Three words to describe Blain? Driven. Enthusiastic. Busy. In his 14 years at Microsoft, Blain has organized and delivered a wide array of educational programs. He's given over 800 live events and received six top presenter awards the last couple of years. Blain has also worked on Worldwide OEM System Engineering, headed up the Visual Basic support team and created the Microsoft Campus Connection program, which introduces college, university and technical students to emerging Microsoft technologies. In his presentations, Blain’s sometimes known as "the wig guy," who gets his audiences personally involved in every demo or event. He plays the drums in his downtime and taught pro-level snow skiing in Washington State before he moved to Florida. If he wasn't spreading the IT gospel, Blain says he'd build a recording studio and music label to help promote young artists. Given his track record, it's only a matter of time.

Dry, sarcastic humor is just one of John's personal trademarks. John started in computers many moons ago working on mainframes, some of which were water cooled. He quickly moved to mini-computers and then joined the PC revolution in the ‘80s. He’s been with Microsoft over 12 years, starting in consulting and moving onto various technology specialist roles. He specializes in Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Group Policy and System Center Configuration Manager 2007. In the last 8 years John has presented hundreds of TechNet events and many product launches. He is currently an IT Pro Evangelist in Microsoft’s East Region, which covers Maine to Florida. As an IT Pro, John loves how new products and technologies are always lurking around the corner. All this new technology presents a major learning challenge, which is why he recently updated his MCSE certification to the new MCITP Server Administrator and MCITP Enterprise Administrator certifications. John's role model, Yosemite Sam, is among the stranger ones on the books, but it's pretty easy to understand his ultimate career fantasy – owning and running a beachside scuba shop in Mexico.

Yung has a passion to make complex things simple and simple things intuitive. For instance, he refers software engineering is more an art than technology, not because the inevitable, direct, and overwhelming human subjectivity embedded into every effort of a software development lifecycle from problem definitions, requirements, design, code, tests, maintenance, etc., but simply most colleges include software engineering as a major in the school of arts and science, and not an engineering school. He loves using analogies to help audience better understand highly integrated and sometimes convoluted concepts. This approach does however introduce great challenges when he tries to explain "only mommy knows" or "daddy will do it" as "constrained delegation" to his 1st grader. So far, his IT career has been about helping customers make sense of technologies and solutions and having much fun doing it. In his days off, he enjoys every minute of the fully unplugged and unwired time with his family. And if not playing with his kids, he’s probably on to his next house project.