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Richard Hale Shaw

Richard Hale Shaw is the CEO of the Richard Hale Shaw Group.

Richard became involved with personal computers in 1982, learned C in 1983, and has been hooked on computing ever since. He got his first job as a software developer in 1983, and helped to launch new versions of HyperAccess for Hilgraeve, Inc. in 1988-89. He was a contributing Editor to PC Magazine and Microsoft Systems Journal (now MSDN Magazine) from 1988-1996, and still occasionally writes for SD Magazine and other software developer journals. It's a popular industry myth that Richard has written a book, although some of the lab books he's written for courseware may seem like books (the 450-page COM BootCamp labs/slides, the 450-page COM+ BootCamp labs/slides, or the 500-page .NET BootCamp labs/slides).

Richard began speaking at conferences in 1990, and over the years he co-created the MSJ and DevWeek Conferences in the UK, and the Visual C++ Conference (now a part of VSLive) where he was conference chair. He was a founding speaker at DevConnections, and has been OS/2, Windows and COM track chair for the Software Development Conference over the years. He's presently .NET Track Chair for SD, where he's responsible for an agenda of 24 sessions given by approximately 10-12 speakers (including himself), and gives a .NET tutorial at SD (he was the first speaker to give hands-on tutorials at SD, starting in 1994). In addition, Richard has been the C#Live! Track Chair at the VSLive! conference.

Richard is a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau, and has given numerous talks to .NET user groups around the US, Canada and in Europe.

Richard began providing consulting and training for clients in 1990, giving corporate training seminars and workshops since 1993. Today, as CEO of the Richard Hale Shaw Group, he provides on-site training services, teaches and produces public seminars and workshops on .NET (which he personally teaches), XML, and UML, ASP.NET, the .NET Compact Framework and other topics (which he supervises and produces). He created the "Developer BootCamp" notion of intensive, hands-on training where lectures follow hands-on exercises that eschew an academic approach used by others.

Richard's consulting specialties include Architectural and Debug consulting, as well as a variety of problem-solving services to clients of nearly every sort.