- FamilySearch Developers Conference
- FamilySearch Developers Conference
- Other Family History Programs
- BYU Conferences and Workshops
Presenter List
| Boyd Gerber | |
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| gerber@zenez.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Boyd Gerber is the owner of ZENEZ. He has been in business since 1974-75. He leads a group of international specialist that provide Non Recurring Engineering(NRE). He does both Hardware and Software. He has done everything from circuit design to system design for Hardware and many programming languages and OpenSource Software(OSS). | |
| Brad Hintze | |
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| brad@bungeelabs.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Brad leads the product marketing team and initiatives, including the delivery of product demonstrations and sample applications. He has written several example applications and code libraries for many different web services including Amazon FPS, Ebay, Flickr, Google Maps and Salesforce.com. | |
| Dan Lawyer | |
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| LawyerDC@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Dan has been working as a Product Manager for FamilySearch since 2004. Dan has spent the last 15 years defining products, managing product lines, and helping bring software and services to market around the world. Clients and companies have included WordPerfect, Fibernet, Seranova, Novell, and FamilySearch. | |
| David Pugmire | |
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| david@NGenesis.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| David Pugmire is an avid genealogy technologist who has built some of the earliest internet based tools for personal family history. He has worked at Microsoft most of his career on the company’s leading products. Currently, David continues his independent work on web based family history tools and FamilySearch utilities. He also is still employed at Microsoft working on the latest web technologies and development tools. | |
| Duane Kuehne | |
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| KuehneDS@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Duane is a member of the Public API team for FamilySearch. Prior to joining the FamilySearch team, he spent 15 years, working on server side of collaboration products from Novell and WordPerfect Corporation. He has a B.S. in computer science from Brigham Young University. | |
| Gaylon Findlay | |
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| gfindlay@ancquest.com, www.inclinesoftwareonline.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Gaylon Findlay is the President of Incline Software, LC. For 14 years, he has been creating genealogy software. When Incline Software gave a copy of Ancestral Quest to the LDS Church, from which the Windows versions of PAF were derived, Gaylon became the primary author of PAF, versions 4 and 5. | |
| Gordon Clarke | |
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| clarkegj@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Gordon J. Clarke joined the Family and Church History Member Needs team over 2 years ago. He is coordinating Developer Services and Affiliate Marketing in addition to his product management responsibility for the FamilySearch Web Services. Previously, Gordon was the founder and president of ici MEDIA. Over the last 25 years, Gordon has organized and lead numerous companies and projects, creating and delivering internet, desktop computer, audio/video, and enterprise solutions for many different industries. | |
| Jason Butterfield | |
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| ButterfieldJV@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Jason Butterfield is the Lead Engineer on the Rich Web Client team for FamilySearch.org. He was one of the original engineers on the FamilySearch Labs project and was heavily involved in the development of both the Pedigree Viewer and Life Browser." | |
| Jimmy Zimmerman | |
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| jimmy.zimmerman@gmail.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Jimmy holds a Master of Information Systems Management degree from BYU. He has been building family history related web software in Ruby for the past year. He currently works for USFamilyTree, building a U.S. Descendants research tool. He maintains a technology related blog at jimmyzimmerman.com. | |
| John Finlay | |
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| john.finlay@neumont.edu | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| John Finlay graduated from BYU with a degree in Computer Engineering. He is currently a full-time faculty instructor at Neumont University teaching computer science courses. Each quarter John leads teams of Neumont students who work on Family History related open source projects. In 2002, John founded the PhpGedView open source genealogy project which quickly grew to be the largest open source genealogy application on SourceForge.net. John is married to Melissa Corn and they reside in South Jordan, UT with their 5 children. | |
| Logan Allred | |
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| logan@mac.com, http://redbugz.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Logan Allred is the lead developer for 2 open-source genealogy projects: MAF, a record manager for the Macintosh, and FSKit, a Cocoa framework for communicating with the new FamilySearch web APIs. His passion for family history was ignited while in High School helping his father research their ancestors, and continues today. He has been writing software professionally for 10 years, primarily with Java, WebObjects, and now Flex. He has nearly completed his degree in Computer Science from BYU, and lives in American Fork, Utah with his wife Rebecca and 4 children. | |
| Matt Misbach | |
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| matt@bungeelabs.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Matt has been involved in the genealogy community for over 10 years. He owns and maintains a website that specializes in charting genealogical information. He is the inventor of several genealogy charts, and has published two family histories. He currently works full-time at Bungee Labs as a Software Engineer. Matt is responsible for starting the Bungee Family Search library. | |
| Ransom Love | |
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| LoveRH@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Ransom was the Founder and CEO of Caldera International, Inc., 1998-2002 (Now SCO Group) Lindon, Utah. Managed all aspects of the company including vision, strategy, marketing, sales, human relations, finance and all operations. Developed and executed original marketing and sales plan that included strategic round of funding, Initial Public Offering and two major acquisitions. Grew the company to one of the largest, global Linux companies in the industry with 13 offices servicing over 82 major markets. At FamilySearch, as the Director of Strategic Relationships, Ransom is responsible for helping to define department strategy and for creating an online and physical genealogical community with commercial and non-profit organizations, and increase participation, volunteerism, and promotion of Family History around the world. Manage department’s legal work group and negotiations with 3rd parties. | |
| Renaun Erickson | |
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| renaun@renaun.com | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Renaun Erickson is a Flex/Flash Developer for Adobe Systems Incorporated. Currently working on Adobe Pacifica project, Renaun has developed web applications using many technologies for the past 7 years. Renaun is active in the community speaking at conferences (MAX, 360Flex, and ZendCon), blogging http://renaun.com/blog/, and co-authoer of Professional Flex 2, by Wrox. | |
| Rob Lyon | |
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| LyonRW@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Rob earned his Bachelor¿s and Master¿s degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He has worked as a software engineer for 14 years on projects ranging from linguistics to databases and web services to user interfaces. He is currently the technical lead on the Public API of the Family search project. Rob has commented, "It is a challenging and enjoyable project. I have a great team and have enjoyed working and learning from the future consumers of the API. We are going to do accomplish some amazing work." | |
| Robert W Lee | |
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| LeeRW@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Robert Lee graduated from BYU with a BS in Computer Science in 1993. He workedat Dynix for several years as a lead programmer on several products - including the widely used Horizon Information Portal. He joined the RecordSearch team in 2006, working primarily on the API. | |
| Ryan Heaton | |
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| HeatonRA@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Ryan Heaton is a senior software developer for the new FamilySearch, specializing inWeb service design and development. His primary responsibility for FamilySearch is the implementation of the public Web service API and its underlying framework. | |
| Tim Crabb | |
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| CrabTC@ldschurch.org | |
Biographical Sketch: | |
| Tim Crabb is a Product Manager for the Family and Church History Department responsible for Record Search. Before coming to the Family and Church History department Crabb worked in the high-tech industry for the past 17 years and enjoys leveraging that experience on this exciting project of helping people find their ancestors. | |
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