FileMaker Developer Conference

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		Jim Abeles Pre1 Software		Jim Abeles is the CEO and cofounder of Pre1 Software, an FBA Platinum member and the 2005 winner of the FileMaker Excellence Award. Since 2000 his company has generated more than $5,000,000 from a vertical market product, SmartPublisher. The solution includes CRM, order entry, accounts receivable and production and makes use of a wide variety of FileMaker products and technologies including PHP and custom developed plug-ins. Jim isn't ashamed to admit he'll be the least-skilled developer at DevCon. His non-technical workshops will look at how FileMaker can be used to create a successful company.

		Steve Abrahamson Ascending Technologies		Steve Abrahamson is the founder of Ascending Technologies, an industry leader in FileMaker Pro consulting development, and has been personally at the forefront of the FileMaker industry for 19 years. He has received numerous awards from FileMaker, Inc., recognizing his efforts in the FileMaker community. He is the author of the FileMaker white paper "Best Practices for User Interface Design For The FileMaker Developer," has presented numerous times at the annual FileMaker Developer Conference, and founded and led CAFDA, the largest professional FileMaker developers' group in the central United States. He believes strongly in the balance between cutting-edge new technologies and reliability, maturity, and stability. His superior talent for design - in usability, structure, and attractiveness - is uniformly acknowledged across the FileMaker industry. Steve has a proven track record of team leadership at Ascending Technologies, and has consistently brought in projects, on time and on budget, that exceed client expectations. He has envisioned, designed, and written several popular and successful FileMaker products, including CalendarMonster, PerformanceMonster, and ThemeMonster, and he designed and co-wrote ThemeCreator.

		Vin Addala FileMaker, Inc.		Vin Addala is a software engineer on the Internet Development team at FileMaker, Inc. He has designed and implemented features in the Web Publishing Engine, FileMaker API for PHP, XML API, and worked extensively on FileMaker Server 9 and Custom Web Publishing tools.

		Debbie Asquith The Moyer Group		Debbie Asquith has been working with FileMaker since 1989 where she started out in a small Real Estate firm. After poking around in FileMaker, she decided to learn a bit more about it and went to a training class where she met Chris Moyer. She started developing with FileMaker professionally for The Moyer Group (then Chris Moyer Consulting) in 1997. The start of her career focused mainly on Real Estate applications but she soon moved into a wide variety of FileMaker Pro projects. For the past few years, her focus has been on project management. It was during this time that she developed her techniques for accurately estimating and storyboarding FileMaker Pro applications. Debbie is a long time conferences attendee.

		Mark Banks FileMaker, Inc.		Mark Banks has been a FileMaker systems engineer for Asia Pacific since 2000. He is a FileMaker 7 and 8 Certified Developer and an authorized FileMaker Professional Training Foundation Series trainer who has delivered these courses in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Mark was previously a Systems Analyst, Network/Systems Administrator and ultimately Manager of Technology for Internet Service Provider, Access Net Australia.

		Terry Barwegen FileMaker, Inc.		Terry Barwegen joined Claris Corporation (now, FileMaker, Inc.) in 1996, and has worked on every web-enabled version of FileMaker since version 4.0. He holds a BA from Arizona State University in Asian Languages (Classical and Modern Japanese; translation theory), was a Japanese English teacher and researcher in Iwatsuki City, Saitama Japan, and a freelance translator of Japanese, specializing in semiconductor wafer fabrication, measurement, and testing. He spent nearly three years as a Senior QA Manager at Electronic Arts with responsibility for all language versions of Tiger Woods Golf, James Bond 007, and Lord of the Rings games, and returned to FileMaker, Inc. in 2005. Currently Terry is the FileMaker Server and Internet QA Manager and acting FileMaker Server 9 Engineering Project Manager.

		Jeff Benjamin FileMaker, Inc.		Jeff Benjamin is a senior FileMaker developer working in the IS&T department at FileMaker, Inc. Jeff helps to automate many critical business processes within the FileMaker organization. Previously, Jeff was an FSA Partner member and an FSA member since 1992. He has authored shrink-wrapped solutions, custom solutions, and plug-ins.

