ASP/ASP.NET MVP Award!
I am now an MVP for the Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET technical communities! My wife will tell you it was a lot of work. :)
Since everyone is limited to the same time constraints as everyone else, 24 x 7 x 365 - family, work and occasionally sleep, I am continually looking for ways to be more effective with my time and reach a larger community with as close to the same amount of time as I have been able to contribute in the past.
I will be taking Julie Lerman's excellent and experienced advise (as she just hit MVP Year # 5!) and continue doing what I do and if Microsoft likes it I will find out next July. I look forward to working with her and every one else on the INETA Speakers Bureau of the next two years, as today also marks the official start of my role on the INETA Board of Directors as the VP Speakers Bureau, I am sure we will get the web site updated soon. Bill Wolff did an excellent job for quite awhile, and I found that I am also following in the steps of Scott Bellware as well!
Just this week I learned that I have the honor of having my session to present "Putting it all together with .NET 3.0: Presentation, Services and Workflow" chosen for VSLive! Austin (November 12-15), so I will see you there!
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Microsoft, IBM Global Services, Texaco, Winner Communications (ESPN.com), and Bank of Oklahoma. 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 past President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group, founder and past President of the
Tulsa SQL Server Group and
Tulsa Java Developers Group, past Vice-President and Director of Membership Services of the
Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group.
He has been the director/chairman of the
TulsaTechFest event since it's inception in 2006. He coordinated the first Tulsa Code Camp and then rebranded it two years in a row as
School of Dev!
He is the founder and director of
NEOTECHCouncil (NorthEast Oklahoma Technology Council).
He was a board member, Vice-President of the Speakers Bureau for
INETA NORAM from June 2007 to June 2009.
He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.
He was a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET Developer from June 2007 - June 2009.
On June 22, 2009, he joined Microsoft as a ADC (Application Developer Consultant).