Julie Yack, President

Julie Yack, MBA is one of the founding partners of Colorado Technology Consultants and the current President of INETA-NorAm. Julie has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for her efforts in the CRM professional community. Julie is a Microsoft CRM Certified Professional, Microsoft Small Business Specialist and a Certified Scrum Master.

Julie has been a vital part of several large scale publications. Recently co-authoring and publishing The CRM Field Guide and as a featured contributor for the >NET Gurus Can Cook, second edition.

Julie's newest user group, XRMVirtual, has several thousand members and is known as THE place for CRM devlopers to learn the tools of their craft. Julie is also one of the founders of SouthColorado.NET, a user group focused on improving the knowledge base of .NET developers.

Joseph Guadagno, Vice President, has been very involved in his local development community. Joseph Guadagno started the Southeast Valley .NET User Group in December of 2007. This user group serves the Microsoft .NET developers of the Southeast Phoenix metropolitan area. He has organized a weekly lunch gathering of all technology people in the area. He handled the gathering of $45,000 worth of giveaways for the Phoenix hosted Scott Guthrie event and an average of $4,000 dollars a month for his user group giveaways.

Joseph is a Sitefinity CMS MVP. He has had articles published in Windows Developers Journal and CodeProject. Joseph heads up 3 open source projects for Sitefinity development and .NET plug in framework.

On a personal note, Joseph coaches his sons’ baseball team and volunteers for the Big Brother Big Sister program in Arizona.

Robin Edwards, Treasurer, is a Microsoft Visual Basic MVP. She is leader of the Roanoke Valley .NET User Group in western Virginia and has helped organize multiple Code Camps in Roanoke and Richmond. She’s active in the midAtlantic .NET and SharePoint communities; working alongside the Richmond Code Camp and the Virginia Beach SharePoint Saturday teams. She is also a member of the newly formed Microsoft Women In Technology group. Robin has been working with .NET since 1.0 in both Windows and Web applications. She recently received her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. She assists in aligning SharePoint technologies with organizational project management and collaboration requirements.

Samidip Basu, Secretary

Husband, MSFT Mobility Lead for Sogeti USA, Windows Developer & Azure enthusiast, @windowsdevug Leader, @m3conf Secretary, Speaker, Gadget lover. Yes, a geek!

Stephen Bohlen is currently a Senior Software Engineer for SpringSource where he is the Technical Lead and Community Evangelist for the Spring.NET Framework, Stephen brings his varied 18-year-plus experience as a former practicing Architect, CAD Manager, IT Technologist, Software Engineer, CTO, and consultant to the design and delivery of Software Engineering Solutions and Frameworks for other Software Engineers.

Stephen is an active contributor to several Open-Source Software projects including NHibernate, NDbUnit, and others as well having developed a number of Visual Studio productivity add-ins.

Active in the local NYC software development community, Stephen speaks publicly, blogs (semi-)regularly, and is the author of several popular screencast series focused on Agile and ALT.NET concepts and technologies including the widely-praised 15-part Summer of NHibernate video series introducing viewers to the popular open-source O/RM tool and the Autumn of Agile series that takes viewers through the design, planning, and construction of an entire .NET project in an Agile context. He is also a contributor of a number of shorter screencasts available on Dimecasts.NET and elsewhere.

Stephen is also a founding/organizing member of the NYC ALT.NET user group which meets monthly to discuss Agile-focused techniques and technologies in the world of Microsoft software development and beyond.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Stephen was a Senior Software Engineer for Skiff, LLC focused on developing an e-Reading platform for digital content publishers which was ultimately acquired by NewsCorp. Before that, Stephen spent many years as a Senior Solutions Architect and Project Manager for Microdesk’s software consulting practice where he oversaw the development and delivery of numerous software solutions for Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate firms. Before becoming completely immersed in software development, Stephen spent years as a both a practicing architect and CAD Manager for architecture and engineering companies developing custom CAD software extensions, implementing CAD Standards, and supervising network design and implementations.

Stephen holds a BS in Architecture from The Ohio State University and is a proudly uncertified SCRUM Master.

David Giard
Membership Mentor for Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia

David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. In the past, he has spoken at Day of .Net, CodeStock, Microsoft DevCares, Microsoft ArcReady, Dot Net University, X Conference and numerous user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA, as well as a BS and an MBA. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends (http://technologyandfriends.com). He is president of the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group. He is an avid photographer and has visually documented many of the Heartland community events. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com.

David lives in Michigan with his two teenage sons.

Kevin Griffin
Director of Membership

Kevin Griffin has been working as a professional developer since 2006, where his first job was working on components for the Symantec security suites. Kevin is the owner of Griffin Consulting, Inc. As an Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, Kevin spends a lot of time teaching and mentoring developers to learn new technologies and to be better developers. Over three years ago, Kevin started the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group and now serves as a Director of Membership for INETA. You can find Kevin speaking at conferences, code camps, and user groups across the country.

Lori McKinney, Director, is a Software Consultant for Intergraph Corporation's Process, Power & Marine division where she works developing web applications. She has 25 years experience developing software. Before joining Intergraph, she worked as a research engineer at Amoco Research Center in Tulsa, OK, modeling cuttings distribution for various drilling fluid/bit/geology combinations for a engineering simulator for drilling. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa.

Lori is a member of HUNTUG, Huntsville VS .NET User Group, and Rocket City SharePoint User Group as well as INETA. She served three years on the Board of Directors for HUNTUG and currently volunteers on the INETA Technology Team. She was named a Microsoft MVP in 2007 for Windows Server Customer Experience.

Lori lives with her husband and son near Huntsville, AL.