Speaker Bios
They’ve been around, know their stuff and are coming from around the globe to rub
shoulders with you.
Your Master of Ceremonies / Hostess – Finula Crowe
Returning to REMIX Australia for the second year as MC and your Hostess, Finula is Customer Relationship Manager for Developers, Designers and Architects at Microsoft Australia and is extremely passionate about ensuring you have access to the technology, training, people and resources you need to be successful in your jobs. Hailing from Ireland, Finula has held a variety of roles within the ICT industry including her recent four year tenure as Product Marketing Manager for Developer Tools at Microsoft, several years at Borland Software, Dimension Data (then ComTech) and even spent a few years in the IT Recruitment field. Fin’s blog will keep you current on events, people and resources at Microsoft.
Returning to REMIX Australia for the second year as MC and your Hostess, Finula is Customer Relationship Manager for Developers, Designers and Architects at Microsoft Australia and is extremely passionate about ensuring you have access to the technology, training, people and resources you need to be successful in your jobs. Hailing from Ireland, Finula has held a variety of roles within the ICT industry including her recent four year tenure as Product Marketing Manager for Developer Tools at Microsoft, several years at Borland Software, Dimension Data (then ComTech) and even spent a few years in the IT Recruitment field. Fin’s blog will keep you current on events, people and resources at Microsoft.
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Shane Morris
Shane Morris is one of Australia’s most experienced user experience professionals, having worked in usability and user interface design since 1991. In that time he’s worked on traditional graphical user interfaces, web sites, kiosks, multimedia products, mobile applications and physical devices. Shane has taught user-centred design techniques in the USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia. His clients have included Sensis, Lonely Planet, Hewlett Packard U.S., Telstra, The Australian Football League, Telecom New Zealand and the Royal Australian Air Force. Shane has degrees in both Computer Science and Cognitive Science and is an active member of Australia's Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group. Shane has also lectured in Information Architecture and Usability Evaluation at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Previously General Manager - Victoria for the Hiser Group and Principal of Echo Interaction Design, Shane joined Microsoft Australia as a User Experience Evangelist in 2006. http://blogs.msdn.com/shanemo |
Michael Kordahi
Michael Kordahi is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Australia. He has a strong background in web development and now focuses on working with passionate early adopters of Microsoft’s emerging web technologies.
If you stare deep into his eyes for long enough, you’ll likely see the lovingly warm glow of the Silverlight logo embedded deep in his pupil. He also spends his days in the land of Windows Live, WPF, ASP.NET and Vista Media Centre development.
He also blogs regularly over on delicategeniusblog.com and spends his non waking hours dreaming of taking photos and slaying the bad guys over on Xbox Live http://delicategeniusblog.com
Michael Kordahi is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Australia. He has a strong background in web development and now focuses on working with passionate early adopters of Microsoft’s emerging web technologies.
If you stare deep into his eyes for long enough, you’ll likely see the lovingly warm glow of the Silverlight logo embedded deep in his pupil. He also spends his days in the land of Windows Live, WPF, ASP.NET and Vista Media Centre development.
He also blogs regularly over on delicategeniusblog.com and spends his non waking hours dreaming of taking photos and slaying the bad guys over on Xbox Live http://delicategeniusblog.com
Angus Logan
Angus is a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Windows Live Platform team in Redmond. Angus’s team is responsible for all technical marketing content ranging from conference presentations (MIX, TechEd) to online samples (Windows Live Quick Apps). Before joining Windows Live Platform team, Angus was a Portals Technology Specialist with Microsoft Australia. Prior to that, Angus worked for several Microsoft partners, was an MVP, and co-authored a book on Microsoft Content Management Server. You can read Angus’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/
Angus is a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Windows Live Platform team in Redmond. Angus’s team is responsible for all technical marketing content ranging from conference presentations (MIX, TechEd) to online samples (Windows Live Quick Apps). Before joining Windows Live Platform team, Angus was a Portals Technology Specialist with Microsoft Australia. Prior to that, Angus worked for several Microsoft partners, was an MVP, and co-authored a book on Microsoft Content Management Server. You can read Angus’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/
Bronwen Zande
Bronwen is a Director of Soul Solutions and a ‘GeekGirl’ based in Brisbane. Bronwen’s primary focus is Microsoft Live and .NET development. She is a Windows Live Platform MVP and part of the core team that runs the ViaWindowsLive.com community site for Windows Live technologies. When she’s not doing that she’s uniting ‘GeekGirls’ from around the globe at http://www.geekgirlblogs.com.
