Daniel Vaughan
senior consultant

member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders
member of the WPF Disciples group
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), MCP, MCAD

Daniel Vaughan is a software developer and Microsoft MVP for Client App Dev, with a decade of commercial experience across a wide range of industries including finance, e-commerce, and multimedia. While originally from Australia and the UK, Daniel is currently based in Geneva Switzerland; working with WPF, Silverlight, WCF, and WF within the finance industry. Daniel is a member of the WPF Disciples, and is a Silverlight and WPF Insider.
In his spare time Daniel likes to spend time concocting novel ideas, such as how to employ neural networks to predict user navigation behaviour in WPF applications, and a grid computing framework for Silverlight. Daniel is also the creator of a number of open-source projects including Calcium SDK, and Clog.

experience

PebbleAge: External Consultant, Senior Developer
Development of a leading edge workflow driven n-tier financial system using WPF, WF, and WCF

Australian Government: includes several software development roles
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Deparment of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

National Library of Australia: Programmer

WWWicked Internet: UX Developer

education

University of New England
BCompSci, Computer Science

languages

English (native)

AWARDS

Best C# Article for May 2009, Code Project
Best Overall Article, March 2009, Code Project
Microsoft Rich Client competition, March 2009
Best C# Article, CodeProject, December 2007
Grand Prize winner, Microsoft sponsored Visual
Studio 2008 competition, CodeProject.
CodeProject MVP, Jan 2008
Best ASP.NET Article, CodeProject, Nov 2007
4th Bi-Weekly winner, Microsoft sponsored VS 2008 competition, Codeproject, Dec 2007
Best ASP.NET Article. CodeProject, Nov 2007
2nd Bi-Weekly winner, Microsoft sponsored VS 2008 competition, Codeproject. Nov 2007
UNE (University of New England), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Prize for 2004
Golden Key International Honour Society, 2004 Member by invitation in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement and excellence
UNE, Thomas Arnold Burr Memorial Prize in Mathematics for 2003
UNE, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Prize for 2002