Greg Linwood
Australian Director & Mentor - Solid Quality Learning
 Greg Linwood is the founder of Solid Quality Learning in Australia. Greg was the first Australian awarded with Microsoft’s SQL Server MVP award in 2003 and is one of the founders of the Australian SQL Server User Group. He is a regular speaker at User Group meetings around Australia and has been working professionally with SQL Server since 1993 in a variety of development and administrative capacities.
Dino Esposito
Principal Mentor - Solid Quality Learning
 Dino Esposito is a trainer and software consultant based in Rome, Italy. Member of the Solid Quality Learning team, Dino specializes in Microsoft .NET technologies and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Europe and the United States. Over years, Dino developed hands-on experience and skills in architecting and building distributed systems for banking and insurance companies and, in general, in industry contexts where the demand for security, optimization, performance, scalability, interoperability is dramatically high. Every month, at least five different magazines and Web sites throughout the world publish Dino’s articles covering topics ranging from Web development to data access and from software best practices to Web services. Prolific author, Dino writes monthly the "Cutting Edge" column for MSDN Magazine, the “CoreCoder” column for aspnetPRO Magazine, and the ASP.NET-2-The-Max newsletter for the Dr.Dobb’s Journal. Considered an authoritative and acknowledgeable expert in Web applications built with .NET technologies, Dino contributes to the Microsoft’s content platform for developers and IT consultants. Check out his articles on a variety of MSDN Developer Centers such as ASP.NET, security, Windows Vista, data access. Dino has written an array of books, most of which are considered state-of-the-art in their respective areas, including “Applied XML Programming with the .NET Framework”, from Microsoft Press, 2002. Still requested, quoted and, more importantly, used by developers worldwide is “Visual C++ Windows Shell Programming”, Apress, which dates back at 1998 and remains the unique reference for whoever plans to extend the navigation capabilities of the Windows operating system. The two most recent books are—“Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0—Core Reference” and “Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications—Advanced Topics”, both from Microsoft Press, 2006. The next one in the launching pad is “Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions”, always for Microsoft Press scheduled for late 2006. An ASP.NET MVP, Dino regularly speaks at industry conferences all over the world (Microsoft TechEd, Basta!, Microsoft DevDays, DevConnections, DevWeek, WinDev) and local technical conferences and meetings in Europe and United States.
Allan Mitchell
Mentor - Solid Quality Learning
 lan Mitchell is a consultant in the UK focusing on BI solutions with his company Konesans which he founded with Darren Green. He has helped to deliver a large number of projects to a broad group of industries with a primary area of focus being Microsoft's ETL products DTS and SSIS. He is a SQL Server MVP, an MCDBA and an MCSE. He speaks at industry conferences and has been published numerous times in SQL Server Professional Magazine. Allan is a co-author of the book SSIS Professional (Wiley Publishers, 2005, a Wrox title). Allan is also the co-author of the www.SQLDTS.com and www.SQLIS.com websites providing useful information for users.
Rob Farley
Mentor - Solid Quality Learning
 Rob Farley has been an IT Consultant since completing a Computer Science degree with first class honours in 1997. He currently lives in Adelaide, but has also consulted in Melbourne and London. He heads up the Adelaide SQL Server User Group, sits on the South Australian Branch Executive Committee of the Australian Computer Society and holds several Microsoft certifications including MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS, MCPD and MCITP. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server.Since 2006, Rob has made multiple trips to Microsoft HQ in Redmond to assist with the content for many of the new generation Microsoft certifications, including the exams required to earn MCTS, MCITP and MCPD certification. Rob has been involved with Microsoft technologies for most of his career, but has also done significant work with Oracle and Unix systems. Despite this, his preferred database is SQL Server and his preferred language (other than T-SQL) is C#. Check out Rob's MVP blog at msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley
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