Bronwen is a Director of Soul Solutions and a ‘GeekGirl’ based in Brisbane. Bronwen’s primary focus is Microsoft Live and .NET development. She is a Windows Live Platform MVP and part of the core team that runs the ViaWindowsLive.com community site for Windows Live technologies. When she’s not doing that she’s uniting ‘GeekGirls’ from around the globe at http://www.geekgirlblogs.com.
John O'Brien
John is a consultant who specialises in Microsoft .NET development including ASP.NET AJAX, DotNetNuke and Windows Live Services. Based in Brisbane, John is passionate about integrating Live Services into applications. He was awarded a Microsoft Windows Live Platform MVP in April 2007 and can be found helping people learn both online and in person. https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=6E49794C-EDFC-4C3B-A5A2-AE648353A22D
John is a consultant who specialises in Microsoft .NET development including ASP.NET AJAX, DotNetNuke and Windows Live Services. Based in Brisbane, John is passionate about integrating Live Services into applications. He was awarded a Microsoft Windows Live Platform MVP in April 2007 and can be found helping people learn both online and in person. https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=6E49794C-EDFC-4C3B-A5A2-AE648353A22D
Philip Beadle
Philip is a foundation member of the DotNetNuke (DNN) core team, a member of the DotNetNuke Help Project Team and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD).
He is highly experienced in the development and commercial application of the DotNetNuke Framework based on Microsoft’s .NET technology. He has successfully developed and implemented sites for clients in Australia and overseas. http://www.philipbeadle.net/home.aspx
Philip is a foundation member of the DotNetNuke (DNN) core team, a member of the DotNetNuke Help Project Team and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD).
He is highly experienced in the development and commercial application of the DotNetNuke Framework based on Microsoft’s .NET technology. He has successfully developed and implemented sites for clients in Australia and overseas. http://www.philipbeadle.net/home.aspx
Tatham Oddie
Tatham is a regular presenter at conferences and usergroups throughout Australia and New Zealand. Having run a creative agency, his focus is on web technologies that look good and work well at the same time. His technical focus lies around ASP.NET and its extensibility with frameworks like ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC. In 2005, Tatham launched a website to help developers build on Virtual Earth which rapidly became the most popular community site for Virtual Earth developers. http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/
Tatham is a regular presenter at conferences and usergroups throughout Australia and New Zealand. Having run a creative agency, his focus is on web technologies that look good and work well at the same time. His technical focus lies around ASP.NET and its extensibility with frameworks like ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC. In 2005, Tatham launched a website to help developers build on Virtual Earth which rapidly became the most popular community site for Virtual Earth developers. http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/
Adam Kowaltzke
Adam is a designer, usability and user interface specialist at global IT consultancy Avanade. He specialises in design for web-based media and enterprise applications. His role encompasses user interface design, usability, accessibility, information architecture and branding. He also manages the technical development of creative designs, works with stakeholders to determine UI and business requirements, and undertakes usability processes with end users to understand their needs. Adam has been working at Avanade since 2003. Before this time he worked as a designer at a creative/IT internet start-up, as a freelancer and as a print designer. Adam approaches frontend coding as a designer rather than a programmer – more interested in the outcome than the technology. While not a ‘standards guru’, he endeavours to create the most compliant and accessible frontend code achievable. Adam has been using Expression Web since late 2006. http://www.avanade.com/au/
Adam is a designer, usability and user interface specialist at global IT consultancy Avanade. He specialises in design for web-based media and enterprise applications. His role encompasses user interface design, usability, accessibility, information architecture and branding. He also manages the technical development of creative designs, works with stakeholders to determine UI and business requirements, and undertakes usability processes with end users to understand their needs. Adam has been working at Avanade since 2003. Before this time he worked as a designer at a creative/IT internet start-up, as a freelancer and as a print designer. Adam approaches frontend coding as a designer rather than a programmer – more interested in the outcome than the technology. While not a ‘standards guru’, he endeavours to create the most compliant and accessible frontend code achievable. Adam has been using Expression Web since late 2006. http://www.avanade.com/au/
Joseph Cooney
Joseph is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with Microsoft Technologies for the past 8 years with a strong focus on .NET technology. Joseph is an active member of the .NET community regularly contributing to online discussion forums and maintaining his software development sites learnwpf.com and jcooney.net. Joseph has also developed a mind-mapping tool at Thoughtex.com using WPF. In addition, Joseph is a regular presenter at technical workshops and user groups. Joseph heads up Microsoft partner Paradigm Logic in QLD, and lives in Brisbane with his family. http://jcooney.net/
