Cameron Skinner joined Microsoft in 2005 and is currently a product unit manager on the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) team. He is responsible for overseeing the Team Edition – Architect product line. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Skinner was the CTO and chief architect of application development tools for Embarcadero Technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as CTO for Advanced Software Technologies. In his limited spare time, Mr. Skinner enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and playing his acoustic bass.

Gert Drapers is the Group Engineering Manager for the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition product as known as the “Data Dude”. After 3 years of Ashton-Tate where he was first introduced to SQL Server in 1988, Gert joined Microsoft in 1991. Prior to his current position he was a member of the SQL Server development team where he held various positions varying from development to management. He contributed to SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005; some SQL Server artifacts he worked on are: BULK INSERT, SQL-DMO, SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Profiler, DTS, SQL Agent and SMO. After SQL 2000 he joined the Indigo team where he designed the System.Transactions API and worked on MS-DTC and the web services (WS-AT) transaction specification. In September of 2003 he joined the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team where he focused on helping customers design and implement the largest SQL Server implementations in the world. In July 2005 he started the DataDude project, which goal in life is to provide an offline schema development and deployment environment for SQL Server and other data stores. Right now the team is finishing up the 3rd release of the product! When Gert is not working, he is spending time with his wife and three lovely daughters; loves to cook and make music. Besides that he is serving the SQL Server community by writing tools and articles which are published on http://SQLDev.Net and various magazines.

Steve is the development lead for the Visual Studio Profiler and has been with that team for five years. Before that he was a compiler researcher studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ed Glas is group manager for the Visual Studio Team Test team in Raleigh, NC. Ed led the development of the web and load testing features in Visual Studio Team System from their inception, and is now also leading development of the test case management server. Prior to working at Microsoft, Ed co-founded HAHT Software, where he led the development of the HAHTsite web application IDE and application server. He also worked at startups OneTree Software, creator of SourceSafe, and Q+E software. In his spare time Ed enjoys spending time with his wife and five children and playing soccer.

Stephanie Saad is a Group Manager at Microsoft and is currently building tools for agile development. She has been working in the Visual Studio design team for the last 6 years, most of them on planning various new cool stuff for VSTS. She thinks Visual Studio is the coolest thing ever, although she still can't explain to her mom what she does.

Peter Provost is a Sr. Program Manager with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Architect Edition. He is a recognized agile coach, author and presenter and brings more than 10 years of agile development and project management experience. Peter is currently working with VSTS Architect Edition to help create the next wave of architectural and modeling tools.

I am the Principal Program Manager in the VSTS Test Business which is part of the Developer Division. I enjoy building well integrated set of tools and technologies that enable developers build, test and ship quality software. I started my career at Microsoft 18 years ago in the Windows Division after 3.5 years working as a programmer in India and a M.S.(CS) from Oregon State University. After working as a Developer and Development Lead and shipping several releases of the award winning Routing and Remote Access Services for Windows, I moved to the MS India Development Center (MSIDC) in Hyderabad. I was a founding member of the team of employees who moved from Redmond to create MSIDC. As Development Lead and Manager I shipped the award winning Services For Unix (2.0 and 3.0). I then moved on to build the Windows Sustained Engineering team from ground up culminating in shipping the Windows 2000 URP release. Before joining the Developer Division I was the Product Unit Manager for the Windows Client Servicing group in Redmond.

Habib Heydarian is a Lead Program manager on the VSTS Development group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications. He joined Microsoft in 2000 and has been in Developer Division ever since. Before joining Microsoft, Habib studied computer science at the Australian National University in Canberra. While not at work, Habib spends his time playing with robots, shooting hoops or chasing that elusive Yellowfin. One of his favorite possessions is a Washington state license plate with the label "RUNTIME".

Justin Marks started at Microsoft in 2002 after receiving his BS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT. He has worked on MSN.com as a Systems Engineer, Windows as a Software Design Engineer in Test, and now Visual Studio as a Program Manager. As the PM on the Diagnostics team, Justin has been working on the Historical Debugger feature for the next release of Visual Studio 2010.