
Deborah Kurata is cofounder of InStep Technologies Inc., a professional consulting firm that focuses on turning your business vision into reality using Microsoft .NET technologies. She has over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing successful applications.
Deborah has authored several books, including the "Doing Objects in Visual Basic" series (SAMS), "Best Kept Secrets in .NET" (Apress) and "Doing Web
Development: Client-Side Techniques" (Apress), and is currently working on "Doing Objects in VB 2005" (Addison-Wesley). She also writes for MSDN and CoDe magazine (http://www.code-magazine.com/).
Deborah speaks at .NET user groups all over the country as a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau (http://www.ineta.org/) and at conferences, such as VSLive, DevDays, and TechEd. For her work in support of software development and software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. After a hard day of coding and taking care of her family, Deborah enjoys blowing stuff up (on the XBox of course).