		Court Bowman Cleveland Consulting		Court Bowman is president of Cleveland Consulting, Inc. and has designed and delivered solutions for customers at every level, from Eli Lilly and the USGS, to small businesses. Successfully deploying large solutions in demanding environments, Court is well known for integrating FileMaker into often complex business and regulatory practices including section 508 compliance, audit trailing, server synchronization, ERP modeling, and software validation.

		Kirk Bowman MightyData, LLC		Kirk Bowman is a FileMaker 7 Certified Developer and president of MightyData, LLC, a software development and training company based in Dallas, Texas. Kirk's first FileMaker project was a billing system for private music instruction in 1991. Since then he has created hundreds of FileMaker solutions for business and education. He is a FileMaker Authorized Trainer and has taught classes on relational design, scripting and web development. Kirk is a popular author and speaker at various events including the FileMaker Developer Conference. In 2002, he received the FileMaker "Mad Dog" Award from FileMaker, Inc. MightyData is a FileMaker Solutions Alliance Associate and Trainer. www.mightydata.com

		Tim Brown Antidote Solutions		Tim Brown is the President of Antidote Solutions, a software development consulting firm in New York and a FSA Partner Member. He has been in the healthcare industry for over 15 years. Tim holds an MBA in Accounting from Fordham University and a certification from the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Tim is also the Secretary of the New York FileMaker Developer Group, were he has presented many FileMaker topics.

		Teresa Buchholz FileMaker, Inc.		Teresa Buchholz is Sales Program Manager at FileMaker, Inc. where she is responsible for the Solution Bundle Agreement program. Teresa has over 15 years of sales and marketing experience in software and services. Prior to joining FileMaker, Teresa held marketing positions at Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., Calico Commerce and Symantec.

		Richard Carlton Richard Carlton Consulting		Richard Carlton has been using FileMaker since 1990, and has been working through the years building a team of 17 developers, which he manages daily. As a FileMaker 7 and 8 Certified Developer with experience in all areas of database consulting, he is a frequent speaker at User Group meetings. Richard holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Davis.

		Steve Caudill PepsiCola International		Steve Caudill is a systems architecture and technology management professional who helps companies develop commercial products, return runaway projects to schedule and budget, and build sound practices into systems development. He's a contributing editor to the Advisor magazines, and has written more than 60 Advisor articles. Steve specializes in software and systems architecture, design, usability, and teamwork. He has worked with technologies ranging from embedded systems to global infrastructures and from PDAs to Mainframes. Steve has been consulting, designing, and developing software for government and corporate clients for over 20 years and has been the architect or lead developer of eight commercial products. His industry experience includes consumer products, education, retail, manufacturing, distribution, defense, media, finance, and insurance in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

		Rick Colcock FileMaker, Inc.		Rick Colcock is the corporate systems engineer for FileMaker, Inc. He worked as a FileMaker developer and consultant in the travel industry prior to joining FileMaker in 2000. In addition to assisting corporate customers in configuration advice and advanced technical support, Rick has presented at the FileMaker Macworld Theater and produced and delivered trainings for FileMaker Tech Support and Sales personnel. He's the author of two XSLT examples at filemaker.com: FileMaker Pro to iPod and iTunes to FileMaker Pro.

		Ray Cologon NightWing Enterprises		Ray Cologon is the Founder of NightWing Enterprises and has been developing with FileMaker Pro for more than a decade. He is a FileMaker Certified developer and in 2005 he was recipient of the FMI Award for Leadership and Technical Excellence in FileMaker Pro. His background includes work in the Arts, Design, Education and Strategic Management and he holds a PhD in Educational Psychometrics. He has published numerous articles and examples for FileMaker developers and is an award winning speaker and presenter. He provides custom FileMaker development services, system audits, consulting and developer support to clients in various parts of the world.

		Christopher Crim FileMaker, Inc.		Christopher Crim works as a software architect in FileMaker’s engineering department, and has had his hands and sometimes his elbows into every version of FileMaker Pro since Claris Corporation acquired FileMaker in 1988. With a focus on the FileMaker client versions, Christopher assists various teams with future product planning, product design, and feature implementation as well as helping with current product maintenance.

