Rob Oakes

Rob Oakes is a biomedical engineer and researcher based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of nearly a dozen peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in such prestigious medical journals as Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, HeartRhythm, Pediatrics, and Pediatric Nephrology. In addition to a love of science and research, he has also been fascinated by illustration, typesetting, layout and design. From 2004 to 2006, he was the production editor for Utah’s Health: An Annual Review, a public health journal published by the University of Utah.
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Tavis Hampton

Tavis Hampton is an independent consultant on editing, nonfiction and fiction writing, ghost writing, technical writing, typesetting, layout, print and electronic publishing, graphic design, web design, and media content distribution. He has over 10 years of experience working with both hardware and software on both x86 and PowerPC, on multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OSX. His work experience includes Library and Information Science, Linux System Administration, and web design.
BOOK: KDE for Graphical User

Tomaz Canabrava

Tomaz Canabrava has been a Brazilian KDE – Developer since 2005. He’s the author of one program in the KDE – Educational package and also give programming lessons on KDE since 2008. Tomaz is a founding member of the Live Blue group that aims to bring back the ’science’ into ‘computer science’ by helping the students to interact with the open source world and helps communities. He lives in Florianopolis, a city down south in Brazil that famous for its beaches and natural beauty. He’s also started a developers group.
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Jeff Spira

Jeff Spira is a seasoned small business startup, operations and marketing manager. His experience reflects in excess of 30 years’ expertise in real-world management, engineering and manufacturing. Jeff has a degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University (1996). Jeff runs Spira Engineering, specializing not only in design and engineering, but also in tooling, design, process design and quality system consulting. He has designed many severe application sealing systems as well as complete seal product designs. He holds many patents, and has received international design awards for his high temperature and pressure seal designs.
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Tana George

Tana George is a full-time freelance technical writer and tester, although she occasionally takes on other projects such as system administration and configuration (Technical Support) and design. Before becoming a full-time freelancer in 2005 she held various positions in software development companies for over six years, but the freedom to be one’s own boss and choose the projects to tackle proved stronger than the (not-so-secure) security of being a salaried worker. Tana is mainly interested in software—namely, operating systems and networking software—though some real gems in the form of hardware also draw her attention. She is especially attracted to the ideas and achievements of open source software, and without being a fanatic (she still uses MS Windows for some of her projects), she is a passionate user of Linux and open source applications. She has a post-graduate degree with an emphasis on networks and operating systems.
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Mike Griffiths

Mike Griffiths is an independent consultant specializing in effective project management. Mike was involved in the creation of DSDM in 1994 and has been using agile methods (Scrum, FDD, XP, and DSDM) for the last 15 years. He is active in both the agile project management community and traditional PMI-based circles. He served on the board of the Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), he was a contributing reviewer to the PMBOK v3 Guide and is a trainer for the PMI SeminarsWorld program. He maintains the award winning leadership and agile project management blog at www.LeadingAnswers.com.
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Navid Paya

Navid Paya is an Iranian FOSS activist. He holds a Master’s degree in IT management and is specializes in FOSS enterprise solutions such as ERP and BPM. He has developed a passion for Linux, both desktop and server solutions. Having several years of experience as a UNIX administrator in some of the most prominent service providers in Iran, he has also taught numerous Linux courses based on RHCE and LPIC syllabus. In his spare time, he likes reading on all topics and going mountain climbing.
BOOK: KDE in Everyday Use

Luu Duong

Luu Duong is passionate about current and emergent approaches that aim to advance the software development industry, particularly through project management methodologies and organizational change. He enjoys the software startup environment—launching a company from ground-zero to industry recognition. He is currently employed as an Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master by eCompliance Management Solutions Inc., Canada’s leading OHS technology partner. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary , Scrum Master Certification, and is also pursuing a Project Management Professional designation from the PMI. His goal is to provide leadership and motivation to his development team, while empowering the organization to produce high quality, usable software that effectively satisfies customers . . . enjoying a little fun along the way.
BOOK: Practical Agile Experience

Andy Palmowski

Andrew Palmowski has been developing .NET-based software for Windows and Linux for three years. During this time he has transitioned from traditional UML-based development practices to agile methods. He thrives on his desire to understand new technologies, finding ways of improving the software development process. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Michael Khodosko

Michael Khodosko is an experienced Agile practitioner with over 10 years of software development under his belt, and is currently working as an independent software consultant, specializing in applying iterative development methodologies, .NET architecture, design patterns and domain-driven design, with a strong interest in code quality and refactoring. Michael holds a MS in Computer Science, is a member of Agile Alliance and the Calgary Agile Methods User Group (CAMUG), and is a certified SCRUM Master.
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Adam Alinauskas

Adam Alinauskas is an agile software developer specializing in the .Net Framework, successfully practicing agile software development for the past five years. He is passionate about Test Driven Development (TDD), Domain Driven Design (DDD), refactoring, design patterns and obtaining a strong understanding of the fundamentals. Adam is fortunate to be part of a team of developers that persists on pushing the envelope. Working with leading-edge technology, the developers at eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. have completed many successful projects.
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