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Michael Stiefel (Reliable Software)
Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, Inc. is a consultant on software architecture and development, and the alignment of information technology with business goals. As a member of an OASIS Technical Committee he helped develop a core SOA Reference Model and related Reference Architectures.
He was a Lecturer in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his research and teaching focus was understanding how people build mental models in order to solve problems. As Adjunct faculty, Stiefel has taught graduate and undergraduate software engineering courses at Northeastern University and Framingham State University. Michael Stiefel's education is from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a Interdisciplinary Ph.D degree in Nuclear Engineering, Political Science, and History of Technology; M.S. in Nuclear Engineering; and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is an active member of the IEEE Consultants Network
 
James Phillips (Picis)
 Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer with over 11 years experience in the Telecomm, e Commerce, Finance and Healthcare industries. He is passionate about his work with the .NET framework and is constantly looking for ways to expand and improve his knowledge. Aside from his passion and expertise in technology his natural ability to adapt to change has lead him to become a practicing SCRUM Master and evangelist. He Blogs at http://devblog.petrellyn.com and tweets under @petrellyn 
 
Rob Daigneau (ArcSage

Rob Daigneau is the President of ArcSage, a consultancy that specializes in complex systems integration. Rob has over twenty years experience designing and implementing enterprise-class applications and products for a broad array of industries from manufacturing, to financial services, to retail and travel.  Prior to ArcSage, Rob served in such prominent positions as Director of Architecture for Monster.com and Systems Manager at Fidelity Investments. Rob has provided thought-leadership through his many appearances at technology conferences throughout the world.  He is currently working for Addison Wesley on a book of Service Design Patterns for REST and WS*.

 
Mark Mullin (Global Relief Technologies)

 
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Bill Wilder (Large Financial Services Company)

 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael Iantosca (eDefine) 

 
 
 

 
 
Lee Ingram (Mobile Leverage LLC)

From his first software product 25 years ago to delivering market leading solutions to the world's enterprise customers today, Lee Ingram has learned how to solve problems for commercial gain. Most recently Chief Innovator and Technology Strategist at Kronos, Lee was the Chief Technology Officer at Workscape and has held senior technical positions in the US, Japan and the UK at SHL Systemhouse, Rover Group and Gannett.  Lee studied computer science at the University of Maryland before the advent of personal computers and while he lived in the UK attended the University of Warwick's master's of business administration program. He is currently building a new business at the intersection of cloud computing and mobility focused on improving communications between organizations and their members, companies and their workers, and businesses and their customers.
 
Talbott Crowel (ThirdM)

 Talbott is a Solution Architect at ThirdM who designs and builds enterprise applications with a focus on Microsoft technologies including SharePoint (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010), BizTalk Server, and the .NET framework. He has special interest in manycore solutions and spends time investigating technologies such as F# and the Task Parallel Library built into .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Talbott and his company deliver solutions and services to large and small companies including Fortune 500. Talbott also assists companies with the development process by using a blend of Agile and traditional methodologies, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System, Scrum, Test Driven Development (TDD), performance testing, and other proven tools and practices. Talbott is a group lead of the F# User Group http://fsug.org. You can follow him on twitter @talbott or http://twitter.com/talbott 

Lou Franco (Atalasoft)

Lou Franco is the VP of Developer Tools Product Strategy at Atalasoft, the leading provider of .NET Imaging SDKs. Lou has been in the software industry for 17 years as a developer, developer manager, architect and product manager. He blogs at http://atalasoft.com/blogs/loufranco and tweets under @loufranco.
 

John Slaby (Raytheon Inc.)

John Slaby is a Software Architect with Raytheon. He has spent over 25 years in software engineering working for high technology start-ups focused on data networking. He received his MA in English from the University of Chicago in 1978 and a BA in Mathematics and English from Dartmouth College in 1976. At Raytheon, he has been a member of the Zumwalt System Architecture team and the Principal Investigator for research projects focused on Software Factories, Model-Driven Development and domain-specific modeling languages. His background includes almost everything related to software, including engineering, engineering management, architecture, product management, product marketing, training and customer support. His career has spanned technology which began with custom operating systems written in assembler to large scale, web-based applications built using modern frameworks. He has authored patents for the automated provisioning of devices in large-scale distributed networks, and for the design of a development environment for data-driven user interfaces for mass market services.
 
 
Brooke Hamilton (Microsoft Consulting Services)