Tell us who you are?
My name is Daron Yöndem. I’m a Microsoft Regional Director, currently a Silverlight MVP leading INETA Turkey. I’m the founder of Deveload Software, an ISV based in Istanbul. For the last five years we are focused on UX as a .NET house. We are building Silverlight and WPF apps including rich multitouch implementations. I have two books about ASP.NET AJAX and one about Internet Explorer 8 development.

Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got awarded on 2008 as an ASP.NET MVP and had the chance to be one of the first five Silverlight MVPs in the world. It was a great luck to have the new competency declared at the same moment as my renewal period
I’m an MVP who likes capturing screencast, writing articles on local User Groups and physical interaction which is (for a computer geek) seminars and conferences about technical beauties. I feel very lucky leading INETA Turkey and our 30+ User Groups. We have annual events with different concepts where we get 10+ INETA Speakers and lots of MVPs contributing to the community.

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Tell us who you are?
My name is Sherif Talaat, I’m a Senior System Engineer since 2005. I’m PowerShell MVP and Certified MCSE Server 2003, and MCTS Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, and Windows Server 2008.

Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got my first MVP award in April 2009.

What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Attending technical conferences regularly, read books, following up other blogs, and meetings with peers in technology.

What does being an MVP mean to you?
This award came to me as prove that knowledge sharing is something very important and I’m adding kind of value to technical community. Also, it gave me the push toward learning more to share more.

What do you do when you are not building software’s?
Reading, playing music, and testing the new software’s

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