		Wim Decorte New Millennium Inc.		Wim Decorte is a principal at New Millennium Inc. and a frequent speaker at FileMaker Developer Conferences and Developer Groups throughout the world. As an author and co-author of several FileMaker Server related articles, tech briefs and training materials, he has a unique insight into all things FileMaker Server. Wim is also the main force behind fmDotNet, a .NET class for interacting with FileMaker data through FileMaker Server Advanced, underlining his knowledge of integrating FileMaker with different applications.

		Tom Fitch Pre1 Software		Tom Fitch is a FileMaker developer at Pre1 Software in Portland, Oregon, leading development on plugin integration for credit cards, encryption, email, script events, PDF, HTML and Xtags. Past careers include graphic and website designer, Macintosh consultant, and musician. He's a Certified FileMaker 7 and 8 Developer and is active on FMForums.com, where you may recognize him as the flying pig.

		Doug Flinn FileMaker, Inc.		Doug Flinn is a FileMaker developer at FileMaker, Inc. He has been working with FileMaker since the 1980s, when he was responsible for building databases to manage information for the Sports Clubs at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to building solutions for managing large events and tracking athletic recruits, he has worked as an independent consultant for a variety of companies. After being brought into FileMaker as a contractor to help migrate one of the company's internal systems from FileMaker 6 to FileMaker 7, he returned to join the development team full-time in 2006.

		Alexei Folger FileMaker, Inc.		Alexei Folger, senior systems engineer for FileMaker, Inc., provides high-level technical guidance to customers, and contributes to the development of future product direction. Previous to FileMaker, she was an engineering project manager for Apple Computer, where she directed complex, cross-platform software development efforts. Earlier in her career, she worked in computing support services at MIT. Alexei has contributed articles to Claris’ TechInfo Journal. She's an experienced speaker who has made numerous technical presentations, including DevCon keynote presentations and workshops. She is a FileMaker 8 Certified Developer.

		Stephen Gallagher FileMaker, Inc.		Senior director of systems engineering and field sales for FileMaker, Inc., Stephen Gallagher leads a systems engineering team working daily with innovative Fortune 500 companies to improve the productivity of individuals and workgroups, and gain competitive advantage. Stephen is a 23-year veteran of award-winning sales and support organizations. He has worked with business, education, and government architecting and deploying hardware and software systems.

		Doug Gardner Exoteric, Inc.		Doug Gardner is the founder of Exoteric Inc., a Toronto-based FileMaker consultancy with clients in Canada and the United States. While working on his PhD at York University in Toronto he lectured in front of audiences large and small. A speaker at DevCon for the past few years, Doug has worked as a FileMaker developer for over 13 years and has been a member of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance nearly as long. His latest article in FileMaker Advisor Magazine shows how FileMaker Pro can be used to create a document management system.

		Christopher Gauthier GreenPages, Inc.		Christopher Gauthier has been developing FileMaker solutions since the days of the Mac LCII when networks were run using telephone cords and FileMaker was flat. He worked in Manhattan for 10 years as an in-house developer and later as a consultant. He returned to his native state of Maine seven years ago and is currently the senior applications developer for GreenPages, Inc., a VAR 300 hardware, software and service reseller. He has developed FileMaker EDI and XML integrations with Ingram Micro, TechData, CNET and other industry leaders as well as integrated solutions with GreatPlains, SalesNet CRM, CNET ChannelOnline and SQL based Dashboard applications.

		Todd Geist geist interactive		Todd Geist, as a genetic research scientist in the 1990s, began using database software to track research results and manage a laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After publishing 17 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, Todd left academics to pursue a career in information technology in 1997. He is the founder of geist interactive, a FileMaker development group based in Southern California. He has authored articles for FileMaker Advisor Magazine and contributed to the Migration Foundations and Methodologies Tech Brief. Todd is a FileMaker 7 and 8 Certified developer. He has been a speaker at five consecutive DevCons.

		Stuart Gripman Crooked Arm Consulting		Stuart Gripman is the founder and president of Crooked Arm Consulting, a FileMaker Business Alliance Platinum firm in Berkeley, California. He previously held Senior Support Specialist positions at Claris Corp. and FileMaker, Inc. Since 2000, Crooked Arm Consulting has offered custom FileMaker solutions benefiting a wide variety of people and causes from fine art patrons to the International Space Station. You can find out what "Crooked Arm" means at http://www.crookedarm.com or ask him yourself at stuart@crookedarm.com.

