About
Mission
To facilitate a discussion environment for .NET developers and IT professionals
focusing on building real-world solutions using the Microsoft.NET platform. To provide
the opportunity for members to share knowledge and participate in advanced technological
discussions with other local community members and other industry recognized leaders.
Leaders
.NET Group Co-Leader: Brian Swiger
Brian is a Principal Consultant
at Sogeti
in Omaha Nebraska. His specialization includes .NET application architecture, Enterprise Applications and Biztalk Server. Brian has been working with .NET
for many years in many differing industries and holds several Microsoft certifications including the MCPD and MTCS: Biztalk. He enjoys giving back to the community through local user groups and development forums.
.NET Group Co-Leader: Matt Ruwe
Matt is a Principal Consultant at Sogeti in Omaha Nebraska. Matt has more than 12 years of professional experience building enterprise web and windows application using Microsoft technologies. Matt contributes to the community by building and giving away several software projects including Majodio Mail and Majodio DNS. Matt has worked in multiple industries, and has used many different technologies throughout his career.
SQL/BI Group Co-Leader: John Morehouse
John is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti, located in Omaha, Nebraska. John's primary focus is on Microsoft's SQL Server and Business Intelligence utilizing Microsoft SQL Server. This focus includes infrastructure design, system administration, database design and development, as well as SSIS package design. John is looking forward to giving back to the community through this user group.
SQL/BI Group Co-Leader: Naras Jayachandran
Naras is a Database Developer at Farm Credit Services of America in Omaha, Nebraska. He specializes in SQL Server Database design, development and administration. Naras has been working with SQL Server since 1996 and enjoys giving back to the community through the user group and forums. He holds Microsoft certification with SQL administration.
BizTalk Group Co-Leader: John Weland
John Weland is the co-founder and Solution Consultant at Deliveron Consulting Services. John has over 12 years of industry experience successfully implementing enterprise solutions across several vertical industries including Healthcare, Financial services, Professional services, and Oil and Gas. He enjoys understanding the business problems that organizations are faced with and architecting the appropriate technology solutions that will deliver measurable value for clients. John has a background as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and is co-leader of the BizTalk User Group in Omaha and has presented at InfoTech and Microsoft CIO summit.
BizTalk Group Co-Leader: Wendell Hutchison
Bio Coming Soon.
Team System Group Co-Leader: Jeff Bramwell
Jeff Bramwell has over 17 years of software development experience and is currently employed as a Lead Developer by Farm Credit Services of America. He has been working with .NET technologies (VB.NET and C#) since the early pre-release days (in mid 2000) and currently teaches a course in C# at a local university.
Jeff has presented on Team Foundation Server at the Omaha .NET User Group as well as the Heartland Developers Conference. He also spends time answering Visual Studio Team System questions in the MSDN forums and makes every attempt to post useful information (mostly regarding TFS) on his blog at http://devmatter.blogspot.com/.
SharePoint Group Co-Leader: Corey Erkes
Corey has more than five years of experience in the IT industry. He has spent the last few years configuring and customizing the SharePoint platform.
SharePoint Group Co-Leader: Kirk Hofer
Kirk is a seasoned consultant and has been architecting systems on the Microsoft platform for over a decade. Most recently he has been creating and deploying solutions built upon SharePoint.
History
MidNet - MidNet was started in May of 2001 by Philip Wolfe and a group from Quilogy.
The first meeting was held in May of 2001 at the Embassy Suites with a presentation
by Ed Young of Microsoft and Philip Wolfe of Quilogy. During the course of the next
two years, Midnet had 12 successful meetings, highlighted by a speaking engagement
by Quilogy consultant Dan Fox, author of several .NET books. MidNet's role consisted
of 200 people with an average meeting size of 30. Midnet has had two leaders, Philip
Wolfe, initial founder, was president from May 2001- Oct. 2002 and Wayne Hoge from
Oct. 2002 - March 2003. October 2002 saw the acceptance of Midnet into the International
.NET Association (INETA) organization. This association was a major step for the
group. INETA offer many benefits including big name speakers to present at meetings
and the ability to network with other .NET groups around the country. Midnet merged
with Omaha.NET in April of 2003.
Omaha.NET - Omaha.NET was started in September of 2002 by Joe Olsen and Sean Chapman.
With immediate need for a new .NET user group, Microsoft and INETA aided the start-up
of ODN. After several months of planning and organization, Omaha.NET held it's first
official meeting in January of 2003. Through partnerships with Brinkster, Microsoft,
and INETA, ODN was able to leap ahead of the curve with an outstanding web presence,
and several key partnerships throughout the Omaha and Microsoft development community.
In the best interest of our members and the group's goals, the MidNet users group
merged with ODN in April of 2003. The new group became the central source for all
Omaha area .NET development.
In November of 2005 Joe Olsen stepped down as president to start his own business,
http://www.phenomblue.com.
Joe is still an active member in the user group. He is the director of the Heartland Developer Conference, an annual conference in
the midwest focused on bringing national and regional speakers to local user groups.