About Us

Board Members

Kelly Cassidy

President

Kelly is the Manager of Technology Advancement at DMT Development Systems Group, meaning he gets to play with the new gadgets and technology to find solutions for DMT’s clients. His primary focus is looking at the mobile environment, both native applications and web-based applications, as well as looking at all major smartphone platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Playbook, BlackBerry). He is also the President of the Winnipeg .NET User Group, a member of the New Media Manitoba Interactive Advisory Board, and an (occasionally) active member of the Winnipeg Ruby User Group, Secret Handshake Creative Society, and iPhone Developer User Group. His favourite number is 42. He does not live in Sussex.

  

Miguel Carrasco

A Microsoft MVP, Miguel Carrasco is Technical Program Manager at Imaginet; a leader in software and technology solutions based on Microsoft technologies. With over 12 years of experience in the software and IT industry, Miguel has been involved in hundreds of real world projects ranging from software development, user experience design, and team leadership and motivation.

Miguel loves talking to development teams about engaging the users, and reminding everyone user experience and user interface design is critical in writing awesome software.Miguel enjoys sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm for software and technology with other people. An enthusiastic and engaging speaker, Miguel will ensure you leave with practical knowledge you can use immediately, and ensure you have a great time learning.

 

Roy Drenker

Roy Drenker is Technical Architect with HP Enterprise Services.  In this role, Roy has had the opportunity to work with extremely talented teams on a variety of .Net and Java based projects ranging from small web portals to large multi-year enterprise applications.  Roy has a passion for automation and enjoys developing new techniques and tooling geared at improving developer productivity. 

Dylan Smith

Dylan Smith is an ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) consultant for Imaginet where he spends his time helping teams become more successful at delivering software. Dylan has over a decades experience designing and architecting mission critical applications. In the past 5 years Dylan has focused on agile development techniques and practices. He has led the shift to agile and lean development practices across multiple teams, projects and companies.

 

David Wesst

Webmaster

David Wesst (also known as Wessty) is a User Experience specialist at Imaginet. David's work revolves around the usability and user experience of software applications being developed by Imaginet, with a focus on web-based applications and technologies such as ASP.NET, jQuery, HTML5, and Silverlight. David enjoys speaking at software development conferences about both web and user experience development. He is the host of his original webcast series, Cooking with Wessty, where he demonstrates how to use the latest technologies and techniques in HTML 5 and Silverlight to provide end-users with great user experiences. 

  

D'Arcy Lussier

INETA Membership Manager

D'Arcy Lussier is an experienced technologist and analyst who has been part of the Winnipeg technical community for the better part of a decade. D'Arcy has been awarded a Microsoft MVP award over the last four years for his activities in the community, which have included running/starting user groups, organizing the Winnipeg Code Camp, numerous speaking engagements, and running the Prairie Developer Conference.

Currently a solution architect at Protegra, D'Arcy will take on the role of Microsoft Practice Lead at Online Business Systems in mid February in addition to analysis and solution consulting.