		Bill Harman Montgomery County Public Schools		Bill Harman has been an educator for 30 years at the collegiate and the K-12 levels. He has been the principal FileMaker Pro developer and trainer for Montgomery County Public Schools since 2000. Bill also operates a FileMaker Pro training and consulting firm serving the education market. He has presented at many educational technology conferences as a FileMaker speaker and conducts about 40 FileMaker classes per year.

		Dawn Heady Scodigo Inc.		Dawn Heady is the vice president of FileMaker Development for Scodigo Inc. (www.scodigo.com) . During her 17 years as a FileMaker Developer, she has been a business owner, Project Manager for a large FileMaker consulting firm, and a CIO in the credit restoration industry. Dawn is a FileMaker 8 certified developer and a FileMaker 7 finalist for her solution "Interface-RAD".

		Bill Heizer FileMaker, Inc.		Bill Heizer is a Senior Consulting Engineer with FileMaker, Inc. Since joining FileMaker in 2001, he has contributed to the FileMaker community through his efforts on the FileMaker Development Conventions and Server Monitoring Guide white-papers, the FileMaker Developer Certification program, and FileMaker Professional Training Foundation Series. Previous to joining FileMaker, he was the president of C&H Consulting Group, an FSA Partner in the MidWest United States.

		Jeff Hough Two Southpaws, Inc.		Jeff Hough is a senior application developer for Sitecraft (Two Southpaws, Inc.), an Oregon-based consultancy, who has more than 16 years of experience with FileMaker Pro. For the past nine years, Jeff has driven the design and development of several custom and shrink-wrap solutions built with FileMaker Pro for clients based in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada. He has also contributed articles to FileMaker Advisor magazine. He is a Certified FileMaker 7/8 developer and has been an Associate Member of the FileMaker Solution Alliance for more than eight years.

		Jonn Howell DataExperience, Inc.		Jonn Howell is the president of DataExperience, Inc., and has been developing solutions in FileMaker Pro since 1992. His personal goal is to create the most intuitive user experience in the world. His clients include Apple Computer, Amgen, Genentech, Electronic Arts, Nortel Networks, Novell Corporation, Stanford University and The University of California. Jonn leads a team of developers, building enterprise data systems, e-commerce systems and web design. He has a solid reputation in the bio-technical industry. Formally trained as a robotics engineer, Jonn is also an accomplished graphic designer and professional sales trainer. Jonn received a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from San Jose State University. He is currently an Associate Level FSA member, and has spoken at three previous FileMaker Developer Conferences in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

		Richard Howland-Bolton		Richard Howland-Bolton has been a programmer under contract to JCPenney for the last seven years, creating solutions combining FileMaker with AppleScript, SQL, C++ and graphics applications. Ten years previous to that he was a Cornell University's Publications Guru. Richard is a regular radio essayist, and when at Cornell frequently presented to UCDA and CASE on graphics and computers. He was also on InDesign's development advisory board.

		Cris Ippolite iSolutions, Inc.		Cris Ippolite [cris@isolutions-inc.com] is founder of iSolutions, a FileMaker consulting firm in Los Angeles, California. Cris has written 17 articles for FileMaker Advisor Magazine as well as whitepapers on Server Advanced and Web Viewer for FileMaker. Cris speaks at MacWorldExpo, Flash-Forward and is a top-rated veteran speaker at DevCon. He has been working with FileMaker for 15 years and is a FileMaker 7 certified developer and an FSA Partner and authorized FileMaker Professional Training Series trainer. (www.lynda.com) http://www.isolutions-inc.com

		Eric Jacobson FileMaker, Inc.		Eric Jacobson is the Software Architect for Internet Technologies at FileMaker Inc. He oversees the design and development of all web technologies at FileMaker including IWP, XML, and Custom Web Publishing with PHP and XSLT. Eric is the architect of the FileMaker API for PHP and led the working group that designed the new API. Eric is the author of several white papers and tutorials about FileMaker Web Publishing. Eric was a speaker at the 2003, 2005, and 2006 FileMaker Developer Conferences, talking on topics ranging from Instant Web Publishing in Server 7 to Getting the Most Out of XSLT in Server 8 Advanced.

