Tim Cromarty has been working in IT for well over 20 years in a variety of positions and responsibilities. In the late '80s' he was an Oracle developer, and worked for a variety of companies including Oracle UK, ITV, Banks and Local Government. Then, in the late '90s'-he became involved in Java and web development working primarily for the European offices of US-based organizations. More recently, Tim has held a number of director level positions managing large multi-million pound global organizations.
As a developer, he enjoys learning new programming languages, techniques, and practices. He has been using .NET since the first version and has also spent plenty of time developing in C, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, PL/SQL (he could go on...), but his current focus is .NET—especially MVC.
Based in Hampshire, England, Tim is currently an independent software consultant and technologist providing technical and managerial consultancy in Microsoft ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, JavaScript and AJAX, as well as managing multiple web development projects, e-commerce, and community websites.
His blog can be found at http://blog.clicktricity.com.
I am married with an amazing 4-year-old son. My ambition is to stop lying about my age when I reach 30... My wife thinks I'm a nerd because my idea of relaxing is to read a programming manual!
Buu Nguyen is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET. He is currently the Vice President of Technology at KMS Technology—a global software services company. During his past seven years of experience in software development, he has been involved in the development of multiple applications ranging from Java and .NET enterprise applications to Ruby on Rails web applications.
Buu is an active community participant who has conducted training for Microsoft, published technical articles, developed open source software, and been a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including those organized by Microsoft.
Besides his industrial and community engagement, Buu is a part-time university lecturer who teaches courses in software architecture, J2EE, and ASP.NET.
Baskin I. Tapkan has recently joined Verifications, Inc—a consumer reporting agency specializing in systems integrations—as a senior software/web developer/architect. Baskin is a technology evangelist and has been programming for over 20 years, starting with Turbo Pascal and QBasic. He has been coding in the .NET framework since its release and now focuses on the ASP.NET MVC and WCF Services. Prior to joining the Verifications Inc., he has been a software architect at Healthland, Inc., a consultant with Magenic, and a systems design engineer at Imation Corporation. He has over 12 years of industry experience in manufacturing, healthcare, education, and consumer services, working on various database-driven applications. Baskin holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming. Baskin is an avid windsurfer and an upcoming kite boarder currently residing in Twin Cities, MN. He enjoys his few weeks of vacation at the Columbia River Gorge.