User:Donkiely

Don Kiely is Alaska's sole Microsoft MVP, with the Developer Security specialization. He is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing secure desktop and Web applications that integrate databases and related technologies, using tools including SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, and ASP.NET. Don has authored and co-authored several programming books, many of which you’re likely to see in the bargain bin at your local mega-bookstore. Over the years, he has written for many industry journals, including Visual Studio Magazine, MSDN Magazine, CoDe Magazine, and asp.netPRO, a few of which survived his ramblings are are still published. Don trains developers and used to speak regularly at industry conferences, including TechEd, SQL PASS, VSLive!, DevConnections, DevTeach, and others, and is a member of the INETA and MSDN Canada speaker bureaus. He writes courseware for LearnNow (formerly known as AppDev) and records instructional videos for them. Don is a full member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Colorado, but fortunately learned the error of his establishment ways. In his other life he roams the Alaska wilderness by foot, dog sled, skis, and canoe and kayak, and his current passion is running trail marathons and ultramarathons. He is the volunteer President of Second Chance League, a non-profit sleddog rescue organization in Fairbanks, which rescues sleddogs from the local shelter and finds them new lifelong homes.