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Presenter List
| Ben Whitaker | |
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| Ben@RIAFox.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Ben was born Provo, Utah but grew up in Las Vega Nevada. He started his first web business in 1997. Served his mission in Venezuela 2000–2002 and then married Jillian Partridge shortly after his return. They now have 4 boys living with them in Idaho. Ben now owns a web application firm called RIA Fox and owns FamiliesConnected.org. | |
| Brian Corrales | |
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| corralesb@familysearch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Brian Corrales graduated from BYU with a Bachelors Degree in Information Systems Management. He has worked as an independent web developer for e–commerce and genealogy–focused web applications. He spent a year at Deseret Book where he developed the new online store. Brian is currently a Developer Support Engineer for the FamilySearch API. Brian has been married for 3.5 years and has a 2 year old son. During his spare time, he teaches martial arts in Salt Lake City. | |
| Brett Stubbs | |
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| brettstubbs@gmail.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Brett Stubbs is a web developer and programmer who has worked for a number of years for some top Utah companies. He has launched many web 2.0 social networking web properties and applications. He currently heads up development for Genseek.com and WorldHistory.com, both part of the FamilyLink network. | |
| David Pugmire | |
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| david@NGenesis.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| David Pugmire is an avid genealogy technologist who has built some of the earliest internet based tools for personal family history. He has worked at Microsoft most of his career on the company’s leading products. Currently, David continues his independent work on web based family history tools and FamilySearch utilities. He also is still employed at Microsoft working on the latest web technologies and development tools. | |
| Duane Kuehne | |
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| KuehneDS@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Duane is a member of the Public API team for FamilySearch. Prior to joining the FamilySearch team, he spent 15 years, working on server side of collaboration products from Novell and WordPerfect Corporation. He has a B.S. in computer science from Brigham Young University. | |
| Gordon Clarke | |
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| clarkegj@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Gordon J. Clarke joined the Family and Church History Member Needs team over 3 years ago. He is coordinating Developer Services and Affiliate Marketing in addition to his program management responsibility for the FamilySearch Web Services. Previously, Gordon was the founder and president of ici MEDIA. Over the last 25 years, Gordon has organized and lead numerous companies and projects, creating and delivering internet, desktop computer, audio/video, and enterprise solutions for many different industries. | |
| Jason Butterfield | |
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| ButterfieldJV@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Jason Butterfield is the Lead Engineeron theRich Web Client team for FamilySearch.org. He was one of the original engineers on the FamilySearch Labs project and was heavily involved in the development of both the Pedigree Viewer and Life Browser." | |
| Jimmy Zimmerman | |
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| jimmy.zimmerman@gmail.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Jimmy holds a Master of Information Systems Management degree from BYU. He has been building family history related web software in Ruby for the past year. He currently works for USFamilyTree, building a U.S. Descendants research tool. He maintains a technology related blog at jimmyzimmerman.com. | |
| John Finlay | |
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| john.finlay@neumont.edu | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| John Finlay graduated from BYU with a degree in Computer Engineering. He is currently a full-time faculty instructor at Neumont University teaching computer science courses. Each quarter John leads teams of Neumont students who work on Family History related open source projects. In 2002, John founded the PhpGedView open source genealogy project which quickly grew to be the largest open source genealogy application on SourceForge.net. John is married to Melissa Corn and they reside in South Jordan, UT with their 5 children. | |
| Logan Allred | |
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| logan@mac.com, http://redbugz.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Logan Allred is the lead developer for 2 open-source genealogy projects: MAF, a record manager for the Macintosh, and FSKit, a Cocoa framework for communicating with the new FamilySearch web APIs. His passion for family history was ignited while in High School helping his father research their ancestors, and continues today. He has been writing software professionally for 10 years, primarily with Java, WebObjects, and now Flex. He has nearly completed his degree in Computer Science from BYU, and lives in American Fork, Utah with his wife Rebecca and 4 children. | |
| Mark Ward | |
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| WardRM@FamilySearch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: |
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| Mark Ward is a Senior Product Manager with FamilySearch.org focusing on scanning and imaging technology to bring the vast repository of microfilm to the digital world. He also manages the standards and authorities technology which provides services for places, names, dates and other controlled vocabulary standards to FamilySearch.org and partner products. Mark has been an engineering, project and product manager with various large and small high-technology and healthcare management organizations during his career. He has a Bachelors Degree in Information Systems from BYU and a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Maryland. | |
