Bill Evjen

BILL EVJEN - VP & CIO/CTO, Media, Entertainment, Finance Industries / @billevjen

Bill Evjen has always been an active proponent of various technologies and community-based learning initiatives for Microsoft, open-source, and more. He has been actively involved with Microsoft's .NET since the first bits were released in 2000. In the same year, Bill founded the St. Louis .NET User Group (www.stlnet.org), one of the world's first such groups. Bill is also the founder and former executive director of the International .NET Association, which represented more than 500,000 members worldwide. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Bill is an acclaimed author and speaker of client technologies, architecture, and leading development approaches for secure media. He has authored or co-authored more than twenty books including Professional ASP.NET 4, Professional C# 4 and .NET 4, ASP.NET Professional Secrets, XML Web Services for ASP.NET, and Web Services Enhancements: Understanding the WSE for Enterprise Applications (all published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.).

In addition to writing, Bill is a speaker at numerous conferences, including DevConnections, VSLive, and TechEd. Lately, Bill has focused on system and architectural strategies in the media and entertainment space and works closely with the major Hollywood studios. You can reach Bill via Twitter at @billevjen.