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Jeff Bramwell is Director of Enterprise Architecture with Farm Credit Services of America.  He has over 20 years of software development experience and strives to follow the mantra of start simple and work your way up from there. He has been working with .NET technologies since the early pre-release days (mid 2000) and taught C# at a local university for three years.  Having focused on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server for the past few years, Jeff co-leads the Omaha ALM User Group and has presented on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at the multiple user groups and conferences.  Jeff is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP and, as time permits, answers Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server questions in the MSDN forums and makes every attempt to post useful information on his blog at http://devmatter.blogspot.com/. You can follow him on twitter at twitter.com/jbramwell.

Mike Douglas is a Solution Consultant at Deliveron Consulting Services.  He specializes in working with development teams to implement Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions to eliminate traditional silos between development, testing, and project management to establish cohesive processes with the Visual Studio ALM tools.    He is also Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP and an Microsoft ALM Ranger.    He actively maintains the open source project, Team Deploy, on CodePlex for deploying MSIs using Team Foundation Server and has a Windows 8 Store App published to help distributed teams point user stories in TFS called TFS Agile Poker.  Mike also enjoys sharing his experiences in Visual Studio ALM and TFS on his blog at www.CodeSmartNotHard.com.