Kathleen Dollard

Kathleen Dollard is a .NET Team Coach. She has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998 and is an ASP.NET Insider. Kathleen is an INETA Speaker and has given over a hundred speeches around the world. Fluent in both C# and Visual Basic, she’s interested in making core .NET technologies, the best open source tools, and reasonable processes available to all coders so they can to write better software faster. She has worked extensively with compositional architectures including MEF, WebAPI, ROC, and NetKernel. Kathleen is also a long-time advocate of generative techniques and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies. Kathleen was the founding president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG and supports user groups large and small. Kathleen’s coaching involves part time on-site training, process improvements, architectural and code review, and team facilitation to create habits for the continuing pursuit of excellence without disrupting current projects. She currently lives on the road. You can follow her at @kathleendollard (Twitter) or msmvps.com/blogs/kathleen.