Joseph is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with Microsoft Technologies for the past 8 years with a strong focus on .NET technology. Joseph is an active member of the .NET community regularly contributing to online discussion forums and maintaining his software development sites learnwpf.com and jcooney.net. Joseph has also developed a mind-mapping tool at Thoughtex.com using WPF. In addition, Joseph is a regular presenter at technical workshops and user groups. Joseph heads up Microsoft partner Paradigm Logic in QLD, and lives in Brisbane with his family. http://jcooney.net/
Jorke Odolphi
Jorke is a Web Platform Architect Evangelist for Microsoft Australia, and works in the technical community of Web Hosting Providers. Jorke has previously worked with large service providers in a variety of roles specialising in the deployment and management of Microsoft technologies in multi-tenancy situations - particularly with IIS, .NET, SharePoint and other web-based applications. He loves talking about datacentre optimisation and the ideas of green technology in the datacentre. Jorke also feels quite strange talking about himself in the third person...http://blogs.technet.com/jorke/
Jorke is a Web Platform Architect Evangelist for Microsoft Australia, and works in the technical community of Web Hosting Providers. Jorke has previously worked with large service providers in a variety of roles specialising in the deployment and management of Microsoft technologies in multi-tenancy situations - particularly with IIS, .NET, SharePoint and other web-based applications. He loves talking about datacentre optimisation and the ideas of green technology in the datacentre. Jorke also feels quite strange talking about himself in the third person...http://blogs.technet.com/jorke/
Jose Fajardo
Having spent the better part of the last decade building enterprise class business applications I've grown to appreciate that last mile to the end user, the UI and the User Experience. By trade I breathe code but by passion I draw vectors and paint colours. I’m convinced that what lies beyond today will produce more beautiful experiences than the ones I dream up now. http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/josefajardo
Having spent the better part of the last decade building enterprise class business applications I've grown to appreciate that last mile to the end user, the UI and the User Experience. By trade I breathe code but by passion I draw vectors and paint colours. I’m convinced that what lies beyond today will produce more beautiful experiences than the ones I dream up now. http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/josefajardo
Damian Edwards
Damian is a Senior Consultant with readify specialising in ASP.NET and web development. He has over 10 years of web development experience and these days likes to wrestle ASP.NET into standards compliance and educate ASP.NET developers as to the importance and advantages of web standards and CSS styling. http://damianpedwards.spaces.live.com/
Damian is a Senior Consultant with readify specialising in ASP.NET and web development. He has over 10 years of web development experience and these days likes to wrestle ASP.NET into standards compliance and educate ASP.NET developers as to the importance and advantages of web standards and CSS styling. http://damianpedwards.spaces.live.com/
Lachlan Hardy
Lachlan currently works as the Design Engineer at Atlassian where he builds functional designs into all their products. He is a web standards expert who has worked on numerous high-profile sites for News Digital Media, Queensland Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, several Victorian government projects and the ticketing system for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. He leads the team behind the highly successful Webjam events promoting web innovation in Australia and has written for ReadWriteWeb. He's an advocate of open web technologies and currently very interested in networking the facets of our online identities. http://log.lachstock.com.au/
Lachlan currently works as the Design Engineer at Atlassian where he builds functional designs into all their products. He is a web standards expert who has worked on numerous high-profile sites for News Digital Media, Queensland Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, several Victorian government projects and the ticketing system for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. He leads the team behind the highly successful Webjam events promoting web innovation in Australia and has written for ReadWriteWeb. He's an advocate of open web technologies and currently very interested in networking the facets of our online identities. http://log.lachstock.com.au/
Greg Willis
Greg is an Architect Evangelist within the Microsoft DPE team with over 15 years commercial experience in the media, telecoms and finance industries. He joined Microsoft Australia in 2004.
Greg’s previous experience includes architecting high-traffic (and in other cases high-hype) web sites in the halcyon days of Web 1.0 before the web world generally worried about such trivial matters as business models, revenue etc.
He now focuses a lot of his time on Software + Services and Web 2.0 and their application to enterprise architecture. He also has an on-going fascination with the digital media industry and cool emerging technology like Silverlight.
Greg is an Architect Evangelist within the Microsoft DPE team with over 15 years commercial experience in the media, telecoms and finance industries. He joined Microsoft Australia in 2004.
Greg’s previous experience includes architecting high-traffic (and in other cases high-hype) web sites in the halcyon days of Web 1.0 before the web world generally worried about such trivial matters as business models, revenue etc.
