.NET & SharePoint Practice Manager
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Wayne Wilkerson
Wayne Wilkerson, a 25-year renowned software engineer and lecturer, is a Senior Instructor for SetFocus. Throughout his career, Wayne has worked with, and consulted for, a variety of Fortune 500 companies, both domestically and internationally, in such diverse industries as financial services, insurance, chemical, energy, gaming and high tech.
Most recently, Wayne worked with NASA and the Missile Defense Agency where, as IT Architect, he was instrumental in the migration of the NASA Launch Services legacy engineering application to VS2005, ASP 2.0 and SQL2005. While at the Kennedy Space Center, he designed, developed and deployed a web-based dashboard application to integrate mission status information which was used to determine the launch readiness and report on overall mission status. He also was the technical lead for the NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Information Systems (ELVIS) where applications were mission-oriented and covered all phases of launch support, including engineering, financials and management
Prior to working with NASA, Wayne served as Senior IT Specialist and Architect at IBM on the Enterprise Services for Microsoft Technologies team. During his tenure, he developed the reference infrastructure blueprint for a .NET 3-tier web model for a major financial services company.
Wayne currently resides in Florida and instructs remotely via The GRID.
Certifications
- MCSE+I
- MCDBA (SQL 2000 & 2005)
- MCSD .NET
- MCP+SB
- MCSA
- Oracle9i Database Administrator Certified Associate
"What People are Saying!"
“Wayne is very knowledgeable and very good at conveying code concepts. I am very impressed with his teaching skills. “
“Wayne was a great instructor and I look forward to having him teach the ASP.NET course. He explains concepts very well and provides great examples in the IDE. I am more comfortable working in the IDE after having Wayne as an instructor. Just an outstanding guy!”
“Wayne is complete and thorough as well as Great Teacher in SQL. “
“Wayne is a really great teacher. We are lucky to have him.”
“The instructor presents the material in a very interesting and fun way. He gives lots of useful information regarding the IDE and the various features of IDE that can be of help to us. He is very helpful and available.”
“Wayne has done an excellent job. He keeps everyone involved and shares many real world experiences which are very interesting and helpful in understanding concepts.”
“He was really one of the best instructors I've ever had. I have taken some MySQL courses, so I do have a good frame of reference. His skills are on par with the instructors that stand out in my mind from my past.”