NEWS
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Lino Tadros Awarded C# MVP for the 6th year
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Falafel releases the new TestComplete 7 book
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Telerik Training in the best of Readers’ Choice Awards 2009
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Gary Campbell Achieves MCP Certification Status for ASP.NET
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Brad Divine Achieves MCSD Status!
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Team
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Alain "Lino" Tadros, Chief Executive Officer
Alain "Lino" Tadros is President & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based
company, with presence in Colorado and Texas, dedicated to providing world-class
consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise
level businesses. Prior to founding Falafel, Lino was a member of the development
team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Mr. Tadros has been awarded Microsoft
MVP status five years in a row (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) for his numerous contributions
to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, COM, and Web Services.
Tadros is an industry renowned speaker and has given numerous presentations on 5
different continents since 1994. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors
of 4 Silicon Valley corporations.
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John Waters, President and CTO
John Waters was the lead architect and
developer of a number of high profile financial software products and solutions,
including Scandinavia’s leading Internet retail stock trading system, a leading
mortgage and credit risk assessment product now used by many of Sweden’s banks for
housing loans. John has a strong background in Delphi, C# and SQL, as well
as many years of experience of successful project management. John has also spoken
at conferences on the subject of Web Services. Recent projects include such diverse
experiences as in-car navigation systems, GPS- and MapPoint-based solutions, capture
and playback of video, a web based Volunteer Tracking System for a food bank, and
a Nortel telephone switch interface module. Currently, John is the full time project
manager and chief architect for a large custom built ERP system that handles billions
of dollars of business, using Web 2.0 technology and AJAX. John has a MS in Computer
Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, has been a Microsoft Certified Professional
for SQL Server, and is currently a MCP in Developing and Implementing Web Applications
with Microsoft Visual C# .NET.
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Noel Rice, VP Software Services
Noel has over 14 years of experience in
the software industry including numerious successful projects in the industries
of medical, telecom, financial and manufacturing. Noel also worked as a lead developer
on major projects for Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. Noel is considered
a valuable worldwide resource on .NET. C#, Delphi internals, Java, J2ME, COM, SOAP,
ASP.NET and Sockets development. Noel co-authored "Using Delphi - special edition"
by Sybex and has written numerious articles on software development for top industry
magazines. Noel is a Borland Certified Delphi and Kylix Developer & Trainer.
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Adam Anderson, Master Consultant
Adam Anderson is a Microsoft Certified
Solution Developer with over 10 years of experience. He started as a consultant
using Delphi to rapidly deliver custom, high-quality business solutions in a wide
variety of industries. His later experiences afforded him the opportunity to become
familiar with a number of different products, technologies, and disciplines, including
SQL Server and T-SQL, Oracle and PL/SQL, Crystal Reports, SQL Reporting Services,
COM/DCOM/COM+, Internet Information Services, all areas of the .NET Framework, normalized
relational database design, and good object-oriented design based on design patterns
and refactoring. His latest area of interest is learning new programming languages,
especially functional languages such as Haskell and F#.
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Brad Divine, Senior Software Engineer
Brad began his career at WebTV, one of
the first dot-com success stories, as a software engineer developing CRM tools for
the Customer Support department. He started with Perl, moved on to J++ (Microsoft's
version of Java) and migrated to .NET in 2003. Since then, he has primarily used
C#, ASP.NET, and T-SQL to build and optimize high-performance Enterprise Feedback
Management solutions.
Brad earned a BS in Computing and Systems Sciences from Taylor University and lives
in Santa Clara, CA. He spends his free time playing with his dog, Abby, and riding
his motorcycle through the local mountains.
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Steve Trefethen, Software Architect

Steve Trefethen is a former R&D Staff Engineer at CodeGear, Borland's Developer
Tools Group, with over 15 years of experience working along side some of the world's
leading software developers. Steve has extensive experience in component framework
design and implementation as well as being an expert in test automation. He is well
known and respected within the Delphi community around the world not only for his
product contributions but also his highly visible online presence as Borland's top
blogger. Steve implemented a significant portion of Delphi's ASP.NET designer as
well as numerous Delphi IDE/VCL/RTL features over the years. He has a BA in Computer
Science from the University of Maine and lives in Scotts Valley, CA with his wife
and children. Steve likes to spend his spare time pumping iron at the local gym.
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Mike Dugan, Senior Software Engineer
Although Mike cannot leap buildings in
a single bound, he can practically absorb a client’s problem space; making their
problem his. His uncanny ability to elicit requirements and then rapidly design
and build a custom solution make this classically trained Computer Scientist from
the University of Colorado a strong ally in the world of software development. His
abilities were forged at Xapware Technologies working on countless projects that
spanned the entire technological realm. Those skills were then tempered at Turbopower
Software as a Senior Software Engineer for Borland’s number one component developer.
Most recently, these abilities were honed at Aristocrat Technologies where Mike
led teams through the design and development of an enterprise class casino management
system. Now he is eager to assist you.
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Bary Nusz, Senior Software Engineer
Bary’s career has taken him from the oil
field services industry, to LCD research, and to the DOE. He’s served as a lead
researcher, designer, and programmer on numerous systems that encompassed a wide
range of technologies such as ultrasonics, eddy current, and downhole viscosity
measurements — all along the way using the latest software technologies to solve
complex control and data imaging challenges. With numerous patents and engineering/scientific
achievement awards he finds no challenge too hard to handle. During the spring he
spends time chasing down severe storms, and in the summer spends time at the lake
with his family. He also enjoys competing as an epee fencer along with his son and
daughter. Bary has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University.
