First Name: Julie

Last Name: Yack

Blog Url: www.julieyack.com

Twitter ID: http://twitter.com/coloradojules

Join Date: 5/31/2007 5:00 PM

Last Login Date: 3/4/2010 7:58 AM

Bio:

Julie Yack is one of the founding partners of Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc and currently serves as Chief Operations Officer. Julie has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for her efforts in the CRM professional community. Julie is a Microsoft CRM Certified Professional, Microsoft Small Business Specialist and a Certified Scrum Master. She was named one of 101 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009 by WEmagazine.

Julie has been a vital part of three large scale publications in 2008 and is deep in progress on 2009’s Building Silverlight RIAs. She was a contributing Author for Voices for Change: Women's Words to Politicians. Julie was the Technical Editor for Wiley's The IT Girls Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva. She served as Editor and Publisher for (X)CRM as a Rapid Development Platform. All of these titles are available direct from their publishers or at www.amazon.com.

Julie's newest user group, XRMVirtual, is off to a great start and has several hundred members after its first meeting. Julie is also one of the founders of SouthColorado.NET, a user group focused on improving the knowledge base of .NET developers SouthColorado.NET is a member of INETA (www.ineta.org). Julie serves as the INETA membership mentor for a 4-state region as well as virtual groups globally and strives to help the developer community wherever possible. She was the Conference Chair for the inaugural .NET Developer vConference, reaching out globally to the .NET Developer community