John Baird is the founder of XamlWare, a professional consulting firm specializing in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development. John has 30 years of experience designing, coding, and implementing software solutions.
John co-founded the Northern Delaware .Net Users group. He is heavily involved in the local .Net communities, and travels extensively giving presentations to user groups, code camps, and special-interest groups.
John is also a four-time recipient of Microsoft's MVP award and is a part of the exclusive group of 23 MVPs chosen to be a Windows Phone 7 MVP.
Feyaerts David has worked on .Net technologies for more than three years. After having completed a Bachelor's degree in Informatique and System, he worked as a software engineer at Bizzdev (Belgium).
He especially works on C# and .Net (mobile and desktop applications), and was quickly promoted to a project leader. He works on multiple projects such as desktop application, mobile application (Windows Mobile and Windows Phone), ASP website, and so on.
To validate his expertise on .Net technologies, he is both a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Silverlight 4.
As a mobile developer for his employer he participates in development of an e-Health application for Windows Phone 7. He appreciates the WP7 platform since it is easy to use and provides new opportunities of design.
During personal time, he also works independently as a developer for Windows Phone applications. At the time of writing, he is working on his fourth application.
Atley Hunter has been a professional developer for over 15 years and was a mobile developer way before it was cool. Atley is constantly pushing devices to do more. As an MVP in Windows Phone Development with over 40 apps under his belt and numerous talks, blog postings, and HackFests, he is continually working to expand his development knowledge and share it with anyone who wants to learn.
When not at the computer or working with other developers, Atley is an avid adventurer and can be found snowboarding, rappelling, bungee jumping, skydiving, base jumping, mountain/rock/structure climbing or kayaking.
Active on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/AtleyHunter), Twitter (http://twitter.com/AtleyHunter), and on his blog (www.atleyhunter.com), Atley is never far from reach and is always happy to help.
Ian T. Lackey worked as a systems engineer for a St. Louis-based ISP from 1999 to 2002. At that time, he began developing web applications using ASP and migrated to ASP.NET shortly before the 2.0 release. Ian now works as a full-time programmer analyst II for the Pediatrics department of Washington University's School of Medicine. He also runs a small business, DigitalSnap Inc. (http://www.digitalsnap.net) that provides custom Silverlight software, individual DotNetNuke modules (http://www.itlackey.net), as well as custom and commercial Windows Phone 7 applications.
Currently Ian is involved in community-driven areas such as the OpenLight Group (http://www.openlightgroup.net), which manages open source projects including several DotNetNuke modules and many Silverlight-based applications. He is also a registered iNeta speaker and is involved with the St. Louis .NET user group (http://www.ineta.org). Ian currently lives in a small town in Illinois, just East of St. Louis, with his wife Julie (http://www.calljulie.info) and two daughters, Britney and Brooklyn.