Dan is an independent consultant, book and course author, speaker, and instructor. His areas of interest are Windows .NET, XML, and SQL Server. He does consulting through his company, Danal Technology Inc. He does training through Pluralsight.com. Dan has spoken at user groups and industry events such as WinDev. He and Bob Beauchemin are the authors of "A Developer's Guide to SQL Server 2005" published by Addison-Wesley.