TRAINING, COACHING, CONSULTING & DEVELOPMENT

About Christian Nagel

Christian Nagel offers trainings, coaching, development in the areas of Microsoft .NET software development and application design.

Having worked with PDP 11, VMS, and Unix platforms, Christian looks back to more than 20 years of experience in the field of software development.

With his profound knowledge of Microsoft technologies - he is certified as Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Professional Developer (MCPD), and Technology Specialist (MCTS) - he enjoys teaching others programming and architecting distributed solutions.

As founder of the now called .NET User Group Austria and as a Microsoft Regional Director he is speaker at European Developer conferences, and more and more addressed by many developers.

Resume

• 2008: start of CN innovation GmbH - Training, Coaching, Consulting on Application Architectures, Windows Azure, Silverlight, WPF, WCF, WF, ASP.NET, C#, C++,...
• 2004 - now: associate of thinktecture
• 2003 - now: Self-employed offering trainings, coaching, software development with WPF, WCF, WF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Enterprise Services...
• 1996 - now: book author (Wrox Press, Addison Wesley, APress)
• 1997 - now: running the .NET User Group Austria
• 1996 - 2003: Global Knowledge Network
  • Curriculum Management Software Development
  • Training, Consulting, Coaching for C++, COM, ActiveX, OLE, DCOM, COM+, MTS, MSMQ, Windows DNA, .NET, C#
  • Application Development
  • Founder of the COM User Group Austria
  • Microsoft Regional Director for Austria
  • INETA Europe
• 1991 - 1995: Digital Equipment, Education Center
  • Trainings - DECForms, Motif, C, C++, Win32, OLE, VAX/VMS, Ultrix, DEC-OSF/1
  • Consulting, Application Development
• 1985 - 1990: Digital Equipment, Distributed Repair Center
  • Software Development for Hardware Testing
  • System Administration VAX/VMS, Ultrix
  • Building up a testing network (DECnet)
  • Application Development for Digital Equipment (VAX/VMS, DECforms)
  • Development of the Application CARMEN (CAR Monthly Expenses)
    

Areas of Expertise

• Windows Azure
• HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery
• Microsoft .NET, C#, C++
• Designing Distributed Solutions
• LINQ, ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight
• ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
• COM / DCOM / COM+ Services
• MSMQ
• OOAD, UML

Books

• Professional C# 4 and .NET 4
• Beginning Visual C# 2010
• Professional C# 2008
• Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework
• Beginning Visual C# 2008
• Professional .NET Network Programming
• ASP to ASP.NET Migration Handbook
• Professional C# 2nd Edition
• Beginning Visual C#
• Data-Centric .NET Programming
• C# Web Services - Building .NET Web Services with ASP.NET and .NET Remoting
• Professional C#
• Beginning C#

Speaker at Conferences

• Basta! Mainz, 2011
  • Storage with Windows Azure
  • Moving from ASP.NET Web Forms to ASP.NET MVC
  • The Secrets of Delegates
  • C# and Dynamics
• Basta! Darmstadt, 2011
  • Advanced WPF Data Binding
  • C# Phase 4
• TechEd 2003, Barcelona
  • Building International Applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework
• DevDays 2002, Zürich
  • .NET Enterprise Services
  • .NET Remoting
• .NET Conference Austria, Vienna
  • .NET Remoting
  • Fast Track to Microsoft .NET
  • Advanced ADO.NET - Tips & Tricks
  • .NET Security for Developers
  • ASP.NET Tutorial
• MSDN Switzerland, Zürich
  • Web Services Anywhere with .NET Remoting
• Visual Studo .NET Launch Event, Vienna
  • ASP.NET Workshop
• Microsoft DevDays 2001, Vienna
  • Introduction to Microsoft .NET
  • Windows Forms and GDI+
  • Advanced C#
• TechEd 2001, Barcelona
  • Sharing and Localization with .NET Assemblies
• European Visual C++ Developers Conference, Bonn, Germany
• COM 99, Vienna
• OTG 99, Vienna
• Globex Conference 98, Vienna

Certifications

• Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer 
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
• Microsoft Certified Trainer
• Global Knowledge - Excellence in Action, Q2 2002 
• MSDN Regional Director of the Month - June 2000
• Global Knowledge - Best Instructor Q1 999