MVP Global Summit 2007 - Plans!
I just received an invite to attend the 2007 MVP Global Summit March 12th - 15th!
It will be my first opportunity to see Bill Gates speak, my first time to Seattle and my first to Microsoft's Redmond Campus.
I booked my room at the Westin. I'm very excited to attend and anxiously awaiting the opportunity to meet MVP's from around the globe!
As long as my wife's pregnancy cooperates I'll be there. Her due date is March 30th so it's cutting it close. I only hope that my wife doesn't have the baby before I get back or I'll be in deep doo-doo and never live it down. But, history is on my side, since our last baby was just one week before her due date and the one before that right on her due date. Our first, my son, was born four weeks early though. It's just enough risk to make us all worried.
The only thing that would be better is attending as an MVP instead of a special guest. Ironically, I already had plans to keep up my exhaustive pace in giving to the community and actually increasing it. This honor only makes me want to increase my efforts even more. I have a few special things planned this year and hope to role out one of them very soon. One of our User Group member's beat me to the punch by a few days when he just rolled out his new site BeginningASP.NET, although mine is on a whole different level and I'm focusing on making it community involved and supported as well. Stay tuned.
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.