So you've been to a Code Camp or a User Group, you got your feet wet and now you're looking to take things to the next level...

Code Mastery events are designed to present you with meaningful technical content by the professionals that are using them every day, in the trenches.

Come spend a day with some of Magenic's best and brightest. You'll be glad you did.


 

WHEN: Feb 11, 2010
WHERE: MICROSOFT
201 Jones Rd, Sixth floor
Waltham, MA 02451

The Sessions:


Jason Bock Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://magenic.com), a Microsoft MVP (C#), and an INETA (http://www.ineta.org) speaker. He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes", "CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", ".NET Security", and "Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. He is a leader of the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com) and runs the Twin Cities Languages User Group (http://www.twincitieslanguagesusergroup.com). Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.

Michael Cummings Michael Cummings has over 15 years experience as a principal systems analyst and software engineer and is currently employed with Magenic, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Partner. He is a Microsoft MVP, and an experienced technical lead with strengths in systems architecture, software development, infrastructure design & deployment, and business process as it relates to technology. Michael holds multiple certifications from Microsoft and other certifying organizations, including MCP, MCT, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA. Michael is dedicated to the community and speaks at local user groups and code camps.

Michael has been a hobby graphics programmer since the days of the TI99-4/A. Most of the day he's busy developing business applications, but that doesn't stop him from working on games and graphics engines when he can. As an avid gamer and an XNA enthusiast, Michael started the Boston XNA Developers Group ( http://www.bostonxna.org ), and has spoken at several user groups and other events on the topic of XNA and games. Michael has contributed to many open source projects, including AXIOM ( http://axiom3d.net ), a .Net/Mono 3D rendering engine, and Planeshift ( http://www.planeshift.it ), a 3D MMORPG. His blog can be found at http://www.geekswithblogs.net/mathoms.


Rockford Lhotka Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the popular CSLA .NET development framework, and is the author of numerous books, including Expert C# 2008 Business Objects and Expert VB 2008 Business Objects. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He contributes to several major magazines and regularly presents at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic (www.magenic.com), a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. For more information go to http://www.lhotka.net.

Sean Schade Sean Schade has over 12 years of software engineering experience using Microsoft products. He has played numerous and key roles in the development of enterprise systems, proving himself as a team leader. His understanding of all phases of application development, software architecture, and project management has allowed him to apply both business and technical consulting skills.

Sean has focused on distributed application architecture for the last 7 years with a concentration on Xml Messaging systems. Over the last 10 years he has worked with every version of BizTalk that Microsoft has released. He has led several projects using BizTalk, MOSS 2007, C# and the .NET Framework implementing Web Services, Remoting, Windows Services, WinForm and WebForm applications. Sean is also very active in the technical community. He has been a technical reviewer on over 75 articles, and several books. He also wrote a chapter titled “Using MSXML in a Distributed Environment” in the Wrox Press book Xml Application Development Using MSXML 4.0.


Brad Friedlander Brad Friedlander is a Principal Consultant who specializes in systems architecture and systems integration. He is a highly experienced Information Technology professional with over 35 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing innovative solutions using a broad array of methodologies and technologies. He has substantial understanding of object oriented and component-based methodologies and design techniques, as well as n-tier Client/Server and web-based environments.

His primary focus in the Microsoft technology stack is on BizTalk Server and the integration with SharePoint, SQL Server, CRM, and Great Plains as well as exposing web services for managing enterprise business objects. Brad has been selected by Microsoft to serve as a Microsoft BizTalk Server Virtual Technical Specialist. He has worked in many industries including: telecommunications; travel, tourism, and hospitality; food processing; petroleum and chemicals; pharmaceutical; retail and wholesale distribution and marketing; computer hardware and software manufacturers; hospitals and health care providers; financial services; equity, commodity, and options markets and traders; nuclear power plants; and government.

Brad joined Magenic in May 2006.


Jason Weber Jason Weber has over 17 years of professional experience with the Microsoft technology stack. As a Senior Consultant with Magenic, he has helped dozens of enterprises leverage SharePoint in support of their business and technical goals. Prior to becoming a consultant Jason worked in the Fortune 100 for over a decade, most recently serving as the Software Architect for a global management consultancy. His other professional interests include the design of highly configurable systems, methodology and evidence-based management.

Chris Barbin Chris Barbin is a “professional problem solver” who has leveraged the SharePoint platform for the benefit of dozens of clients. As a Senior Consultant with Magenic, Chris brings over eight years of professional software development experience in a variety of contexts to the table. His prior experience includes both enterprise and product company roles, which informs both his technical designs and his consultative approach. Chris holds all of the Microsoft certifications for SharePoint 2007, finds that agile methods tend to yield the best results and blogs at http://geekswithblogs.net/devsuey.

Abe Weinograd Abe Weinograd helps businesses create value with data. As a Senior Consultant with Magenic, Abe has both designed and implemented Business Intelligence (BI) solutions across a variety of industries including manufacturing, advertising, finance and real estate. Abe focuses on the SQL Server and SharePoint platforms and is a Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist in BI. He also holds MCTS and MCITP certifications for the SQL 2008 BI Developer.

Scott Diehl Scott Diehl has 14 years of experience as a software developer, database architect, technology educator and erstwhile project manager. A Senior Consultant for Magenic (http://magenic.com), Scott devotes the majority of his brain cycles towards helping clients establish and evolve enterprise business intelligence programs using the Microsoft BI platform. His professional interests include an obsessive fascination with large data sets, business process analysis and automation, dimensional design, and applying diverse technologies to help his customers solve real-world business problems. From his experience in systems development for numerous markets (including but not exclusive to health insurance, health care, emergency management, life sciences, manufacturing, construction management, retail, and management training), Scott has yet to find a business domain that wouldn’t benefit from a well-designed BI architecture.

John Doucette John has over 20 years of software design and development in many industries including military, financial services, accounting, non-profit, insurance, industrial distribution, manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, and retail. He is a champion of process engineering, change management and control compliance in the enterprise. Under his leadership, he recently implemented a new software development lifecycle with TFS and Team System to enable a controlled build and deployment process for BizTalk 2006 R2 on a multi-million dollar SAP implementation project. John has also made many presentations on Team System on behalf of Microsoft and has presented at a recent Boston area Code Camp on the "Top 10 developer tips in Team System - without all the process stuff".

*Event details subject to change.