Speakers Biographies
Jan Aleman
Jan
Aleman is the CEO of Servoy, a leading provider of a SaaS Platform. Mr.
Aleman is a sought after speaker about SaaS and Rich InternetApplications
(RIA) presents at seminars and conferences across Europe, South America,
Asia and the USA. He spoke in the USA in 2008 and 2009 at several
conferences about SaaS, PaaS, and cloud computing.
Jan is also a board member of the Dutch ASP Forum which recently merged into
ICT~Office as the Saas~Cloud group.
Tamar E. Granor
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting.
Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk and CoDe; she currently writes for FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 and Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com).
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually since the program's inception in 1993. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe. You can reach her at
tamar@thegranors.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com
Doug Hennig
Doug
Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. and Stonefield
Software Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database
Toolkit (SDT), the award-winning Stonefield Query, and the MemberData
Editor, Anchor Editor, and CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders
that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro, and the My namespace and updated
Upsizing Wizard in Sedna. Doug is co-author of the "What's New in Visual
FoxPro" series (the latest being "What's New in Nine") and "The Hacker's
Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0." He was the technical editor of "The
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0" and "The Fundamentals." All of
these books are from Hentzenwerke Publishing
( http://www.hentzenwerke.com ). Doug wrote over 100 articles in 10 years
for FoxTalk and has written numerous articles in FoxPro Advisor and
Advisor Guide. Doug currently writes for FoxRockX (
www.foxrockx.com ). He
has spoken at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon)
since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the
world. He is one of the administrators for the VFPX VFP community
extensions Web site (
http://www.codeplex.com/VFPX ). He has been a
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1996. Doug was awarded
the 2006 FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award
(
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunityLifetimeAchievementAward~VFP ).
Web: www.stonefield.com and
www.stonefieldquery.com , Email:
dhennig@stonefield.com , Blog:
http://doughennig.blogspot.com
Venelina Jordanova
Venelina
has been a FoxPro developer since FoxPro for DOS version 2.0. She is
specialized in database development and designing application
architecture. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional for SQL Server,
and for Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures.
Venelina has been a regular speaker at the German VFP developer
conference since 2003, and the VFP DevCon in Prague 2004 to 2007, and
spoke at Developer Events in Bucharest, Bunnik, Paris, Varna, Burgas,
and Sofia. She has written several technical articles for FoxTalk and
FoxX Professional. Venelina is the lead developer of the well-known
Rapid Application Development Framework Visual Extend. Venelina is
working together with Uwe Habermann in the company V&U Ltd, located in
Varna, Bulgaria. Based on their long-year experience, V&U (
www.VandU.eu )
is focused to realize FoxPro projects.
Venelina@VandU.eu
Ken Levy
Ken
Levy is the president and founder of MashupX, LLC, specializing in
consulting for community building around products and services, guerilla
marketing techniques, multimedia creation, and software technology. Ken is a
partner and contributor to CoDe Magazine and VFPConversion.com. Prior to
starting MashupX, Ken worked at Microsoft as the community program manager
for VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility), a product planner on Microsoft’s
Windows Live Platform for developers, and as the product manager in the
Visual Studio data team responsible for Visual FoxPro product management.
Since 1992, Ken has been a technical contributing writer and editor to many
software magazines and a frequent speaker at industry conferences worldwide.
You can find Ken’s blog at
http://mashupx.com/blog/ , or contact Ken at
klevy@mashupx.com .
Boudewijn Lutgerink
Boudewijn
Lutgerink is the president of Lutgerink Economical Software Architects,
a company that specializes in creating budget neutral software for
customers.He is a fox developer since version 2.6 for windows, coming
from Clipper. Pretty soon after he started working with a beta version
of VFP3.His neighbor, John Zijlstra YAFG (yet another Fox geek), was
responsible for that.
Boudewijn is a regular visitor of foxite.com and author of many articles
on different aspects of software development.Being the author of books
on Linux (Sybex) and J# (Sybex) he is now working on a book about the
NetCompiler for VFP. His big love (next to his Wife and VFP) is in
trying to explain highly technical stuff in normal everyday language so
that even non-geeks can understand it.Boudewijn was VFP-MVP in 2007 and
2008.
If not developing software, or writing about it, Boudewijn can be found
in the fields with his border collies herding sheep or cooking a meal
(he started his working career as a cook long time ago) or playing the
flute. He lives in the Netherlands in the area of Arnhem.
Kevin McNeish
Kevin
McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf
Enterprises, Inc, and a Microsoft .NET MVP. He is a well-know INETA
speaker and trainer throughout North America and Europe including
VSLive!, DevTeach, and Advisor DevCon. He is co-author of the book
"Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", author of the book ".NET for
Visual FoxPro Developers", authors articles for CoDe magazine and has
been interviewed on the .NET Rocks! Internet Radio Show. He is the Chief
Software Architect of the MM .NET Framework and spends about half his
time on the road training and mentoring companies to build
well-designed, high-performance .NET applications. He has also helped
many developers transition to the .NET development platform in his
highly acclaimed .NET training classes and Kevin McNeish’s Guide to .NET
video series. e-mail: ke-vinm@oakleafsd.com , Web:
www.oakleafsd.com .
Phone: 434-979-2417.
Rick Schummer
Rick Schummer is the president and lead geek at White Light Computing,
Inc., which is headquartered in southeast Michigan, USA. He prides
himself in guiding his customers' Information Technology investment
toward success. He enjoys working with top-notch developers; has a
passion for developing software using best practices, and for surpassing
customer expectations, not just meeting them. After hours he writes
developer tools that improve productivity and occasionally pens articles
for FoxTalk, FoxPro Advisor, and several user group newsletters.
Rick is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (VFP), and a Microsoft
Certified Professional.
Rick is co-author of Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the Next Ten
Years, What’s New In Nine: Visual FoxPro’s Latest Hits, Deploying Visual
FoxPro Solutions, MegaFox: 1002 Things You Always Wanted to Know About
Extending Visual FoxPro and the award winning 1001 Things You Always
Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro (KiloFox), all from Hentzenwerke
Publishing. He is founding member and Secretary of the Detroit Area Fox
User Group (DAFUG) and is a regular presenter for user groups across
North America, and at many conferences in North America and Europe.
You can reach Rick at
raschummer@whitelightcomputing.com ,
rick@rickschummer.com , and
http://www.whitelightcomputing.com