Speakers Biographies
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
Sessions: D-SILV, D-CODE, D-DRUK, D-FREE, D-VFXS, D-DESK, V-VFX, L-VFXL
Ken Levy
Ken Levy is the president and founder of MashupX, LLC based in Kirkland,
WA, specializing in consulting for software development, multimedia content,
community strategies, and technical marketing. 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 at http://mashupx.com.
Sessions: V-SEKL
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.
Cathy Pountney
Cathy
Pountney has been developing software for almost three decades and is proud
to have earned the Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP Award seven years in a row.
She is equally proud to have had the opportunity to work as a subcontractor
onsite in Redmond with the Microsoft Fox Team in 2001. Cathy enjoys writing
articles for various Fox magazines as well as writing books. She authored "The
Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it to the Limit and Beyond" and
co-authored "Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the Next Ten Years" and "Making
the Most of Sedna and SP2". Cathy participates in her local FoxPro user
group (GRAFUG) and speaks at other user groups when time permits. She has
spoken at numerous conferences including GLGDW, Essential Fox, Advisor
DevCon, DevTeach, and Southwest Fox. For the past
several years, Cathy has worked for Memorial Business Systems writing
software for the cemetery and funeral home industry which proves ... Fox is
NOT dead!
Rick Schummer
Rick Schummer is the president and lead geek at White Light Computing,
Inc., headquartered in southeast Michigan, USA. He prides himself in
guiding his customer's 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 you might find him
creating developer tools that improve developer productivity, or writing
articles for his favorite Fox periodical: FoxRockX. Rick is a co-author
of Making Sense of Sedna and SP2, 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 Wanted To
Know About Extending Visual FoxPro, and 1001 Things You Always Wanted to
Know About Visual FoxPro. He is regular presenter at user groups in
North America and is founding member and Secretary of the Detroit Area
Fox User Group (DAFUG). Rick is one of the organizers of the Southwest
Fox Conference, and is a regular presenter at other conferences in North
America, Europe, and Australia. He is also an administrator of VFPX, and
a Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP since 2002. You can contact him via email
at raschummer@whitelightcomputing.com, find him on Twitter@rschummer, or
via his company Web site: http://www.whitelightcomputing.com. Read more
of his thoughts on Visual FoxPro in his blog: Shedding Some Light (http://rickschummer.com/blog2.