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  Pels, Chris: 2009 Excellence Award (Lifetime Achivement)
  

  Chris served on the INETA North America Board of Directors as President and Secretary from 2004 to 2009. He was extremely instrumental in growing and sustaining INETA during those years. Chris is also President of the Boston .NET User Group. Chris is an vital member of the team that organized the Birds of a Feather events at the past two Tech·Ed conferences as well as the PDC held last November in Los Angeles. Chris is currently working with the team on the BOF sessions for the upcoming Tech·Ed in New Orleans.

  Chris has been influential in the architecture, development, and implementation of a wide variety of business systems and databases as a technology consultant since 1986. He has extensive experience in business analysis, technical specifications, database design, several programming languages including C# and VB.NET, and statistical analysis. He holds a Ph.D. from The University of Michigan and has been a speaker at Microsoft Tech·Ed, Microsoft DevDays, VSLive, and numerous events in New England. Additionally Chris has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2005.

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  Jones , Bill : 2009 Excellence Award (Lifetime Achivement)
  

  Quick Facts:
  •MCP C# and VB.Net
  •Microsoft MVP Visual Basic.NET
  •INETA Carolinas Membership Mentor
  •Leader of Enterprise Developers Guild, www.DevelopersGuild.org
  •Blog: GeeksWithBlogs.net/BJones
   
  As a Solutions Architect for Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Bill specializes in software development using .NET, VB.Net, ASP.NET, C#, Windows Mobile, SQL CE and SQL Server. He is well versed in all phases of the development life cycle – process, work flow, class abstraction, data structures, reporting and user interfaces. He is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic .NET. In his spare time, Bill founded and continues to lead the Enterprise Developers Guild, the .Net User Group in Charlotte NC with more than 2000 members. He is also the INETA Membership Mentor for the two Carolinas. Bill is currently in the deployment phase of a major mobility application using the new Sync Framework.

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  Noderer, Dave: 2008 Excellence Award (Lifetime Achivement)
  

  Dave Noderer helped lay the foundation for the Florida .NET User Groups. The first official Florida .NET meeting was in Boca Raton on December 4 1002. Prior to that, he was involved as treasurer with another local Access/VB user group for almost seven years. The first “user group” he participated in was RAMS – Rochester Area Microcomputer Society, founded ~ 1975 in Rochester, NY. Dave and his roommate had built a TV Typewriter and Altair 8800 and purchased Visual Basic on paper tape from Microsoft.
  
  Dave first heard of INETA in September 2001. Excited, he went to PDC 2001 to find Bill Evjen and get involved. He joined the INETA Board of Directors in the summer of 2002, leading the User Group Relations Committee. New user groups were starting worldwide, and Dave was very excited to be exposed to a wide variety of languages, customs, and people from all over. During these first years of INETA, Dave took on a variety of tasks from membership to treasurer, and was the first Birds of a Feather coordinator for PDC2003 and TechED 2004. His most rewarding event he has been involved with is the South Florida CodeCamp, which he helped organize and run for the last four years. Since retiring from INETA, Dave still is active in the local South Florida user groups, as well as, user groups within the state. Dave is proud of his continual involvement in keeping the user groups running and strengthening the relationship with community leaders. While, Dave has no problem speaking in front of a crowd of any size, he prefers to spend most of his time organizing and facilitating. He finds it’s always a thrill to be able to point someone t the correct resources and get them going on .NET.
  
  Dave offers the following advice for those who want to get involved in their local community.

  • Just step up and do something. At your local group and at groups like INETA, it can be hard sometimes because so many people say “I’d like to help” but then when asked they don’t or don’t follow through. So be persistent!!
  • If you can identify something that you would like to see your use group do, just do it!! For example, volunteer to write an article in the newsletter (best to write it and send it). Or arrive early and help setup the meeting or volunteer to order the pizza, whatever. If you follow through and actually accomplish something there will not be a problem getting involved.
  • Another path is to become a speaker. This is a common way for future MVP’s to get started. Create material based on subjects you are passionate about. Volunteer to speak at your local group or CodeCamp
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  Lerman, Julie : 2008 Excellence Award (Lifetime Achivement)
  

  Quick Facts:
  ◦Served on INETA Board of Directors 2002-2005, Speakers Bureau Committee 2005-2007
  ◦MVP for SQL Server
  ◦INETA Speaker as well as DevConnectrions, TechEd Speaker
  ◦Author of numerous articles for well-known publications
  ◦Leader of Vermont .NET User Group, www.vtdotnet.org
  ◦Blog: TheDataFarm.com/blog/
   

  Julie Lerman has been involved in INETA since its early days and was an integral part of the growth from the original concept of a few user group leaders to a worldwide organization today. Julie worked on the User Group Relations Committee, eventually took on the role of Chairperson, and then move on to become a member of the INETA North America Board of Directors.

  In addition to INETA, Julie has been the spirited leader of the Vermont .NET User Group based in Burlington, VT, her home state. She has worked tirelessly to build a vibrant community that provides great value to all the developers in that area.

