Guerilla Programmer

Jake Watkins has been a consultant and software developer for fifteen years. He has worked with clients such as Wal-Mart, Target, Kinko's, Capital One, Radio Shack and Fidelity. Jake got started writing BASIC and assembly code on an APPLE ][ clone and eventually moved to UNIX.

In 2000 he joined Microsoft Consulting Services where he trained Microsoft customers on .NET and ASP.NET. In 2004 he left Microsoft to seek his fortune as an independent Consultant.

John Mitchell is the Founder and President of Snapsis Software, Inc. (http://www.snapsis.com/). John has over 20 years of development experience and has been working on the leading edge of Internet technologies for the past seven years. Specializing in the architecture, design, development, and implementation of portal/e-commerce applications.

John has led teams in the development of several websites including http://samsclub.com/ and http://www.maytag.com/. John has been using and enhancing DotNetNuke since May 2003 and is also a founding member of the Tulsa .Net Users Group (http://www.tulsadnug.org/).

L-3 Communications

For the last 11 years, Raymond Lewallen has worked with more programming languages than he can recall, but currently specializes in VB and C# as well as Sql Server. Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government.

Raymond currently works as a Senior Software Developer on a project for the Federal Aviation Administration as a contractor employed by L-3 Communications, Titan Group. Raymond is primarily a framework designer and developer.

He loves to talk about agile methodologies, patterns and practices, solution architecture and framework design in general.