		Galt Johnson FileMaker, Inc.		Galt Johnson is a database developer, having designed and implemented portions of the Red Brick Systems relational database SQL compiler, optimizer and execution engine. In addition he designed and implemented the MDX cubing engine for DB2 Alphablox. He has been working on database servers for the past 15 years with a strong background in data warehousing.

		Jimmy Jones FileMaker, Inc.		Jimmy Jones is an in-house FileMaker Pro developer at FileMaker, Inc. He has been working with FileMaker Pro since it was FileMaker 2. While doing consulting work it was his mainstay for contact management. Having a background in dBASE II and WingZ, he saw the simple power of this database program and decided to go to work for Claris Corporation. He has worked at FileMaker, Inc. since 1993 starting in technical support to learn as much as possible about the application. His previous work experience is in international marketing and sales, QA and SQA, product and application support, both hardware and software training, and technical writing. Jimmy has worked with such companies as Apple Computer, Biomation, and Gould, Inc.

		Leslie Kareckas FileMaker, Inc.		Leslie Kareckas is Senior Product Marketing Manager at FileMaker where she is responsible for K-12 marketing. Leslie has 13 years of marketing experience at high technology companies throughout Silicon Valley. Prior to joining FileMaker, Leslie has held senior level marketing positions at VeriSign, Inc., eGain Communications and Smart Valley, Inc. Leslie holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Business Administration from Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

		Wayman Ka Corporate Network Services, Inc.		Wayman Ka graduated from University of Maryland at College Park in 2002 with Bachelors in Computer Science and Biology. Since then he's worked for Merck (West Point, PA) and Corporate Network Services (Poolesville, MD). He was a Systems Specialist at Merck. Wayman created multiple web applications in ASP, ASP.net, JSP, and PHP in conjunction with MS SQL and Access. He's been with Corporate Network Services since 2004 as their Application Development Manager. Besides training and developing client FileMaker databases, he continues to develop and maintain web applications. Wayman is a FileMaker 8 Certified Developer.

		Steve Lane Soliant Consulting		Steve is a principal consultant at Soliant Consulting, Inc. He's a two-time FileMaker DevCon speaker and co-author of Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 7 and Advanced FileMaker 6 Web Development, as well as the author of a white paper on FileMaker and PHP. Steve is a FileMaker 7 certified developer and an authorized FileMaker 7 trainer. He has helped write the FileMaker Professional Training Foundation Series II. He has delivered in-house training to FileMaker senior executives and product managers.

		Andrew LeCates FileMaker, Inc.		Andrew LeCates manages the North American Systems Engineering team for FileMaker, Inc., from Atlanta, Georgia. For 20 years, he's led FileMaker solutions deployment as a developer, teacher, evangelist, author, and consultant for customers around the world. He's a veteran speaker, returning to FileMaker Developer Conference 2007 to explore some fresh ideas with relationship modeling and application design.

		Lee Lukehart Soliant Consulting, Inc.		Lee Lukehart is director of training for Soliant Consulting. He is a FileMaker authorized trainer and certified developer, and has been creating FileMaker solutions since 1986. Prior to joining Soliant, Lee was an independent developer and software publisher, and led the design team that created CRM portals for Microsoft, HP, and Verisign. Lee holds a degree in Technical Communications and has written for FileMaker Advisor Magazine.

		Clay Maeckel FileMaker, Inc.		Clay Maeckel was the first engineer hired by Claris Corporation and has the distinction of having the lowest FileMaker employee number. Throughout the years, he has helped champion, design, and develop the initial versions of FileMaker for Windows, FileMaker Server, FileMaker plug-ins, and Instant Web Publishing. Clay’s current title is software architect and he concentrates on the non-GUI portions of the FileMaker products.

		Tony Miller FileMaker, Inc.		Tony Miller has been working as a Senior Systems Engineer at FileMaker, Inc. for over seven years assisting sales teams in a technical capacity to communicate the virtues of FileMaker to a variety of customers. He has written white papers and magazine articles on FileMaker Server, security, Palm development, and data integration and deployment. A veteran presenter at many FileMaker events, Tony is known particularly for his knowledge of FileMaker Server and security. Prior to working at FileMaker, Tony worked with the FileMaker product line as a developer/consultant with FileMaker Solutions Alliance partner C&H Consulting.

