Pluralsight Technical Staff

Aaron Skonnard

Aaron Skonnard is co-founder of Pluralsight, a premier Microsoft .NET training provider. Aaron has authored numerous Pluralsight courses in the areas of Azure (cloud computing), WCF, Web services, XML and BizTalk Server. Over the years, Aaron has written numerous articles, whitepapers, and books and he's a contributing editor with MSDN Magazine where he authored The XML Files and Service Station columns for years. Aaron frequently speaks at industry events including TechEd, PDC, and VSLive! Check out his blog at http://pluralsight.com/aaron/.

Craig Andera

Craig is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on architecture and design. Specializing in large-scale web system implementation, Craig spent his early career working with COM and C++, but since 2001 has been teaching and consulting full-time on the .NET platform in C#. Craig has written for MSDN magazine and spoken at conferences both nationally and internationally.

Dan Sullivan

Dan is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he heads up the SQL Server curriculum. Dan is also an independent consultant, author, and speaker. He likes data; pointy data, rectangular data, even data just lying around on the floor. He is a co-author of the book "A Developers Guide to SQL Server 2005". His articles have been published in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine and he has spoken at WinDev, Microsoft events, as well as to various developer groups.

David Cowles

David is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. David is also an independent consultant and has experience developing software for UNIX, Windows, and other platforms using C++, Java, and C#. He has developed large-scale, mission critical applications for government, banking, and manufacturing industries.

David Starr

David Starr is a member of the Pluralsight technical staff, where he heads the Agile Software Development curriculum. He also works as an independent consultant specializing in Visual Studio Team System and .NET software development. David has over 18 years of experience in software development and has held numerous leadership positions in technology teams. He is a PluralSight instructor, an Agile coach, a .NET developer, and founder of Elegant Code.

Eric Burke

Eric Burke is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on WPF and Silverlight. Eric is also a Principal Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!, Inc., where he is a lead developer on the Yahoo! Messenger team. Since graduating from Purdue in 1994, Eric has been building software applications on Windows platforms. Eric is interested in all aspects of the .NET framework, but specifically WPF, Silverlight, and other client technologies.

Fritz Onion

Fritz is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on Web development with ASP.NET, Ajax, and Silverlight. Fritz is the author of the books 'Essential ASP.NET' and 'Essential ASP.NET 2.0' published by Addison Wesley. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences including the PDC, TechEd, and VSLive!. Microsoft recognizes Fritz as an MVP for his contributions to the ASP.NET community.

Ian Griffiths

Ian Griffiths is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on the presentation layer curriculum. Ian is also an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.

Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc. (www.jwhh.com) a New Hampshire-based consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Windows and Windows Mobile platforms. Jim has worked extensively with the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework since the original beta release of each. Jim writes frequently for MSDN online and has developed mobility and smart client curriculums for several organizations. As a speaker, Jim can be seen at Tech Ed, VSLive, Mobility & Embedded DevCon and WinDev.

Dr. Joe Hummel

Joe is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on High Performance Computing and .NET languages. Joe has been specializing in Microsoft technologies since 1992, and is well-versed in Microsoft's High-Performance Computing initiative (HPC Server, Compute Cluster Server, MPI, MPI.NET, OpenMP, PFx), web technologies (ASP.NET and Ajax Extensions for ASP.NET), the desktop (WinForms), LINQ, .NET Framework, and its most popular languages (VC++, C#, F# and VB).

Jon Fancey

Jon Fancey is a founder of Affinus, a UK-based consultancy focused on large-scale enterprise integration. In particular Jon is interested in BizTalk Server, Web services and associated technologies and standards. He has written for MSDN Magazine and Web site and talked at various Microsoft-focused conferences including TechEd. Jon is recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for his community contributions.

Jon Flanders

Jon is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly, as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST. He also sees a bright future for modeling as a way to build complex systems, using Oslo.

Keith Brown

Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight with a focus on security and identity. Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. Keith is a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, and has authored several books for developers covering Windows security, ASP.NET, and COM. Keith has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for several years.

Kent Tegels

Kent Tegels is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on SQL Server and Business Intelligence. Kent is also an Adjunct Professor for Business and Computer Science. Since the 1980s, Kent has been building systems and educating his fellow developers, adminstrators and analysts. He spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to students and developers world wide. Kent enjoys helping people achieve their "AH-HA!" moments.

Matt Milner

Matt is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies (WCF, Windows WF, BizTalk, "Dublin" and the Azure Services Platform). Matt is also an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET application design and development. As a writer Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines including MSDN Magazine where he currently authors the workflow content for the Foundations column. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional and international conferences such as Tech Ed. Microsoft has recognized Matt as an MVP for his community contributions around connected systems technology.

Mike Woodring

Mike Woodring is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight. Mike is also an independent software consultant that develops for, writes about, and speaks on .NET technologies. He is particularly interested in runtime internals, multithreading, and speech-based application development. Mike is co-author of Win32 Multithreaded Programming and Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers.

Scott Allen

Scott Allen is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems and Web development. Scott has over 15 years of experience in commercial software development and is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and local user groups. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and has authored books on several Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, and Windows Workflow.

Shy Cohen

Shy Cohen is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on Software Architecture, and Cloud & Distributed Computing. Shy is also an independent consultant, with over 20 years of experience in designing and building software. Previously, Shy worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on projects such as "Oslo", WCF, MSN, Windows, ISA, and others. Shy has also worked at Intel, and ran a small software company.