2009 Kicks Off Busy As Ever, INETA Speaker Bureau News and a new Geekette is on the way!
Happy New Year! At the pace that 2009 has started off at it is very obvious it will be a very successful year. Bad Economy? Ha!
Please help me congratulate the 16 new speakers welcomed into the INETA NORAM Speakers Bureau (in no particular order):
1. Chris Williams
2. Keith Elder
3. Jason Bock
4. Claudio Lassala
5. Rachel Appel
6. Andrew Dunn
7. Chris Love
8. Cory Smith
9. Tim Rayburn
10. Jim Wooley
11. Rob Windsor
12. Amanda Laucher
13. Adam Machanic
14. Stuart Celarier
15. Pete Brown
16. Steve Andrews
Thank you to all who submitted applications. The selection process was very difficult and the number of applicants overwhelming, because of this we will be having a second round in the first quarter of 2009.
Have your local INETA User Group request them to come and deliver a presentation. If you are not a member of one, join one, if there is not one near you, start one - http://www.ineta.org.
“You can learn more together than you ever could alone.”
We appreciate everyone's past and future community contributions.
It is a very exciting time! We are also launching the new INETA NORAM Regional Speakers Bureau more details will be announced shortly. We are still accepting applications for this new speaker bureau.
We just had an ultrasound done and now know that baby # 5 is a Geekette and will be here May/June!
Happy New Year!
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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).