| Phillip J. Windley | |
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| phil@windley.org | |
Biographical Sketch: |
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Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D. is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Kynetx , an early stage ecommerce company focused on turning shoppers into customers. As CTO, Dr. Windley directs the company's product strategy and is responsible for product architecture, implementation, and operations. Dr. Windley is a frequent author and speaker on digital identity, web architectures, web services, and interoperability. He writes the popular Technometria blog which contains numerous white papers in these areas and others . Dr. Windley is the author of the book Digital Identity published by O'Reilly Media. Dr. Windley is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University and Executive Producer of IT Conversations , a popular network of technology podcasts. Prior to joining BYU, Dr. Windley served from 2001-2002 as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah , serving on Governor Mike Leavitt's Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. In this capacity he was responsible for effective use of all IT resources in the state and advised the Governor on technology issues. During his tenure, the State was repeatedly recognized by many national groups for its excellence in the areas of IT and eGovernment. Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. of California, Davis in 1990. |
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| Rob Lyon | |
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| LyonRW@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Rob earnedhis Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He has worked as a software engineer for 14 years on projects ranging from linguistics to databases and web services to user interfaces. He is currently the technical lead on the Public API of the Family search project. Rob has commented, "It is a challenging and enjoyable project. I have a great team and have enjoyed working and learning from the future consumers of the API. We are going to do accomplish some amazing work." | |
| Robert Raymond | |
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| RaymondRS@FamilySearch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: |
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| Robert Raymond is a 40 year veteran of family history and a 30 year veteran of professional software development. At FamilySearch Robert promotes standards and best practices. He currently serves as a family history consultant and family history center staff member and trainer. Previous to FamilySearch, Robert worked at Ancestry.com for nearly 6 years. Robert holds over a dozen patents from his previous work on file systems for products like PartitionMagic at PowerQuest Corporation. Robert helped found the company and served as vice president of software development until company revenues exceeded $60 million annually. Robert holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, which honored him as a Spencer W. Kimball Scholar. Robert is now a Standards & Specifications Evangelist for FamilySearch. | |
| Robert W Lee | |
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| LeeRW@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Robert Lee graduated from BYU with a BS in Computer Science in 1993. He workedat Dynix for several years as a lead programmer on several products - including the widely used Horizon Information Portal. He joined the RecordSearch team in 2006, working primarily on the API. | |
| Ryan Heaton | |
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| heatonra@familysearch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Ryan Heaton is a senior software engineer at FamilySearch.org. He’s been with the organization now for over five years, working on various teams involved in the design and development of the family tree application stack. His passion for Web services has been a part of the FamilySearch API team since it’s very beginning, and he’s been also been invited to share his expertise at a handful of professional conferences and online publications around the world. Ryan loves to code, and is occasionally surprised to discover that he actually gets a paycheck for doing something so enjoyable. But what’s even more surprising is that he has a beautiful wife and four boys that love him despite his geeky hobbies. | |
| Tim Mullins | |
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Biographical Sketch: | |
| Tim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He is a member of the FamilySearch Public API team.
Tim has 15 years of programming experience working on Distributed Databases, Network APIs and various cross platform developement projects. | |
| Tom Creighton | |
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| creightonnt@familysearch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Tom is currently the Software Architect for FamilySearch. Previously tom was a Director at Word Perfect Corporation, Vice President of Engineering at Novonyx, owner of Lone Peak Technology, and Director/Lead Architect at Epixtech/Dynix. | |
| Tom Welch | |
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| WelchTC@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Tom Welch is the Technology Community Manager for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tom is responsible for enlisting and managing volunteers from the Church membership to assist the Church on various technology projects. Prior to working for the Church, Tom was the chief technology officer for Linspire, Inc., a popular consumer Linux and software delivery system. | |
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