Our Instructors

Shawn Wildermuth

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET, MCT and is the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering architecture, mentoring and software solutions. He is also a speaker on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and has appeared at several national and international conferences to speak on a variety of subjects.

Shawn is also the author of several books including the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley, four Microsoft Certification Training Kits for MS Press, as well as the upcoming book, “Prescriptive Data Architectures”.

He has been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, InformIT, Windows IT Pro, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel’s Rich Client Series. Shawn has enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years. He can be reached at his website at www.wildermuthconsulting.com.

Erik Mork

Erik joined the tech community in 2000 and starting working on C++ 6, sockets and MFC applications. With the release of the .NET Framework, he transitioned to the world of Windows Forms and ASP.NET-based .NET Applications. He has 8 years of development experience.

As a recognized expert on Silverlight 2, Erik regularly trains and consults with companies around the world. He has worked with Silverlight since the 1.0 public release and on such projects as the Heroes happen {here} site, Microsoft internal training materials and other Silverlight 2 projects. Erik and his wife created the popular Silverlight podcast (The Sparkling Client Podcast).

When he's not consulting or writing applications, Erik is active in the Silverlight 2 community including speaking at User Groups, talking at Conferences and reviewing new Silverlight 2 books.