ETNUG Members

Alan Stevens is a passionate software developer living in Knoxville, TN. Alan has had a lifelong love affair with technologies of all sorts. He became a software developer with the creation of his first application, because there was nobody around to do it for him. Life hasn't been the same since. Alan regularly speaks at industry conferences and user groups. Alan is the President of the East Tennessee .NET Users Group. When Alan is not playing with his kids, enjoying a fine cigar, singing or playing his acoustic guitar, he occasionally updates his blog at http://netcave.org.

Ben Farmer is a software developer working primarily on web applications.

He has a wide range of experience in both network administration and software development.

Don graduated from Tennessee Technological University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in digital control and microcomputer design. Don has over 18 years experience and has managed, designed and developed enterprise software applications including: industrial controls; supervisory control and data acquisition; manufacturing execution systems; track and trace applications; and web based CRM systems. His industry experience includes aerospace, automotive, and process industries. He has lead major IT projects for several fortune 500 companies. Currently, he is the VP & CTO of Diamond Systems, LLC. When not working, he spends his time water skiing and Scuba Diving (whenever possible and as an Instructor sometimes actually gets paid to dive).

Dylan is a ASP.NET/SharePoint developer at Trident Resource Corporation.

I'm currently the Operations Manager for First American Marketlinx. I am also a partner at HGW & Associates, www.hgwllc.com.

Contact Information:
James R. Barrett, MCPD
Manager of TEMPO Software Operations

MarketLinx
1400 Centerpoint Blvd., Suite 100
Knoxville, TN 37932
www.marketlinx.com
Direct: 865.470.1504
Mobile: 865.384.7865
Email: jbarrett@marketlinx.com
A First American Company |
www.firstam.com
Personal Email: jbarrett@cleansurf.com

Mark is as an ASP.NET developer specializing in enterprise wide internal and outward facing web applications with a large emphasis on MS CRM development, integration and customization.

Mark currently works as an independant consultant frequently teaming with MS Gold Partners for CRM projects.

When not working, he spends his time mountain biking, hiking, and watersking with his wife and children. His interests also include photography and videography.

Michael C. Neel is a Digital Media Developer with Jewelry Television and independent consultant with ViNull Software. He is also a board member and Vice President of the East Tennessee .Net Users Group (ETNUG) in his home town of Knoxville, TN. Michael has been published in asp.netPro magazine and continues to publish .NET focused articles on his blog (ViNull.com) and at Devlicio.us with other community developers. A regular speaker at .Net conferences and user groups, Michael travels to most of the states surrounding Tennessee.

Fascinated by watching Dad send escape codes to a printer, Michael began programming BASIC on the family’s Tandy 1000EX in his 5th grade year. From BASIC Michael learned to C/C++ with the Win32 API and MFC while reading Petzold and Prosise. With the explosion of the Internet, Michael spent many years at a small web development firm working in Perl, PHP, and Python on LAMP systems. Recently, Michael was hired at Jewelry Television to assist an ASP 3.0 team move to Java, but ended up helping them move to .Net instead.

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Nathan is a .Net / C# developer within the Knoxville area. Currently, he is spending his time as a full-time contractor, which pretty much equates to "He will do anything for money..."

Nathan spends much of his time are reading, watching anime, motorcycle riding, catching up on the latest and greatest technologies, rewriting his website, and goofing off w/ the wife.

I am a Senior Software Engineer at Jewelry Television. Before that I worked in the same capacity for Marketlinx, here in Knoxville. I enjoy many outdoor activities such as fishing, camping, kayaking and scuba.

Randall is a .Net developer for Bechtel Corporation in Oak Ridge. His strengths are in business applications and moving data across tiers. He is a huge proponent of logical tiers and can't stand to find a win or web form with thousands of lines of code.

When he's not at work, you can probably find him at home writing more code and having a beer.

Steve first fell in love with computers when he read a 1978 article describing Alan Kayes' vision of the Dynabook.

He finally got his hands on a Timex Sinclair TS-1000 in 1983 and has been programming ever since.

Steve is currently loving .NET as a Software Engineer on contract at Bechtel. When he's not working with computers, he can usually be found in the company of his four children and beautiful wife.

Steve graduated from Michigan Technological University with a chemistry degree in 1986. After spending 12 years with the Dow Chemical Company, and 9 years as the R&D Manager for AllMeds, Inc. in Oak Ridge, Steve is now working independantly as a .NET programmer.

Walt is a Microsoft .NET developer. Walt focuses on Web applications in C#. Other skills include VB6 and VB.NET, SQL Server, and Oracle.

Walt's hobbies include SCUBA, travel, hiking, blogging, home renovation, flying a Challenger II, and designing aircraft.

Walt and his wife moved to the area from Dallas, Texas in June 2007. We love this place!