He now focuses a lot of his time on Software + Services and Web 2.0 and their application to enterprise architecture. He also has an on-going fascination with the digital media industry and cool emerging technology like Silverlight.
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Alister Jones
Alister Jones is a user experience consultant with Readify, specializing in Microsoft's web products including ASP.NET, AJAX, and Silverlight. Before joining Readify he was responsible for developing Microsoft’s own www.asp.net web site. He brings to Readify over ten years’ experience in graphic design and five years’ experience in web design, working with global brands including Microsoft and national brands including Bunnings. Alister has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for his ongoing contributions to the ASP.NET developer community. |
Jonas Folleso
Jonas is a Senior Consultant at Capgemini and a Microsoft Regional Director for Norway. He has been working with.NET related technologies since the very beginning of .NET back in 2001. He is currently focusing on web technologies and how to build better user experiences on the web using Silverlight. He is an active member and contributor to the Norwegian .NET developer community, and an experienced speaker with top ratings from MSDN Live. He is currently enjoying a year in Australia working for Capgeminis Melbourne office. When he's not writing code or blogging Jonas enjoys fly-fishing, snowboarding and scuba diving.
Jonas is a Senior Consultant at Capgemini and a Microsoft Regional Director for Norway. He has been working with.NET related technologies since the very beginning of .NET back in 2001. He is currently focusing on web technologies and how to build better user experiences on the web using Silverlight. He is an active member and contributor to the Norwegian .NET developer community, and an experienced speaker with top ratings from MSDN Live. He is currently enjoying a year in Australia working for Capgeminis Melbourne office. When he's not writing code or blogging Jonas enjoys fly-fishing, snowboarding and scuba diving.
Leslie Nassar
Based in Melbourne, Leslie has worked with broadcasters, content creators, and carriers world-wide to help them deliver mobile experiences that don't suck. As the designer and developer of Podcast Publisher, Leslie provided ABC Radio National with the broadcast support system used to deliver dozens of shows, and hundreds of hours of original content, online each week. Leslie loves his iPhone so much that he'd totally marry it if he didn't already have a human wife.
Based in Melbourne, Leslie has worked with broadcasters, content creators, and carriers world-wide to help them deliver mobile experiences that don't suck. As the designer and developer of Podcast Publisher, Leslie provided ABC Radio National with the broadcast support system used to deliver dozens of shows, and hundreds of hours of original content, online each week. Leslie loves his iPhone so much that he'd totally marry it if he didn't already have a human wife.
Vaughan Knight
Vaughan is a Technical Manager at Hyro where he drives solution architecture and technical innovation with the Hyro engineering teams. Vaughan has seven years experience in the media, entertainment, and communications sector driving cutting edge mobility and media solutions. Over the past 2 years at Hyro, he has been heavily involved with content delivery and management solutions in the mobile and entertainment industries.
Vaughan is a Technical Manager at Hyro where he drives solution architecture and technical innovation with the Hyro engineering teams. Vaughan has seven years experience in the media, entertainment, and communications sector driving cutting edge mobility and media solutions. Over the past 2 years at Hyro, he has been heavily involved with content delivery and management solutions in the mobile and entertainment industries.
Laith Alasad
Hooked on technology for many years, Laith has focused in web-application development for the past seven years. Laith drives enhanced user experiences at Hyro as a Technical Manager, specialising in user friendly rich interactive application development, and is an advocate for advanced client-side techniques and highly graphical interfaces.
Hooked on technology for many years, Laith has focused in web-application development for the past seven years. Laith drives enhanced user experiences at Hyro as a Technical Manager, specialising in user friendly rich interactive application development, and is an advocate for advanced client-side techniques and highly graphical interfaces.
Tim Aidlin
Tim Aidlin is a Design Evangelist working in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Department at Microsoft. He currently works with the “Web Innovations Team” within D&PE to create next-generation software using WPF and Silverlight.
Additionally, Tim serves as the Creative Director for the MIX conference series, and brings a wide breath of knowledge from 10+ years designing websites and interactive experiences for clients throughout the U.S. Also a fine artist, he welcomes a good conversation about Matthew Barney, encaustic painting, and the like.
http://thunderkick.us
Tim Aidlin is a Design Evangelist working in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Department at Microsoft. He currently works with the “Web Innovations Team” within D&PE to create next-generation software using WPF and Silverlight.
Additionally, Tim serves as the Creative Director for the MIX conference series, and brings a wide breath of knowledge from 10+ years designing websites and interactive experiences for clients throughout the U.S. Also a fine artist, he welcomes a good conversation about Matthew Barney, encaustic painting, and the like.
http://thunderkick.us
