speakers

Brad is the founder of FactorHub.com, a site designed to help service providers develop smarter pricing structures. Brad is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, but currently makes his home in sunny LA.

John Hann is a master-level, freelance software engineer whose early interest in the web became a career and an obsession. Since 1996, he has successfully delivered over 70 enterprise-class, web-based applications for demanding organizations such as Nissan, Walmart, Whirlpool, IBM, Babson College, and 9 of the 10 top pharmaceuticals. His favorite projects include an Ajax-style web app in 2000 (US Patent 7,016,751) and several Rich Internet Applications as early as 1996 (using browser plug-ins before 1999 and hidden IFRAMEs until cross-browser XHR arrived). Currently, Mr. Hann is obsessively coding his fourth comprehensive javascript framework, cujo.js, but is also enthusiastic about Dojo, Prototype, and jQuery.

Mark Ishman’s practice concentrates on advising both high-tech and brick and mortar companies in connection with Internet, e-commerce, cyberlaw, intellectual property, corporate transactional, computer security, privacy ecommerce, and employment matters. He has over 13 years of experience in the legal industry, either as an attorney, paralegal or law clerk.

Rebecca Murphey is a JavaScript application developer and consultant, working to help clients write client-side applications that treat JavaScript as a rich and powerful language, not a toy. She’s the co-host of the rollicking yayQuery podcast (http://yayquery.com), the organizer of the unexpectedly epic TXJS (http://texasjavascript.com), and a contributor to the jQuery Cookbook from O’Reilly. She’s also active in trying to get more women to participate in the tech community, even if it means she has to get up on stage herself. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her partner, two dogs, and two terrible cats.

Patrick O’Keefe is the founder of the iFroggy Network, a network of websites covering various interests. He has been managing online communities since 2000 and is the author of “Managing Online Forums,” a practical guide to managing online social spaces. He has been responsible for the cultivation of communities like phpBBHacks.com, KarateForums.com and PhotoshopForums.com. He blogs about online community at ManagingCommunities.com, his favorite record label at BadBoyBlog.com and more at patrickokeefe.com. On Twitter, he’s @iFroggy.

Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA . Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US Coast Guard and US Navy.

Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the DevTeach 2005 conference in Montreal Canada . Rod was made an MSDN Canada speaker in 2004 and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP.

Rod is also editor in chief for Code Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development.

Rod can be contacted via his web site www.dashpoint.com or his blog http://blog.dashpoint.com

I have been a developer for about 20 years – starting with dBase and FoxBase +. I then got into FoxPro 2.0 and VB 3 – eventually giving way to Visual FoxPro. Then along came .NET! Through that time, I have developed applications in SQL Server since version 6. I have also developed applications with Oracle versions 9i and 10g. From 1995-2001, I was a Microsoft Developer MVP. I have spoken at many user groups and industry conferences including Tech Ed and Developer Days.

In 1999, I wrote the definitive whitepaper on ADO for VFP Developers. In 2002, I wrote the Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Databases for Que Publishing. For several years, I was an instructor for both AppDev and MEI. I was a co-author of Visual FoxPro Enterprise Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock, Ron Talmadge and Eric Ranft. I was also a co-author of Visual Basic Web Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock and Richard Campbell.

In 2004, I graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree. I passed the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar exams and was in private practice for several years – concentrating transactional and general business law (contracts, copyrights, trademarks, independent contractor agreements, NDA’s, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions.).

Jared Richardson is an internationally recognized software process expert and has been involved with the Agile software movement since it was created. His best selling book, Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects, is now available in seven languages. Jared is an Agile Delivery Lead at Pillar Technology, where he helps teams accelerate their Agile transformations. He lives in North Carolina and enjoys working with companies to solve their process problems. He uses Agile techniques to provide transparency, reliability, and repeatability while saving money. You can find Jared on the web at http://agileartisans.com and at http://pillartechnology.com