Michel Fournier, Level Extreme Inc.   Michel Fournier is the owner of Level Extreme, designer of the renowned Universal Thread. He specializes in using Visual FoxPro and .NET as Internet resources as well as the development of Visual FoxPro desktop applications. His expertise has been used in feasibility study, prototyping, analysis, development, training, development team integration, standards implementation and testing. His consulting services have been given to clients in Montreal, Toronto, Quebec, Bathurst, Moncton and the United States. In the last years, he has given various training and consulting related to Internet and Visual FoxPro for user groups and companies while having published various articles for different sources. You will find the biggest Internet product achievement he has done by accessing the Universal Thread. He has been using Visual FoxPro since 1988 and .NET since 2002. He has been a Microsoft MVP in 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Martin Salias, Microsoft South Cone   Martin Salias (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is currently acting as an Enterprise Architect for Microsoft South Cone. He has 25 years in the software industry working with several different platforms and languages, working for organizations ranging from the United Nations to Microsoft Consulting Services. He is Editor in Chief for Level Extreme .NET Magazine, a member of the Agile Alliance, and a Microsoft MVP.

Bonnie Berent, Tiburon, Inc. Bonnie Berent is currently a Senior Software Developer for Tiburon, Inc. and has been writing software in various languages for around 20 years. Bonnie's current focus on C# .NET applications began in early 2002. She is a Microsoft C# MVP and an active member of the .NET online community.

Guy Barrette Guy Barrette is a Solutions Architect based in Montreal, Canada. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for the Montreal region and a MVP for ASP/ASP.NET. He has been working and developing with Microsoft development tools since the launch of VB 3 in 1994. His focus is on Web applications with Microsoft technologies like IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server and other Microsoft tools. He worked on one of the largest and successful e-commerce site in Canada: www.archambault.ca. He's been a speaker at developers' conferences like Microsoft DevDays and DevTeach. Speaking of DevTeach, Guy was the tech chair for the French track in 2004 and 2005. Guy has the following Microsoft certifications: Site Builder and Solution Developer. Guy is also president of the Montreal Visual Studio User Group (www.guvsm.net) and on the INETA (International .NET Association) Relation committee. Guy writes a monthly .NET book review column for the UniversalThread Magazine and he is the Visual Studio Talk Show Internet radio show co-host (www.visualstudiotalkshow.com). Blog: guy.dotnet-expertise.com

Eric Moreau, Moer Inc.   Eric Moreau is an independent contractor. He holds the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certification and is also a Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP. He is mainly programming client/server applications using VB/VB.Net and MS SQL Server (and all the stuff surrounding it) particularly in the financial industry. He works with VB since version 4 and teaches it since version 5. He is a member of the Montreal Visual Studio User Group (www.guvsm.net) where he gives some sessions. He is also a speaker at the DevTeach conferences since its beginning in 2003.

Kevin McNeish, Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc.   Oak Leaf Enterprises is a company of integrity and quality. We have nearly 20 years of experience in the computer industry combined with a strong history of application development. Our experience in creating custom software for large and small companies and our thorough understanding of Object-Oriented programming gives us the insight necessary to create a stable Framework with built-in flexibility for your own development needs. In addition to the Mere Mortals Framework for .NET and VFP, Oak Leaf Enterprises continues to offer custom software development and mentoring services to large and small companies around the world.

Eric De Carufel, Psp Investment   Eric De Carufel is Team Leader of an Architecture & Development Team at PSP Investment in Montreal. He specialize himself in Microsoft .NET application development. He has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise application design in many business domain such as transportation, food retail sale, insurance and engineering. He is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and an active member of Groupe d'Usager Visual Studio de Montréal (http://www.guvsm.net/).

Michelle Bryar, Yap! Design Michelle Bryar is a professional graphic designer with solid work experience, as she completed her design training in 1999. She is skilled with professional graphic software such as Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and QuarkXpress. Mrs. Bryar has launched her own design studio in Beresford, NB where she helps clients from both public and private sectors to develop or revamp their corporate identity. In these last two years, her consulting services have been given to clients in Ottawa, Campbellton, Bathurst and Moncton.

Additionally to the above monthly contributors, the Level Extreme .NET magazine includes also a list of excellent writers from around the world whose technical articles cover .NET related topics. Those articles provide a highly valuable contribution for everyone from beginners to advanced developers, allowing us to deliver a monthly publication with a high level of quality and a wide target within the developers community.