Speakers Biographies
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D.
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.
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 more than ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are VFPX: Open Source Treasure
for the VFP Developer (to be published in 2012) and Making Sense of Sedna and SP2.
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually from the program's inception in 1993 through 2010. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe.
You can reach her at tamar@tamargranor.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com
Sessions: E-THO1, E-THO2, E-O365
Doug Hennig
Doug
Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Software Inc. He is the author of
the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT); the award-winning
Stonefield Query; 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.
He spoke at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) starting in 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the world. He is one of the organizers of the annual Southwest Fox conference http://www.swfox.net). He is one of the administrators for the VFPX VFP community extensions Web site http://vfpx.codeplex.com). He was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 1996 through 2011. Doug was awarded the 2006 FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award Doug was awarded the 2006 FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Awardhttp://tinyurl.com/6po3pwv).
Web: www.stonefield.com, Blog: www.doughennig.blogspot.com
Email:dhennig@stonefield.com,
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DougHennig
Sessions: E-CALL, E-UNIT, E-FIX
Thierry Nivelet
Hi my name is Thierry Nivelet, I founded Abaque in 1990 after a 10-year carrier in Steel Manufacturing, Management Information Consulting and Human Resources.
Back in 2004 I was one of AtoutFox founders, the french-speaking Visual
FoxPro professionals community with over 2,000 members today, and was
its first elected president.
Besides creating software products like
FoxInCloud, I like warm human community, mutually sharing knowledge with
long-term relations.
Until now nothing could convince me that FoxPro was outdated or condemned.
Our code and know-how accumulates much more value than technology, our goal is to find solutions to expand rather than alleviate it through ‘migration’.
We all know when migration begins much better than when it ends and how much it costs...
Graduated engineer, I completed my education with political sciences and general management.
Sessions: E-FIC1, E-FIC2, E-FIC3, E-FIC4
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-VFX1, D-VFX2, L-VFXL, D-RAD8, D-WIN8
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 retired Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP (2002-2011). 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.
Sessions: E-PDT, E-VX1, E-VX2