		Chris Moyer The Moyer Group		Chris Moyer is the founder and president of The Moyer Group (TMG), a FileMaker consulting and training organization and a partner-level member of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance (FSA). Prior to founding the company in 1995, Chris worked at Claris Corp. (now FileMaker, Inc.) as a sales engineer for more than 3 years. Chris is the author of one of the earliest books on FileMaker, Special Edition Using FileMaker 3. He's also a co-author of Advanced FileMaker Pro 5.5 Techniques for Developers and Special Edition Using FileMaker 7. He's a technical editor for FileMaker Advisor magazine, for which he co-authors the Advisor Answers column, and a regular speaker at previous FileMaker Developer Conferences. Chris is a past recipient of FileMaker's Fellowship Award for contributions to the FileMaker community.

		Russell Mullen Dacoda Projects LLC		Russell Mullen is president of Dacoda Projects LLC, where he manages IT projects, designs systems, and performs application development. Russ is responsible for making sure that the project teams deliver to customers what they expect, that risks are addressed so that those projects stay on-time and on-budget, and that communication between all involved parties is open, effective, consistent and well-managed. Russ has taken his nearly 21 years of experience and applied it as co-creator of Insight Anthology, a unique approach to performing definition, design and project management for IT projects.

		Jason Mundok IT Solutions		Jason Mundok is a Senior Consultant at IT Solutions, a FileMaker Partner in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He is a certified FileMaker 8 developer and trainer and has a master's degree in Instructional Technology from Philadelphia University. He has been developing FileMaker solutions since 2000 and has been the president of the Philadelphia FileMaker Developer Group since 2005. He has served as lead developer for a number of complex FileMaker projects using the Agile method and has presented the topic at user groups throughout the Northeast.

		Beth Nagengast FileMaker, Inc.		Beth Nagengast is the Product Marketing Manager at FileMaker, Inc. She has been marketing software and hardware for more than 20 years, having started at Symantec in 1986 when there were just 45 employees. In addition to FileMaker Pro, she has worked on leading products such as Q&A, ACT!, Norton Utilities, Sidekick, and TrueSync. She works for FileMaker, Inc. from her home in San Miguel, California that she shares with her husband of 20 years, three children, a yellow lab, and 10,000 grape vines. She can be contacted at beth_nagengast@filemaker.com

		Tim Neudecker KyoLogic		Tim Neudecker is a published author on topics from network engineering to database design. He is co-founder of KyoLogic, LLC, an FSA Partner firm located in Brewster, New York and Westport, Connecticut. Tim was awarded a FileMaker Excellence Award in 2003 and is FileMaker 7 and 8 certified.

		Chad Novotny The Support Group, Inc.		Chad Novotny is co-owner and Vice President of Technology of The Support Group, Inc. A FileMaker 8 Certified Developer and FileMaker Authorized Trainer, Chad specializes in high-end FileMaker systems design and training. He has taught hundreds of developers advanced FileMaker techniques and is the author of The Support Group's Get ( Answers ) newsletter of FileMaker tips and tricks.

		John Mark Osborne Database Pros		John Mark Osborne has been working with FileMaker Pro for over 15 years and has become one of the leading industry experts. He's co-author of the popular Scriptology book and CD-ROM. He recently received a prestigious award from FileMaker, Inc. for developing outstanding technical resources for his popular FileMaker Pro Web site, Database Pros (www.databasepros.com), which receives 35,000 hits a day. John Mark is also the sole FileMaker trainer at Macworld Expo, a regular presenter at the FileMaker Developer Conference and writes the Advisor Tips column and is a technical editor for FileMaker Advisor Magazine. Database Pros works closely with FileMaker, Inc. as one of 25 partner-level FileMaker Solutions Alliance (FSA) members and one of twelve authorized training companies to teach the Professional Training Series from FileMaker, Inc. John Mark is also a FileMaker Certified 7 and 8 Developer.

