Kevin Marshall is the Director of Product Management at Clarity Consulting in Chicago. He currently develops prototypes and proof of concepts for client projects across a variety of industries including financial services, retail and telecom. He has several years of experience as a software developer and consultant specializing in designing and implementing custom enterprise applications. His technology experience is varied from rich internet applications to database design to smart client applications. He enjoys using the latest alpha development tools and ranting on his blog. Kevin is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Coding4Fun and organizes developer community events like SilverlightDevCamp, MOSSCamp and the Chicago .NET User Group. His hobbies include surfing, snowboarding, playing guitar and learning foreign languages. Although in reality he only knows 1 chord, has no balance, can barely hold a conversation with his 1st grade knowledge of Spanish and broke his leg while snowboarding down a bunny hill in the Midwest.