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| Tyler Davey is a Practice Manager for Infusion Development Corp, a Microsoft Gold Partner who offers quality software development services, developer training, and consulting services for large financial firms in the New York and Toronto areas. Leading a team of Virtual Earth and MapPoint Web Service developers and support engineers, Tyler has spent the last 3 years mastering Microsoft's mapping platforms and the geospatial community. | |
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| Eric Frost is Editor of MP2K Magazine, The Magazine for MapPoint and also hosts MapForums, a vBulletin discussion forum for Microsoft mapping technologies. Eric does IT consulting for a variety of Fortune 500 clients and is a partner with Competitive Analytics Professionals. He lives in Chicago and spends free time in parks with his two daughters. Eric holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a degree in Geography from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. | |
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| Marvin Hlavac runs Laptop GPS World, a non-commercial website and forum dedicated to GPS navigation on laptops, TabletPCs, and UMPCs | |
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| BJ Holtgrewe co-wrote the book MapPoint for Dummies published in 2002 and spent almost four years on the Microsoft MapPoint team where he last served as the Senior Product Manager/Technical Evangelist traveling across North America and Europe. Previously he was a Lead Program Manager for the Microsoft Geography Product Unit mapmaking team and served later as a Product Planner on MapPoint 2002. He currently works for Microsoft as Senior Product Manager of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. | |
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| Gilles Kohl, a native of Luxembourg living in Germany, is a software development lead with PROCAD GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany. | |
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| Steve Lombardi works for the MapPoint group at Microsoft. His title is "technical evangelist" and he covers all the mapping products at Microsoft. | |
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| Richard Marsden is the proprietor of Winwaed Software Technology LLC which provides software consulting and development services, specializing in Microsoft MapPoint. He sells a number of MapPoint tools and add-ins through the Mapping-Tools website, including the popular MileCharter tool for mileage table calculations. Richard holds the following degrees: MA Natural Sciences (Geological) from the University of Cambridge, MSC Geophysics from the University of Durham, and an MBA from theUniversity of Dallas. Richard is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. | |
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| Robert McGovern works as a consultant, architect, technical account manager and trainer for Infusion Development Corporation. He has worked on everything from large mortgage and stock-trading systems to biomechanics data collection and analysis systems. His current projects include MapPoint Web Service and Virtual Earth development, ASP.NET 2.0, Java to .NET Framework integration and migration, and SharePoint Portal Service development. | |
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| Wilfried Mestdagh works as software engineer at the company Sonal nv in Mortsel, Belgium. His main work is writing software for fleet management and onboard computers. His department started years ago for specializing in tracking and tracing security and dangerous transport vehicles, but it is grown to satisfy a very wide of vehicle / truck fleet customers. See also His MapPoint subdomain | |
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| Chandu Thota is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of fatdoor. He was previously the Lead Developer of Microsoft Virtual Earth. Chandu Thota is a published author of 3 technology books, most recently the O'Reilly book Programming MapPoint in .NET by O'Reilly publishing. Chandu is listed as an inventor on more than 14 patent applications for Microsoft Corporation related to geo-spatial mapping and technology and is a widely recognized expert in the field of mapping, geo-spatial applications and scalable web services. He holds a BE degree in Electrical Engineering degree from Osmania University (Hyderabad, India). | |
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