Alexei Kouznetsov

MSDN Code Awards Individual Developer of the Year:

Working within a University of Calgary research group, Alexei used SQL Server 2005, Visual C# 2005, .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0, and user-friendly GUI to develop a novel analytical software tool to help with the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer from histiology specimens. The tool has potential benefits to the community as it helps provide an objective, reproducible, and automated measure of tumor malignancy, and can thereby help guide the choice of better cancer treatment strategies.

Apption

MSDN Code Awards Developer Team of the Year:

Leveraging core expertise in SOA, Apption—Mike Kelland, Pascale Morin, Tariq Zaid, Zee Yang, Scott Sherin, Ramsay Eltaher, and Sandy Ahluwalia—developed a new service-oriented architecture to replace the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Case Management System.

Using Windows Workflow and Communications Foundations from the .NET Framework, Apption created the first production-scale solution development using .NET 3.0 for the Government of Canada.

Kurtis Kril (Client/Company: Telus)

TechNet Innovation IT Professional of the Year:

Kurtis replaced the existing Web Single Signon application that was a challenge to manage and support with an Active Directory Federation Services-based solution. The implementation and ongoing support and maintenance costs are lower than the existing solution and it allows the company the flexibility to roll out any new web applications leveraging the new implementation.

Navantis

Yong Hu - with Wenguo Wu, Stanley Jiang, Carlos Rochetti, and David Barnes - developed and implemented the Ontario Critical Care Information System that helped transform critical care service delivery in Ontario. It connects 120 hospitals with each other using BizTalk 2006 to coordinate data flow and Active Directory Federation Services for single sign on capabilities.

Alexei Kouznetsov

MSDN Code Awards 2008 Individual Winner

My hometown of St. Petersburg is one of the most remarkable places on Earth. I grew up there and graduated from a school that specializes in Physics and Mathematics. After school, I went on to attend The St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University and earned a Master of Science Degree in Nuclear Physics. Luckily, my major professional interest areas include both Physics and Computer Science. Completing several projects in radiation oncology, I received the Silver St. Panteleimon Statue as first prize at the Plenum of the Russian Medical Society of Oncologists in 1999. Working within a Tom Baker Cancer Centre research group, I was also selected as the Individual Winner of the 2008 MSDN Code Awards.

Daniel Nerenberg

IT Pro Industry Expert

Daniel Nerenberg is an MCT, MCSE, MCITP, and an independent consultant based in Montreal. He is also the President of the Montreal IT Pro user group (www.mitpro.ca). Daniel is passionate about technology and the amazing problems that can be solved with its application. Driven by the desire to see cool technology bring people together in global and local communities, he loves helping people to maximize their use of technology. Daniel has had the honour of receiving the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award for 2007 and 2008.

Daniel has written and consulted on the topics of Windows Deployment, Application virtualization, and Windows infrastructure. Daniel also writes regular updates for "The Lazy Admin" Tech guidance website. (www.thelazyadmin.com)

Etienne Tremblay

Etienne Tremblay is a lead technologist at EDS Canada with more than 17 years of experience in enterprise application development. His primary focus has been the manufacturing and mining industries and lately configuration management and development tooling. Throughout those years he has become a subject matter expert in software development lifecycle tooling and has architected the corporately managed Team System solution at EDS. He has also travelled around the world to train .NET developers. He’s been a speaker at DevTeach since 2005 and has delivered MSDN webcasts a few times. He represents EDS on the Microsoft Customer Advisory Council for Team System.

Miguel Carrasco

Miguel Carrasco is the Software Development Manager at Anvil Digital, a software development and marketing company in Winnipeg, Manitoba. With over 10 years experience in the IT industry, Miguel has been involved in over 100 real-world projects ranging from software development, team leadership and organization, creative user experience design, and infrastructure projects.

Miguel enjoys sharing his knowledge, and most of all, developing software with other people. An enthusiastic speaker, Miguel loves being in front of a crowd and creating excitement about the tools, technology, and best practices to building amazing applications.

Kurtis Kril

Kurtis is a high energy and consummate consulting professional of 15 years with vast consulting experience in information technology. He has built a solid reputation from the design, delivery and support of a full range of network solutions. Kurtis has achieved 4 different Vendor certifications. Roles range from project manager, network architect, migration specialist, messaging architect, network analyst, and network administrator with a main focus on Active Directory, Microsoft Windows (all versions), Exchange (all versions), ADFS, PKI infrastructures, Microsoft Clusters, ISA 2006/2004/2000 Enterprise, IIS Office Communications Server 2007, and IBM/Lotus Domino.

Dr.Tom Moreau

Dr. Tom Moreau has been enjoying SQL Server for over 15 years. He specializes in database design and development, performance and tuning of the relational engine, as well as high availability solutions. Tom has authored over 100 articles on SQL Server, as well as co-authoring a book on SQL Server 2000. He is also very active in the SQL Server community, particularly the SQL Server public newsgroups. Tom is Canada’s first SQL Server MVP, awarded from 2001 to present. He has presented at SQL Connections (1999 and 2000), SQL Teach (2001), the Microsoft Customer and Partner Experience Summit (2006), the Toronto SQL Server Users Group (2007), and Tech•Days (2008).

Stephen Ibaraki

Since 1965, founding CIPS Fellow Stephen Ibaraki’s has been recognized with more than 40 international accolades including 7 lifetime achievement awards, as profiled here >. In the past, Ibaraki was a multiple award-winning tenured educator; a computing-head in business and technology; and a multi-company founder/entrepreneur with a long history in software development and infrastructure innovation. He is the first Chairman of the Global Board of Culminis, and the past Chairman and President of CIPS. Check out his Microsoft profile from the Strategic Architecture Forum (SAF) keynote it received a 97.5% recommendation rating!

2009 winner of the Ignite IT Award for IT Professionals

The Community Caregiver Portal Solution by Navantis—Social Networking in Action

Today, over 3 million Canadians deal with the myriad challenges of being the main source of constant care for a family member or loved one with a chronic disease or an acute condition. From finding services and resources to finding people under similar circumstances, VON understood the difficulties caregivers face and selected Navantis to build an online solution that would alleviate these issues. Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Navantis impressively created a bilingual, integrated health services, web-based portal for the Canadian caregiver community. Collaborative, user-friendly, and highly customizable, the social networking platform provides caregivers with a support hub, valuable resources, and direct communication with doctors, nurses and patients.

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2009 winner of the Ignite IT Award for Developers

AgilePlanner for Digital Tabletop: A Tabletop Based Project Planning Tool for Distributed Teams

To help overcome the difficulties inherent in planning meetings for agile teams, We Are Agile used Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, XAML and Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation and a digital tabletop to create AgilePlanner for Digital Tabletop (APDT). With its large, horizontal touch sensitive device and adaptability to multiple platforms, APDT helps connect remote developers to a specially separated environment through multimodal interaction, including: finger touch or mouse events; gesture recognition; handwriting recognition; and voice-command recognition. Shown at the 2008 Agile Software Developer Conference, APDT received very positive reviews and feedback.

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