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Rachel Hagerman, Senior Software Engineer
Rachel finds joy in meeting challenges
in her career and her life. After deciding to pursue a career in electronics, and
as one of only a handful of female students in her department, Rachel graduated
at the top of her class with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oklahoma
State University. Two years after graduation, she was leading the software design
team on a multi-million dollar testing system for the Department of Energy. Rachel
has experience in circuitry design and automated test systems, but her true passion
has always been for software.
Rachel loves to spend time on a wakeboard in the summer or a snowboard in the winter
with her husband and friends.
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Gary Campbell, Senior Software Engineer
Gary has nearly 20 years of software industry experience working in a variety of
fields including insurance, marketing, medical, telecom, real estate, financial
and manufacturing. He has also worked as a team lead on major software projects
for Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. Gary's specialties include C#.NET,
Delphi, Localization and Internationalization and database development. He holds
a BS in Computer Science/Mathematics from California State University, Sacramento.
When Gary is not in front of his computer he spends his spare time mountain
biking, playing softball and coaching his two daughters in soccer and softball.
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Matt Kurvin, Graphic/Web Design Specialist
Matt has been involved in the arts his entire life. Attending art schools since
he was 5, it was only natural that his career be surrounded by the creative. From
layout, illustration, concept design, to photography and animation, he strives to
keep on the cutting edge of contemporary design.
Matt's specialties are in Web Design, User Interface Design, and Usability Design,
implementing a full spectrum of softwares and programming languages including Html,
CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, Adobe, and many others.
Matt's passions include surfing, photography, playing music, world travel, and new
experiences.
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Todd Newell, Consultant
Todd has enjoyed over 25 years as a professional in Information Technology, beginning
his career developing scientific models for an online agricultural computing concern.
He has developed commodity accounting and trading applications, data warehouses,
environmental compliance applications, and has developed a passion for helping others
do business on the Internet.
Todd’s specialties include ASP.Net and SQL Server. Todd has a BS in computer science
and engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He enjoys playing golf
in his spare time.
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Stephen Dempsey, Consultant
Stephen has over 20 years of software industry experience in fields including ecommerce,
financial services, telecom, energy, and manufacturing. He has also worked as a
team lead on major commercial software projects for AT&T, ABN AMRO, Merrill Lynch,
Time Warner. Exxon/Mobil, and Nabisco. He has delivered a number of successful commercial
applications including futures commodity trading, supply chain, knowledge management,
personal tax and financial software, and Internet based secondary markets. Steve's
specialties include C#.NET, services, middleware/messaging, and database access.
He holds a BA in Mathematics from Rutgers College in New Jersey.
Steve spends his
spare time fixing up his fixer-upper house, traveling, SCUBA diving, and making
glass windows.
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Sean Samuel, Office Manager
Sean comes in with almost over 20 years experience of accounting and management
skills including all aspects of billing, A/R and A/P general ledger postings, and
payroll processing. Also, he’s very efficient in optimized bookkeeping principles,
debits, credits, taxes and closings. Sean’s specialties include proven problem-solving,
analytical and creative thinking skills, ability to function with a do-whatever-it-takes
attitude, strong capability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Sean has a passion for traveling, hiking, photographing and exploring any mountain
state that has alpine lakes and waterfalls, he loves to play tennis, ping pong and
beach volleyball.
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Jonathan Saad, Associate Sales Engineer
Jonathan joined the Falafel team with an intern role as Associate Sales Engineer.
He is currently a Computer Engineering student at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, expecting to obtain his B.S. degree in 2010, with future plans of graduate
school.
Jonathan’s hobbies include all kinds of hands-on dirty work, with a particular passion
for working on cars.
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Aimee Nusz, Technical Writer
Aimee has been working with words for 20+ years. She has provided writing and editing
for a major newspaper and several multinational corporations. Her specialty is converting
“engineer-speak” into English. She enjoys spending time with her family at the lake
in the summer and at fencing tournaments the rest of the time.
Aimee has a BA in Journalism/Marketing from Texas Tech University.
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Customers
"Whether its .Net, Delphi or even VB, these guys are great. Ask any question,
you get a quick answer you can depend on. These guys are knowledgeable, versatile,
dependable and fun to work with. I think of them as the consultants' consultant."
Jeff Bradford
President & CEO
Bradford Technologies
“Falafel’s willingness to marry their expertise with our distinctive needs is helping
us achieve significant efficiencies across all transactions processed each day.
Top quality from the food to the service we provide is a core value at Earthbound
Farm and Falafel is part in providing this.”
Anneke Leigh
Director of Software Operations
Earthbound Farm Corp.
"Falafel developed the software under extreme time constraints and came through
for us. We are very impressed by the quality and speed of Falafel's work. Without
Falafel, we could not have made our shipping date—Falafel saved the day!"
Anders Jerkerus
VP of Research and Development
Ascade A B
“Training with Falafel was like drinking from a fire hose, but the water was cool,
refreshing and oh so tasty.”
Jamie Carper
Software Architect
MJW Corporation
R.A.D Controls Courseware
"We were confident that Falafel Software would deliver state-of-the-art courseware.
I am very happy with the final product and look forward to seeing its effect on
the productivity of new and current Telerik ASP.NET customers."
Vassil Terziev
President
Telerik Inc.
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