Ottawa Code Camp

About the Speakers

Joël Hébert, Opulent ASP Development Inc.

is a Microsoft Community Influencer and a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. As the Director / Solutions Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc., Joël works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture / Development. He is passionate about web farms / web gardens and distributed caching. His interests are Domain Driven Design - DDD, Distributed Domain Driven Design -DDDD, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Analysis Patterns and of course wine as he is studying to become a sommelier.

Tom Jones, Innovapost Tom Jones started developing 'Line of Business' applications 20 years ago and has been working with Microsoft development technologies for over ten years. He is passionate about application architecture and its ability to enable programmers to build better applications. In addition to being an engineer with an MBA, Tom is well versed in Agile and Alt.NET, has his Scrum Master accreditation, and is a respected Microsoft Influencer. He is currently putting his skills to good use as an Architect and Development Lead at Innovapost.

Francois Tanguay – nVentive François Tanguay is a .net coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. He presently helps large scale institutions achieve their desired results through VSTS, agile processes and software frameworks. For over 10 years, his modeling skills and inventive ideas have guaranteed interesting discussions. Renowned as a « Microsoft patterns & practices champion », you’ll be sure to find him blogging about « Enterprise Library », « Entity Framework », LINQ, IoC, MVC, DDD et PPP. He can be reached at francois.tanguay@nVentive.net
Jean-René Roy, DevTeach Jean-René Roy has been developing IT systems for large and small enterprises since 1987. In 1991 he founded the consulting firm Technologies SoftDesign Inc. Since that time he has worked on projects for Bell Canada, CGI, ArchiDATA, Sun Telcom, Accent de Ville, Kraft, ADN Medical and many other clients assuming the responsibility of Software Developers, Analyst, Team leader, Software architect and mentor. He has been and is still very active in the developers’ community by acting as a user group leader for more than ten years with the Montreal .NET community and the Ottawa .NET community. He is also the co-founder of an international developer’s conference www.DevTeach.com which is now directed by a member of his team. Jean-René Roy is a SQL Microsoft MVP.
Wes MacDonald, LIKE 10 INC. Wes MacDonald is a Visual Studio Team System MVP, MCTS and a Principal Consultant for LIKE 10 INC., a SharePoint Server and Team Foundation Server Consulting Firm with offices in Kanata and downtown Ottawa. As a Senior Developer/Architect with over 10 years of experience has been responsible for all aspects of software development and provides technical leadership to his clients and the .NET developer community. He also gives regular presentations on SharePoint 2007 and Team Foundation Server 2008 at the local user groups.
Justin Lee, Objectsharp Justin Lee is a software consultant for ObjectSharp Consulting. His interests lie mainly with languages, operating systems, software architecture processes and best practices, and low-level hardware architecture. Justin is an MCSD.NET, a Microsoft C# MVP, and the founder of the 1st .NET user group in Singapore. He is open to discussion about Open-Source, Linux, Mono, and other alternatives to Microsoft and .NET. He is proficient in C#, C++, Java and various other languages. He has been doing freelancing for a few years now, and is currently branching out into other areas including training, consultancy, business and marketing. He has also recently obtained his Bachelors in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
John Hansen & Charles Wiebe Charles Wiebe is a Microsoft .NET software architect/designer, for Windows Forms and ASP.NET solutions. Charles specializes in the application layer – Web Parts and other ways of building GUI’s. Currently, Charles is responsible for the User Interface components used in COR and Jetfire. John Hansen is a .net software architect/designer. John specializes in high capacity object oriented systems and connectivity. Currently John is developing Jetfire, an open source, persistent, multiuser, workflow domain specific language designed for use by power users. TrackerRealm provides .net consulting services and is currently expanding the Jetfire product line. John and Charles are co-developers of Jetfire – a .net open source, multiuser, application domain specific language (DSL) with syntax heavily based on C# and Java. The goal of Jetfire is to allow power users to quickly and easily develop and deploy applications, in much the same way as Excel allows powers users to quickly develop spread sheets.
Angelo Chan & Kamran Bilgrami Angelo Chan Bio Angelo Chan is a software developer who has designed and developed software for Unix, VxWorks, Linux and Windows. With a background in Telecom and Mobile Messaging, he is now working heavily with .NET technologies in the security industry. His interests include software development and patterns, .NET, operating systems, network/application reverse engineering and security. Angelo can be reached at angelo dot chan at ymail dot com. Kamran Bilgrami Bio Kamran Bilgrami is a seasoned software developer with background in designing mission critical applications for carrier grade telecom networks. More recently he is involved in design & development of real-time biometric based security solutions. His areas of interest include .NET, software security, mathematical modeling and patterns. You can reach Kamran at skbilgrami at hotmail dot com.
Peter Henry, Privasoft Peter Henry is a C# code head who likes to talk, uh, share technical knowledge. He’s helped out with three ODNC study groups and is soon to start a fourth, he’s even gotten a few certs along the way. During the day, he’s a web developer with Privasoft and at night he can be found Googling esoteric .NET APIs, t-sql functions and other cool material for his blog to try to help other likeminded C# geeks. Peter started serious coding with early versions of VB, moved to J2EE and then found true happiness with C#/.NET. Today Peter’s developing ASP.NET websites and soon to embark on WPF/Silverlight apps!

Dominic Plouffe, Apption
Dominic Plouffe is currently a senior .NET Architect and Developer for Apption Software, where he is developing business intelligence solutions using the Microsoft.Net and SharePoint platform. Previously, Dominic was co-founder and senior Architect for FuseTalk Inc. which sold to FuturePath Inc. in 2006. During this time, Dominic developed a high-end enterprise asynchronous collaboration solution. The FuseTalk collaboration suite continues to be successful, providing state-of-the-art collaboration solutions for Fortune 500 companies ( e.g. Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Sprint, American Airlines and Adobe), governmental agencies (e.g. US Air Force and NASA) and recognized academic institutions (e.g. Harvard, UCLA, MIT and NYU).