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: May 26, 2010
WHERE: MICROSOFT
3025 Highland Pkwy Ste 300
Downers Grove, IL

The Sessions:


Jason Bock Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://www.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 Blumenthal Michael Blumenthal is a SharePoint Architect and Senior Consultant with Magenic. Michael has well-rounded SharePoint expertise, with SharePoint development, infrastructure, and administration experience. He's designed, implemented, and supported SharePoint intranets, extranets, and Internet sites for clients in markets as diverse as Banking, Energy, Government, and Transportation. Michael holds several Microsoft certifications (MCTS, MCSE, MCAD, MCDBA). He blogs about SharePoint at http://BlumenthalIT.net/, tweets about SharePoint as @MichaelBL and has contributed three SharePoint projects to CodePlex. Michael has spoken nationally and locally about SharePoint at community events including Microsoft Virtual Tech Days, SharePoint Connections, and SharePoint Saturday Chicago, among others.

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.

Ben Cline Ben Cline works as a BizTalk architect and developer for Magenic. He has been honored as a BizTalk MVP for the last two years for his online community contributions to the MSDN forums where he actively participates and moderates. In addition to consulting on BizTalk technologies he also enjoys working with WCF, WF, and security technologies. Ben is active in the pre-release Microsoft Connect community and maintains a blog describing tips, tricks, and workarounds for working with BizTalk. He holds many industry certifications and a bachelor's degree in philosophy.

Daniel Sniderman Dan Sniderman, a Senior Consultant from Magenic’s Chicago office has been with Magenic for five years and has over twenty-five years experience in professional software development. Since 1993, Dan has specialized on developing business applications on the Microsoft platform. Most recently, Dan has worked with C#, VB.NET, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and CSLA. In addition, Dan has done extensive consulting around using and customizing Team Foundation Server. Dan has a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MCSD.NET and MCTS in Team Foundation Server. Dan has a published article on TFS in the .Net Developers Journal and speaks regularly on the subject at Users Groups and Code Camps. Dan also is a professional trombonist.

Anthony Handley With over 15 years experience working in interactive design, Anthony is the UX Practice lead at Magenic. A Microsoft MVP for Expression Blend, Anthony's focus is to create great user experiences and XAML-based solutions for the desktop, web and mobile. In the community, Anthony evangelizes the value of better designer/developer collaboration utilizing Expression Studio and has served as a presenting speaker at technology events around the country including Microsoft’s Boston ReMIX, the Chicago .NET Users Group & Codeapalooza. He is also the co-founder of the Chicago Silverlight Users Group and co-organizes Riapalooza, an annual event focused on designing and developing for rich platforms. anthonyh@magenic.com

Ryan Hanisco

Ryan has been working in the Information Systems consulting field for over 11 years and is responsible for project management methodology and project execution in Magenic’s delivery teams.  He has a passion for delivering real value through successful development projects and business process improvement.  Prior to Magenic, Ryan managed the project practice for a Chicago-based infrastructure firm and served as the Technology Coordinator for the Lansing School District in Michigan.  Ryan is regular contributor to the Microsoft communities and contributing author on a Windows Server 2008 enterprise architecture certification book. (ryanh@magenic.com)


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