNetNuke Board of Directors, a Lead
Architect and Security Specialist.
Dan Caron is a Lead Application Designer &
Developer with MassMutual Financial Group, a Fortune 500 global,
diversified financial services organization. With MassMutual, Dan
designs technical solutions for financial web applications using
Microsoft and Java technologies. For more than 10 years, Dan has
been designing and developing applications with various programming
technologies including Microsoft ASP.NET, XML/XSL, SQL, Java, and
JSP. He has been a major contributor to the DotNetNuke open-source
portal project since the Core Team was founded in 2003. Some of
Dan's noteworthy contributions include the exception handling
framework, event Logging Provider and the Scheduler. Dan continues
to contribute his talent to the project as a Lead Architect, Core
Developer, and member of the Board of Directors. Dan lives in
Connecticut, USA with his wife and two children.
Scott McCulloch works as an Application
Developer for the Computer Science Corporation, Australia. At 26
years of age, Scott holds a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Computer
Science, as well as the three major Microsoft Certifications (MCSD,
MCDBA, MCSE). Scott has been part of the DotNetNuke community since
the project began (late December, 2002). Today, his role within the
DotNetNuke team is contributing as an Architect and Core Developer.
He currently resides in Wollongong, Australia with his fiancée,
Lenise.
Scott Willhite is an accomplished business and
technology professional turned family man. He happily spends his
days working closely with his wife on their personal and community
oriented business pursuits. Scott's technology pedigree is
distinguished, including Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
and MBA in Information Systems Management degrees from Baylor
University. Scott has worked as Senior Manager and Technical
Architect for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Associate
Director for EnForm Ventures, acting CTO and VP of Technology for
10x Labs, and Program Director for Safeco's Office of the CIO. He's
architected, developed, and managed systems built on technologies
ranging from COBOL to Java and .NET, solving all kinds of
real-world business problems without a certification of any kind.
Ever the "Don Quixote" type, Scott's currently tilting at the
windmills of open-source and committed to building DotNetNuke (both
the software and the community) into something truly extraordinary.
His favorite mantra is the core values developed with his partners
for their former startup company, 10x Labs: "Speak the truth. Share
the wealth. Change the world!" Scott currently lives in West
Seattle with his lovely wife Allison, his young son Kyle, a whiny
German Shepherd dog, two very weird house cats, and a cast of
wonderful friends and neighbors that he wouldn't trade for
gold.
Bruce Hopkins, Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET), holds a
BSCIS from DeVry University and holds certifications as an MCSE and
several flavors of Linux. Bruce is currently the IT Director for
Chattahoochee Technical College in Marietta, Georgia and has held a
wide variety of positions in technology throughout his career
ranging from programming and web design to network administration
and management. Bruce remarks that this varied experience is
crucial to determining the correct tool for the task at hand. This
is shown by the many varied technologies he uses every day. These
include Windows, Unix, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and many
different Linux-based applications that are an integral part of
maintaining the college's infrastructure. Bruce makes his home in
Marietta, Georgia with his wife and son.