Scott A. Lock, MVP, MCPD

President, Board Member

Scott is a Managing Consultant with Excella Consulting (www.excella.com).  He started his career with Tidewater Consultants Inc. in Arlington in 1996. After TCI was purchased by Mantech International in 1998, he moved to OSP Consultants Inc. in Sterling, VA where he was a Senior Developer/Team Leader for 3 years. Scott held a position as Manager for Application Development with the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. for 5 1/2 years.  During that time Scott was involved with some of the largest disaster relief operations in history.  His technical background includes .Net, SQL Server, ASP.Net, Office Development and other Microsoft technologies.  Scott has a BS degree in Management Information Systems from Gannon University and is an MCPD and Microsoft MVP.

Brian Noyes, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCSD

Vice President, Board Member

Brian Noyes is a software consultant, writer, trainer, and associate with IDesign, Inc. (www.idesign.net). He’s an MCSD with over 12 years of programming, design and engineering experience. Brian specializes in architecture, design, and coding of data-driven Windows and Web applications, and is a contributing editor for C#Pro, asp.netPRO, Visual Studio Magazine, and .NET Magazine and other publications. Brian has worked on a wide range of projects including large scale data processing systems, desktop productivity applications, and Web based collaboration and content management systems, and avionics software simulation and modeling. He specialized in C++ development for the first 10 years of his development career, but is also well versed in Java and VB, and has been completely immersed in .NET since just prior to Beta 1. In another life he used to be a Radar Intercept Officer flying F-14 Tomcats for the Navy. E-mail him at brian.noyes@idesign.net.

Halford ("Hal") I. Hayes, MCP

Vice President, Board Member

Principal Consultant, ACRITECH Corporation, developing applications in ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server technologies, including XQuery, SQLCLR, and SSIS. Hal has been working in client-server development since 1994. Hal has worked on commercial, and government software projects. Background includes middleware applications, large-scale client-server systems, high performance computing, computer vision, pattern recognition, shrink-wrapped software, and GIS. Hal  has a BS, and MS in Computer Science from Old Dominion University and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia, and holds an MCP Certifications in Visual Basic and MS SQL Server. Hal recently retired as a Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, after serving tours including Mission Commander for the Navy's E-2C Hawkeye, executive officer of several reserve units, and commanding officer of a reserve unit at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.