  When asked why she loves giving back to the developer community, Julie spoke of the camaraderie, love of the profession, meeting great people, sharing knowledge, and just being part of something fun and rewarding.

  Anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Julie in person or hearing her speak knows that she epitomizes the true meaning of community with her unbounded enthusiasm that is infectious. She loves to share her enthusiasm for technology and bring people together so that they may benefit from interacting with one another, thereby building a better community for everyone.

  Thanks Julie for all the time you have given and how you have made our community better in so many ways!

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  Evjen, Bill: 2008 Excellence Award (Lifetime Achivement)
  

  Quick Facts:
  •Founder of INETA, served on INETA Board of Directors 2001-2005
  •Microsoft Regional Director, MVP for ASP .NET
  •INETA Speaker as well as TechEd, DevConnections, VSLive Speaker
  •Author of numerous books including Wrox Professional ASP.NET 3.5
  •Leader of St. Louis .NET User Group, www.stlnet.org
  •Blog: GeeksWithBlogs.net/evjen
   
  Bill Evjen is an active proponent of the .NET technologies and community-based learning initiatives for .NET. He has been actively involved with .NET since the first bits were released in 2000. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Bill founded one of the first .NET user groups, St. Louis .NET User Group, www.stlnet.org. By 2001, Bill was already laying the foundation for the International .NET Association. He pitched the idea to Microsoft to receive funding and went on to build the highly regarded INETA Speakers Bureau consisting of the top ..NET presenters in the world. Catch the excitement by viewing the INETA video. Those early days of INETA were truly inspiring as the initial team of volunteers witnessed the phenomenal growth of user groups worldwide. We owe it all to you Bill!

  In his professional life, Bill is an acclaimed author and speaker on next-generation Web Services and related technologies. He has written more than 18 books including Professional ASP.NET 3.5, Visual Basic ..NET Bible, Web Services Enhancements, ASP.NET Professional Secrets, Wrox Professional VB.NET 3rd Edition, Wrox Professional C# 2008, and XML Web Services for ASP.NET. In addition to working in the .NET world, Bill is a Technical Architect serving for Lipper (http://www.lipperweb.com) which is part of Reuters, the international news and financial services company. Bill graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, with a Russian language degree. When he isn’t tinkering on the computer, he enjoys spending his free time in his summer place in Toivakka, Finland.

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  McCarter, David: 2008 Excellence Award (Lifetime Achivement)
  

  David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP and a principal software engineer in San Diego. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping programmers in all aspects of programming. David has written for magazines like the Visual Basic Programmers Journal and has published three books (the latest is David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards available at: www.cafepress.com/geekmusicart.165478704). He is one of the founders and directors of the 14 year old San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org, formerly the San Diego Visual Basic User Group).

  David gives lectures on programming at colleges, high schools, conferences such as Code Camp, VSLive, Microsoft DevDays and he teaches at the University of California San Diego. He also runs his own software/consulting company called NicheWare.

  Competencies: VB.NET (since that is what I am an MVP in) and C# and pretty much all areas of .NET programming from ASP.NET, Windows & Mobile apps and back end services.

  Speaking Engagements: I speak often at my user group and at the following Code Camps: Fullerton Ca, San Diego Ca, San Luis Obispo CA, Los Angeles Ca and Phoenix Az. I also teach the following classes throughout the year at the University of California San Diego: Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX, Fundamentals of the .NET Framework. I'm proud to say that I got UCSD to teach .NET one year before it was official released! I developed one of the first classes and continue to develop course ware for our .NET classes at UCSD. I am also a member of the .NET Professional Certificate Review Board at UCSD.

  Published Content: I have published three books under my own name and have written chapters for other publishers like MS Press. My latest book is "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards". I am working on the third edition of that book currently. Also publish hundreds of tips, tricks and articles on my web site that has been around in one form or another since 1994, http://dotNetTips.com.

  Web Discussion Boards: I mainly participate in the MSDN newsgroups on a regular basis. My display name in these newsgroups is: dotNetDave

  User Group: Over 14 years ago I co-founded the San Diego Visual Basic Users Group and we are now called the San Diego .NET Developers Group (http://sddotnetdg.org). I am the only founder left and have been president of the group for the majority of the 14 years and still do about 80-90% of the work to keep the group going. We also participate in local southern California events. We provide job placement to our members via our web site and by having recruiting firms sponsor our meetings. I know that not only have I gotten jobs being part of this group but other members have too. We do mentor or members at the meeting, via the web site and emails. We also help new speakers by giving them helpful tips before or after their talk. We average 50-80 people each meeting and have 900+ people signed up on our web site.

  You can also find out more about what I'm up to by going to my MVP profile at: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=FA3C6870-ADBC-404D-B826-9A4185B3F0E6

  Quick Facts:

  Microsoft MVP Started the San Diego .NET Developers Group in 1994 Editor in Chief, dotNetTips.com Speaker at colleges, high schools, Code Camps, VSLive! and Microsoft DevDays Leader of San Diego .NET Developers Group User Group, sddotnetdg.org Blog: DavidMcCarter.net