Jeffrey Palermo is the CTO of Headspring Systems. Jeffrey specializes in Agile management coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. He is instrumental in the Austin software community as a member of AgileAustin and a director of the Austin .NET User Group. Jeffrey has been recognized by Microsoft as a “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) in Solutions Architecture for five years and participates in the ASPInsiders group, which advises the ASP. NET team on future releases. He is also certified as a MCSD.NET and ScrumMaster. Jeffrey has spoken and facilitated at industry conferences such as VSLive, DevTeach, the Microsoft MVP Summit, various ALT.NET conferences, and Microsoft Tech Ed. He also speaks to user groups around the country as part of the INETA Speakers’ Bureau. His web sites are headspringsystems.com and jeffreypalermo.com. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, an Eagle Scout, and an Iraq war veteran. Jeffrey is the founder of the CodeCampServer open-source project and a cofounder of the MvcContrib project.
Jeffrey Palermo is responsible for the popular Party with Palermo events that precede major Microsoft-focused conferences. Started in June of 2005, Party with Palermo has grown in popularity and size. Typical events host hundreds of people for free drinks and food and door prizes. It is the perfect way to hook up with friends and colleagues before the conference week begins. You can see past and upcoming parties at http://partywithpalermo.com where the website has run on ASP.NET MVC since October 2007.
Ben Scheirman is a software developer specializing in .NET. He has worked extensively on the web on various platforms and languages. Ben is a Microsoft MVP, Microsoft ASP Insider, and Certified ScrumMaster. When not programming, Ben enjoys speaking, blogging, spending time with his wife and five wonderful children, or voiding warranties on his latest gadgets. Ben is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti in Houston, Texas. Read his blog online at http://flux88.com.
Jimmy Bogard is a Principal Consultant at Headspring Systems. He is an agile software developer with six years of professional development experience. He has delivered solutions from conception to production for many clients. The solutions delivered by Jimmy range from shrink-wrapped products to enterprise ecommerce applications for Fortune 100 customers. He is also a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and is an active member in the .NET community, leading open-source projects, giving technical presentations and facilitating technical book clubs. Currently, Jimmy is the lead developer on the NBehave project, a Behavior-Driven Development framework for .NET, AutoMapper, a convention-based object-to-object mapper and the facilitator of the Austin Domain-Driven Design Book Club. Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, and received the “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009.
Jeremy Skinner lives in the UK and works as a software developer. Most of his work involves writing web applications using ASP.NET and C#. He is involved with several open-source projects including MvcContrib, Fluent Validation, and Fluent Linq to Sql.
Jeremy has been invaluable to this book project by reviewing each paragraph of text, each figure, and code example. He found and corrected numerous errors, and this book would not be a good book without him. He is capable of being an author himself, and we fully expect full books out of him in the future. Jeremy’s experience with the ASP.NET MVC framework as well as popular third-party frameworks such as Castle has made him a strong reviewer. His blog can be found at http://www.jeremyskinner.co.uk/.
Freedom Dumlao is a software engineer working primarily in .NET. He has a blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/FreedomDumlao/. Freedom reviewed the first drafts of each chapter and made critical suggestions for improvement. His perspective was very valuable to the quality of the book.