		Douglas Rawson Base Builders and AENTEC		Douglas Rawson is the founder and CEO of AENTEC, a 12-year-old engineering firm, and is founder and CEO of Base Builders, a database development company. Doug has presented business seminars to regional architectural (AIA) and engineering (IES) chapters as a way to introduce Praestotm, AENTEC's FileMaker solution. Doug is also the author of several white papers on office protocol. Doug has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno.

		Michael Reddy Ph.D. Music Together LLC		Michael Reddy Ph.D. supervises IT and in-house FileMaker development at Music Together LLC. Running almost entirely on FileMaker, this small but complex company also builds and distributes a vertical FileMaker application. Formerly, Michael owned a woodworking business, which ran on FileMaker software he developed, and previous to this, he was a consultant on Data General minicomputers. Michael was instrumental in introducing Cognos's sophisticated RAD environment, POWERHOUSE, to the Data General platform. He developed a number of different business systems, and wrote for various trade and technical publications. With a doctorate in computational linguistics from the University of Chicago, and six years teaching experience at Columbia University, he is a knowledgeable and engaging speaker.

		Katherine Russell Russellware, Inc.		Katherine Russell is the president of Russellware, Inc., a FileMaker consulting company based in Orlando, Florida. Katherine has been working with FileMaker since 1993 and is a FileMaker Certified developer. She presented the CD training series "New Features of FileMaker Pro 8" for FMPtraining, and she wrote the FileMaker DIY Guide #3, "Taking Control of Your Inventory." Katherine's mission to create peace in the world, one office at a time, leads her to support a wide range of customers to be smart, proactive, creative, and compassionate.

		Ashok Srinivasan FileMaker, Inc.		Ashok Srinivasan, a senior software developer at FileMaker Inc., possesses over a decade's worth of programming experience from working for well-established and start-up companies. He has primarily worked in the scripting area of FileMaker for the past six years and this subject is of passionate interest to him. He was a presenter for the first time at FileMaker DevCon 2006 and is excited to present again at FileMaker DevCon 2007.

		Jonathan Stark Jonathan Stark Consulting		Jonathan Stark is the president of Jonathan Stark Consulting, a software consulting firm specializing in data solutions for creative professionals. Past clients include Staples, Turner Broadcasting, and Ambrosi. He has spoken at the FileMaker Developer Conference, has had numerous articles published in FileMaker Advisor Magazine and php/architect magazines, and is the author of Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker. Jonathan is reluctant to admit that he began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80.

		Jon Thatcher FileMaker, Inc.		Jon Thatcher has been part of the FileMaker Server development from the beginning. He helped ship the first Server for Macintosh and developed the first Server for Windows, then took on management of Server development. Jon directed development of FileMaker Pro and Server 7, and managed development of the new database engine for the FileMaker 7 product line. In 2005, Jon went back to being an engineer, and is now the lead engineer on the FileMaker Server development team. Jon has been at FileMaker/Claris for 18 years, and before that was a software engineer at Convergent Technologies, Esvel, and Intel.

		Molly Thorsen Connolly Soliant Consulting, Inc.		Molly Thorsen Connolly is a Vice President and Founding Partner in charge of business development at Soliant Consulting. Molly gained experience as a management consultant for Ernst & Young before starting her own FileMaker development company. Molly has over 15 years experience creating FileMaker solutions. She has spoken at DevCon and been the technical editor for several FileMaker books and Advisor articles.

		Rosemary Tietge FileMaker, Inc.		Rosemary Tietge is a systems engineer with FileMaker, Inc. and a FileMaker 8 Certified Developer. She works with the sales team in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, communicating the virtues of FileMaker and providing technical guidance to customers. She joined the FileMaker team in January 2006 after eight years as publishing technology manager at Harvard University Press. Rosemary's technical expertise includes modeling publishing workflows, content management, and deploying FileMaker Server. She has presented at Macworld and publishing industry conferences.

		Michael Ward CustoMike Solutions		Michael Ward started using FileMaker II in 1988. He holds a Bachelor of Business with majors in Marketing and Information Technology and was awarded the Orica prize for best final year student in computing by Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia). Michael lectured in information technology and marketing at Swinburne University and is now a business development specialist, developing workflow solutions for small businesses. His major interest is in connecting existing FileMaker solutions to the Web using Web 2.0 technologies and Custom Web Publishing. He is a member of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance and is FileMaker 7 and 8 Certified.

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